Emma Thompson
English actress and screenwriter (born 1959) · United Kingdom · Actors
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Something wrong?She won an Oscar for acting, then won another for writing the screenplay - the only person to pull off both. Thompson moves between period-piece gravitas and broad comedy without friction, equally at home in Austen and Harry Potter.
A life in dates
The Sheep DetectivesFilm, Lydia Harbottle2022
Good Luck to You, Leo GrandeFilm, Nancy Stokes2021Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward2020
DolittleFilm, Poly (voice)2019“Unfortunately sometimes I have to fly, but I don't fly nearly as much as I did, because of my carbon footprint, and I plant a lot of trees. [Interviewer: Do you fly economy, to...”In their words19 April 2019Extinction Rebellion protest, 19 April 2019
The Kelly Clarkson ShowSeries, 20192018Dame Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward
Johnny English Strikes AgainFilm, 2018Prime Minister2016
Bridget Jones's BabyFilm, Writer2014
Late Night with Seth MeyersSeries
Men, Women & ChildrenFilm, 2014Narrator (voice)2012
BraveFilm, Elinor (voice)2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Film, Sybill Trelawney2010Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward2009
The Boat That RockedFilm, Charlotte2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries
Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixFilm, 2007Sybill Trelawney2005
Nanny McPheeFilm, Writer2003
QISeries
Love ActuallyFilm, 2003Karen1998Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy SeriesAward1997
Leute heuteSeries1996“I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on...”In their words27 March 199668th Academy Award Speech after winning best screenplay award Los Angeles, California (March 27, 1996)“Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen's grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and tell her about the grosses.”In their words27 March 199668th Academy Award Speech after winning best screenplay award Los Angeles, California (March 27, 1996)“Four a.m., having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding was not without its pleasures.”In their words21 January 1996Speech for Golden Globe for Best adapted screenplay (21 January 1996)“P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!”In their words21 January 1996Speech for Golden Globe for Best adapted screenplay (21 January 1996)Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted ScreenplayAwardGolden Globe Award for Best ScreenplayAward1995BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleAward
Sense and SensibilityFilm, 1995Writer1993Academy Award for Best ActressAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture DramaAward1992BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RoleAward
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSeries, 1992
Howards EndFilm, 1992Margaret Schlegel1988“Originally, everything I wrote I wanted to perform, to flesh it out, and I didn't have the courage just to let people read and make their own decisions.”In their words8 June 1988From an interview, as cited in "Emma inher own write", The Guardian (8 June 1988), p. 27
LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries, 19881982
CheersSeries, Nanny Gee1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1959Born15 April 1959Also in Deutsch
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ADC Theatre, University of Cambridge, where Thompson began performing with Footlights
Thompson's first husband Kenneth Branagh (pictured in 2011) collaborated with her early in her career.
Anthony Hopkins (pictured in 1992) starred with Thompson in Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993)
Efford House in Holbeton which stood in for Barton Cottage in Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Thompson at the premiere of Nanny McPhee in 2005
Thompson receiving the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 2008
Thompson attending the premiere of The Love Punch at the 2013 Toronto International Film FestivalIn their own words 7
, Unfortunately sometimes I have to fly, but I don't fly nearly as much as I did, because of my carbon footprint, and I plant a lot of trees. [Interviewer: Do you fly economy, to...
I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on...
Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen's grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and tell her about the grosses.
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SpotifyFilmography 40
TDThe Sheep Detectives
BBBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
DWDead of Winter
RMRoald Dahl's Matilda the MusicalGGGood Luck to You, Leo Grande
CRCruellaDODolittle
HGHow to Build a Girl
MIMen in Black: International
LCLast Christmas
MLMissing Link
LNLate NightJAJohnny English Strikes Again
TAThe Children Act
BBBeauty and the Beast
TSThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)BBBridget Jones's Baby
BUBurnt
AWA Walk in the WoodsMCMen, Women & Children
SBSaving Mr. Banks
BCBeautiful CreaturesBRBrave
MBMen in Black 3HPHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
NBNanny McPhee and the Big BangTRThe Boat That Rocked
LHLast Chance Harvey
ILI Am LegendHPHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
SFStranger Than FictionNMNanny McPhee
HAHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanLALove Actually
TPTreasure PlanetSSSense and Sensibility
IFIn the Name of the Father
MNMuch Ado About Nothing
TDThe Remains of the DayHEHowards End183 credits on file
Television 24
TSThe Kelly Clarkson Show
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonLMLate Night with Seth Meyers
TSThe Jonathan Ross ShowTSThe Graham Norton ShowQIQI
TSThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
PAParkinson
TVThe ViewLHLeute heute
ELEllen
LBLate Night with Conan O'Brien
GMGMTVTLThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TSThe SimpsonsLMLIVE with Kelly and Mark
STScreen TwoCHCheers
WDWetten, dass..?SLSaturday Night Live
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TOThe OscarsAwards
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Born in 1959 to actor parents, Thompson studied at Cambridge and cut her teeth with the Footlights comedy troupe before breaking through in the West End musical Me and My Girl in 1985. Two BBC series in 1987 - Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War - won her back-to-back BAFTA TV awards and set the trajectory. She married Kenneth Branagh and appeared in his Shakespeare films through the early '90s, then took the Oscar for Howards End in 1992. The following year she became one of the rare actors nominated in two categories at once - Best Actress for The Remains of the Day, Best Supporting for In the Name of the Father. In 1995 she adapted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, winning the screenplay Oscar and cementing the double achievement no one else holds. Decades of range followed: the housekeeper, the diviner, the nanny, the talk-show host, the woman hiring a sex worker at sixty-something. She was made a dame in 2018.
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