- Born
- Birth nameAmelia Catherine Bennett
- Nicknames
- Millie
- Boss Queen
- Height1.68 m
- Neo-classical composer Amelia Warner is known for her work on 'Mary Shelley,' 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' 'Mr. Malcom's List,' and the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced film 'Young Woman and the Sea,' starring Daisy Ridley.
Her stunning orchestral scores infused with electronic elements have led to several awards, including Breakthrough Composer of The Year' at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards, and nominations in the 'Discovery of the Year' category at the World Soundtrack Awards, a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and recognition as a nominee for the ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards.
In 2018 she scored the Irish-American film 'Mary Shelley', directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and starring Elle Fanning. For this score Warner created "otherworldly music for an orchestra haunted by ethereal female vocals."
Warner scored John Patrick Shanley's 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' which also featured an original song "I'll Be Singing" co-written by Warner and Shanley and performed by Sinead O'Connor.
In 2022, she wrote a contemporary classical score for the period romantic comedy 'Mr. Malcolm's List', in which her love theme was used to choreograph and film a grandiose ballroom scene in the film.
Growing up in west London's Notting Hill, Amelia loved to play piano in her family home. Although resisting traditional classical training, she would constantly invent melodies, and her first proper composition, at 15, was for a school soap-opera project. It would be many years before anyone heard Amelia's evocative instrumental compositions. Her first career was as an actress, following in her mother Annette Ekblom's footsteps. She knew she wanted to be part of the filmmaking and storytelling process, but quickly realized she was on the wrong side of it.
Her debut major scoring project was the British short film 'Mam' which won several awards on the film-festival circuit and led to her first feature-film composition, for 2016's 'Mum's List', starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox.
Warner has also released three solo classical albums to date-the most recent EP 'Haven,' was released in summer 2020. The home-inspired 'Haven' was coincidentally released at a time when home was the epicentre for people thrown into months of lockdown in the midst of the global pandemic. Her previous solo EP 'Visitors' (2017) followed her debut EP 'Arms' (2015). Warner's three EP releases have all reached #1 on the iTunes classical album charts.- IMDb Mini Biography By: White Bear PR
- SpouseJamie Dornan(April 26, 2013 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenDulcie DornanElva Lorna Catherine DornanAlberta Maeve Dornan
- Parents
- RelativesHywel Bennett(Aunt or Uncle)
- Was in a relationship with Colin Farrell in 2001 and reports surfaced that they married. However, the couple had a ceremony on a beach in Tahiti during a holiday that wasn't legal. According to Warner, they booked the event along with shark feeding as another activity.
- Mother, with husband Jamie Dornan, of three daughters: Dulcie Dornan (b. November 21, 2013, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Elva Lorna Catherine Dornan (b. February 16, 2016, in London, England, UK) and a third daughter Alberta Maeve Dornan (b. February 17, 2019 in London, England, UK).
- (April 27, 2013) Married her boyfriend of 3 years Jamie Dornan. They met in 2010 and got engaged in 2012.
- Her father is Welsh. Her maternal grandfather had Swedish and Irish ancestry (her mother's maiden name, "Ekblom", is Swedish).
- Despite her film and TV commitments, she managed to get three decent A-levels.
- I've got this idea that who you play in the nativity relates to who you are in life. When I was four, I was Mary. But I wasn't a lovely ethereal Mary, I was a right bossy cow. I stopped the play in the middle to tell Joseph he was doing it all wrong. So that's me... And I've got this best friend who was so bitter about never being Mary. And everyone else, everyone you meet, always says: "Oh, I was the Angel Gabriel. The Messenger. Never Mary or Joseph..." Have you noticed?? So yeah, who you are in the nativity, it determines, you know, your...
- I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful, I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.
- I cringe when people are like... (adopts the deep, proclaiming, self-conscious tones of the precious thespian.)... I am going to be an actress! Which is really probably quite mean of me. But it would have made me uncomfortable to actually think or say I wanted to do it... So I didn't. I fell into it, really. And then, once I was in it, I thought I'd try, at least give it a go, and see how it went.
- I don't even really want to talk about how I hate LA. It's so English to hate LA. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal and they're not!
- I'm ambitious, but not competitive. You'd drive yourself crazy if you were. You know, there are actually enough jobs out there for all of us.
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