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Eleanor Worthington-Cox
British actress from Merseyside From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eleanor Winifred Worthington Cox (born 21 June 2001) is an English actress from Merseyside[1] 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.[2][3][4][5][6] She received a nomination for a British Academy Television Award for playing Janet Hodgson in The Enfield Haunting.[7][8][9][10][11] 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.[12][13]
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From 2003, at the age of two, until 2012, Worthington Cox trained at the Formby School of Performing Arts.[14]
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.[15]
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[4][5][6] along with: Cleo Demetriou;[16][4] Kerry Ingram;[16][4] and Sophia Kiely.[16][4] 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.[17] Among the nominations was Best Actress in a Musical, for which Demetriou, Ingram, Kiely, and Cox were all nominated.[2] 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.[2][18]
Worthington Cox continued to appear in Matilda until 19 August 2012, later sharing the role with Demetriou, Hayley Canham, Jade Marner, and Isobelle Molloy.[14]
In May 2013, Worthington Cox played Scout in a stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre,[19] sharing her role with Lucy Hutchinson and Izzy Lee.[20]
After finishing Matilda, Worthington Cox filmed the role of Young Princess Aurora in the film Maleficent (2014).[21]
From April to August 2015, Worthington Cox played the role of Blousey Brown in a production of Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith.[22] This was the debut production following the theatre's reopening after a £16.5 million redevelopment project.[23]
In October 2015, Worthington Cox played Jess in Tomcat, a new play by James Rushbrooke, at Southwark Playhouse, London.[24][25]
In 2016, Worthington Cox received a British Academy Television Award nomination for her performance in the Sky One mini-series The Enfield Haunting.[10][11] 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.[26]
In 2018, Worthington Cox starred as Cait in Britannia.[12][13][27]
In 2018 played “Boogie” in comedy film “Action Point”
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