Emily Mortimer stars as the fictional executive producer in HBO’s newest hit – Newsroom.  Written and created by Aaron Sorkin, Newsroom is a summer sleeper that is catching on like wildfire for political and newsroom junkies.  Emily Mortimer plays MacKenzie McHale, the smart and sassy executive producer brought in to give the nightly cable news program a new vision and fresh start along with her co-star, Jeff Daniels playing news anchor Will McAvoy.

From IMBd

English actress Emily Mortimer is the daughter of writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer and his second wife, Penelope. She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in West London, and it was whilst there she began acting. Mortimer moved on from school to Lincoln College, Oxford University, where she studied English Literature and Russian, and spent two terms at the Moscow Arts Theater Drama School, studying acting. 

While appearing in an Oxford University student production, Mortimer was spotted by a TV producer who cast her in an adaptation of Catherine Cookson‘ s “The Glass Virgin” (1995). She made her feature film debut in 1996 alongside Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). Roles in various projects have followed, including Elizabeth (1998), Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), Match Point (2005), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Shutter Island (2010) and Hugo (2011/II).

During the making of Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000), Mortimer met her husband Alessandro Nivola. The couple have two children, Samuel and May.

Click here to watch the ABC interview with Mortimer.

Newsroom airs Sundays at 10 p.m. Eastern Time.  For more about the program, click here.