Bio
Hannah Ware is an English model and actress best known for her starring role as Emma Kane, the estranged addict daughter of Chicago mayor Tom Kane, in the political drama television series Boss, from 2011-2012.
She also has a starring role as Sara Hanley, a beautiful but shy professional photographer who's married to an ambitious attorney and seems to have the perfect life until a chance meeting with a stranger turns her world upside down, in the television drama series Betrayal.
Born and raised in South London to a Panorama journalist father and a social worker mother, Ware attended Alleyn's school in Dulwich, named after Edward Alleyn who was a major figure of Elizabethan theater.
Around this time, at the age of 12 she was picked up by Storm Modeling Agency as the youngest girl they had ever taken on and proceeded to have a successful modeling career.
Ware always concentrated on academia, however, and never entertained the thought of being a full-time model. She obtained high honours in history of art and had hopes of pursuing architecture, earning acceptance to some of the world's most prestigious schools, including The Architectural Association and The Bartlett.
However, by this time, Ware had been regularly attending various acting classes in New York and had fallen in love with the craft.
She then decided to move to New York permanently and spent two years at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Her first break came when she was cast opposite Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan in the Warner Brothers film Cop Out, directed by Kevin Smith.
In 2011 she appeared in the independent film Shame, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender.
She is the older sister of singer-songwriter Jessie Ware.