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| birth_place = Merseyside, England, UK| death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British| citizenship = | occupation = Actress| years_active = 2011–present| known_for = Matilda the MusicalThe Enfield Haunting}}Eleanor Winifred Worthington Cox (born 21 June 2001) is an English actress from MerseysideWEB,weblink Formby Schoolgirl Makes History, Liverpool Echo, 10 October 2012, 16 April 2012, best known for portraying Matilda Wormwood in Matilda the Musical. Eleanor won a 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical along with the three other child actresses playing Matilda: Cleo Demetriou; Kerry Ingram; and Sophia Kiely. Upon winning, 10-year-old Eleanor became the youngest Olivier Award winner in any category at the time.WEB, 16 April 2012, Youngest ever Olivier award winner,weblink 29 December 2020, BBC News, WEB, Gardner, Lyn, 25 November 2011, Matilda - review,weblink 27 December 2020, The Guardian, en, WEB, Rustin, Susanna, 6 April 2012, Matilda the musical: Daughters on stage,weblink 29 December 2020, The Guardian, WEB, Carpenter, Julie, 25 November 2011, Theatre review - Matilda The Musical, Cambridge Theatre, London,weblink 29 December 2020, Express.co.uk, en, WEB, 25 November 2011, Review Round-up: Matilda is Top of the Class {{!, WhatsOnStage|url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/review-round-up-matilda-is-top-of-the-class_6137.html|access-date=29 December 2020|website=www.whatsonstage.com}} She received a nomination for a British Academy Television Award for playing Janet Hodgson in The Enfield Haunting.WEB, Raeside, Julia, 11 May 2015, The Enfield Haunting review: an outstanding chiller of gothic goings-on,weblink 29 December 2020, The Guardian, en, WEB, Hogan, Michael, 3 May 2015, The Enfield Haunting: 'like The Good Life with ghosts',weblink subscription, 29 December 2020, The Telegraph, WEB, Lowry, Brian, 8 October 2015, TV Review: 'The Enfield Haunting',weblink 29 December 2020, Variety, WEB, 2016, 2016 TV BAFTA Award Nominees,weblink BAFTA, WEB, 8 May 2016, Bafta TV Awards 2016: Winners list,weblink 29 December 2020, BBC News, She is also known for portraying Polly Renfrew in the CBBC TV adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather and Cait in the Sky Atlantic series Britannia.WEB, White, Peter, 'Britannia' Renewed For Third Season By Sky Atlantic As Amazon Exits Fantasy Drama,weblink Deadline, 29 December 2020, 15 January 2020, WEB, Jones, Paul, Sky Atlantic's Britannia: "Game of Thrones meets the most debauched year you ever had at Glastonbury",weblink Radio Times, 29 December 2020, en,

Biography

From 2003, at the age of two, until 2012, Worthington Cox trained at the Formby School of Performing Arts.Before starring in Matilda, Worthington Cox was in the chorus for a Bill Kenwright production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Liverpool Empire.NEWS,weblink Young stars steal the show as Matilda sets Olivier records, Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 15 April 2012, 30 September 2012, subscription, In September 2011, Worthington Cox was announced as one of four girls who would be playing the lead role of Matilda in Matilda the Musical along with: Cleo Demetriou;WEB, Dahl Day Delights - More Matilda Magic,weblink 13 September 2011, TimMibnchin.com, 12 April 2013, Kerry Ingram; and Sophia Kiely. She made her debut in October 2011 and performed in the show two nights a week. It was a critical success, and Matilda was nominated for 10 Olivier awards.WEB, Masters, Tim, Matilda the Musical top of the class with 10 Olivier awards nominations,weblink BBC News, 29 December 2020, 15 March 2012, Among the nominations was Best Actress in a Musical, for which Demetriou, Ingram, Kiely, and Cox were all nominated. On awards night, Matilda won seven out of the ten nominations. Cox won Best Actress in a Musical along with her co-stars and currently holds the record for the youngest winner of an Olivier award.WEB,weblink A Day in the Life of four girls called Matilda, Susanna Rustin, The Guardian, 16 April 2012, 12 April 2013, Worthington Cox continued to appear in Matilda until 19 August 2012, later sharing the role with Demetriou, Hayley Canham, Jade Marner, and Isobelle Molloy.WEB,weblink Olivier Award winning actress Eleanor Worthington Cox to continue her starring role in Matilda until August, Tina Miles, 17 April 2012, Liverpool.com, 12 April 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130321121649weblink">weblink 21 March 2013, dead, In May 2013, Worthington Cox played Scout in a stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre,WEB, Gardner, Lyn, To Kill a Mockingbird – review,weblink The Guardian, 29 December 2020, en, 28 May 2013, sharing her role with Lucy Hutchinson and Izzy Lee.WEB,weblink To Kill a Mockingbird, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, 28 March 2013, After finishing Matilda, Worthington Cox filmed the role of Young Princess Aurora in the film Maleficent (2014).WEB, Miles, Tina, Young Formby actress to play Sleeping Beauty in Angelina Jolie's Disney movie Maleficent,weblink Liverpool Echo, 29 December 2020, en, 4 October 2012, From April to August 2015, Worthington Cox played the role of Blousey Brown in a production of Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith.WEB, Cavendish, Dominic, Bugsy Malone, Lyric Hammersmith, review: 'razzmatazz perfection',weblink The Telegraph, 29 December 2020, 29 April 2015, subscription, This was the debut production following the theatre's reopening after a £16.5 million redevelopment project.WEB,weblink Bugsy Malone to re-open the new Lyric Hammersmith, Alistair Foster, Evening Standard, 13 October 2014, 3 November 2016, In October 2015, Worthington Cox played Jess in Tomcat, a new play by James Rushbrooke, at Southwark Playhouse, London.WEB, Billington, Michael, Tomcat review – paternal love lends heart to a genetic dilemma,weblink The Guardian, 29 December 2020, en, 3 November 2015, WEB, Tomcat, Southwark Playhouse,weblink 29 December 2020, 12 April 2021,weblink dead, In 2016, Worthington Cox received a British Academy Television Award nomination for her performance in the Sky One mini-series The Enfield Haunting. She was also featured as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow", the film magazine's annual showcase highlighting outstanding young actors from the UK and Ireland.WEB,weblink Stars of Tomorrow, Screen International, 2016, In 2018, Worthington Cox starred as Cait in Britannia.WEB,weblink Sky and Amazon US announce major new drama co-production, Sky, 3 August 2016,weblink 4 November 2016, In 2018 played “Boogie” in comedy film “Action Point”

Acting credits

Film{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title! Role! Notes! {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}| 2014Maleficent (film)>MaleficentAurora (Disney)>Princess Aurora|| |2018|Action Point|Boogie Carver|TITLE=REVIEW: IN 'ACTION POINT,' THE 'JACKASS' CREW PLAYS IT SAFE WEBSITE=THE NEW YORK TIMES DATE=1 JUNE 2018, MACNAB >FIRST1=GEOFFREY URL=HTTPS://WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK/ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT/FILMS/REVIEWS/ACTION-POINT-REVIEW-COMEDY-JOHNNY-KNOXVILLE-CAST-TRAILER-A8511841.HTML ACCESS-DATE=29 DECEMBER 2020 DATE=31 AUGUST 2018, DEBRUGE >FIRST1=PETER URL=HTTPS://VARIETY.COM/2018/FILM/REVIEWS/ACTION-POINT-REVIEW-JOHNNY-KNOXVILLE-1202827501/ ACCESS-DATE=29 DECEMBER 2020, 1 June 2018, |2019Gwen (film)>Gwen| Gwen |TITLE=GWEN REVIEW – BROODING BUT UNSATISFYING RURAL PERIOD MYSTERY WEBSITE=THE GUARDIAN LANGUAGE=EN TITLE=GWEN, REVIEW: 'IN THE PLACES WHERE THE PLOT SHOULD BE, THERE'S JUST MORE ATMOSPHERE' WEBSITE=THE TELEGRAPH DATE=18 JULY 2019 TITLE=GWEN WEBSITE=EMPIRE LANGUAGE=EN TITLE=GWEN: A SPOOKY BLEND OF UNSETTLING ATMOSPHERICS AND ULTRA-VIOLENCE NEWSPAPER=THE IRISH TIMES LANGUAGE=EN TITLE=FILM REVIEW: 'GWEN' WEBSITE=VARIETY DATE=7 AUGUST 2019, GWEN - COMING 2019 >URL=HTTP://WWW.WILLIAMMCGREGOR.CO.UK/PORTFOLIO/THE-DARK-OUTSIDE ACCESSDATE=19 AUGUST 2018 ARCHIVE-DATE=19 AUGUST 2018, dead, ">

Television{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Title! Role! Notes! {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}2015Cucumber (British TV series)>Cucumber| Molly Whitaker| Main casttitle=Cucumber (TV Mini Series 2015) - IMDb access-date=2022-11-21}}| The Enfield Haunting| Janet Hodgson| Main castNominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress|| 2015–16Hetty Feather (TV series)>Hetty Feather| Polly Renfrew| Main cast (season 1, first two episodes season 2)title=Hetty Feather (TV Series 2015–2020) - IMDb access-date=2022-11-21}}| 2018–21Britannia (TV series)>Britannia| Cait| Main cast|| 2021| The Irregulars| Clara| 1 episode WEBSITE=IMDB, ">

Theatre {| class"wikitable"

! Year! Production! Role! Notes! {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}| 2009| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat| Chorus| Liverpool Empire|| 2011| Matilda the Musical| Matilda Wormwood| Cambridge Theatre 25 October 2011 {{ndash}} 19 August 2012|| 2013| To Kill a MockingbirdJean Louise Finch>Jean Louise "Scout" Finch| Regent's Park Open Air Theatre16 May {{ndash}} 15 June 2013| 2015| Bugsy Malone| Blousey Brown| Lyric Hammersmith11 April 2015 {{ndash}} 1 August 2015|| Tomcat| Jess| Southwark Playhouse28 October 2015 {{ndash}} 21 November 2015|| 2022Jerusalem (play)>Jerusalem|Phaedra Cox | Apollo Theatre16 April 2022 {{ndash}} 10 August 2022 WEBSITE=JERUSALEM THE PLAY ARCHIVE-DATE=7 AUGUST 2022 URL-STATUS=DEAD, | 2023The_Secret_Life_of_Bees_(novel)#Reception_and_adaptations>The Secret Life of Bees|Lily| Almeida Theatre8 April 2023 {{ndash}} 27 May 2023 WEBSITE=ALMEIDA THEATRE, 11 May 2023, |2023|Next to Normal|Natalie Goodman|Donmar Warehouse14 August 2023 - 7 October 2023ACCESS-DATE=2023-08-22, booking.donmarwarehouse.com, ">

Accolades{| class"wikitable"

! Year! Award! Category! Work! Result! {{abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}}| 2012Whatsonstage.com Awards>WhatsOnStage.com AwardsWhatsOnStage Award for Best Actress in a Musical>Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (shared with Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram and Sophia Kiely) Matilda the Musical| {{Nom}}FULL LIST: 2012 WHATSONSTAGE.COM AWARD WINNERS >URL=HTTPS://WWW.WHATSONSTAGE.COM/WEST-END-THEATRE/NEWS/FULL-LIST-2012-WHATSONSTAGECOM-AWARD-WINNERS_5341.HTML ACCESS-DATE=29 DECEMBER 2020, 2012 Laurence Olivier Awards>2012| Laurence Olivier AwardLaurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical>Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (shared with Cleo Demetriou, Kerry Ingram and Sophia Kiely)| {{Won}}OLIVIER WINNERS 2012 >URL=HTTPS://OFFICIALLONDONTHEATRE.COM/OLIVIER-AWARDS/WINNERS/OLIVIER-WINNERS-2012/ ACCESS-DATE=29 DECEMBER 2020, 2016 British Academy Television Awards>2016| British Academy Television AwardsBritish Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress>Best Actress in a Supporting Role| The Enfield Haunting| {{Nom}}2024 Laurence Olivier Awards>2024| Laurence Olivier AwardOlivier Awards > Best Actress in a Supporting Role In a Musical| Next to Normal| {{Nom}}WEBSITE=OFFICIALLONDONTHEATRE ACCESS-DATE=15 MARCH 2024,

See also

• List of British actors

References

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Bibliography

• Sonia Friedman Productions Limited (2022). Jerusalem: Cast & Creative. Retrieved from Cast & Creative {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807195711weblink |date=7 August 2022 }}.

External links

• {{IMDb name|5732956}}

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