Hayley Atwell Left Stunned By Meryl Streep Meeting (CONTACT MUSIC)

Hayley Atwell is still starstruck after receiving a personal compliment from Meryl Streep on her acting talents, calling the encounter her proudest moment of 2012.

The Captain America: The First Avenger star was stunned when Oscar winner Streep introduced herself and began doling out praise, and admits the meeting was a career highlight.

When asked to name her proudest moment of the past year, she tells Britain's InStyle magazine, "Meeting Meryl Streep."

Atwell recalls, "She knew who I was and came up to compliment me on a performance. She was so utterly charming and at that moment I thought, 'Yes, sanity does exist in this industry.' If, like her, I focus on what matters? Then I'll be fine."


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Hayley Atwell to star in second series of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror Details of the three very different new episodes have been released MATILDA BATTERSBY (INDEPENDENT)

Black Mirror the unusual satirical drama written by journalist-come-television writer Charlie Brooker will return to Channel 4 this year for a second series consisting of three dark episodes.

Restless actress Hayley Atwell will star in the first of the trio, each of which will once again have “a different cast, a different setting, even a different reality”, according to Brooker. In an interview in December he said: "Like the last series we've done three stories that are three different genres. We've also got all sorts of unpleasant things and also one of them is very sad.”

In Be Right Back Atwell appears as Martha alongside Domhnall Gleeson, her social media junkie boyfriend Ash. He is tragically killed just after the couple move to a remote cottage and Martha soon becomes aware of a creepy new social network that allows grieving relatives to communicate with the digital semblance of the deceased. Disgusted, but compelled by it, Martha, who discovers she is pregnant with Ash’s child, becomes embroiled in a murky world of online ‘ghosts’.

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Exclusive: First Poster for THE SWEENEY Starring Ray Winstone, Hayley Atwell, and Damian Lewis by Adam Chitwood (COLLIDER)

We’re happy to debut the first poster for the upcoming action thriller The Sweeney today.  Directed by Nick Love (Outlaw) and co-written by John Hodge (Trainspotting), the film stars Ray Winstone as Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Ben Drew as his partner George Carter.  The two are “old school crime fighters” who enforce the law in a modern underworld, and with a bank heist in progress and Regan’s old enemy making an appearance on the streets of London, the veteran cop will do whatever it takes to get the job done.   The pic also stars Homeland’s Damian Lewis and Captain America’s Hayley Atwell.  The Sweeney will be available in theaters and VOD on March 1st.

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Hayley Atwell - Hayley Atwell recalls weight jibes (CONTACT MUSIC)

She said: ''I was Hayley 'Fatwell' at school. I was on only child, very quiet and very shy, I was surrounded in primary school by skinny girls in crop tops, when I had puppy fat. I wasn't cool.''

Hayley, 30, has since slimmed down and started turning heads with her dazzling looks, which have been likened to stars of the 30s and 40s.

Discussing the comparisons with old time movie stars, she said: ''Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the square jaw. Stars in the old days used to be more angular. I think my face works on screen because there's a lot of angles to it.''

Hayley also counts the pinnacle of her career so far as meeting Meryl Streep, who complimented her acting abilities.

She added in an interview with The Times newspaper: ''I was presenting at the BAFTAs, and she came up to me and said my performance in 'The Duchess' was 'Wonderfully imagined,' and I just went, 'Waaaaaaaahhhhh.' ''

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