Hannah Taylor-Gordon - Career

Career

Taylor-Gordon has been acting since she was four. Her first acting role was on the UK television series Casualty. Her first film role was in the 1993 film The House of the Spirits, where she played young Blanca Trueba. The House of the Spirits starred Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons and Antonio Banderas. She played small roles in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Taylor-Gordon is probably best known for playing Anne Frank in the 2001 ABC television film Anne Frank: The Whole Story, which earned her nominations for both a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award. The miniseries co-starred Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, and Lili Taylor.

Taylor-Gordon starred as Lina in the 1999 film Jakob the Liar, which co-starred Robin Williams. She played a Holocaust victim in both this film and Anne Frank: The Whole Story, though Taylor-Gordon herself is not Jewish. In the 2004 film Secret Passage, Taylor-Gordon played a supporting role alongside John Turturro.

In 2005, Taylor-Gordon acted in the film The Fine Art of Love. She played Irene, in the film, starring alongside Natalia Tena, Mary Nighy and Jacqueline Bisset.

In 2012, Taylor-Gordon played Lady Macbeth in the film "The Tragedy of Macbeth", that would eventually win Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director at Indie Film Festival.