{"id":51041,"date":"2017-01-06T00:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51041"},"modified":"2017-01-06T00:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:24:36","slug":"ruth-negga-stories-about-race-and-identity-pique-my-interest-i-have-always-felt-like-a-fish-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51041","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Belfast Telegraph<\/a>
\n2016-12-31<\/p>\n

Patricia Danaher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nStarring role: Ruth Negga\u2019s<\/a> career is going from strength to strength<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Nominated for a Golden Globe<\/a>, tipped for an Oscar<\/a> and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga<\/a> is the woman of the moment. Here, the actress tells Patricia Danaher how growing up mixed race in the Republic<\/a> helped her inhabit the role that’s made her a star<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems somewhat fitting that, as the cover star of US Vogue’s<\/em> January edition, Ruth Negga<\/a> wears an Alexander Wang blouse covered in red roses. After all, back home in Ireland<\/a> it’s for her role as Rosie in Love\/Hate<\/em><\/a> that Ruth is perhaps best known.<\/p>\n

That part, as the star-crossed lover of the show’s original protagonist Darren (played by Robert Sheehan<\/a>) was, of course, just one of the many times the Limerick<\/a> woman has graced TV screens in recent years. The chameleon-like actress has also featured in such diverse productions as Neil Jordan’s<\/a> Breakfast on Pluto<\/em><\/a>, edgy Channel 4 show Misfits<\/em><\/a>, and big-budget US series Agents of Shield<\/em><\/a> and Preacher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the UK, she works almost continuously on video games, in theatre and on TV – winning critical acclaim for her portrayal of Ophelia<\/a> at the National Theatre and of Shirley Bassey<\/em> in a BBC biopic about the singer<\/a>. Despite these numerous prominent roles, however, 35-year-old Ruth has managed to stay mostly under the radar in her long career.<\/p>\n

Until now, that is. Nominated earlier this month for a Golden Globe<\/a> and hotly tipped for an Oscar<\/a>, she’s gone from jobbing actor to Vogue cover girl in the blink of an eye. In Hollywood<\/a>, those who have just discovered Ruth through her role in new movie Loving<\/em><\/a> are calling her “an overnight success, 10 years in the making”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga\u2019s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,13743,8,10],"tags":[25584,246,25913,827,25582],"class_list":["post-51041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-belfast-telegraph","tag-ireland","tag-patricia-danaher","tag-ruth-negga","tag-the-belfast-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51042,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51041\/revisions\/51042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}