Hannah New


Hannah New is an English actress and model. She is known for her starring role on the television show Black Sails in which she plays Eleanor Guthrie, the owner of a saloon in Nassau and for her role as Rosalinda Fox in The Time in Between.

Early life

New was born in Balham, London, and is the youngest of three sisters. At the age of four, she attended a ballet school. She later joined the National Youth Theatre. Her interest in other cultures led her to visit over 20 countries including spending 3 months in a children's home in Bolivia in 2003.
To financially support her studies, she decided to model and was scouted by View Management in Madrid and Barcelona. She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. She can speak fluent Spanish.

Career

New's career was launched by American talent manager Stacey Castro, who discovered her in Barcelona, Spain in 2009, during a search for UK casting director Susie Figgis to find the role of "Lucrezia Borgia" for the television series The Borgias. In 2010, she was offered a role in television show The Time in Between, the adaptation of the same-titled María Dueñas novel. She played Rosalinda Fox, a young English woman who is the lover of Juan Luis Beigbeder and friend of Sira Quiroga. In 2011, she landed a lead role in "Shelter", an unaired television pilot. New was managed by Castro until 2012, the year she joined the cast of the Starz TV show Black Sails. She plays Eleanor Guthrie, the daughter of Richard Guthrie, a saloon owner who runs her father's illegal businesses in Nassau. The 8-episode first season premièred on 25 January 2014, and in 2014 she was filming the second season in South Africa.
New played Queen Leila, Princess Aurora's mother, in the Disney film Maleficent, which was released on 30 May 2014.
In 2014, New got a main role in the true-based thriller Under the Bed, in which a young woman tries to get over a recent romantic breakup while a stalker befriends her on social media and takes up residence underneath her bed. The film was released in 2017.

Filmography

;Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2011ReVersionLivShort film
2011Super MarioLouiseShort film
2011Fuga de cerebros 2Nancy
2012ShelterKathryn GilchristTV film
2014MaleficentQueen Leila, Aurora's mother
2017Under the BedCallie MonroeTV film

;Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2010La RieraJulie1 episode
2010El club del chisteCaitlin1 episode
2012El barcoÚrsula1 episode
2013−2014The Time in BetweenRosalinda FoxMain cast
2014−2017Black SailsEleanor GuthrieMain cast
2017The StrainLouisaRecurring cast
2018TrustVictoria HoldsworthRecurring cast