Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall

Born: May 3, 1982
in London, England, UK
Rebecca Maria Hall (born May 3, 1982) is an English actress and filmmaker. She made her first onscreen appearance at age 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which earned her the Ian Charleson Award.

In 2006, following her film debut in Starter for 10, Hall got her breakthrough role in Christopher Nolan's thriller film The Prestige. In 2008, she starred as Vicky in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Vicky Cristina Barcelona, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Hall then appeared in a wide array of films, including Ron Howard's historical drama Frost/Nixon (2008), Ben Affleck's crime drama The Town (2010), the horror thriller The Awakening (2011), the superhero film Iron Man 3 (2013), the science fiction film Transcendence (2014), the psychological thriller The Gift (2015), the live-action/CGI fantasy adventure film The BFG (2016), the biographical drama Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) and the monster film Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). In 2016, Hall was praised by critics for her portrayal of news reporter Christine Chubbuck in the biographical drama Christine. She made her directorial debut with Passing (2021), receiving critical acclaim.

Hall has also made several notable appearances on British television. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2009 Channel 4 miniseries Red Riding: 1974. In 2013, she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her performance in BBC Two's Parade's End.

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The Listener
Title: The Listener
Character: Laura
Released: March 29, 2024
Type: Movie
Beth is a helpline volunteer – part of the small army that gets on the phone every night across America, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, hopeless. Over the last year the tide has become a tsunami. As Beth goes through her shift, the stakes rise: is this the night she will lose someone? Save someone? Eventually, Beth’s own story comes to light, revealing why she does it. All along we remain with her: listening, comforting, connecting – patching the world back together, one stitch at a time.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Title: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Character: Dr. Ilene Andrews
Released: March 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Margaret
Released: July 29, 2022
Type: Movie
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
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With/In Volume 2
Title: With/In Volume 2
Released: March 15, 2022
Type: Movie
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist finds companionship in an unwanted pet, two sisters find courage to say things they never had the words to say, and an unexpected packet of sourdough starter has horrifying and hilarious consequences. These are some of the stories captured in WITH/IN, a collection of thirteen films created by actors and their families during the time that changed our lives forever.
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What Happens at the Lake House
Title: What Happens at the Lake House
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Take a deep dive with director David Bruckner and the cast to unearth the secrets of THE NIGHT HOUSE. From the design of the mind-bending set, to Rebecca Hall's haunted performance, witness how this chilling mystery was brought to life.
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The Night House
Title: The Night House
Character: Beth
Released: July 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
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With/In Volume 1
Title: With/In Volume 1
Character: (segment "Mother")
Released: June 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
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Godzilla vs. Kong
Title: Godzilla vs. Kong
Character: Ilene Andrews
Released: March 24, 2021
Type: Movie
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
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Title: Tales from the Loop
Character: Loretta
Released: April 3, 2020
Type: TV
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
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Title: The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.
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A Rainy Day in New York
Title: A Rainy Day in New York
Character: Connie
Released: July 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
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Teen Spirit
Title: Teen Spirit
Character: Jules
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: Movie
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
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Holmes & Watson
Title: Holmes & Watson
Character: Dr. Grace Hart
Released: December 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
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Permission
Title: Permission
Character: Anna
Released: February 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Title: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Character: Elizabeth Marston
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: Katelyn Lohman
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Christine Chubbuck
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
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Title: High Maintenance
Character: Rebecca Hall
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: TV
Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. “The Guy” is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the city.
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The BFG
Title: The BFG
Character: Mary
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
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Title: Horace and Pete
Character: Rachel
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: TV
The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Robyn Callem
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
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Tumbledown
Title: Tumbledown
Character: Hannah Miles
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: Movie
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
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Ruminate
Title: Ruminate
Character: Gemma
Released: November 16, 2014
Type: Movie
To ruminate means to think; to chew thoughts over and over, focusing on symptoms of distress, their causes and consequences. Gemma is in her mid-thirties; a childless woman, casually dating, living in the big city of London, primarily concentrating on work and survival. The years have slipped by and the things that have fallen into place for her friends still elude her. We follow her over two days, never hearing her speak. Instead we witness a series of events that question her happiness, culminating with her gynecologist revealing she has cancerous cells that could affect her ability to bear children. The film shows, not tells, an uncomplicated, poignant and beautiful story about age, being human, a woman, neither a victim nor a victor, and the realization that time waits for no one.
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Transcendence
Title: Transcendence
Character: Evelyn Caster
Released: April 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
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Title: Off Camera with Sam Jones
Character: Self
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: TV
Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.
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A Promise
Title: A Promise
Character: Lotte Hoffmeister
Released: September 4, 2013
Type: Movie
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
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Closed Circuit
Title: Closed Circuit
Character: Claudia Simmons-Howe
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.
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Iron Man 3
Title: Iron Man 3
Character: Maya Hansen
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Title: Parade's End
Character: Sylvia Tietjens
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: TV
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
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Lay the Favorite
Title: Lay the Favorite
Character: Beth Raymer
Released: June 22, 2012
Type: Movie
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Character: Florence Cathcart
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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Everything Must Go
Title: Everything Must Go
Character: Samantha
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
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Bonobos: Back to the Wild
Title: Bonobos: Back to the Wild
Character: Claudine (voice)
Released: March 30, 2011
Type: Movie
The critically important work by renowned naturalist Claudine Andre to save the endangered bonobo apes of the Congo is presented in this visually stunning feature film.
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A Bag of Hammers
Title: A Bag of Hammers
Character: Melanie 'Mel' Manilow
Released: March 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
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The Town
Title: The Town
Character: Claire Keesey
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
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Please Give
Title: Please Give
Character: Rebecca
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: Movie
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
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Dorian Gray
Title: Dorian Gray
Character: Emily Wotton
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
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Title: Red Riding
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: TV
Thrilling trilogy of films based on David Peace's cult noir novels about Yorkshire during the 1970s and 80s: a world of paranoia, corruption and the terrifying legacy of the Ripper murders.
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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Title: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Character: Paula Garland
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
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Einstein and Eddington
Title: Einstein and Eddington
Character: Winnie Eddington
Released: November 29, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.
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Frost/Nixon
Title: Frost/Nixon
Character: Caroline Cushing
Released: October 15, 2008
Type: Movie
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
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Official Selection
Title: Official Selection
Character: Emily Dickinson
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A journey through Emily Dickinson's tortured life of psycho sexual frenzy or a satire of short films
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Title: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Character: Vicky
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
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Joe's Palace
Title: Joe's Palace
Character: Tina
Released: November 4, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
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Rubberheart
Title: Rubberheart
Character: Maggie
Released: August 26, 2007
Type: Movie
It's Tuesday and Maggie is on the prowl for single-use sex partner at her local hunting ground, the video store. Hapless video nerd Ted tries, as always, to curry favor with Maggie, but she needs more intrigue. She needs more of a man. Enter Nick. Maggie courts Nick, while they browse the Tinto Brass collection. They go to Maggie's to watch Salon Kitty and make love on the couch. The morning after, Maggie wakes with out the usual sense of dread that comes with a hangover and making small talk with a stranger whom you've had mediocre sex. Maggie, uncharacteristically, wants to see Nick again. Nick invites Maggie to dinner at his house. When Maggie arrives, Nick has something to show...something that takes Maggie completely by surprise.
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The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
Title: The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Prestige" (2006).
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The Prestige
Title: The Prestige
Character: Sarah Borden
Released: October 19, 2006
Type: Movie
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Title: Wide Sargasso Sea
Character: Antoinette Cosway
Released: October 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
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Starter for 10
Title: Starter for 10
Character: Rebecca Epstein
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
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Title: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.
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Don't Leave Me This Way
Title: Don't Leave Me This Way
Character: Lizzie Neil
Released: May 30, 1993
Type: Movie
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
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Title: The Camomile Lawn
Character: Young Sophy
Released: March 5, 1992
Type: TV
The Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel 4. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five cousins meet to pay tribute to a world that will never be the same again.
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Ella McCay
Title: Ella McCay
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An idealistic young politician juggles familial issues and a challenging work life while preparing to take over the job of her mentor, the state’s longtime incumbent governor.
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Title: The Listeners
Character: Claire
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Claire, a popular English teacher, begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul, and daughter, Ashley. But despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found.