Emma Thompson

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paddington, London, England, UK, 1959-04-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	The Cellar Tapes	various	68
2	1984	Slags	Young Woman	0
3	1989	The Tall Guy	Kate	58
4	1989	Henry V	Katherine	71
5	1989	Look Back in Anger	Alison Porter	90
6	1991	Dead Again	Margaret Strauss / Grace	64
7	1992	Howards End	Margaret Schlegel	70
8	1992	Peter's Friends	Maggie Chester	65
9	1993	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	69
10	1993	The Remains of the Day	Miss Kenton	74
11	1993	In the Name of the Father	Gareth Peirce	79
12	1994	Junior	Dr. Diana Reddin	52
13	1995	Carrington	Dora Carrington	62
14	1995	Sense and Sensibility	Elinor Dashwood	74
15	1997	The Winter Guest	Frances	65
16	1998	Primary Colors	Susan Stanton	63
17	1998	Judas Kiss	FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins	57
18	2001	Wit	Vivian Bearing	73
19	2002	Treasure Planet	Captain Amelia (voice)	76
20	2003	Love Actually	Karen	71
21	2003	Imagining Argentina	Cecilia Rueda	56
22	2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Sybill Trelawney	80
23	2005	Nanny McPhee	Nanny McPhee	67
24	2005	A Tribute To Ismail Merchant	Self (archive footage)	100
25	2006	Stranger Than Fiction	Karen Eiffel	73
26	2007	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Sybill Trelawney	77
27	2007	I Am Legend	Dr. Alice Krippin	72
28	2008	Brideshead Revisited	Lady Marchmain	63
29	2008	Last Chance Harvey	Kate Walker	63
30	2009	The Boat That Rocked	Charlotte	72
31	2009	An Education	Headmistress	69
32	2010	Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang	Nanny McPhee	63
33	2010	The Song of Lunch	She	65
34	2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	Sybill Trelawney	81
35	2012	Men in Black 3	Agent O	65
36	2012	Brave	Elinor (voice)	70
37	2013	Beautiful Creatures	Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes	60
38	2013	Saving Mr. Banks	P.L. Travers	73
39	2014	The Love Punch	Kate Jones	60
40	2014	The Real Mary Poppins	Self	35
41	2014	Men, Women & Children	Narrator (voice)	65
42	2015	The Legend of Barney Thomson	Cemolina	61
43	2015	A Walk in the Woods	Catherine Bryson	61
44	2015	Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity	Narrator (voice)	90
45	2018	Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom	Narrator (voice)	0
46	2019	Hollywood's Dark Secret	Self	0
47	2021	An Audience with Adele	Self	83
48		How to Stop a Nuclear War	Narrator	0
49	1989	The Winslow Boy	Catherine Winslow	60
50	1990	Tin Fish		0
51	1991	Impromptu	Duchess D'Antan	61
52	1991	Rabbit Ears - The White Cat	Narrator (voice)	0
53	1994	My Father the Hero	Isabel (uncredited)	53
54	1994	The Blue Boy	Marie Bonnar	53
55	1997	Hospital!	Elephant Woman	50
56	1998	Junket Whore	Self	0
57	2000	Maybe Baby	Druscilla	54
58	2001	Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw	Self	60
59	2001	The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey	Self	60
60	2001	Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'	Self	60
61	2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self	100
62	2005	Hoodwinked!	Lesa (voice) (uncredited)	62
63	2007	Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out	Self	0
64	2010	Fry and Laurie Reunited	Self	68
65	2011	When Harry Left Hogwarts	Self	70
66	2012	Walking the Dogs	The Queen	0
67	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
68	2014	Effie Gray	Lady Eastlake	59
69	2014	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Mrs. Lovett	81
70	2015	Burnt	Dr. Rosshilde	65
71	2016	Alone in Berlin	Anna Quangel	67
72	2016	Bridget Jones's Baby	Dr Rawlings	64
73	2016	To the Ends of the Earth	Narrator (voice)	0
74	2016	The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science	Narrator (voice)	0
75	2016	Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson	Elle-Même	0
76	2017	Beauty and the Beast	Mrs. Potts	70
77	2017	The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)	Maureen Meyerowitz	65
78	2017	Sea Sorrow	Self	53
79	2018	King Lear	Goneril	60
80	2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)	57
81	2018	Johnny English Strikes Again	Prime Minister	63
82	2019	Missing Link	Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)	69
83	2019	Men in Black: International	Agent O	59
84	2019	Extinction		0
85	2020	Dolittle	Poly (voice)	66
86	2020	How to Build a Girl	Amanda	57
87	2021	Twelve Nights	Narrator	0
88	2022	Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical	Agatha Trunchbull	68
89	2022	The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special	Self	40
90	2025	The Dead of Winter		0
91		James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty	Self	0
92	2018	The Children Act	Fiona Maye	66
93	2019	Late Night	Katherine Newbury	64
94	2019	Last Christmas	Petra Andrich	72
95	2021	Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony	Self (archive footage)	45
96	2021	Cruella	The Baroness	80
97	2022	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Nancy Stokes	70
98	2022	The Fringe, Fame and Me	Self	0
99	2023	What's Love Got to Do with It?	Cath	60
100	2024	Merchant Ivory	Self	77
101	2024	The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20	Self	60
102	2025	Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy	Dr. Rawlings	66
103	2026	Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie		0
104		Hear Me Roar	Elizabeth Butler-Sloss	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
3	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
4	1977	The Val Doonican Music Show		0
5	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
6	1982	Cheers	Nanny Gee	76
7	1982	There's Nothing to Worry About!	Various	50
8	1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Young Woman	74
9	1982	The Young Ones	Miss Money-Sterling	79
10	1983	Alfresco	Various	60
11	1983	The Crystal Cube	Jackie Meld / Various Roles	65
12	1987	Tutti Frutti	Suzi Kettles	71
13	1987	Fortunes of War	Harriet Pringle	64
14	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
15	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
16	1988	Thompson	Self - Host	10
17	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
18	1993	GMTV	Self	56
19	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
20	1994	Ellen	Emma Thompson	62
21	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
22	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
23	1997	The View	Self	45
24	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
25	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
26	2001	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross	Self - Guest	58
27	2002	Sucré salé	Self	93
28	2002	Timeshift	self	70
29	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
30	2003	QI	Self	79
31	2003	Angels in America	Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel	76
32	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
33	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
34	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self - Guest	72
35	2009	Creating the World of Harry Potter	Self - 'Professor Trelawney'	100
36	2011	The Jonathan Ross Show	Self	51
37	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
38	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
39	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
40	2015	Funny Valentines	Debbie	60
41	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
42	2019	Years and Years	Vivienne Rook	76
43	2022	Why Didn't They Ask Evans?	Lady Marcham	65
44		Down Cemetery Road	Zoë Boehm	0

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