Emma Thompson
Acting
Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama. Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she became famous for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992). In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Late Night (2019), and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). Other notable film credits include the Harry Potter series (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Cruella (2021), and Matilda the Musical (2022). Her television credits include Wit (2001), Angels in America (2003), The Song of Lunch (2010), King Lear (2018) and Years and Years (2019). She portrayed Mrs. Lovett in a Lincoln Center production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2014. Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children's books.
The Sheep Detectives
George's lawyer
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Van Guy
Dead of Winter
Barb
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Dr. Rawlings
Bad Tidings
Self (archive footage)
Merchant Ivory
Self
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Cath Stevenson
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Self
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Agatha Trunchbull
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Nancy Stokes
An Audience with Adele
Self
Cruella
The Baroness
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
How to Build a Girl
Amanda
Dolittle
Poly (voice)
Last Christmas
Petra Andrich
Extinction
Hollywood's Dark Secret
Self
Men in Black: International
Agent O
Missing Link
Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
Late Night
Katherine Newbury
Johnny English Strikes Again
Prime Minister
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
Narrator (voice)
The Children Act
Fiona Maye
King Lear
Goneril
Sea Sorrow
Self
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Maureen Meyerowitz
Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Potts
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Elle-Même
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
Narrator (voice)
To the Ends of the Earth
Narrator (voice)
Bridget Jones's Baby
Dr Rawlings
Alone in Berlin
Anna Quangel
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
Narrator (voice)
Burnt
Dr. Rosshilde
A Walk in the Woods
Catherine Bryson
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Cemolina
Men, Women & Children
Narrator (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mrs. Lovett
Effie Gray
Lady Eastlake
The Real Mary Poppins
Self
The Love Punch
Kate Jones
Saving Mr. Banks
P.L. Travers
Beautiful Creatures
Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
Brave
Elinor (voice)
Walking the Dogs
The Queen
Men in Black 3
Agent O
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Sybill Trelawney
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Self
The Song of Lunch
She
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee
An Education
Headmistress
The Boat That Rocked
Charlotte
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
Self
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
Self
A Very Quiet Man
Self
A Sense of Character
Self
Last Chance Harvey
Kate Walker
Brideshead Revisited
Lady Marchmain
I Am Legend
Dr. Alice Krippin
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sybill Trelawney
Stranger Than Fiction
Karen Eiffel
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sybill Trelawney
Imagining Argentina
Cecilia Rueda
Love Actually
Karen
Treasure Planet
Captain Amelia (voice)
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
Wit
Vivian Bearing
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Self
Maybe Baby
Druscilla
Junket Whore
Self
Judas Kiss
FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Primary Colors
Susan Stanton
The Winter Guest
Frances
Hospital!
Elephant Woman
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood
Carrington
Dora Carrington
Junior
Dr. Diana Reddin
The Blue Boy
Marie Bonnar
My Father the Hero
Isabel (uncredited)
In the Name of the Father
Gareth Peirce
The Remains of the Day
Miss Kenton
Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice
Peter's Friends
Maggie Chester
Howards End
Margaret Schlegel
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
Narrator (voice)
Dead Again
Margaret Strauss / Grace
Impromptu
Duchess D'Antan
Tin Fish
Look Back in Anger
Alison Porter
Henry V
Katherine
The Winslow Boy
Catherine Winslow
The Tall Guy
Kate
Colleagues From Hell
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Slags
Young Woman
The Cellar Tapes
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