Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British-American actress. She is known for her work in stage productions, such as A View from the Bridge, and onscreen, for period pieces, such as the 2008 drama The Duchess, the 2010 historical drama miniseries The Pillars of the Earth and for her portrayal of Peggy Carter in various films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the lead role in the ABC action-adventure series Agent Carter.\n', '

Hayley Elizabeth Atwell was born on 5 April 1982 in London, an only child. Her father, Grant, is a part-Native American from Kansas City, Missouri photographer-turned-shaman, who also goes by his Native American name, Star Touches Earth. Her mother Alison is British. Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.\n', '

By the time Atwell was two years old, Grant and Alison had separated. Grant returned to the United States, and Atwell and her mother lived in a bohemian enclave in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London, where Atwell was raised. While she visited her father in the United States every summer, she grew close to her mother, and has described their relationship as more akin to friends in the vein of "Ab Fab" than that of mother and daughter.\n', '

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