Biography
The English performer and composer Amelia Warner, also known professionally as Slow Moving Millie, entered the world in Liverpool as the daughter of actors Annette Ekblom and Alun Lewis. Following her parents’ separation she moved to London at age four and later enrolled in art-history courses at Goldsmith’s College. Acting opportunities first arose through membership in the Royal Court’s youth theater program, which led to screen appearances in Winter Passing, Aeon Flux, Stoned, and the BBC’s 2000 adaptation of Lorna Doone. Warner entered music in 2009 by writing the track “Beasts” for a television advertisement under the Slow Moving Millie name; the song was subsequently issued as a single. In 2011 she signed with Island Records and delivered her debut album, Renditions, containing the two original compositions “Beasts” and “Hart with a Crown and Chain” alongside eight ballad reinterpretations of 1980s material, among them “Head over Heels” by Tears for Fears, “Hold Me Now” by the Thompson Twins, and the Smiths’ “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.” The latter cut achieved wider notice after its inclusion in John Lewis’s 2011 holiday campaign.
Singles
