Emma Thompson
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1959-04-15
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Emma Thompson
Biography
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.
Also Known For
Love Actually
Sep 07, 2003
The Remains of the Day
Nov 05, 1993
Stranger Than Fiction
Sep 09, 2006
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
May 31, 2004
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Jul 08, 2007
Henry V
Oct 05, 1989
Sense and Sensibility
Dec 13, 1995
I Am Legend
Dec 12, 2007
Nanny McPhee
Oct 21, 2005
The Tall Guy
Feb 01, 1989
Peter's Friends
Sep 18, 1992
In the Name of the Father
Dec 12, 1993
Junior
Nov 22, 1994
Dead Again
Aug 23, 1991
An Education
Oct 29, 2009
Much Ado About Nothing
May 07, 1993
Howards End
Mar 13, 1992
Treasure Planet
Nov 26, 2002
Primary Colors
Mar 20, 1998
Brideshead Revisited
Jul 25, 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Jul 12, 2011
Wit
Feb 09, 2001
Imagining Argentina
Sep 13, 2003
The Winter Guest
Dec 27, 1997
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Mar 26, 2010
Men in Black 3
May 23, 2012
An Audience with Adele
Nov 21, 2021
The Real Mary Poppins
Jan 17, 2014
Judas Kiss
Sep 16, 1998
Brave
Jun 21, 2012
Last Chance Harvey
Dec 25, 2008
Carrington
May 25, 1995
The Boat That Rocked
Apr 01, 2009
The Song of Lunch
Oct 08, 2010
How to Stop a Nuclear War
Saving Mr. Banks
Nov 29, 2013
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
Aug 13, 2018
Beautiful Creatures
Feb 13, 2013
Merchant Ivory
Aug 30, 2024
Effie Gray
Mar 08, 2014
The Cellar Tapes
May 20, 1982
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
Dec 01, 2015
The Love Punch
Jan 13, 2014
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Mar 26, 2021
Look Back in Anger
Dec 28, 1989
Men, Women & Children
Oct 17, 2014
Hollywood's Dark Secret
Jul 09, 2019
A Walk in the Woods
Sep 02, 2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Jul 24, 2015
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Oct 30, 2005
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Aug 08, 2022
Slags
Feb 11, 1984
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sep 26, 2014
Walking the Dogs
May 31, 2012
My Father the Hero
Feb 04, 1994
The Dead of Winter
Aug 08, 2025
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Aug 11, 2007
Alone in Berlin
Feb 15, 2016
Beauty and the Beast
Mar 16, 2017
Burnt
Oct 02, 2015
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Nov 11, 2011
Extinction
Sep 01, 2019
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Nov 29, 2022
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
The Blue Boy
Jul 02, 1994
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Feb 12, 2025
Impromptu
Apr 12, 1991
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
Nov 13, 2026
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Oct 13, 2017
Junket Whore
Oct 12, 1998
Bridget Jones's Baby
Sep 14, 2016
The Winslow Boy
Apr 30, 1989
Hoodwinked!
Dec 16, 2005
To the Ends of the Earth
Oct 29, 2016
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Oct 22, 2001
Hospital!
Mar 30, 1997
Maybe Baby
Jun 02, 2000
Sea Sorrow
Nov 08, 2017
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Nov 24, 2010
The Children Act
Aug 01, 2018
King Lear
May 28, 2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
Sep 13, 2018
Late Night
Jan 25, 2019
Missing Link
Apr 04, 2019
Last Christmas
Nov 07, 2019
How to Build a Girl
Sep 24, 2020
Men in Black: International
Jun 12, 2019
Cruella
May 26, 2021
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Aug 21, 2018
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Nov 20, 2016
Dolittle
Jan 02, 2020
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Jun 16, 2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Nov 25, 2022
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Jan 01, 2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Jan 01, 2001
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Jan 26, 2023
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
Sep 14, 1991
The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20
Nov 27, 2024
Hear Me Roar
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
Oct 31, 2016
Twelve Nights
Dec 02, 2021
Tin Fish
Apr 24, 1990
Alfresco
May 01, 1983
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Tony Danza Show
Sep 13, 2004
QI
Sep 11, 2003
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Nov 02, 2001
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
E! True Hollywood Story
Aug 21, 1996
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Young Ones
Nov 09, 1982
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Angels in America
Dec 07, 2003
Tutti Frutti
Mar 03, 1987
Fortunes of War
Oct 11, 1987
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Oct 06, 1982
Thompson
Nov 10, 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
The Val Doonican Music Show
Apr 09, 1977
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
Funny Valentines
Feb 13, 2015
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Apr 12, 2022
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Oct 01, 1962
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Years and Years
May 14, 2019
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Sucré salé
Jun 03, 2002
Down Cemetery Road
The Comic Strip Presents...
Nov 02, 1982
Cheers
Sep 30, 1982
Ellen
Mar 29, 1994
The Crystal Cube
Jul 07, 1983
Timeshift
Oct 10, 2002
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
