Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is an English actress.Atwell was born in London, the only child of Allison (née Cain), a motivational speaker, and Grant, a massage therapist and shaman. Atwell's mother is English and her father, an American from Kansas City, Missouri, is of part Native-American descent.Atwell has dual citizenship of the U.K. and the U.S. Her parents separated when she was two years old After secondary education at Sion-Manning Roman Catholic Girls' School, West London, Atwell took A-levels at the London Oratory School before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and graduating in 2005, in place of studying philosophy and theology at King's College London.

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Atwell's debut was in a 2005 Pringles television advertisement and served on the jury for the 2007 British Independent Film Awards.Her first feature film role was in Woody Allen's 2007 film Cassandra's Dream, in which she took the part of a stage actress opposite Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. In 2008, she appeared in the film The Duchess as Bess Foster and the film Brideshead Revisited as Lady Julia Flyte, earning praise and nominations from the British Independent Film Awards and the London Critics Circle Film Awards.

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In January 2009, Atwell made her West End début in Lindsay Posner's revival of A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre which earned her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Atwell appeared as "415" in AMC Television's November 2009 miniseries, The Prisoner, a remake of the 1967–68 series by the same name.She has recently been cast in comic book adaptation Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) as Peggy Carter, romantic interest and former WW2 French Resistance fighter. MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the 'Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011'.