Actress Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall, an actress of American and British parentage who grew up in England, has something in common with my previous honoree, Gal Gadot: Wonder Woman.

No, Rebecca Hall never played Wonder Woman, but she did play the wife of the man who created that character.  In the 2017 movie Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, Ms. Hall played attorney and psychologist Elizabeth Holloway Marston, whose husband,  psychologist William Moulton Marston, studied both sexes and found women to be more truthful than men overall.  He even invented the systolic blood pressure test, an examination that could tell whether or not a person was being honest. Finding women to be truthful and strong, and surrounded by many women who were both, Dr. Marston created the Wonder Woman character.

I think it's safe to assume how he came up with the idea of her golden lariat and how it forces anyone it's tied around to tell the truth.

Ms. Hall had her first starring role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the 2008 Woody Allen movie about two women vacationing in Spain.  Ms. Hall played Vicky.  Her other roles include Caroline Cushing, David Frost's girlfriend, in Ron Howard's movie about Frost's interviews with Richard Nixon, Frost/Nixon, and a bank manager taken hostage in the 2010 crime thriller The Town.  More recently, in Christine (not to be confused with the movie of the same name based on the Stephen King Novel), she played Christine Chubbuck, a troubled American TV anchorwoman who committed suicide on the air.  Rebecca Hall was nominated for eleven awards for her role in Christine, two of which she won (the Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress the Women Film Critics Circle Award for Courage in Acting).

We can expect Rebecca Hall to be around for awhile. :-)