Biography

Her agent paid for the fares for their flight to New York to audition for The Town (2010) because she did not have the money.

Rebecca holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and the U.K.

She grew to be 5'10 at the age of 11.

Her father was English and her mother is American, from Detroit. Her maternal grandmother, Hermina Maria Veraar, was Dutch. Rebecca's maternal grandfather, Norman Isaac Ewing, was the son of African-American parents. He performed as a Sioux Native American, and had even been described as a Native American chief in newspapers. On Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012), a DNA test showed Rebecca to be of 91% European and 9% African genetic ancestry. Her great-grandfather, John William Ewing, who had been born into slavery, became prominent in D.C. circles in the 1870s, and her four times great-grandfather was Revolutionary War veteran Bazabeel "Basil" Norman, a free black man.

Attended Roedean School in East Sussex, where she was head girl. Then read English at Cambridge University, but dropped out after her second year.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

I've always had horrible Valentine's Days.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I've never been desperate to please my father.