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Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von T…
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entertainment · English actress (born 1967) · television actor · film actor · stage actor · actor · also Emily Watson, Watson
Born 14 January 1967 · Q229535
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2026· 2 entries
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: TV tonight: Emily Watson stars in the blockbuster Dune prequel
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The Guardian: Emily Watson: ‘You have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor’
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Earned Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for Small Things Like These (2024).
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Portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie
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The Guardian: God’s Creatures review – Emily Watson and Paul Mescal elevate a solid study of violence
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The Guardian: ‘There was cruelty and unpleasantness’: Emily Watson on school, stardom and sex scenes in her 50s
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: God’s Creatures review – Emily Watson and Paul Mescal shine in doom-laden drama
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2019· 1 entry
Appeared as a nuclear scientist — a composite of several real scientists — in the miniseries Chernobyl
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2017· 1 entry
Starred in the BBC mini-series Apple Tree Yard
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded Donostia Award (2015).
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Had supporting roles in Testament of Youth, alongside Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, Eduardo Verástegui's Little Boy and A Royal Night Out, in which she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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2014· 1 entry
Watson had supporting roles in The Book Thief, alongside Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse, and the Oscar-nominated film The Theory of Everything, portraying Jane Wilde, Hawking's mother in law, alongside Eddie Redmayne a
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Appropriate Adult (2011).
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Played Janet Leach in the ITV two-part film Appropriate Adult, about serial killer Fred West, for which she won a BAFTA
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2010· 1 entry
Starred in Oranges and Sunshine, a film recounting the true story of children sent into abusive care homes in Australia, directed by Jim Loach, and also the following year (2011) in War Horse, an adaptation of Michae
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2009· 1 entry
Appeared in the film Cold Souls, from first-time director Sophie Barthes, and Within the Whirlwind, a biographical film of Russian poet and Gulag survivor Evgenia Ginzburg from The Luzhin Defence director Marleen Gor
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2008· 1 entry
Watson starred with Julia Roberts and Carrie-Anne Moss in Fireflies in the Garden, the Lifetime Television movie The Memory Keeper's Daughter (based on the novel with the same name), and in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's
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2007· 2 entries
Appeared in The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, an adaptation of the Dick King-Smith children's novel about the origin of the Loch Ness Monster
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Mood Indigo, a script written by Watson and her husband, was optioned by Capitol Films
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2006· 1 entry
Watson took a supporting role in Miss Potter, a biographical drama about children's author Beatrix Potter, from Babe director Chris Noonan, with Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger; and also in an adaptation of Thea Beckma
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2004· 2 entries
Was inducted into the society's hall of fame for spearheading the successful campaign to appoint a Children's Commissioner for England
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Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Peter Sellers's first wife, Anne Howe, in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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2003· 1 entry
Received an honorary MA from Bristol University
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2002· 2 entries
Starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter
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Took time off from cinema to play two roles in Sam Mendes's repertory productions of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, first at Mendes's Donmar Warehouse in London and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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2001· 1 entry
Appeared with John Turturro in The Luzhin Defence and in Robert Altman's ensemble piece Gosford Park
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Breaking the Waves (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for Breaking the Waves (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Whom she had met on a bus while working at the Royal Shakespeare Company
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1992· 1 entry
Later Pit Theatre, London, 1993) as Marianna
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-01-14.
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