Kristin Scott Thomas
Acting
Born: May 24, 1960 (age 66) · Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986).
Known for
Mission: Impossible
1996
Tomb Raider
2018
Darkest Hour
2017
The Golden Compass
2007
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
Only God Forgives
2013
The English Patient
1996
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
Fleabag
2016
Tell No One
2006
Gosford Park
2001
Photos (8)
Movies (80)
Mission: Impossible
Sarah Davies
Tomb Raider
Ana Miller
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fiona
The Golden Compass
Stelmania (voice)
Darkest Hour
Clemmie
The English Patient
Katharine Clifton
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Alette Naylor
Bitter Moon
Fiona
The Other Boleyn Girl
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
The Horse Whisperer
Annie MacLean
Gosford Park
Sylvia McCordle
In the House
Jeanne
My Mother's Wedding
Diana
Keeping Mum
Gloria Goodfellow
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Ann Ferguson
Only God Forgives
Crystal
Bel Ami
Virginie Walters
Life as a House
Robin Kimball
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Patricia Maxwell
Random Hearts
Kay Chandler
Tell No One
Helene Perkins
Suite Française
Madame Angellier
2 Alone in Paris
L'antiquaire
Nowhere Boy
Mimi Smith
Military Wives
Kate
Sarah's Key
Julia Jarmond
Arsène Lupin
Joséphine
The Valet
Christine Levasseur
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers
The Invisible Woman
Catherine Ternan
Leaving
Suzanne
Easy Virtue
Mrs. Whittaker
In Your Hands
Anna
Richard III
Lady Anne
A Handful of Dust
Brenda Last
My Old Lady
Chloé Girard
The Tenth Man
Therese Mangeot
In Her Hands
The Countess
The Party
Janet
Up at the Villa
Mary Panton
Man to Man
Elena Van Den Ende
The Walker
Lynn Lockner
Before the Winter Chill
Lucie
Boucherie fine
Cashier 3
Agent trouble
Julie
I've Loved You So Long
Juliette
Chromophobia
Iona Aylesbury
Two Tickets to Greece
Bijou
The Revengers' Comedies
Imogen Staxton-Billing
The Woman in the Fifth
Margit
Angels and Insects
Matty Crompton
Under the Cherry Moon
Mary Sharon
Souvenir
Ann
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Fiona
Love Crime
Christine Rivière
Les Milles
Mary-Jane Cooper
Looking for Hortense
Iva
Final Set
Judith Edison
The Bachelor
Sabine Schleheim
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Katia
Play
1st Woman
Framed
Kate
The Endless Game
Caroline
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Leda St Gabriel
Weep No More, My Lady
Elisabeth
The Confessional
Assistant to Hitchcock
The Pompatus of Love
Caroline
Headstrong
Clara
Small Cuts
Béatrice
Three Sisters
Masha
An Unforgettable Summer
Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Mayday
Martine
The Monkey Prince
Narrator
Lounge Chair
Marie
In the Eyes of the World
L'institutrice
The Governor's Party
Marie Forestier
Love & Confusions
Sarah
Valentino! I love you
1991
Charly
Marie
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Eleanor
TV Shows (13)
Slow Horses
Diana Taverner · 36 eps
American Playhouse
Matty Crompton · 1 eps
Natural World
1 eps
Absolutely Fabulous
Plum Berkeley · 1 eps
Fleabag
Belinda · 1 eps
Mistral's Daughter
Nancy · 8 eps
Gulliver's Travels
Immortal Gatekeeper · 2 eps
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Celia · 1 eps
Body & Soul
Sister Gabriel / Anna · 6 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Therese · 1 eps
The Endless Game
Caroline · 2 eps
D-Day Sacrifice
Kay Summersby (voice) · 2 eps
Titmuss Regained
Jenny · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (17)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Top Gear
Self · 1 eps
Vivement dimanche
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - President · 1 eps
The Directors
Self · 1 eps
Elle Style Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
My Grandparents' War
Self · 1 eps
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Self
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
Self / Narrator (voice)
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
Self
The Making of Gosford Park
Self
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Self (archive footage)
