Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English screen actress known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later and her supporting turn as Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Harris was born and raised in London, England, the daughter of sitcom writer Lisselle Kayla, a single mother who had emigrated to England from Jamaica as a child. After graduating in 1998 from Pembroke College, Cambridge with ...
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Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English screen actress known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later and her supporting turn as Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Harris was born and raised in London, England, the daughter of sitcom writer Lisselle Kayla, a single mother who had emigrated to England from Jamaica as a child. After graduating in 1998 from Pembroke College, Cambridge with an undergraduate degree in social and political science, Harris trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Harris is a Buddhist.
From an interview with Daily Mail: "Naomie has overcome all manner of adversity - a single-parent upbringing in North London's Finsbury Park, bullying at school, a miserable stint at Cambridge where she says she cried every day of her three-year degree course - to become one of Britain's unlikeliest celebrities.". She had a very difficult time as a student at Cambridge. "When I went to Cambridge University, Mum...
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