1959-04-15 Paddington, London, England, UK
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie | 2026-11-13 | |
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Dr. Rawlings | 2025-02-12 |
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The Dead of Winter | 2025-08-08 | |
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The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20 | Self | 2024-11-27 |
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Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024-08-30 |
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What's Love Got to Do with It? | Cath | 2023-01-26 |
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Nancy Stokes | 2022-06-16 |
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical | Agatha Trunchbull | 2022-11-25 |
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The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | 2022-08-08 |
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The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special | Self | 2022-11-29 |
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Cruella | The Baroness | 2021-05-26 |
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Twelve Nights | Narrator | 2021-12-02 |
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Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 |
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An Audience with Adele | Self | 2021-11-21 |
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Dolittle | Poly (voice) | 2020-01-02 |
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How to Build a Girl | Amanda | 2020-09-24 |
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Hollywood's Dark Secret | Self | 2019-07-09 |
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Last Christmas | Petra Andrich | 2019-11-07 |
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Missing Link | Dora the Yeti Elder (voice) | 2019-04-04 |
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Men in Black: International | Agent O | 2019-06-12 |
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Extinction | 2019-09-01 | |
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Late Night | Katherine Newbury | 2019-01-25 |
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Johnny English Strikes Again | Prime Minister | 2018-09-13 |
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
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Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom | Narrator (voice) | 2018-08-13 |
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King Lear | Goneril | 2018-05-28 |
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The Children Act | Fiona Maye | 2018-08-01 |
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) | Maureen Meyerowitz | 2017-10-13 |
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Beauty and the Beast | Mrs. Potts | 2017-03-16 |
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Sea Sorrow | Self | 2017-11-08 |
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Alone in Berlin | Anna Quangel | 2016-02-15 |
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Bridget Jones's Baby | Dr Rawlings | 2016-09-14 |
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To the Ends of the Earth | Narrator (voice) | 2016-10-29 |
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The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science | Narrator (voice) | 2016-10-31 |
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Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson | Elle-Même | 2016-11-20 |
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Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity | Narrator (voice) | 2015-12-01 |
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A Walk in the Woods | Catherine Bryson | 2015-09-02 |
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Burnt | Dr. Rosshilde | 2015-10-02 |
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The Legend of Barney Thomson | Cemolina | 2015-07-24 |
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Men, Women & Children | Narrator (voice) | 2014-10-17 |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Mrs. Lovett | 2014-09-26 |
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Effie Gray | Lady Eastlake | 2014-03-08 |
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The Real Mary Poppins | Self | 2014-01-17 |
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The Love Punch | Kate Jones | 2014-01-13 |
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Beautiful Creatures | Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes | 2013-02-13 |
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Saving Mr. Banks | P.L. Travers | 2013-11-29 |
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Walking the Dogs | The Queen | 2012-05-31 |
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Men in Black 3 | Agent O | 2012-05-23 |
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Brave | Elinor (voice) | 2012-06-21 |
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When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | 2011-11-11 |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Sybill Trelawney | 2011-07-12 |
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Fry and Laurie Reunited | Self | 2010-11-24 |
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The Song of Lunch | She | 2010-10-08 |
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Nanny McPhee | 2010-03-26 |
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The Boat That Rocked | Charlotte | 2009-04-01 |
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An Education | Headmistress | 2009-10-29 |
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Last Chance Harvey | Kate Walker | 2008-12-25 |
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Brideshead Revisited | Lady Marchmain | 2008-07-25 |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Sybill Trelawney | 2007-07-08 |
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Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out | Self | 2007-08-11 |
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I Am Legend | Dr. Alice Krippin | 2007-12-12 |
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Stranger Than Fiction | Karen Eiffel | 2006-09-09 |
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Hoodwinked! | Lesa (voice) (uncredited) | 2005-12-16 |
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A Tribute To Ismail Merchant | Self (archive footage) | 2005-10-30 |
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Nanny McPhee | Nanny McPhee | 2005-10-21 |
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Sybill Trelawney | 2004-05-31 |
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Imagining Argentina | Cecilia Rueda | 2003-09-13 |
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Love Actually | Karen | 2003-09-07 |
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Treasure Planet | Captain Amelia (voice) | 2002-11-26 |
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The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' | Self | 2001-10-22 |
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Wit | Vivian Bearing | 2001-02-09 |
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Maybe Baby | Druscilla | 2000-06-02 |
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Junket Whore | Self | 1998-10-12 |
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Primary Colors | Susan Stanton | 1998-03-20 |
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Judas Kiss | FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins | 1998-09-16 |
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The Winter Guest | Frances | 1997-12-27 |
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Hospital! | Elephant Woman | 1997-03-30 |
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Carrington | Dora Carrington | 1995-05-25 |
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Sense and Sensibility | Elinor Dashwood | 1995-12-13 |
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Junior | Dr. Diana Reddin | 1994-11-22 |
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My Father the Hero | Isabel (uncredited) | 1994-02-04 |
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The Blue Boy | Marie Bonnar | 1994-07-02 |
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In the Name of the Father | Gareth Peirce | 1993-12-12 |
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The Remains of the Day | Miss Kenton | 1993-11-05 |
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Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | 1993-05-07 |
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Howards End | Margaret Schlegel | 1992-03-13 |
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Peter's Friends | Maggie Chester | 1992-09-18 |
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Rabbit Ears - The White Cat | Narrator (voice) | 1991-09-14 |
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Impromptu | Duchess D'Antan | 1991-04-12 |
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Dead Again | Margaret Strauss / Grace | 1991-08-23 |
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Tin Fish | 1990-04-24 | |
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The Winslow Boy | Catherine Winslow | 1989-04-30 |
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The Tall Guy | Kate | 1989-02-01 |
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Look Back in Anger | Alison Porter | 1989-12-28 |
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Henry V | Katherine | 1989-10-05 |
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Slags | Young Woman | 1984-02-11 |
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The Cellar Tapes | various | 1982-05-20 |
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How to Stop a Nuclear War | Narrator | |
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James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty | Self | |
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Hear Me Roar | Elizabeth Butler-Sloss |
