Hannah Ware
{{short description|English actress}}
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| birth_name = Hannah Rose Ware
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1982|12|8}}
| birth_place = London, England
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| years_active = 2010–present
| father = John Ware
| relatives = Jessie Ware (sister)
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Hannah Rose Ware (born 8 December 1982)Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005; at ancestry.com is an English actress. She is known for the Starz political drama series Boss (2011–2012) and the ABC primetime soap opera Betrayal (2013–2014).
Life and career
Ware was born in Hammersmith and raised in Clapham.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} She is the daughter of Helena (née Keell), a social worker, and John Ware, a former BBC Panorama reporter, who divorced when she was 12. She is the older sister of musician Jessie Ware.{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2918/jessie-ware-interview |title=Jessie Ware interview |publisher=Time Out |accessdate=16 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219145514/http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2918/jessie-ware-interview |archive-date=19 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/74649/jessie-ware-reveals-her-secret-ambition |title=Jessie Ware reveals her secret ambition |work=The Jewish Chronicle |date=23 August 2012 |accessdate=16 January 2013}} Her mother is Jewish, and both Ware and her sister were raised in the faith.{{cite web|url=http://ca.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/interview-boss-actress-hannah-ware |title=Interview: "Boss" Actress Hannah Ware Talks Kelsey Grammer, Drug Addiction and Political Families | Complex |publisher=Complexmag.ca |date=17 August 2012 |accessdate=25 March 2014}}{{cite news|author=Women |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/9571915/Mercury-nominee-Jessie-Ware-on-the-sorority-dominating-British-music.html |title=Mercury nominee Jessie Ware on the 'sorority' dominating British music |work=The Daily Telegraph|date= 1 October 2012|accessdate=25 March 2014 |location=London}} She attended Alleyn's School in Dulwich, then studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.{{cite web|url=http://abcmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=3156776&type=ware |title=ABC Medianet |publisher=ABC Medianet |date=18 May 2013 |accessdate=14 August 2013}}
Ware appeared in the films Cop Out (2010) and Shame (2011). From 2011 to 2012, she played Emma Kane, the estranged addict daughter of Chicago mayor Tom Kane, in the Starz series Boss. In 2013, she was cast in ABC drama series Betrayal as lead character,{{cite web|last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |url=https://www.deadline.com/2013/03/hannah-ware-to-star-in-abcs-betrayal/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305003858/http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/hannah-ware-to-star-in-abcs-betrayal/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 March 2013 |title=Hannah Ware To Star in ABC's 'Betrayal' |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |date=1 March 2013 |access-date=25 March 2014}} and she appeared in Spike Lee's thriller film Oldboy. In 2015, Ware played the female lead, opposite Rupert Friend, in the action film Hitman: Agent 47.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/hannah-ware-agent-47-hitman-1201088128/ |title=Hannah Ware Lands Female Lead in 'Agent 47,' Based on 'Hitman' Videogame |publisher=Variety |date=5 February 2014 |accessdate=25 March 2014}}{{cite web|last=Fleming |first=Mike |url=https://deadline.com/2014/02/hannah-ware-lands-female-lead-in-agent-47-677604/ |title=Hannah Ware Lands Female Lead in 'Agent 47' |publisher=Deadline Hollywood |date= 9 March 2006|access-date=25 March 2014}}
Ware starred in the Hulu series The First in 2018, and played the leading role on the Netflix science fiction series The One in 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/hannah-ware-netflix-the-one-1234692822/|title=Hannah Ware Leads Cast For Netflix Soulmate Sci-Fi Series 'The One'|first1=Jake|last1=Kanter|date=12 February 2021}}
Filmography
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=3799669|name=Hannah Ware}}
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Category:English female models
Category:English film actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Lambeth
Category:Actresses from London
Category:People from Hammersmith
Category:Actors educated at Alleyn's School
Category:Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni
Category:Jewish English actresses
Category:Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham