Emma Thompson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
152
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 Jimmy Fallon
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Cheers
Down Cemetery Road
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Leute heute
The View
The View
Love Actually
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Ellen
Dead of Winter
QI
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Beauty and the Beast
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Sense and Sensibility
Wetten, dass..?
The Tony Danza Show
I Am Legend
Cruella
Treasure Planet
Brave
Last Christmas
Dolittle
GMTV
The Oscars
Men in Black 3
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Comic Strip Presents...
Parkinson
Johnny English Strikes Again
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Nanny McPhee
Screen Two
Junior
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Howards End
Bridget Jones's Baby
The Young Ones
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Men in Black: International
Henry V
The Boat That Rocked
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The Sheep Detectives
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Much Ado About Nothing
In the Name of the Father
Angels in America
Brideshead Revisited
Dead Again
Late Night
Men, Women & Children
Bad Tidings
Timeshift
Wit
Years and Years
Saving Mr. Banks
Carrington
King Lear
Extinction
Beautiful Creatures
The Remains of the Day
Merchant Ivory
Impromptu
Missing Link
Slags
Primary Colors
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Imagining Argentina
How to Build a Girl
Burnt
Sea Sorrow
Hospital!
The Love Punch
A Walk in the Woods
Stranger Than Fiction
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
My Father the Hero
Maybe Baby
Last Chance Harvey
The Tall Guy
Alfresco
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Sucré salé
Twelve Nights
Peter's Friends
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
An Audience with Adele
An Education
The Legend of Barney Thomson
The Children Act
The Fringe, Fame and Me
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Tin Fish
The Val Doonican Music Show
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Fortunes of War
Thompson
Effie Gray
The Winter Guest
Funny Valentines
Judas Kiss
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Alone in Berlin
How to Stop a Nuclear War
Walking the Dogs
Look Back in Anger
Fry and Laurie Reunited
E! True Hollywood Story
The Song of Lunch
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Hollywood's Dark Secret
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Tutti Frutti
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
The Blue Boy
The Lil Peepz in Gocity - The Movie
Junket Whore
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
The Crystal Cube
The Real Mary Poppins
Hear Me Roar
The Cellar Tapes
The Winslow Boy
A Very Quiet Man
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
Royal Variety Performance 1984
A Sense of Character
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
To the Ends of the Earth
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
