British actress Natalie Dormer has played some of television’s most beloved and fierce women. She portrayed Anne Boleyn on The Tudors, Margaery Tyrell on Game of Thrones, Irene Adler on Elementary, and Cressida in the Hunger Games movies. Off-screen, Dormer proves to be just as outspoken, calling for increased equality in the film industry. Now, to celebrate her latest role, starring alongside Naomie Harris in Guillem Morales’s psychological thriller The Wasp, she shares her key components to the good life. —Clara Molot
Breakfast, weekday: My partner David’s American-style pancakes, fresh O.J., and coffee.
Children: My two beautiful daughters.
Cocktail: Negroni, please.
Couple: Dr. Audrey Evans and Dr. Dan D’Angio, who were a pediatric-oncologist-and-radiologist couple at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, portrayed in my latest film, Audrey’s Children. They were heroes who saved literally hundreds, if not thousands, of children from cancer. Look ’em up.
Date: Dog walk and pub lunch.
Enemy: My impatience.
Good-bye: My three-year-old when she kisses my cheek, then happily trots into the nursery.
Hideaway: Somewhere up or down the coast from Los Angeles after I’ve finished “press.”
Hotel: The Corinthia London. It’s a staggering distance from the London Marathon finish line, and they’ve looked after me twice post-race. Great residents’ bar and spa.
Indulgence:
A siesta.
Jacket: The signature Max Mara wool coat—timeless, classic tailoring.
Match: Seats at a Wimbledon final, with Pimm’s and strawberries.
Movie: The Philadelphia Story.
Novel: Jane Eyre. Suddenly, my 14-year-old self didn’t feel so alone.
Pet: My eight-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback.
Spouse: Rowan David Oakes.
Television series: Babylon Berlin.
Toast: With butter and marmalade.
Vacation: Scuba-diving in the Maldives with David, with the Manta Trust charity at our side on dives.
View: Standing by the safari jeep at sunset looking out over Sanbona Wildlife Reserve, in the Little Karoo, South Africa (holding a sundowner gin-and-tonic).
Wake-up time: One that doesn’t involve an alarm!
Work of art: Any of Berthe Morisot’s studies of real women. As important an Impressionist as Manet or Renoir but not given the same recognition.
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The Wasp is in theaters now
