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Emma Thompson
Dame Emma Thompson 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 as well as a nomination for two Grammy Awards. In 2018, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama.
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Born 15 April 1959 · Q168724
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2026· 8 entries
“not only because I am half Scottish but also because I”
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“most moving things are often also funny, in life and in art”
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“s film Nanny McPhee – which centres on a mysterious, unsightly nanny who must discipline a group of children. She also took the lead role, alongside Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury, in what was a highly personal project. The film was a success, taking number one at the UK box office and earning $122 million worldwide. Commenting on Thompson”
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“great affinity for Jane Austen”
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theguardian.com: ‘I shot Mr Thompson’: Luigi Mangione describes his planning and the killing of health insurance CEO
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The Guardian: Luigi Mangione admits shooting healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and pleads guilty on federal charges – as it happened
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Appeared in and was executive producer for Everybody to Kenmure Street
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2025· 6 entries
The Guardian: Sydney Sweeney, Richard Linklater and Emma Thompson are up for most egregious snub in the 2026 Golden Globe nominations
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The Guardian: Emma Thompson speaks of her ‘intense irritation’ with AI
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The Guardian: Down Cemetery Road review – Emma Thompson is magnificent in this thriller from Slow Horses’ creator
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The Guardian: Love? Actually, no: Emma Thompson reveals Donald Trump asked her on a date
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The Guardian: Dead of Winter review – Emma Thompson lights up icy Fargo country thriller
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The Guardian: Sense and Sensibility review – blue-chip cast decorates Emma Thompson’s pleasurable Austen adaptation
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: Julianne Moore, Jane Fonda and Emma Thompson among stars asking to ‘make nukes history’
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2022· 2 entries
Also starred alongside Lily James and Sajal Aly in the romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It
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Thompson starred opposite Daryl McCormack in the sex comedy-drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde
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2021· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2021).
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Thompson starred opposite Emma Stone as the titular protagonist villain in Cruella, a Disney live-action spin-off/reboot of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, directed by Craig Gillespie, which was released on 28 May 2021 t
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2020· 1 entry
On 28 February 2020, Thompson and Wise were declared residents of Venice.
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2019· 1 entry
Although she received some criticism for having flown 5,400 miles (8,700 km) to attend it
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2018· 6 entries
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire presented by Elizabeth II (2018).
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Was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama
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Was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama
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Thompson said she would like to write about "what it's like being human now"
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Also starred in Johnny English Strikes Again as the prime minister of the United Kingdom alongside Rowan Atkinson
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Thompson provided the voiceover for Greenpeace's palm-oil awareness commercial which Iceland (supermarket) picked to promote as their 2018 Christmas advertisement
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2017· 2 entries
Marched in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British charity worker who was held captive in Iran
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Thompson appeared in a supporting role as Mrs
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2016· 1 entry
Starred in the World War II-drama Alone in Berlin, based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel
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2014· 2 entries
Thompson provided the narration for Jason Reitman's comedy-drama film, Men, Women & Children
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Thompson was among a group of influential British women, which included Annie Lennox and Rita Ora, to feature in the latest iteration of British retailer Marks & Spencer's 'Leading Ladies' marketing campaign
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2013· 2 entries
Thompson mentioned that she gets commended for this role more than any other
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Thompson wrote a second book in the series titled The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit
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2012· 3 entries
Thompson wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit as an addition to the Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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Thompson made a rare appearance in a big-budget Hollywood film when she played the head Agent in Men in Black 3 – a continuation of the sci-fi comedy franchise starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin
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Thompson played Queen Elizabeth II in an episode of Playhouse Presents, which dramatised an incident in 1982 when an intruder broke into the Queen's bedroom
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2009· 2 entries
They met at a Refugee Council event when he was sixteen, and Thompson invited him to spend Christmas at their home. "Slowly," Thompson has commented, "he became a sort of permanent fixture, came on holiday to Scotland with us, became part of the family." Agaba became a British citizen in 2009.
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In recognition of "her work to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa"
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2008· 3 entries
Journalist Sarah Sands stated that Thompson has improved with age and experience, and Mark Kermode said of her performances, "There is something about her which is — you just trust her
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Thompson announced that she and Wise "had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we want to make into a film
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Called it Thompson's finest work
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2005· 1 entry
“had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we want to make into a film.”
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2004· 1 entry
Played the eccentric Divination teacher Sybill Trelawney in the third Harry Potter film, Prisoner of Azkaban, her character described as a "hippy chick professor who teaches fortune-telling"
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2003· 4 entries
Thompson and Wise informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier
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To consider the role of Elizabeth Eastlake in a proposed film of his play, and to Thompson's husband Greg Wise through a casting director to consider the role of John Ruskin in the play's 2005 West End production
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Also in 2003, Thompson and Wise informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier.
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Thompson and Wise married in Dunoon, Scotland, in 2003.
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1999· 1 entry
Thompson made a conscious decision to reduce her workload, and in the following years many of her appearances were in supporting roles
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Ellen (1998).
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1996).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1996).
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But returned the following year with Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sense and Sensibility (1995).
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Began a relationship with her co-star Greg Wise
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Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995 and divorced in 1997.
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1994· 1 entry
Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Junior
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1993· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for Howards End (1993).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Howards End (1993).
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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, be
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Howards End (1992).
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Thompson had a guest role in an episode of Cheers as Frasier Crane's first wife
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1991· 1 entry
Playing a "frivolous aristocrat" in Impromptu with Judy Davis and Hugh Grant
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1989· 2 entries
And appeared in several films together, with Branagh often casting her in his productions
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And Branagh—with whom she had formed a romantic relationship—starred in a stage revival of Look Back in Anger, directed by Judi Dench and produced by Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company
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1987· 3 entries
Came to prominence 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
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When she had leading roles in two television miniseries: Fortunes of War, a World War II drama costarring Kenneth Branagh, and Tutti Frutti, a dark comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane
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While filming the television series Fortunes of War
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1985· 2 entries
Thompson was cast in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, co-starring Robert Lindsay
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Starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career
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1982· 1 entry
Touring in a stage version of Not the Nine O'Clock News
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1980· 1 entry
Thompson served as the Vice President of Footlights, and co-directed the troupe's first all-female revue, Woman's Hour
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-04-15.
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