Amelia Warner

Amelia Warner (born Amelia Catherine Bennett; 4 June 1982[1]) is an English musician and composer. Warner is also a former actress and previously recorded and performed as a musician under the former stage name Slow Moving Millie.

Amelia Warner
Born
Amelia Catherine Bennett

(1982-06-04) 4 June 1982
Birkenhead, Merseyside, England[1]
NationalityEnglish
Other namesSlow Moving Millie
OccupationMusician and composer
Years active1999–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2013)​
Children3
Parents

Early life

Amelia Warner was born Amelia Catherine Bennett[2] in Merseyside, United Kingdom,[1] the only child of actors Annette Ekblom and Alun Lewis.[3] Her paternal uncle is actor Hywel Bennett.

Career

Warner started her acting career as a member of the Royal Court's youth theatre group. She also starred in a 2000 BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and has had supporting roles in films such as Æon Flux and Stoned.

In 2015, she self-released a classical instrumental EP, titled Arms. In 2016, Amelia began scoring films starting with Mum's List followed by Mary Shelley. In 2017, she released her second EP titled Visitors under her name, Amelia Warner.[4]

In 2018, Amelia Warner won the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year for her debut mainstream score on the film, Mary Shelley.

On 28 September 2020, Fearne Cotton announced that she was releasing "Happy Place", the album which features music from an array of artists that focus around mental health and well-being. The first single which was released on the same day as the announcement is the song "Lockdown Kittens Dancing" which features music by Amelia Warner which is taken from her song "For Love" off her "Haven" EP released in June 2020.

Slow Moving Millie

Warner began her music career in July 2009, when she wrote and performed the song "Beasts" under the name Slow Moving Millie for a Virgin Media television commercial. The track was then released on 17 August 2009.[5] Her second single, "Rewind City" was also used for another advertisement, for Orange UK, and was directed by Ringan Ledwidge.[6] In October 2011, Warner signed a record deal with Island Records. Her cover version of The Smiths' 1984 B-Side "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" was released on 11 November 2011 was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis 2011 Christmas advertisement. Since releasing her album, Renditions, she also composed music for adverts and short films. Her first major score was for the British short, Mam. Soon after, Warner released her Fyfe Dangerfield-produced EP, Arms, under Universal Music. Her second EP, Visitors. In 2016, she scored her first feature-length film, Mum's List, followed by score to the Mary Shelley.

Personal life

Warner married Colin Farrell in a non-legal ceremony in 2002; they ended the relationship four months later.[7][8] She married Jamie Dornan in 2013.[9] She has three daughters.[9][10][11][12][13]

Filmography
Year Film Character
1998 Kavanagh QC Gaynor Deans
Casualty: "Eye Spy" Rachel Munro
1999 Aristocrats Lady Cecelia
Mansfield Park Teenage Fanny Price
2000 Don Quixote Antonia
Quills Simone Royer-Collard
Waking the Dead Jodie Whitemore/ Jodie Whitemoor
Take a Girl Like You Sheila Torkingham
Lorna Doone Lorna Doone
2002 Nine Lives Laura
2003 Love's Brother Rosetta
2005 Æon Flux Una Flux
Winter Passing Shelly
Stoned Janet
2006 Alpha Male Elyssa Ferris
Gone Sophie
2007 The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising Maggie Barnes
2008 The Echo Alyssa
2010 Olga? Cecilia
2012 The Other Side Rachel

Discography

Composer credits
Film/Series Year Notes
Mam 2010 Short
Mum's List 2016
Mary Shelley 2017
Leading Lady Parts[14] 2018 Short
Wild Mountain Thyme[15] 2020

Albums
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
Renditions[16] 89

Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions Album
UK
2009 "Beasts" — Renditions
2011 "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" 31
2020 "Lockdown Kittens Dancing" (with Fearne Cotton and GABA feat. Helen Mirren) — Happy Place

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref
2018 World Soundtrack Awards Discovery of the Year Mary Shelley Nominated [17]
IFMCA Awards Breakthrough Composer of the Year Mary Shelley Won [18]

References
  1. Southern, Nathan. "Amelia Warner". AllMovie / Rovi via The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  2. Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
  3. "Interview: Annette Ekblom - How I survived the darkest days of my life; Take Me star Annette Ekblom talks about her unhappy, drug-taking past and the love for daughter Amelia which helped her overcome the bad times. - Free Online Library". Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  4. "Amelia Warner on her new music career and shrugging off gossip about her marriage to Fifty Shades Darker actor Jamie Dornan". The Independent. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  5. "Slow Moving Millie: 'Morrissey said it was delightful'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  6. Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback MachineEMAP's Shots
  7. Thompson, Anne (23 February 2003). "How to make it big, the Colin Farrell way". The Guardian. London.
  8. "Amelia Warner on music and her marriage to 'Fifty Shades Darker' actor Jamie Dornan". The Independent. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2018. Aged 18, she starred in 2001 as the title character in the BBC period drama Lorna Doone. Then a year later, she married actor Colin Farrell...
  9. Bell, Stephanie (24 June 2013). "Jamie Dornan, from The Fall psycho to expectant father". Sunday Life. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  10. Baylis, Sheila Cosgrove; Perry, Simon (17 December 2013). "Jamie Dornan Welcomes a Daughter". People. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
  11. "50 Shades Of Grey Jamie Dornan kisses wife Amelia Warner as they step out for breakfast with their baby daughter". Evoke.ie. 29 October 2014. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  12. Mahjouri, Shakiel (9 September 2016). "'Fifty Shades' Star Jamie Dornan On Having Two Daughters: 'It's The Most Magical Thing'". ET Canada.
  13. "'Fifty Shades of Grey' star Jamie Dornan, wife Amelia Warner welcome third child". New York Post. 1 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  14. "Amelia Warner on Instagram: "The first short in a comedy series called #LeadingLadyParts produced by @rebelparkproductions will officially air on BBC Four on 30th July…"". Instagram. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  15. Davis, Clayton (22 October 2020). "Amelia Warner to Compose Score for 'Wild Mountain Thyme' for Bleecker Street (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  16. "Renditions". 12 December 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2016 – via Amazon.
  17. Awards, World Soundtrack. "Discovery of the Year - Awards". World Soundtrack Awards. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  18. Broxton, Jon. "IFMCA Award Winners 2018". filmmusiccritics.org. IFMCA:International Film Music Critics Association. Archived from the original on 1 October 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2019.

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