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Kimberley NixonFansite for the Star of Cranford, Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging |
Wild Child is an upcoming film directed by Nick Moore and is set to release on 21 March 2008. It also stars Emma Roberts as a rebellious teen from Malibu sent to an English boarding school by her dad.
Age: 22
From: Pontypridd
Where have we seen her before? You will have seen her strapped up in an old-fashioned frock in BBC drama Cranford in which she plays Sophy Hutton, the vicar’s daughter who falls for the dishy doctor. If you’re a fan of the theatre you may have also seen her as the Courtesan in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the Comedy Of Errors, as Abigail Williams in The Crucible, or as the Mod Girl in the stage version of Quadrophenia, soon to be transferred to the West End.
Where will we see her this year? In teen flick Wild Child, alongside Natasha Richardson and Aidan Quinn. Her character Kate torments newcomer Emma, a rebellious American girl whose father sends her to an English boarding school. She says, “It was so fun as I got to learn La Crosse and have French lessons again, and then we filmed the last bit in LA so there was a Welsh accent in the middle of Malibu.” She’ll also star as Lindsay, ‘the promiscuous one’, in Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend it Like Beckham fame and starring alongside Alan Davis. She’ll then begin filming Easy Virtue, a film based on a Noel Coward play and starring Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas and Justin Timberlake’s latest love interest Jessica Biel.
On acting: “Acting gives me a confidence that I don’t have in real life. I get to say things as characters that I’d love to have the nerve to say in real life. You can be sexy or frightened one minute and the next, the director says ‘cut’ and you snap out of it,” she said. “I started acting in school plays and dances at 13 or 14 and then I did a drama GCSE and A-Level. I then went straight to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and would get my acting friends together to star in my boyfriend’s short films, because he was studying film studies at the same time.”
Hopes for the future: With two films in post-production and the third to be filmed in January, Kimberley is already working her socks off. She says, “Whether you’ve got work or not, acting is a constant worry so although every actor says it, if I can just keep working and loving it then I think I’m one of the luckiest people in the world.”
Magnificent because: She started filming for Cranford before she had even finished her degree, and despite being young, beautiful and told she’s talented by the likes of Dame Judi Dench and Imelda Staunton, the girl from Ponty remains entirely modest. She can flit between a chick flick and Dylan Thomas reading with ease and won’t even take a holiday because she is so determined to make it.
from ICWales
The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.#
Kimberley Nixon plays Wet Lindsay, girlfriend of Robbie the Sex God.
Also starring Alan Davies, Aaron Johnson and Georgia Groom.
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison’s first book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson.
”There are six things very wrong with my life: I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years; it is on my nose; I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room; in fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic ‘teachers’; I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home; I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive. Follow Georgia’s hilarious antics as she tries to overcome the dilemma’s that are weighing up against her, and muddle her way through teenage life and all that it entails: how to replace accidentally shaved-off eyebrows; how to cope with Angus, her small labrador-sized Scottish wildcat; her first kiss with Peter - afterwards known as Whelk Boy; annoying teachers; unsympathetic friends and family; and how to entice Robbie the Sex God! Phew - she’s really got her work cut out!”
Kimberley Nixon, who appears with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Francesca Annis, Julie McKenzie, Simon Woods and a
host of other wonderful actors in Cranford, which has become a solid-gold hit on the BBC.
Last Sunday’s second episode garnered close to eight million viewers. On the same day the first show was re-broadcast, claiming over three million more fans. Ms Nixon (pictured) plays rector’s daughter Sophy Hutton.
(She will also be seen in the Gurinder Chadha-Paul Mayeda Berges film Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging.)
Kimberley Nixon says she learned a lot from working with Dame Judi Dench on Cranford, including how to wile away the time when bad weather delays filming on location.
“We’d have to sit under a little tent waiting for it to stop raining, and Judi has so many games in her bag of tricks,” says the 20-year-old, who trained at the Royal Welsh College of<!–more–> Music and Drama.
“She taught us one where you take a piece of newspaper and you’re given a shape, such as a car, and rip away to make that shape. Eileen Atkins is really bad at it – if we said to make a car she would make a boat!”
Kimberley says: “A lot of my background is in theatre, so when you’re on location and the wind is really blowing, it’s raining and you’ve got mud all over you, it really keeps you on your toes.”
Actress and character are the same age, but Sophy’s adolescence was cruelly curtailed by the death of her mother six years earlier.
“She’s basically brought up her three younger siblings and is more or less the mistress of the house,” explains Kimberley.
“Sophy is intelligent and bright, and I think people like her because she is very genuine. She doesn’t entirely wear her heart on her sleeve, but she’s a very honest person with a lot of responsibility on her shoulders.
“When Dr Harrison arrives, he is someone she can talk to about things other than housework, children or dresses. From their first meeting, she feels an affinity with him, but their relationship is very up and down.
“Just when you think it is going in a certain direction, something comes along and swings it off on another course. It’s very exciting for the audience, but at times I don’t think poor Sophy can take much more.”
Perhaps it’s just as well that Kimberley’s next project – the movie Wild Child, starring among others Natasha Richardson and Aidan Quinn, and due for release in 2008 – is a slightly more light-hearted affair.
“I’m playing a schoolgirl, and it’s all girly mischief, which is really fun,” she says. “To flip between the two things is really great for me.”
Kimberley Nixon’s talent, charisma and delicate beauty have seen her segue straight from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama into the BBC’s prestige period drama series The Cranford Chronicles alongside A-listers including Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon. That production - about a rural Cheshire town on the cusp of change - wrapped earlier this month and Nixon has moved straight on to Working Title’s boarding school comedy Wild Child, in which she co-stars as the spiky tormentor-in-chief of a spoilt US newcomer, played by Emma Roberts.
It is the first big screen role for Nixon, a self-confessed film buff, whose tastes run to “films which rely on the screenplay and acting rather than the money”. And was she given any tips from the veterans on The Cranford Chronicles? “Eileen Atkins told me the best piece of advice she got was from Alec Guinness - to set three alarm clocks.”
Contact: Ken McReddie Associates, (44) 20 7439 1456
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama acting graduate Kimberley Nixon, from Pontypridd, has been snapped up by Universal studios to appear in new feature film Wild Child.
The boarding school comedy, which tells the story of a rebellious American teenager, stars Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson and Shirley Henderson, and is due for release next summer.
Kimberley plays English girl Kate who brings the female protagonist and new girl at school down to size.
Even prior to graduation, this July, Kimberley had been commissioned by the BBC to appear in their prestige period drama series, Cranford Chronicles, alongside a cast of A-listers including Dame Judi Dench CH DBE, Imelda Staunton OBE and Sir Michael Gambon CBE.
The five-part drama series depicts a small rural Cheshire town on the cusp of change and charts the absurdities and tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford.
Kimberley’s road to success started when she was spotted at a College performance of The Comedy of Errors, at The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Complete Works Festival, by agent Ken McReddie Associates.
Kimberley said, “After seeing me in The Comedy of Errors, and then at the Sherman Theatre in a College performance of Quadrophenia, Ken McReddie Associates signed me. I really liked the agent and having such big, high profile projects lined up before I officially graduated was an amazing position to be in. I really trust them, they are so experienced, and valuing their judgment has helped me to pick the right projects.”
Kimberley studied BA (Hons) Acting at the College alongside other successful music and acting graduates like Rob Kendrick, who is starring in a production of Nicholas Nickleby at the Gielgud Theatre, and Roderick Howie who is now playing Oboe in the Ganzhou Symphony Orchestra.
Kimberley went on to say, “At the College we would often work on performances six or even seven days a week. That is what it is like when you are in the industry, so in that respect the College was great grounding, very realistic and it helped me to understand the balance between working and a private life. I notice that people who haven’t had professional training struggle with the amount of work.”
“The College also drum in to you the importance of little things like punctuality, discipline and taking care of yourself. You may be the best actor ever, but you are not going to get employed if you are always late.
Kimberley has just returned from Los Angeles where she completed filming on Wild Child, and Cranford Chronicles is due for broadcast in the autumn.
And hot off the press is the news that Kimberley has been cast in Paramount’s film adaptation of number one bestselling author Louise Rennison’s teen comedy ‘Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging.’ Kimberley will play indulged and pampered Lindsay – one of the lead girls.
“I have been on location for quite a long time, mainly staying in hotels, so I haven’t been home for a while, but can’t wait to spend some to with my family back home in Pontypridd.”
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