Hayley Atwell
Biography
Hayley Atwell is an English actress who moved from stage and West End work into period dramas and franchise films. She graduated in 2005 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and made her professional stage debut that year in Prometheus Bound. Work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre followed. Her early films include Cassandra's Dream (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008) and The Duchess (2008), which brought a British Independent Film Award nomination. She became known as Peggy Carter, first in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and later in Marvel films and the ABC series Agent Carter. Other credits include Cinderella (2015), Christopher Robin (2018) and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021), and leading roles in the Mission: Impossible action films Dead Reckoning (2023) and The Final Reckoning (2025). She has three Laurence Olivier Award nominations, for A View from the Bridge, The Pride and Rosmersholm.
44years old
Turns 45 on April 5in 175 days
- Born London
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 24
- Career span
- 19 years2006 to 2025
Photos
Share
Did you know?!
Big break
Atwell moved into film work with her first major role, playing stage actress Angela Stark in Woody Allen's 2007 movie Cassandra's Dream.
Big break
In April 2010, Atwell won the role of the love interest in a then-upcoming Captain America movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Her first appearance as Peggy Carter came in the 2011 superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger.
Hayley Atwell movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Captain America: The First Avenger2011 Action, Adventure, Sci-Fias Peggy Carter
IMDb rating 6.9988K votes
- Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023 Action, Adventure, Thrilleras Grace
IMDb rating 7.6333K votes
Most often with
Christopher McQuarrie directed two of these films. Chris Evans appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Chris Evans's page
Samuel L. Jackson's page
Toby Jones's page
Anthony Mackie's page
Mark Gatiss's page
Dominic Cooper's page
All films by Christopher McQuarrie
Also three films together2 more actors
- JJ FeildCaptain America: The First Avenger (2011), The Shadow in the North (2007) and The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
- Billie PiperMansfield Park (2007), The Shadow in the North (2007) and The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Hayley Atwell's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$6.3 billion
19 of the 24 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 24 films: 19 worldwide figure; 3 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 19Worldwide figure
- 3Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 89% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$1.4B22.1% of the total
- 2$956M15.1% of the total
- 3$715M11.3% of the total
- 4$599M9.4% of the total
- 5$571M9.0% of the total
- 6$544M8.6% of the total
- 7$519M8.2% of the total
- 8$371M5.8% of the total
$668 millionfrom the other 11 films with a worldwide figure, 11% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.