Antonia Campbell-Hughes
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
A long acting career with a wealth of Awards (Screen Stars, Berlinale Shooting Stars, BIFA, IFTA) established Antonia Campbell-Hughes as having 'a flair for experiment and depth'. From the Cannes breakout The Other Side of Sleep, Jane Campion's Bright Star, the BAFTA-winning Kelly & Victor in the title role. Campbell-Hughes is widely known for her portrayal of Natascha Kampusch in 3096 Days, and as Marie-Antoinette in Dangerous Liaisons for Starz.
The psychological thriller Cordelia had its US release May 2022, with Antonia in the title role, co-written with director Adrian Shergold. It co-starred Johnny Flynn and Michael Gambon. Writing for the UK Times, Kevin Maher said "Henry James and Roman Polanski are the touchstones as we spend an eerie, alienating weekend in the London basement flat and dark fractured mind of Cordelia, an aspiring actress and terror-attack survivor, superbly played by the febrile Antonia Campbell-Hughes." Campbell-Hughes also starred in Colum Eastwood's 2021 thriller 'Black Medicine', for which she received glowing reviews for her lead performance as underground medic Jo. Writing for The Guardian, Phuong Le wrote "..the brilliance of Campbell- Hughes, who gives an amazing performance. Underneath the stoicism, pain is subtly etched into her features and gestures"
Campbell-Hughes's feature debut as writer/director was 'It Is In Us All', a complex psychological drama starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang. 'It Is In Us All' had its world premiere at South by Southwest '22, where it won the Jury Award for 'Extraordinary Cinematic Vision', and unanimous rave reviews naming Campbell-Hughes as an exciting rare talent to watch (Variety- "As a debuting director, Campbell-Hughes proves she has style to burn." ). Campbell-Hughes received a British Independent Film Awards nomination for 'It Is In Us All' for Best Performance.
European Film Promotion named Campbell-Hughes the UK recipient for Directors of 2022. Her previous short 'Acre Fall Between' (BFI, Curzon) received top stars by Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, who called it 'a disquietingly hallucinatory, dreamlike event'.
The psychological thriller Cordelia had its US release May 2022, with Antonia in the title role, co-written with director Adrian Shergold. It co-starred Johnny Flynn and Michael Gambon. Writing for the UK Times, Kevin Maher said "Henry James and Roman Polanski are the touchstones as we spend an eerie, alienating weekend in the London basement flat and dark fractured mind of Cordelia, an aspiring actress and terror-attack survivor, superbly played by the febrile Antonia Campbell-Hughes." Campbell-Hughes also starred in Colum Eastwood's 2021 thriller 'Black Medicine', for which she received glowing reviews for her lead performance as underground medic Jo. Writing for The Guardian, Phuong Le wrote "..the brilliance of Campbell- Hughes, who gives an amazing performance. Underneath the stoicism, pain is subtly etched into her features and gestures"
Campbell-Hughes's feature debut as writer/director was 'It Is In Us All', a complex psychological drama starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang. 'It Is In Us All' had its world premiere at South by Southwest '22, where it won the Jury Award for 'Extraordinary Cinematic Vision', and unanimous rave reviews naming Campbell-Hughes as an exciting rare talent to watch (Variety- "As a debuting director, Campbell-Hughes proves she has style to burn." ). Campbell-Hughes received a British Independent Film Awards nomination for 'It Is In Us All' for Best Performance.
European Film Promotion named Campbell-Hughes the UK recipient for Directors of 2022. Her previous short 'Acre Fall Between' (BFI, Curzon) received top stars by Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, who called it 'a disquietingly hallucinatory, dreamlike event'.
