1967-01-14 Islington, London, England, UK
Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.
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The Legend of Ochi | Dasha | 2025-04-24 |
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Small Things Like These | Sister Mary | 2024-11-01 |
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Midas Man | Queenie Epstein | 2024-08-23 |
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God's Creatures | Aileen O'Hara | 2022-09-30 |
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Monster Family 2 | Emma Wishbone (voice) | 2021-10-15 |
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King Lear | Regan | 2018-05-28 |
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The Happy Prince | Constance Wilde | 2018-04-12 |
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On Chesil Beach | Violet Ponting | 2018-01-19 |
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Weinstein | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-01 |
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Chief of Staff Fox | 2017-09-20 |
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Monster Family | Emma Wishbone (voice) | 2017-08-24 |
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Testament of Youth | Mrs. Brittain | 2015-01-16 |
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A Royal Night Out | Queen Elizabeth | 2015-05-14 |
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Everest | Helen Wilton | 2015-09-10 |
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A Song for Jenny | Julie Nicholson | 2015-07-05 |
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The Dresser | Her Ladyship | 2015-10-31 |
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism | Miss Trinklebury | 2015-04-11 |
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Little Boy | Emma Busbee | 2015-04-23 |
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The Theory of Everything | Beryl Wilde | 2014-11-26 |
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Belle | Lady Mansfield | 2013-05-01 |
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The Book Thief | Rosa Hubermann | 2013-11-08 |
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Some Girl(s) | Lindsay | 2013-06-28 |
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Anna Karenina | Countess Lydia Ivanova | 2012-09-06 |
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War Horse | Rose Narracott | 2011-12-25 |
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Meerkats 3D | Narrator | 2011-10-02 |
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Oranges and Sunshine | Margaret Humphreys | 2010-10-08 |
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Cemetery Junction | Mrs. Kendrick | 2010-04-14 |
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Within the Whirlwind | Evgenia Ginzburg | 2009-09-18 |
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Cold Souls | Claire | 2009-08-07 |
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Caroline Gil | 2008-04-12 |
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Synecdoche, New York | Tammy | 2008-10-24 |
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Fireflies in the Garden | Jane Lawrence | 2008-08-07 |
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The Water Horse | Anne MacMorrow | 2007-12-25 |
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Miss Potter | Millie Warne | 2006-12-03 |
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Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek | Mary Vega | 2006-11-15 |
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Wah-Wah | Ruby Compton | 2005-08-17 |
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Corpse Bride | Victoria Everglot (voice) | 2005-09-12 |
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The Proposition | Martha Stanley | 2005-10-06 |
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Separate Lies | Anne Manning | 2005-09-16 |
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Anne Sellers | 2004-10-01 |
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A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Herself | 2003-04-03 |
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Equilibrium | Mary O'Brien | 2002-12-06 |
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Red Dragon | Reba McClane | 2002-10-02 |
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The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self | 2002-06-18 |
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Ballchewer | 2002-11-01 | |
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Punch-Drunk Love | Lena Leonard | 2002-10-11 |
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Gosford Park | Elsie | 2001-12-26 |
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Trixie | Trixie Zurbo | 2000-06-28 |
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The Luzhin Defence | Natalia Katkov | 2000-08-21 |
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Angela's Ashes | Angela McCourt | 1999-12-25 |
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Cradle Will Rock | Olive Stanton | 1999-12-10 |
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Hilary and Jackie | Jackie Du Pré | 1998-12-30 |
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Metroland | Marion | 1997-08-30 |
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The Mill on the Floss | Maggie Tulliver | 1997-10-12 |
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The Boxer | Maggie Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier | 1997-12-12 | |
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Breaking the Waves | Bess McNeill | 1996-07-05 |
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A Summer Day's Dream | 1994-11-26 | |
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Midday Sun | Sarah | |
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Hamnet | Mary Shakespeare |
