Emma Thompson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
151
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-04-15 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Emma Thompson
Biography
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
Leute heute
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Cheers
The View
The View
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Wetten, dass..?
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
QI
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
GMTV
Ellen
Parkinson
The Tony Danza Show
Cruella
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Comic Strip Presents...
The Oscars
Brave
I Am Legend
Beauty and the Beast
Dead of Winter
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Treasure Planet
Love Actually
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Burnt
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Men in Black 3
Bridget Jones's Baby
Timeshift
Men in Black: International
The Young Ones
Nanny McPhee
Johnny English Strikes Again
The Remains of the Day
Beautiful Creatures
Sense and Sensibility
Sucré salé
The Sheep Detectives
Dolittle
Years and Years
The Boat That Rocked
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
In the Name of the Father
Angels in America
Creating the World of Harry Potter
Junior
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Walking the Dogs
Down Cemetery Road
Extinction
Missing Link
Much Ado About Nothing
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Primary Colors
Men, Women & Children
Howards End
Brideshead Revisited
An Audience with Adele
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Sea Sorrow
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The Love Punch
Carrington
Henry V
Last Christmas
Last Chance Harvey
Peter's Friends
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Look Back in Anger
Saving Mr. Banks
Slags
My Father the Hero
Twelve Nights
Late Night
King Lear
Dead Again
Effie Gray
A Walk in the Woods
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Stranger Than Fiction
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Imagining Argentina
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Alfresco
The Tall Guy
Funny Valentines
Fortunes of War
Hollywood's Dark Secret
An Education
Wit
The Song of Lunch
The Blue Boy
E! True Hollywood Story
Tutti Frutti
Maybe Baby
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Hospital!
How to Build a Girl
The Winter Guest
Thompson
Merchant Ivory
Alone in Berlin
The Val Doonican Music Show
There's Nothing to Worry About!
The Crystal Cube
Sense and Sensibility: 25th Anniversary Reunion
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Judas Kiss
Junket Whore
When Harry Left Hogwarts
The Children Act
Tin Fish
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Impromptu
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
Hear Me Roar
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Fry and Laurie Reunited
The Real Mary Poppins
Royal Variety Performance 1984
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
Adapting Austen
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
The Winslow Boy
A Very Quiet Man
How to Stop a Nuclear War
The Cellar Tapes
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
A Sense of Character
To the Ends of the Earth
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
