Emily Watson 1967 58
Emily Watson 1967 58
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) 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. She 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 Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998).
Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024).
She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.
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2025 Hamnet as Mary Shakespeare
2025 Midday Sun as Sarah
2025 Late in Summer
2025 33 Liberty Lane
2025 Fado!
2025 The Legend of Ochi as Dasha
2024 Dune: Prophecy as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
2024 Small Things Like These as Sister Mary
2024 Midas Man as Queenie Epstein
2022 God's Creatures as Aileen O'Hara
2021 Monster Family 2 as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2019 Chernobyl as Ulana Khomyuk
2018 King Lear as Regan
2018 The Happy Prince as Constance Wilde
2018 Weinstein as Narrator (voice)
2018 On Chesil Beach as Violet Ponting
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Chief of Staff Fox
2017 Monster Family as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2015 The Dresser as Her Ladyship
2015 Everest as Helen Wilton
2015 A Song for Jenny as Julie Nicholson
2015 A Royal Night Out as Queen Elizabeth
2015 Little Boy as Emma Busbee
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Trinklebury
2015 Testament of Youth as Mrs. Brittain
2014 The Theory of Everything as Beryl Wilde
2013 The Book Thief as Rosa Hubermann
2013 Some Girl(s) as Lindsay
2013 Belle as Lady Mansfield
2012 Anna Karenina as Countess Lydia Ivanova
2011 War Horse as Rose Narracott
2011 Meerkats 3D as Narrator
2010 Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys
2010 Cemetery Junction as Mrs. Kendrick
2009 Within the Whirlwind as Evgenia Ginzburg
2009 Cold Souls as Claire
2008 Synecdoche, New York as Tammy
2008 Fireflies in the Garden as Jane Lawrence
2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter as Caroline Gil
2007 The Water Horse as Anne MacMorrow
2006 Miss Potter as Millie Warne
2006 Crusade in Jeans as Mary Vega
2005 The Proposition as Martha Stanley
2005 Separate Lies as Anne Manning
2005 Corpse Bride as Victoria Everglot (voice)
2005 Wah-Wah as Ruby Compton
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Anne Sellers
2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
2002 Equilibrium as Mary O'Brien
2002 Ballchewer
2002 Punch-Drunk Love as Lena Leonard
2002 Red Dragon as Reba McClane
2002 The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
2001 Gosford Park as Elsie
2000 The Luzhin Defence as Natalia Katkov
2000 Trixie as Trixie Zurbo
1999 Angela's Ashes as Angela McCourt
1999 Cradle Will Rock as Olive Stanton
1998 Hilary and Jackie as Jackie Du Pré
1997 The Boxer as Maggie Hamill
1997 Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997 The Mill on the Floss as Maggie Tulliver
1997 Metroland as Marion
1996 Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill
1994 A Summer Day's Dream
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