Amelia Warner

Warner was born Amelia Catherine Bennett in Birkenhead, Merseyside, the only child of actors Annette Ekblom and Alun Lewis.^[1][2][3] Her paternal uncle is actor Hywel Bennett.

Warner started her acting career as a member of the Royal Court's youth theatre group. She starred in a 2000 BBC adaptation of Lorna Doone and had supporting roles in films such as Æon Flux and Stoned.

In 2015 she self-released a classical instrumental EP, Arms. In 2016 Amelia began scoring films, starting with Mum's List, followed by Mary Shelley. In 2017, she released her second EP, Visitors, under her own name.^[4]

In 2018, Warner won the International Film Music Critics' Association award for Breakthrough Composer of the Year for her debut mainstream score on the film Mary Shelley.

On 28 September 2020 Fearne Cotton announced she was releasing "Happy Place", an album featuring music from an array of artists focusing on mental health and well-being. The first single, released on the same day as the announcement, was "Lockdown Kittens Dancing", features music taken from Warner's song "For Love", on her June 2020 "Haven" EP. In the same year, she was invited to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Warner began her music career in July 2009, when she wrote and performed the song "Beasts" under the name Slow-Moving Millie for a Virgin Media television commercial. The track was then released on 17 August 2009.^[5] Her second single, "Rewind City", was also used for another advertisement, for Orange UK, and was directed by Ringan Ledwidge.^[6] In October 2011, Warner signed a record deal with Island Records. Her cover version of the Smiths' 1984 B-side "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" was released on 11 November 2011 and was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis 2011 Christmas advertisement. Since releasing her album, Renditions, she also composed music for adverts and short films. Her first major score was for the British short Mam. Soon after, Warner released her Fyfe Dangerfield-produced EP, Arms, under Universal Music. Her second EP was titled Visitors. In 2016, she scored her first feature-length film, Mum's List, followed by her score to the film Mary Shelley.

Warner married Colin Farrell in a non-legal ceremony in 2001; they ended the relationship four months later.^[7][8] She married Jamie Dornan in 2013 at Orchardleigh Estate.^[9] They have three daughters.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Composer credits

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Film/Series	Year	Notes
Mam	2010	Short
Mum's List	2016
Mary Shelley	2017
Leading Lady Parts[14]	2018	Short
Wild Mountain Thyme[15]	2020
Mr. Malcolm's List	2022
Young Woman and the Sea	2024
Kathleen Is Here[16]
Unforgivable	2025	BBC Television Film
Unidentified	2025

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Albums

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Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		UK
Renditions[17] (as Slow Moving Millie)	Eight covers and two original songs Released: 12 December 2011 Label: Universal / Island	89
Visitors[18] (as Amelia Warner)	Instrumental music Released: 20 April 2018 Label: Globe: Soundtrack and Score / Universal	—

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Extended plays

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Title	Details
Arms[19] (as Slow Moving Millie)	Classical music Released: 10 July 2015 Label: SMM Music / Universal
Haven[20] (as Amelia Warner)	Classical music Released: 19 June 2020 Label: Decca Records / Universal

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Singles

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Year	Single	Peak chart positions	Album
		UK
2009	"Beasts"	—	Renditions
2011	"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want"	31
2020	"Lockdown Kittens Dancing" (with Fearne Cotton and GABA feat. Helen Mirren)	—	Happy Place

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