Actress Sheila Atim and Actor Jack Lowden Laureates of the Trophée Chopard 2022

Created in 2001, the Trophée Chopard is awarded each year to a promising actress and actor to highlight the new generation of international cinema.

This year, global movie icon Julia Roberts, godmother of the Trophée Chopard, will present Sheila Atim and Jack Lowden, the winners chosen by the Trophée Chopard Academy, with their awards at a prestigious dinner held tomorrow on La Croisette at the joint invitation of Cannes Festival President Pierre Lescure, Cannes Festival General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and Chopard Co-President and Artistic Director Caroline Scheufele.

Trophée Chopard
Jack Lowden

Laureate of the 2022 edition of the award honouring up-and-coming international film stars

Jack Lowden grew up in Scotland and as a child, hoped to become a footballer. Through accompanying his brother - who was an aspiring ballet dancer - to his dance performances however, Jack developed a taste for the stage by regularly taking on the role of narrator. When he was ten years' old, his parents enrolled him in Edinburgh’s Scottish Youth Theatre; and in summer during his secondary school studies, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He went on to graduate from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011. The following year, he portrayed Eric Liddell - an athlete competing in the 1924 Olympics - in the stage adaptation of Hugh Hudson's Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire and thus began a career catching the industry’s attention with scene stealing turns in projects spanning theatre, television, and film.

His powerful performance as Oswald in Ibsen's play Ghosts won him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor the following year. In 2013, Jack appeared in the French-English series Tunnel, as well as The Passing Bells, a historical drama for the BBC. It was, however, his performance as Count Rostov, Tolstoy's impulsive hussar, in the miniseries War and Peace, that firmly cemented him as a shining light on screen.

In 2016, he was entrusted with the title role in Jason Connery's Tommy's Honour, and subsequently that of Morrissey, the legendary singer of The Smiths in Mark Gill's England is mine. In 2017, he played a Royal Air Force pilot alongside Tom Hardy in Christopher Nolan's epic World War II action-adventure Dunkirk. The next year, he alternated as Angelo and Isabella on stage in the adaptation of Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure, before winning Best Actor at the Scottish BAFTAs for his extraordinary performance in Calibre, a Matt Palmer thriller released on Netflix.

Further demonstrating his versatility on screen, Jack in turn appeared as the radical barrister Ian MacDonald in Steve McQueen's impressive period drama Small Axe, as Lord Darnley in Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots; as a wrestler in Stephen Merchant's Fighting with My Family; and an FBI agent in Capone, a biopic on the famous gangster directed by Josh Trank. This year, Jack finds himself back in uniform as the decorated World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies' lauded biopic Benediction. He can currently be seen starring in the thrilling new Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses alongside Gary Oldman and will soon produce The Outrun under his production banner Arcade Pictures, alongside his producing partners Saoirse Ronan and Dominic Norris, directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Jack also produced the paranoia thriller Kindred in 2020 and starred in the film alongside Tamara Lawrence and Fiona Shaw. Jack is currently shooting The Gold, a BBC One and Paramount+ series about the true story of the largest gold bullion theft in the UK, directed by recent Oscar winner Aneil Karia.

During the 75th Cannes Festival, Jack Lowden will receive the Trophée Chopard from the award’s godmother Julia Roberts, at a ceremony attended by Pierre Lescure (President of the Festival), Thierry Frémaux (General Delegate of the Festival) and Caroline Scheufele (Co-President and Artistic Director of Chopard). Created in 2001, this distinction annually rewards an actress and an actor enjoying a promising start to their career in order to highlight the new generation of international cinema.

Trophée Chopard
Sheila Atim

(Member of the Order of the British Empire)
Laureate of the 2022 edition of the award honouring up-and-coming international film stars

Named as a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2021, one of Variety's '10 Brits to Watch' in 2020, appearing on the Forbes ‘30 Under 30' list that same year and awarded an MBE for services to drama in 2019, an Olivier in 2018, and a second Olivier is 2022, even this early in her career, Sheila Atim has already achieved incredible accolades.

Last year (2021) saw Sheila star alongside Academy Award winner Halle Berry in Berry's directorial debut, Bruised, set in the world of mixed martial arts. Sheila was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance for her portrayal of MMA trainer Bobbi Buddhakan Berroa.

Sheila will soon also be seen starring in the Robert Zemeckis live-action version of Pinocchio, set to release later this year, and has just finished filming the historical epic TriStar drama The Woman King, starring alongside Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, John Boyega (Trophée Chopard laureate in 2016), and reteaming with Thuso Mbedu. Sheila will also appear in All dirt roads taste of salt, a poetic chronicle of a black woman's life in rural Tennessee.

In addition, Sheila worked with Barry Jenkins as 'Mabel' in the Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning limited series The Underground Railroad. The series is an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. It offers an alternate history in which the 19th century Underground Railroad is a true railroad used by American slaves to flee the South and find freedom. It chronicles young Cora’s (Thuso Mbedu) journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

Last summer, Sheila returned to London's West End, appearing on stage in a revival of Nick Payne's Constellations with Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Longhurst, for which she has now been nominated for an Olivier for Best Actress.

Sheila played Series Regular 'Limehouse Nell' in Hulu’s Harlots, in which she starred opposite Samantha Morton, and featured alongside Rufus Sewell in the BBC's Agatha Christie thriller The pale horse.

Sheila has made a considerable impact on the London theatre scene, not only as an actress but also as a singer, playwright and composer. In 2018, Sheila won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her breakout role as 'Marianne Laine' in Girl from the north country at the Old Vic Theatre. She received rave reviews as 'Emilia', acting alongside Mark Rylance and Andre Holland in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, and has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre.

Sheila's debut play, Anguis, in which she puts a female scientist on stage with Cleopatra to discuss music, men and misrepresentation, premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. As a composer, Sheila has written the music for two Che Walker plays: Time is love at the Finborough Theatre and Wolf club at the Hampstead Theatre.

During the 75th Cannes Festival, Sheila Atim will receive the Trophée Chopard from the award's godmother Julia Roberts in a ceremony attended by Pierre Lescure (President of the Festival), Thierry Frémaux (President of the Festival) and Caroline Scheufele (Co-President and Artistic Director of Chopard). Created in 2001, this prize annually rewards an actress and an actor enjoying a promising start to their career with the aim of highlighting the new generation in international cinema.

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