**MARGARET HOWELL** _jacket and_ **AQUASCUTUM** _shirt and trousers._
**DIANE VON FURSTENBERG** _lace dress_.
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Holliday Grainger
“Holliday commands the screen; she has an incredible strength, while also being vulnerable and compassionate.” – Director Craig Gillespie, _The Finest Hours_
By 27, British screen and stage actress Holliday Grainger_\[16\]_ tackled roles in a continental triumvirate of novelistic adaptations—_Lady Chatterley’s Lover_, _Anna Karenina_ (2012), and _Great Expectations_ (2012). But the _Guardian_\-affirmed New Brit Pack member stays refined through treacherous depravity, too; incest and murder aside, she brought a virginal charm to the orgiastic fervor of _The Borgias_ (2011—2013). And next year, Grainger will put her vulnerability and compassion to use; in Disney’s upcoming sea disaster flick _The Finest Hours_, she takes on the role of Miriam, wife of lifeboat lifesaver Bernie Webber, played by aorta-crushing Chris Pine. After Hollywood sea rescue, let’s all put listless perusals of Dickens and hedonistic royal parties high on the CALIFUK to-do list.
#### _16 Born 27 March 1988_ _\[a\]_
#### _16.a “I used to hang around gas stations.”\[i\]_
#### _16.i Michael Hacker,\[ \*\] from: “Playwright Doesn’t Run on Empty“_
#### _by Janice Arkatov |_ Los Angeles Times _| 27 March 1988_
_\* Michael Hacker’s play_ Long Time Coming _was based on his memories of old gas stations, including one on the corner of Franklin and Argyle, with a little driveway in the back, as he recalls. Acclaimed theater designer Robert Zentis built the set, a complete gas station facing imminent razing by an oil company._
#### _Photographer:_ Franck Sauvaire at FranckSauvaire.com.
#### _Stylist:_ Aradia Crockett for fashionstylists.co.uk.
#### _Hair_: Selena Middleton for Sohomanagement.co.uk using Korres.
_Makeup_: Michelle Campbell for Frankagency.co.uk using M.A.C PRO.
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