Emma Thompson

Known for ActingBorn 1959-04-15 (age 67)Paddington, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Sucré salé

Look Back in Anger

Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity

An Audience with Adele

Everybody to Kenmure Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Ponyboi

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Cruella

E! True Hollywood Story

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

QI

The Sheep Detectives

Merchant Ivory

The Winslow Boy

In the Name of the Father

Years and Years

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Young Ones

Angels in America

Treasure Planet

Saving Mr. Banks

Last Christmas

Cheers

Sense and Sensibility

Stranger Than Fiction

Wit

The Boat That Rocked

When Harry Left Hogwarts

The Remains of the Day

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

I Am Legend

The Graham Norton Show

The Comic Strip Presents...

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

The Crystal Cube

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Brave

Beauty and the Beast

Love Actually

Down Cemetery Road

Missing Link

An Education

Timeshift