Emma Thompson 1959 66
Emma Thompson 1959 66
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.
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2026 Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2025 Dead of Winter Executive Producer
2025 James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty as Self
2025 Cruella 2
2025 How to Stop a Nuclear War as Narrator
2025 Hear Me Roar as Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
2025 Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Dr. Rawlings
2024 The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20 as Self
2024 Mediha Executive Producer
2024 Merchant Ivory as Self
2023 What's Love Got to Do with It? as Cath
2022 The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special as Self
2022 Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical as Agatha Trunchbull
2022 The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
2022 Good Luck to You, Leo Grande as Nancy Stokes
2021 An Audience with Adele as Self
2021 Cruella as The Baroness
2021 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2020 How to Build a Girl as Amanda
2020 Dolittle as Poly (voice)
2019 Last Christmas as Petra Andrich Screenplay, Producer
2019 Extinction
2019 Hollywood's Dark Secret as Self
2019 Men in Black: International as Agent O
2019 Missing Link as Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
2019 Ponyboi Co-Producer
2019 Late Night as Katherine Newbury
2018 Johnny English Strikes Again as Prime Minister
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2018 Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom as Narrator (voice)
2018 The Children Act as Fiona Maye
2018 King Lear as Goneril
2017 Sea Sorrow as Self
2017 The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Maureen Meyerowitz
2017 Beauty and the Beast as Mrs. Potts
2016 Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson as Elle-Même
2016 The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science as Narrator (voice)
2016 To the Ends of the Earth as Narrator (voice)
2016 Bridget Jones's Baby as Dr Rawlings Screenplay
2016 Sold Executive Producer
2016 Alone in Berlin as Anna Quangel
2015 Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity as Narrator (voice)
2015 Burnt as Dr. Rosshilde
2015 A Walk in the Woods as Catherine Bryson
2015 The Legend of Barney Thomson as Cemolina
2014 Men, Women & Children as Narrator (voice)
2014 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett
2014 Effie Gray as Lady Eastlake Screenplay
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2014 The Real Mary Poppins as Self
2014 The Love Punch as Kate Jones
2013 Saving Mr. Banks as P.L. Travers
2013 Beautiful Creatures as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
2012 Brave as Elinor (voice)
2012 Walking the Dogs as The Queen
2012 Men in Black 3 as Agent O
2011 When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Sybill Trelawney
2010 Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
2010 The Song of Lunch as She
2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Nanny McPhee Screenplay, Executive Producer
2009 An Education as Headmistress
2009 The Boat That Rocked as Charlotte
2008 Last Chance Harvey as Kate Walker
2008 Brideshead Revisited as Lady Marchmain
2007 I Am Legend as Dr. Alice Krippin
2007 Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out as Self
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Sybill Trelawney
2006 Stranger Than Fiction as Karen Eiffel
2005 Hoodwinked! as Lesa (voice) (uncredited)
2005 A Tribute To Ismail Merchant as Self (archive footage)
2005 Nanny McPhee as Nanny McPhee Screenplay
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Sybill Trelawney
2003 Imagining Argentina as Cecilia Rueda
2003 Love Actually as Karen
2002 Treasure Planet as Captain Amelia (voice)
2001 Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' as Self
2001 Wit as Vivian Bearing Writer, Teleplay
2001 Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw as Self
2001 The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey as Self
2000 Maybe Baby as Druscilla
1998 Junket Whore as Self
1998 Eight Thanks
1998 Judas Kiss as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
1998 Primary Colors as Susan Stanton
1997 The Winter Guest as Frances
1997 Hospital! as Elephant Woman
1995 Sense and Sensibility as Elinor Dashwood Screenplay
1995 Carrington as Dora Carrington
1994 Junior as Dr. Diana Reddin
1994 The Blue Boy as Marie Bonnar
1994 My Father the Hero as Isabel (uncredited)
1993 In the Name of the Father as Gareth Peirce
1993 The Remains of the Day as Miss Kenton
1993 Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
1992 Peter's Friends as Maggie Chester
1992 Howards End as Margaret Schlegel
1991 Rabbit Ears - The White Cat as Narrator (voice)
1991 Dead Again as Margaret Strauss / Grace
1991 Impromptu as Duchess D'Antan
1989 Look Back in Anger as Alison Porter
1989 Henry V as Katherine
1989 The Winslow Boy as Catherine Winslow
1989 The Tall Guy as Kate
1984 Slags as Young Woman
1982 The Cellar Tapes as various Writer