Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She has received several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and four British Academy Film Awards. Forbes ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020.
Blunt made her acting debut in the 2001 drama production of The Royal Family and portrayed Catherine Howard in the television miniseries Henry VIII (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria (2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper(2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and the musical Into the Woods (2014).
Blunt received critical acclaim for playing an idealistic FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and a survivalist mother in her husband John Krasinski's horror film A Quiet Place (2018), for which she won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequels Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021), the fantasy adventure Jungle Cruise (2021), and the revisionist Western television miniseries The English (2022). Her portrayal of Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller film Oppenheimer (2023) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Blunt has been working with the American Institute for Stuttering since 2006 to help children overcome stuttering through educational resources and raise awareness of the realities of the condition. She is on the institute's board of directors and hosts a gala to raise funds for speech therapy scholarships for children and adults.
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Primarily2026 The Dish
2025 The Smashing Machine as Dawn Staples
2025 Untitled Hawaiian Gangster Project Producer
2025 Kate Warne as Kate Warne Producer
2025 Not Fade Away as Rebecca Alexander
2024 The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20 as Self
2024 IF as Unicorn (voice)
2024 The Fall Guy as Jody Moreno
2023 Pain Hustlers as Liza Drake Executive Producer
2023 Oppenheimer as Kitty Oppenheimer
2023 Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer as Self - Kitty Oppenheimer
2021 Jungle Cruise as Dr. Lily Houghton
2021 A Quiet Place Part II as Evelyn Abbott
2021 Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown as Queen Victoria (archive footage)
2020 Wild Mountain Thyme as Rosemary
2020 Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music as Self
2020 David Blaine: The Magic Way as Self
2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins
2018 Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic as Self
2018 A Quiet Place as Evelyn Abbott
2018 Sherlock Gnomes as Juliet (voice)
2017 My Little Pony: The Movie as Tempest Shadow / Fizzlepop Berrytwist (voice)
2017 Animal Crackers as Zoe Huntington (voice)
2016 The Girl on the Train as Rachel Watson
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War as Freya
2015 Sicario as Kate Macer
2014 Into the Woods as Baker's Wife
2014 Edge of Tomorrow as Sgt. Rita Vrataski
2013 Mistaken for Strangers as Self (uncredited)
2013 Don Jon Thanks
2012 Looper as Sara
2012 Arthur Newman as Mike Fitzgerald
2012 The Five-Year Engagement as Violet Barnes
2012 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen as Harriet Chetwode-Talbot
2011 The Muppets as Miss Piggy's Receptionist
2011 Your Sister's Sister as Iris Creative Consultant
2011 The Adjustment Bureau as Elise Sellas
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet as Juliet (voice)
2010 Gulliver's Travels as Princess Mary
2010 Wild Target as Rose
2010 The Wolfman as Gwen Conliffe
2009 Curiosity as Emma
2009 The Young Victoria as Queen Victoria
2008 The Great Buck Howard as Valerie Brennan
2008 Sunshine Cleaning as Norah Lorkowski
2007 Charlie Wilson's War as Jane Liddle
2007 Dan in Real Life as Ruthie Draper
2007 The Jane Austen Book Club as Prudie
2007 Wind Chill as Girl
2006 The Devil Wears Prada as Emily
2006 Irresistible as Mara
2005 Gideon's Daughter as Natasha
2005 The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Jean Leckie
2005 My Summer of Love as Tamsin
2003 Boudica as Isolda