Emma Thompson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 15, 1959 (age 67)
- Birthplace
- Paddington, London, England, UK
Biography
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an English actress and screenwriter. Her work spans 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, as well as a nomination for two Grammy Awards. In 2018, she was made a dame 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 came to prominence 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). For her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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 saga (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005) (which she also wrote), 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
How to Stop a Nuclear War
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Movie · as Self
Hear Me Roar
Movie · as Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Moonsong: A Life In Seven Verses
Movie
The Sheep Detectives
Movie · as Lydia Harbottle
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Movie · as Van Guy
Dead of Winter
Movie · as Barb
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Movie · as Dr Rawlings
Down Cemetery Road
TV · as Zoë Boehm · 8 eps
Merchant Ivory
Movie · as Self
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Movie · as Cath Stevenson
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Movie · as Self
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Movie · as Self
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Movie · as Nancy Stokes
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Movie · as Agatha Trunchbull
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
TV · as Lady Marcham · 1 ep
An Audience with Adele
Movie · as Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Cruella
Movie · as The Baroness
How to Build a Girl
Movie · as Amanda
Dolittle
Movie · as Poly (voice)
Hollywood's Dark Secret
Movie · as Self
Extinction
Movie
Late Night
Movie · as Katherine Newbury
Missing Link
Movie · as Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
Last Christmas
Movie · as Petra Andrich
Men in Black: International
Movie · as Agent O
Years and Years
TV · as Vivienne Rook · 6 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Children Act
Movie · as Fiona Maye
King Lear
Movie · as Goneril
Johnny English Strikes Again
Movie · as Prime Minister
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beauty and the Beast
Movie · as Mrs. Potts
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Movie · as Maureen Meyerowitz
Sea Sorrow
Movie · as Self
Alone in Berlin
Movie · as Anna Quangel
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie · as Dr Rawlings
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Movie · as Elle-Même
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
A Walk in the Woods
Movie · as Catherine Bryson
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Movie · as Cemolina
Burnt
Movie · as Dr. Rosshilde
Funny Valentines
TV · as Debbie · 1 ep
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Real Mary Poppins
Movie · as Self
Effie Gray
Movie · as Lady Eastlake
The Love Punch
Movie · as Kate
Men, Women & Children
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic
Movie · as Self / Mrs. Lovett
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Saving Mr. Banks
Movie · as P.L. Travers
Beautiful Creatures
Movie · as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
Men in Black 3
Movie · as Agent O
Brave
Movie · as Elinor (voice)
Walking the Dogs
Movie · as The Queen
Brave: Brave Old World
Movie · as Self
Playhouse Presents
TV · as The Queen · 1 ep
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie · as Sybill Trelawney
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Movie · as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Movie · as Nanny McPhee
The Song of Lunch
Movie · as She
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Movie · as Self
An Education
Movie · as Headmistress
The Boat That Rocked
Movie · as Charlotte
A Sense of Character
Movie · as Self
A Very Quiet Man
Movie · as Self
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
Movie · as Self
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
Movie · as Self
Brideshead Revisited
Movie · as Lady Marchmain
Last Chance Harvey
Movie · as Kate Walker
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie · as Sybill Trelawney
I Am Legend
Movie · as Dr. Alice Krippin
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Movie · as Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 6 eps
Stranger Than Fiction
Movie · as Karen Eiffel
Nanny McPhee
Movie · as Nanny McPhee
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie · as Sybill Trelawney
The Tony Danza Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Love Actually
Movie · as Karen
Imagining Argentina
Movie · as Cecilia Rueda
More Great Comedy Moments
Movie · as Miss Money-Sterling (archive footage)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
QI
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Angels in America
TV · as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel · 5 eps
Treasure Planet
Movie · as Captain Amelia (voice)
Heart of the Festival
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sucré salé
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Timeshift
TV · as self · 1 ep
Wit
Movie · as Vivian Bearing
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Movie · as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Movie · as Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Movie · as Self
We Know Where You Live. Live!
Movie · as Self
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Maybe Baby
Movie · as Druscilla
Primary Colors
Movie · as Susan Stanton
Judas Kiss
Movie · as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Junket Whore
Movie · as Self
Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Winter Guest
Movie · as Frances
Hospital!
Movie · as Elephant Woman
The View
TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep
Leute heute
TV · as Self · 1 ep
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · 1 ep
Sense and Sensibility
Movie · as Elinor Dashwood
Carrington
Movie · as Dora Carrington
Junior
Movie · as Dr. Diana Reddin
My Father the Hero
Movie · as Isabel (uncredited)
The Blue Boy
Movie · as Marie Bonnar
Ellen
TV · as Emma Thompson · 1 ep
The Remains of the Day
Movie · as Miss Kenton
In the Name of the Father
Movie · as Gareth Peirce
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie · as Beatrice
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
GMTV
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Peter's Friends
Movie · as Maggie Chester
Howards End
Movie · as Margaret Schlegel
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 2 eps
Dead Again
Movie · as Grace / Margaret Strauss
Impromptu
Movie · as Duchess D'Antan
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Tin Fish
Movie
Henry V
Movie · as Katherine
The Tall Guy
Movie · as Kate
Look Back in Anger
Movie · as Alison Porter
The Winslow Boy
Movie · as Catherine Winslow
Colleagues From Hell
Movie
The Simpsons
TV · as Constance Clavinger (voice) · 1 ep
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Thompson
TV · as Self - Host · 6 eps
Tutti Frutti
TV · as Suzi Kettles · 6 eps
Fortunes of War
TV · as Harriet Pringle · 7 eps
Screen Two
TV · as Marie · 1 ep
Theatre Night
TV · as Catherine Winslow, Jenny Wilbur · 1 ep
Slags
Movie · as Young Woman
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Movie
Alfresco
TV · as Various · 13 eps
The Crystal Cube
TV · as Jackie Meld / Various Roles · 1 ep
The Cellar Tapes
Movie · as various
The Young Ones
TV · as Miss Money-Sterling · 1 ep
There's Nothing to Worry About!
TV · as Various · 3 eps
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV · as Young Woman · 1 ep
Cheers
TV · as Nanny Gee · 1 ep
Wetten, dass..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
TV · 1 ep
The Val Doonican Music Show
TV · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps