Spotlight: Actress Genevieve Gaunt brings an enigmatic air to a film inspired by a notorious trial
BORN in London in 1991, ‘Gigi’ left Cambridge University – where she acted in The Seagull opposite Lily Cole – with a first in English in 2013.
Genevieve in a courtroom scene from The Face of an Angel
BIG BREAK Gigi has been acting since the age of 12, when she cleared four rounds of mass auditions to land the role of Draco Malfoy’s girlfriend Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
CATCH HER NOW in director Michael Winterbottom’s film The Face of an Angel, based on a book about the Meredith Kercher killing in Perugia, Italy, in 2007. Gigi plays Jessica Fuller, the Amanda Knox character (the film also stars Cara Delevingne as a waitress). ‘It’s not a whodunit,’ she says. ‘It’s a film about relationships and loss, with a courtroom as a backdrop. The case is so complex; the more you know, the less you know. For me, Amanda Knox is an enigma. The most sensitive approach for me as an actor was to keep her that way.’
COMING UP She plays the lead in Slapper and Me, a coming-of-age film set in the 1970s about a working-class boy with a no-hope racing greyhound called Slapper. ‘Seventies gear is really fun,’ says Gigi, who now shops for vintage finds on London’s Brick Lane. That is when she’s not playing her saxophone or sweating it out at Bikram yoga.
The Face of an Angel is in cinemas now
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