Kristin Scott Thomas

Acting · 3.5 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 24, 1960
From: Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK

Biography

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986). ... Source: Article "Kristin Scott Thomas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

92 films

Mission: Impossible

19967.0

Tomb Raider

20186.4

Darkest Hour

20177.4

The Golden Compass

20076.1

Four Weddings and a Funeral

19946.8

The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

20086.0

The English Patient

19967.1

Confessions of a Shopaholic

20096.5

Gosford Park

20016.8

Bitter Moon

19927.1

The Other Boleyn Girl

20086.7

In the House

20127.2

Keeping Mum

20056.7

Bel Ami

20125.3

Only God Forgives

20135.8

Easy Virtue

20086.5

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

20126.4

Nowhere Boy

20097.2

The Horse Whisperer

19986.9

The Valet

20066.0

2 Alone in Paris

20085.1

The Party

20176.3

Random Hearts

19995.6

Arsène Lupin

20045.3

Leaving

20096.0

Suite Française

20157.2

Rebecca

20206.3

Richard III

19956.8

My Mother's Wedding

20256.3

Tell No One

20067.2

Sarah's Key

20107.3

In Your Hands

20115.6

Life as a House

20017.1

My Old Lady

20146.2

Military Wives

20206.5

The Walker

20075.3

I've Loved You So Long

20087.3

The Invisible Woman

20135.9

Angels and Insects

19956.2

Love Crime

20106.1

Chromophobia

20065.2

Camembert

2026

Boucherie fine

19877.0

The Tenth Man

19886.7

Two Tickets to Greece

20235.9

Man to Man

20056.3

A Handful of Dust

19886.1

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

19904.5

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

20197.0

Up at the Villa

20005.3

Final Set

20216.1

Small Cuts

20035.9

Souvenir

19965.8

The Woman in the Fifth

20115.2

The Making of Gosford Park

20025.3

In Her Hands

20186.6

Tell No One: The B-Side

20076.0

Agent trouble

19875.6

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

Under the Cherry Moon

19865.4

The Bachelor

19909.0

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre

20196.0

The Revengers' Comedies

19985.8

Before the Winter Chill

20135.9

Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'

2002

Cela s'appelle l'amour

19895.0

An Unforgettable Summer

19946.2

The Confessional

19956.0

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

20156.4

Play

20017.1

Les Milles

19955.7

Mayday

19959.0

Framed

19904.7

Uncontrollable Circumstances

19896.2

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

20178.0

The Pompatus of Love

19964.1

Looking for Hortense

20125.6

Weep No More, My Lady

19924.4

The Governor's Party

19905.1

Plaisir d'offrir

199510.0

Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps

20177.0

The Monkey Prince

2003

The Endless Game

19896.3

Three Sisters

2003

Love & Confusions

19974.9

Headstrong

19896.7

In the Eyes of the World

19915.5

Lost and Found in Paris

20261.0

Valentino! I love you

19917.0

Lounge Chair

19885.5

Charly

19857.0

Paramour

2026