2009Nominee
Best Performance
From The Basement
Laura Marling
Actor · Director · Writer
Berkshire, England, UK
February 1, 1990
Biography
Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is a British folk singer-songwriter. She won the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards, and was nominated for the same award at the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 Brit Awards. Born in Berkshire in southern England, Marling joined her older sisters in London at 16, to pursue a career in music. She played with a number of groups, and released her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim in 2008. Her first album, her second album I Speak Because I Can, her fourth album Once I Was an Eagle, and her seventh album Song for Our Daughter were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2020 respectively. Her sixth record, Semper Femina, was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Album category.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2018Nominee
Best Performance
Hamlet
2009Nominee
Best Performance
From the Basement
Career Highlights
2020Highlight
Best Performance
Laura Marling and the 12 Ensemble - BBC Proms
2013Highlight
Best Performance
Woman Driver: The Musical