Kristin Scott Thomas
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 24, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
Biography
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986).
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Filmography
Lost and Found in Paris
Movie · as Madame Feuillate
Paramour
Movie · as Susanne Klatten
Crazy Dragon
Movie · as queen shira
Camembert
Movie · as France
My Mother's Wedding
Movie · as Diana
Two Tickets to Greece
Movie · as Bijou
Slow Horses
TV · as Diana Taverner · 36 eps
Final Set
Movie · as Judith Edison
Rebecca
Movie · as Mrs. Danvers
Military Wives
Movie · as Kate
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV · as Celia · 1 ep
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Movie · as Fiona
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
My Grandparents' War
TV · as Self · 1 ep
In Her Hands
Movie · as The Countess
Tomb Raider
Movie · as Ana Miller
Darkest Hour
Movie · as Clemmie
The Party
Movie · as Janet
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
Movie · as Self / Narrator (voice)
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Movie · as Eleanor
Fleabag
TV · as Belinda · 1 ep
Suite Française
Movie · as Madame Angellier
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Movie · as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self · 1 ep
My Old Lady
Movie · as Chloé Girard
D-Day Sacrifice
TV · as Kay Summersby (voice) · 2 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Only God Forgives
Movie · as Crystal
The Invisible Woman
Movie · as Catherine Ternan
Before the Winter Chill
Movie · as Lucie
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Movie · as Patricia Maxwell
Bel Ami
Movie · as Virginie Walters
In the House
Movie · as Jeanne
Looking for Hortense
Movie · as Iva
The Woman in the Fifth
Movie · as Margit
In Your Hands
Movie · as Anna
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Love Crime
Movie · as Christine Rivière
Sarah's Key
Movie · as Julia Jarmond
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Movie · as Alette Naylor
Nowhere Boy
Movie · as Mimi Smith
Leaving
Movie · as Suzanne
I've Loved You So Long
Movie · as Juliette
The Other Boleyn Girl
Movie · as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
2 Alone in Paris
Movie · as L'antiquaire
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Movie · as Ann Ferguson
Easy Virtue
Movie · as Mrs. Whittaker
The Golden Compass
Movie · as Stelmania (voice)
The Walker
Movie · as Lynn Lockner
Tell No One: The B-Side
Movie · as Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Tell No One
Movie · as Helene Perkins
The Valet
Movie · as Christine Levasseur
Chromophobia
Movie · as Iona Aylesbury
Man to Man
Movie · as Elena Van Den Ende
Keeping Mum
Movie · as Gloria Goodfellow
Arsène Lupin
Movie · as Joséphine
The Monkey Prince
Movie · as Narrator
Small Cuts
Movie · as Béatrice
Three Sisters
Movie · as Masha
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")
The Making of Gosford Park
Movie · as Self
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
Movie · as Self
Top Gear
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Gosford Park
Movie · as Sylvia McCordle
Life as a House
Movie · as Robin Kimball
Play
Movie · as 1st Woman
Up at the Villa
Movie · as Mary Panton
Random Hearts
Movie · as Kay Chandler
The Directors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Horse Whisperer
Movie · as Annie MacLean
The Revengers' Comedies
Movie · as Imogen Staxton-Billing
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Love & Confusions
Movie · as Sarah
Elle Style Awards
TV · as Self - Winner · 1 ep
The English Patient
Movie · as Katharine Clifton
Mission: Impossible
Movie · as Sarah Davies
The Pompatus of Love
Movie · as Caroline
Souvenir
Movie · as Ann
Gulliver's Travels
TV · as Immortal Gatekeeper · 2 eps
Richard III
Movie · as Lady Anne
Angels and Insects
Movie · as Matty Crompton
The Confessional
Movie · as Assistant to Hitchcock
Les Milles
Movie · as Mary-Jane Cooper
Plaisir d'offrir
Movie · as Claire
Mayday
Movie · as Martine
Belle Époque
TV · as Alice Avellano · 3 eps
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Movie · as Fiona
An Unforgettable Summer
Movie · as Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Body & Soul
TV · as Sister Gabriel / Anna · 6 eps
Bitter Moon
Movie · as Fiona
Weep No More, My Lady
Movie · as Elisabeth
Absolutely Fabulous
TV · as Plum Berkeley · 1 ep
Look At It This Way
TV · as Victoria Rolfe · 3 eps
In the Eyes of the World
Movie · as L'institutrice
Valentino! I love you
Movie
Titmuss Regained
TV · as Jenny · 3 eps
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Movie · as Leda St Gabriel
Framed
Movie · as Kate
The Bachelor
Movie · as Sabine Schleheim
The Governor's Party
Movie · as Marie Forestier
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Movie · as Katia
Headstrong
Movie · as Clara
The Endless Game
Movie · as Caroline
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Movie · as Juliette
The Endless Game
TV · as Caroline · 2 eps
A Handful of Dust
Movie · as Brenda Last
The Tenth Man
Movie · as Therese Mangeot
Lounge Chair
Movie · as Marie
Agent trouble
Movie · as Julie
Boucherie fine
Movie · as Cashier 3
Under the Cherry Moon
Movie · as Mary Sharon
Charly
Movie · as Marie
Mistral's Daughter
TV · as Nancy · 8 eps
Natural World
TV · 1 ep
American Playhouse
TV · as Matty Crompton · 1 ep
Cérémonie des César
TV · as Self - President · 1 ep
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
TV · as Une Coiffeuse · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Therese · 1 ep