
Pirates of the Caribbean Posters
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Cast: Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma
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One of London's most promising imports, NAOMIE HARRIS (Tia Dalma) takes on Hollywood with an innate acting ability, strength, and beauty that emanates on-screen. She achieved leading lady status in the critically acclaimed thriller 28 Days Later, and has continued to grow with numerous blockbuster projects. Harris recently received a 2007 BAFTA Award nomination for the Orange Rising Star Award for her performance in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
Up next, Harris reprises her role as Tia Dalma, the gypsy queen - playing a more key role, in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opposite Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Keira Knightly. The film is directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and set for a May 25th release.
Harris is currently in production on the Original Media film, August, from director Austin Chick. Harris stars as the female lead, spunky no-nonsense Sarah, opposite Josh Hartnett. August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This past summer, Harris starred the blockbuster smashes Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Miami Vice, opposite Jaime Foxx and Colin Farrell. Other recent film credits include the critically acclaimed Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and Brett Ratner's New Line film, After the Sunset with Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, and Woody Harrelson.
Brought up in North London, Harris has studied acting since she was nine years old. She graduated from Cambridge University (Pembroke College) and went on to train at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (Alumni include Daniel Day-Lewis, Brian Blessed, Miranda Richardson, and Jeremy Irons).
Complementing her training in 2000, Harris spent her first year out of drama school doing theatre before auditioning for Danny Boyle (“Trainspotting,” “The Beach,” “Shallow Grave”) in 2001 and securing the co-lead (Selena) in 28 Days Later. A machete-wielding urban survivor role that required a month's personal training to prepare for the stunt work that she performed.
Harris then went on to play Clara in the Channel 4 adaptation of Zadie Smith's Whitbread winning novel “White Teeth,” and then starred with Matthew Macfayden (Spooks) as Maggie in Peter Kosminsky's (White Oleander) two-part political docudrama `The Project” for the BBC.
Since then Harris has starred opposite Colin Firth and Mena Suvari in Marc Evan's (My Little Eye) film TRAUMA.
Harris currently resides in London.
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