Who is Hayley Atwell, Tom Cruise's supposed ex-girlfriend?

They met in 2020, on the set of the seventh installment of

.

Since then, Hayley Atwell and Tom Cruise have multiplied breakups and reconciliations.

in London on May 19

had suggested .

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And while we thought their story started again, here they would have again put an end to their idyll, as reported by the

, this Sunday, June 12.

“Unfortunately, it didn't work out.

They decided they got along better as friends,” a source told the British newspaper.

If for several months, we often come across her name in the tabloids, the 40-year-old actress is actually a leading actress in Hollywood.

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Tomboy

She owes her first name to Hayley Mills, her mother's favorite actress.

Born in 1982 in London, Hayley Atwell is the only child of Allison, a British lecturer, and Grant Atwell, a Kansas City massage therapist and shaman of Native American descent.

If the actress has dual nationality, British and American, she grew up in the district of Ladbroke Grove, in Notting Hill, with her mother, and leaves every summer to survey Missouri with her father during her school holidays.

Coming from a religious background, Hayley Atwell spent part of her schooling at the Sion Manning Roman Catholic Girls' School, a mixed secondary school, of which she will not have fond memories.

In an interview for the conservative London daily Evening Standard, in 2015, the latter confided that she had been mistreated because of her imposing physique.

"Chubby and introverted", she is given the nickname "Hayley Fat-well" by her comrades.

When she joined the London Oratory School, a few years later, the young girl discovered a passion for rugby, an outlet sport that allowed her to channel her anger and aggressiveness.

This will earn him the nickname “Hulk Atwell” this time, a sort of premonition for the one who will later play in Marvel films.

Ralph Fiennes, hero of

Hamlet

At the end of secondary school, and despite her great intellectual abilities, the student did not have the results necessary to integrate the University of Oxford.

In an interview for The Independent in 2010, she said: “I think I sabotaged myself to be honest.

It was clear that I was not going to go to Oxford but I felt liberated”.

In the process, Hayley Atwell leaves for the United States to join her father, and lands a first job for a casting director.

In 1995, the young apprentice fell under the spell of Ralph Fiennes' acting, when she went to see the play

at the Hackney Empire.

A revelation, since this one sets out to take acting lessons at the “Guildhall School of Music and Drama” where she will be trained for three years.

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Early roles

Among her first television appearances, Hayley Atwell landed a role in the 2006 TV movie

at First Sight , retracing the love story between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

A year later, she played her first film character, alongside actors Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, in Woody Allen's film,

.

Better still, she gave the reply to Ralph Fiennes, her childhood hero, in 2008, in the feature film

(with Keira Knightley), by Saul Dibb.

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The role that will mark a turning point in her career will be that of Peggy Carter, in 2011 in the blockbuster

, with actor Chris Evans.

The films

,

, and

will be added to his list .

Followed today by nearly 1.6 million subscribers on Instagram, the British-American actress can boast of having managed to carve out, and this with the sweat of her brow, a place of choice in the very closed environment. of Hollywood.

In 2023 and 2024, we will see her alongside Tom Cruise, her supposed future ex, in the seventh and eighth installments of

.