Cassandras Dream Movie

Landing your first leading role in a film eight months out of drama school isn't bad going for any young actor, but when the director is Woody Allen and your costars include Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson, fortune is clearly in your favor. After graduating from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama in June 2005, Hayley Atwell's biggest role had been as a politician's daughter in the BBC adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's novel "The Line of Beauty," although the drama hadn't even aired when she attended an open casting session for "Cassandra's Dream" in London.

Landing your first leading role in a film eight months out of drama school isn't bad going for any young actor, but when the director is Woody Allen and your costars include Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson, fortune is clearly in your favor. After graduating from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama in June 2005, Hayley Atwell's biggest role had been as a politician's daughter in the BBC adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's novel "The Line of Beauty," although the drama hadn't even aired when she attended an open casting session for "Cassandra's Dream" in London.