Emma Thompson

Acting · 6.0 popularity

Age

Movies

108

Born: April 15, 1959
From: Paddington, London, England, UK

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.

Works

108 films

The Sheep Detectives

20267.9

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

I Am Legend

20077.2

Brave

20127.0

Cruella

20218.0

Beauty and the Beast

20177.0

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

20227.0

Love Actually

20037.1

Treasure Planet

20027.6

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

20256.4

Dolittle

20206.6

Men in Black: International

20195.9

Bridget Jones's Baby

20166.4

Men in Black 3

20126.5

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

20106.3

Nanny McPhee

20056.7

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Johnny English Strikes Again

20186.3

Dead of Winter

20256.4

In the Name of the Father

19937.9

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical

20226.8

Late Night

20196.4

Missing Link

20196.9

Stranger Than Fiction

20067.3

Last Christmas

20197.2

The Remains of the Day

19937.4

Much Ado About Nothing

19936.9

Burnt

20156.5

Saving Mr. Banks

20137.3

Beautiful Creatures

20136.0

Howards End

19927.0

Men, Women & Children

20146.5

King Lear

20186.1

Junior

19945.2

An Education

20096.9

The Boat That Rocked

20097.2

Dead Again

19916.4

Brideshead Revisited

20086.3

Last Chance Harvey

20086.3

Henry V

19897.1

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

20176.5

What's Love Got to Do with It?

20236.1

Primary Colors

19986.3

A Walk in the Woods

20156.1

My Father the Hero

19945.4

Imagining Argentina

20035.7

The Children Act

20186.6

Junket Whore

19985.0

Alone in Berlin

20166.7

Impromptu

19916.1

Effie Gray

20146.0

The Love Punch

20146.0

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Everybody to Kenmure Street

20268.3

Peter's Friends

19926.6

When Harry Left Hogwarts

20117.2

The Winter Guest

19976.5

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

The Legend of Barney Thomson

20156.1

Judas Kiss

19985.7

The Tall Guy

19895.7

Wit

20017.3

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

Maybe Baby

20005.4

How to Build a Girl

20205.8

An Audience with Adele

20218.4

The Song of Lunch

20106.6

The Real Mary Poppins

20144.0

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

20185.4

Tin Fish

1990

Carrington

19956.2

Royal Variety Performance 1984

1984

Hear Me Roar

2026

Fry and Laurie Reunited

20106.8

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity

20159.0

A Very Quiet Man

2009

The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special

20227.0

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

200510.0

Sea Sorrow

20175.3

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic

20148.1

Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility

2009

Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

20078.0

Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson

2016

Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility

2009

The Winslow Boy

19898.0

The Blue Boy

19946.3

Hospital!

19976.0

Look Back in Anger

19899.3

Bad Tidings

20246.5

The Cellar Tapes

19827.0

A Sense of Character

2009

Hollywood's Dark Secret

2019

Slags

19842.0

The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey

20016.5

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

20016.5

Colleagues From Hell

1989

To the Ends of the Earth

2016

How to Stop a Nuclear War

2026

Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw

20017.0

Rabbit Ears - The White Cat

1991

Extinction

2019

Walking the Dogs

2012

James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty

2026

Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom

2018

The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science

2016