Hayley Atwell Movies & Biography

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GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (2026)

Starring Gemma Arterton, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Hayley Atwell, Lenny Henry, Rob Beckett, Colin McFarlane, David Menkin, Ayesha Antoine, Guillaume Laroche and Joseph Balderrama. Directed by Waldemar Fast.

Young mouse Edda dreams of racing cars. When the European Grand Prix nears, she seizes her chance to enter the race, meet her idol, defy the odds to realise her dream, and help her struggling family fairground business secure its future.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING (2025)

Starring Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Nick Offerman, Holt McCallany, Esai Morales and Janet McTeer. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

REVIEWS Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - The greatest action franchise at its best and its worst

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (2023)

Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Simon Pegg, Indira Varma, Charles Parnell, Cary Elwes, Pom Klementieff and Shea Whigham. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

REVIEWS Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Another stupendous entry from the greatest action franchise of all

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (2019)

Starring Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Hayley Atwell and Rob Brydon. Directed by Gurinder Chadha.

A coming-of-age story about a teenager who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the words and music of Bruce Springsteen.

REVIEWS Blinded By The Light - The spiritual sequel to Bend It Like Beckham

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (2018)

Starring Hayley Atwell, Ewan McGregor, Jim Cummings, Mark Gatiss, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Brad Garrett, Bronte Carmichael, Sophie Okonedo and Toby Jones. Directed by Marc Forster.

The young boy who embarked on countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with his band of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (2015)

Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson and Joanna Scanlan. Directed by James Kent.

A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

REVIEWS Testament of Youth - A eulogy to innocence
Testament of Youth - Love in a time of war

JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE (2014)

Starring Andre Benjamin (andre 3000), Imogen Poots and Hayley Atwell. Directed by John Ridley.

It’s 1966. A then unknown Jimi Hendrix is touring a series of London pubs. With his defining performance at Monterey Pop festival still a year away, a softly spoken Hendrix learns the tricks of the trade before eventually transforming into a triumphant icon of 60s counterculture.

REVIEWS Jimi: All Is By My Side - Making of a legend