English actress, model, director, and activist
Bonnie Francesca Wright (born 17 February 1991) is an English actress, model, director, and activist. She is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
Born in London, Wright made her professional acting debut in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), portraying the role for ten years until the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). Following the series, Wright appeared in a string of independent films, including Before I Sleep (2013), The Sea (2013), and After the Dark (2014); the films received mixed reviews. She made her stage debut as the lead in Peter Ustinov's The Moment of Truth at the Southwark Playhouse in 2013.
Wright graduated from University of the Arts London in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in filmmaking. She subsequently founded her own production company, BonBonLumiere, and began to produce short films. Her first directorial project was the coming-of-age drama Separate We Come, Separate We Go (2012), starring David Thewlis, which was released at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. She directed Know Thyself (2016), starring Christian Coulson, and Sextant (2016), both of which featured landscape and emotion as themes. Wright's three-part series, Phone Calls, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. She released Medusa's Ankles (2018) starring Kerry Fox and Jason Isaacs, based on A. S. Byatt's The Matisse Stories. She has also directed music videos for artists Sophie Lowe, Pete Yorn, and Scarlett Johansson.
Wright has gained recognition for her environmental activism; she is also an ambassador for the charities Greenpeace and Lumos.
ConfidenceI remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young.
I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.
I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.
I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.
I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.
I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.
We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.
I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.
Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.
I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.
When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
So many girls have become famous for literally nothing - other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.
I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.
I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
I like Destiny's Child.
I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.
I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.
I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.