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- Naomi Ackie is a British actress.
- Her breakout function was in ‘Lady Macbeth’.
- She performs Whitney Houston within the biopic ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody.’
Everyone’s going to be speaking about Naomi Ackie, 30, after they see I Wanna Dance With Somebody. The Whitney Houston biopic stars Naomi in her first lead movie function, which is fairly unbelievable. Naomi sings a few of the late singer’s largest songs together with “I Will Always Love You” within the film. Fans won’t be acquainted with Naomi but, however that’s undoubtedly going to alter after the biopic comes out in theaters on December 23. Here’s every part you could find out about Naomi.
Naomi is British.
Naomi was born and raised in Walthamstow, London. She’s the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Grenada. Naomi’s father labored in transported and her mom labored in healthcare. She was the youngest of three youngsters.
“I was a really anxious kid,” Naomi stated in an interview with Elle. “And my teens were awkward too. Now I look back on those years, I realise there was so much going on.”
She began performing at age 11.
Naomi fell in love with performing in class when she was 11 years outdated. She performed the angel Gabriel in a faculty nativity play. She went on to review performing on the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Naomi’s huge break got here from the 2016 movie Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh. For her efficiency, Naomi gained the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
She was in a ‘Star Wars’ film.
Star Wars followers had been launched to Naomi in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, the closing installment of the sequel trilogy. Naomi performed Hannah, a former Stormtrooper who switches sides to assist the Resistance. Naomi defined that her function as a Black lady in a Star Wars film was acquired positively by followers.
“I do know that what I’ve experienced so far has come hugely from a place of love and support and excitement and joy, and I don’t think that will go away,” she advised Elle in 2019.
She was nearly in a ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel.
Naomi was purported to star in HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel collection set 10,000 years earlier than the occasions of the collection. The full solid, together with lead star Naomi Watts, filmed the pilot episode, earlier than HBO scrapped the collection completely in October 2019.
Naomi studied Whitney Houston earlier than filming the biopic.
Naomi went right into a deep dive on Whitney’s life whereas getting ready for I Wanna Dance with Somebody, which explores Whitney’s highs and lows earlier than her demise. “There’s one interview—it’s quite a long one, maybe in three parts on YouTube. She does this thing with her hand a lot. And that was the first thing I used to practice,” Naomi advised The A.V. Club. “Those little things were what I would hold on to and practice, really practice during the day by myself like a weird actor in her own flat, just a lot. All of it together created a space where I felt like I could capture some of the essence of Whitney,” she added.