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Amelia Morgan (actress)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amelia Morgan (born 28 May 2002) is an English actress. Attendee Cambridge Regional College in Cambridge, she began her acting career on the British Television Show: Doctor Who as Evelyn Powell from 2008 to the present. She gained further recognition for landing the role of Olivia Williams in the hit superhero film Marvel’s: The Avengers (2012).

Morgan rose to stardom for playing Olivia Williams in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Contents

·        1Early life

·        2Career

o   2.12008–2013: Doctor Who and film breakthrough

o   2.22014–present: Worldwide recognition as Olivia Williams

§ 2.2.1Upcoming projects

·        3Personal life

·        4Filmograph

.       5Discorgraphy

.       6Bibliograpy

Early life

Morgan was born 28 May 2002 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, to Jane Phillips (née Pipes), a childminder, and Gareth Phillips, an engineer. She has two older brothers: Colin (b. 1986) and Joseph (b. 1981). She also has several younger siblings: Alicia (b. 2002), Rose (b. 2003), Summer (b. 2008), India (b. 2012), twins Sasha and Tristan (b. 2014), and Jensen (b. 2019).

Morgan was educated at Shirley, a primary school in Chesterton in North East Cambridge, followed by Impington Village College, (just outside of Cambridge), up until July 2017. Morgan began year 10 at Parkside Community College in September 2017, where she met her adopted sister, Alicia Chambers (nee Jackson-Weld). After Parkside Community College she attended Cambridge Regional College in Cambridge, where she studies Engineering.

Career

2008–2013: Doctor Who and film breakthrough

Morgan began acting, in 2005, because of her Aunt Georgia Tennant (nee Moffett), her brothers Colin (both Colin and Georgia had roles in Morgan’s favorite family TV shows: Doctor Who and Merlin.), and Joseph. Since 2005, Morgan has had several minor, uncredited roles in a few not-so-popular British kid’s TV shows.

But it wasn’t until 2008, when Morgan landed her first big role as Evelyn Luna Powell in BBC’s Doctor Who. She played the guest role in the two 2008 episodes: “The Stolen Earth” and “Journey’s End”. After, which, she was invited back to play the Evelyn as a recurring role in the Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood.

Morgan continued to play the role in Torchwood until it was cancelled in 2011. Luckily, earlier in the year, Morgan had landed the role of Olivia ‘Liv’ Williams in Marvel’s: The Avengers. The role was small, and seemed to be a one off role, until fans spotted Morgan again in 2013’s Thor: The Dark World. But it wasn’t until Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired on ABC at the end of September 2013, where her character reappeared, along with Clark Gregg’ s Phil Coulson, that the full extent of her role was revealed.

2014–present: Worldwide recognition as Olivia Williams and writing career

In 2014, Morgan rejoined some of The Avengers cast in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Olivia Williams. Morgan continued with her role in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.., as well as officially becoming a member of The Avengers in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. After that, Morgan appeared as Oliva in other Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, such as; Captain America: Civil War (2016), Infinity War (2018), and Endgame (2019).

On 16 August 2017, it was announced that Disney had signed a contract with Morgan over her and her sister’s (Rose) school play, Descendants. Morgan and her sister were to star in and direct a film version of their play to be released as a Disney Channel Original Movie. This was all thanks to their step-father and friends. The pair were allowed to keep their cast and musician, which were all pupils of Parkside Community College, with permission from their parents. In 2018, the Morgan sisters wrote a sequel which they tested on an audience consisted of Parkside pupils’ parents before they began filming. Although the pair had exams in November and May/June 2019, they wrote and produced a third and final Descendants play/film.

The sisters have also promised fans, that at some point in the near future, the trilogy of plays will go on a world tour with most of the original cast.

In 2017, Morgan reprised her role as Evelyn Powell in Doctor Who’s second spin-off series, Class. But it was, unfortunately, cancelled after just one season. Also, in 2017, Morgan had minor roles in three Netflix TV shows: Lucifer, The Crown, and Altered Carbon. She also reprised a minor role, which she played in The Vampire Diaries a year prior, in the CW spin-off, The Originals and become a series regular until its end in 2018, where she continued her role in the spin-off’s spin-off, Legacies.

In 2018, Morgan became recognized for her writing skills on platforms such as, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, and Fanfiction.net. She writes under the pseudonym Stefinia Queen. Her works include: “A Light Untamed”, “Bonded Across Everything”, “Girl’s Night Out”, “Modern Murder Mystery”, and, most notably, the fanfiction crossover between Torchwood and Merlin called “The Once and Future King”, which, Russell T. Davis liked so much, he decided to adapt it into at 2019 short television film.

In October 2018, Morgan stared in the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film, Slaughterhouse Rulez with her brother-in-law, Finn Cole, and long-time friend, Asa Butterfield. She is set to reprise her role in the sequel along-side Cole and Butterfield which is yet to have a confirmed release date. Morgan starred in 2018’s The Little Mermaid. Also, Morgan played major roles in Light as a Feather and 10 Peach’s, The Bureau of Magical Things.

Due to her GSCE’s, Morgan was forced to have a quieter year, in regards to her career, in 2019. But she did star in her last third of the Descendants trilogy, Avengers Endgame, and her adapted short novel The Once and Future King. As well as this, Morgan had minor roles in both His Dark Materials and Good Omens.

In 2020, Morgan had roles in BBC’s Dracula and Netflix’s Locke and Key.

Upcoming projects

Morgan is set to headline in a solo film for her MCU character, Olivia Williams, which will look into the characters’ origins and the next steps in her journey after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home. Morgan is also set to appear in the third installment of the Now You See Me films with former co-stars Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Mark Ruffalo, and Morgan Freeman.

Personal life

Morgan resides in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire with her mother, step-father, siblings and her fiancé, Welsh actor Tom Rhys Harries.

Her brother, Joseph Morgan, married his former Vampire Diaries co-star, Persia White in 2014. White has a daughter, Mecca, form a previous marriage and the couple share a daughter, Lexi, who played Tony Stark’s daughter in Endgame.

Almost a year after meeting in Greece on a family holiday in 2015, Morgan’s mother, Jane, married Avengers and Thor star, Chris Hemsworth. Although they do not share any children together, they both raised Hemsworth’s three children form his previous marriage. Morgan has two famous aunts, on her mother’s side, Jodie Whittaker and Georgia Tennant.

In 2017, Morgan’s father, Gareth, married Morgan’s step-mother, Wendy. The two share a son together, Jensen Daniel, who was born in April of 2019.

Morgan’s sister, Rose, became engaged to actor Finn Cole during the spring of 2017. The pair married in late August the following year.

After a long battle with cancer, Morgan’s beloved Grandmother, Susan, died on 13 September 2019. When she was younger, her Grandmother and her aunt, Nikki (who suffered from breast cancer), used to take her to Saturday Tap, Modern, Jazz, and ballet lessons provided by a family friend, Jill Bridger, at the company, Jill Bridger’s School of Dance. Morgan would perform, along with her classes, several dances at Comberton Village College every June. However, when her Grandmother became ill, Morgan stopped going so that she might spend more time with her.

Morgan and Harries met on the set of Slaughterhouse Rulez, where they played each other’s love interest. The two were rumored to have gotten close during filming and were often seen together in public. Neither of them confirmed the rumors of their love, both choosing to ignore or avoid questions on the subject when asked, until early June 2020 when Harries posted a picture on Instagram of the pair sharing a kiss in the back garden of Morgan’s childhood home. They announced in late October that they had gotten engaged.

Filmography

Television[edit] Stage[edit] Discography[edit]

Bibliography

1.   A Light Untamed

2.   Bonded Across Everything

3.   The Power of Three

4.   The Missing

5.   The Witch That Time Forgot

6.   Girls Night Out

7.   Vows

8.   The Trouble with Love

9.   Kidnapped

10. Under My Protection

11. Something New

12. Midnight Tasting

13. The Unbreakable Law

14. The Devil’s Angel

15. Modern Murder Mystery

16. The Christmas Con

17. I Promise

18. Dark Authority

19. Misunderstood

20. The Hoax

21. Escapades

22. Braving The Past

23. The Once and Future King

24. The Long Lost

25. Wasted Time

26. His Magical Nuisance

27. Childhood Memory

28. Defiance

29. Paradise

30. Persuasion

31. The Blood of a God

32. The Great Pretender

33. The Science of Illusion

34. Behind Every Pretty Face Is a Demon

35. Universal

36. Taking a Chance

37. A Turn of the Knife

38. Out of Reach

39. The Bucket List

40. Silence Is Golden, But Duct Tape Is Silver

41. Come and Play

42. Torture

43. Burning in Water

44. Veal and Venison

45. Dark Games

46. My Story