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Andrea Louise Riseborough (born 20 November 1981) is an English actress. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Brighton Rock (2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer (2012), Oblivion (2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes, The Death of Stalin (both 2017), Mandy, Nancy (both 2018), The Grudge, and Possessor (both 2020). For playing an alcoholic in To Leslie (2022), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Riseborough was nominated for a BAFTA TV for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008). She won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016), as well as the BBC One miniseries The Witness for the Prosecution (2016). Her stage credits include Miss Julie, Measure for Measure (both 2006), and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrea Riseborough, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
As Taylor confirmed in a note prior to evermore’s release, “Marjorie” refers to her grandmother, who, she says, “still visits me sometimes … if only in my dreams.” Instead, Dorothea is anyone we want her to be. It could be Taylor, who grew up in West Reading, Pennsylvania, before moving to Nashville and onward. She could be one of the actresses from the many classic films Taylor watched at the beginning of quarantine. She could even be the queer counterpart to Betty from folklore. Some fans have also connected Marjorie and Dorothea to a pair of sisters from Pennsylvania. Marjorie West was a small town girl who went missing in 1938 at the age of four and was never found, who had an 11-year-old sister, Dorothea. The case garnered enormous attention, and as Taylor is from Pennsylvania she could have feasibly heard about it.
