Emma Thompson
Acting
Born: April 15, 1959 (age 67) · Paddington, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 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.
Known for
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
I Am Legend
2007
Beauty and the Beast
2017
Brave
2012
Men in Black 3
2012
Cruella
2021
Love Actually
2003
Men in Black: International
2019
Treasure Planet
2002
Dolittle
2020
Photos (16)
Movies (78)
The Sheep Detectives
Lydia Harbottle
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Sybill Trelawney
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sybill Trelawney
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sybill Trelawney
Beauty and the Beast
Mrs. Potts
Cruella
The Baroness
Brave
Elinor (voice)
I Am Legend
Dr. Alice Krippin
Men in Black: International
Agent O
Treasure Planet
Captain Amelia (voice)
Love Actually
Karen
Sense and Sensibility
Elinor Dashwood
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Nancy Stokes
Johnny English Strikes Again
Prime Minister
Men in Black 3
Agent O
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
Dolittle
Poly (voice)
In the Name of the Father
Gareth Peirce
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Dr Rawlings
Burnt
Dr. Rosshilde
Stranger Than Fiction
Karen Eiffel
The Remains of the Day
Miss Kenton
Beautiful Creatures
Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
Missing Link
Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
Dead of Winter
Barb
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Agatha Trunchbull
Last Christmas
Petra Andrich
Saving Mr. Banks
P.L. Travers
Bridget Jones's Baby
Dr Rawlings
Junior
Dr. Diana Reddin
Men, Women & Children
Narrator (voice)
Much Ado About Nothing
Beatrice
Howards End
Margaret Schlegel
King Lear
Goneril
Brideshead Revisited
Lady Marchmain
The Boat That Rocked
Charlotte
Dead Again
Grace / Margaret Strauss
Late Night
Katherine Newbury
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Maureen Meyerowitz
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Cath Stevenson
Last Chance Harvey
Kate Walker
My Father the Hero
Isabel (uncredited)
An Education
Headmistress
The Children Act
Fiona Maye
Primary Colors
Susan Stanton
The Legend of Barney Thomson
Cemolina
Imagining Argentina
Cecilia Rueda
Wit
Vivian Bearing
Alone in Berlin
Anna Quangel
A Walk in the Woods
Catherine Bryson
Effie Gray
Lady Eastlake
Impromptu
Duchess D'Antan
Judas Kiss
FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
Henry V
Katherine
How to Build a Girl
Amanda
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Van Guy
The Love Punch
Kate
The Tall Guy
Kate
Peter's Friends
Maggie Chester
The Winter Guest
Frances
Maybe Baby
Druscilla
Tin Fish
1990
The Blue Boy
Marie Bonnar
The Song of Lunch
She
The Cellar Tapes
various
Carrington
Dora Carrington
Colleagues From Hell
1989
Hospital!
Elephant Woman
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
Narrator (voice)
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
Narrator (voice)
Look Back in Anger
Alison Porter
Walking the Dogs
The Queen
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
Elle-Même
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
Extinction
2019
Slags
Young Woman
To the Ends of the Earth
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (20)
The Simpsons
1 eps
Cheers
Nanny Gee · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 eps
Ellen
Emma Thompson · 1 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 eps
Screen Two
Marie · 1 eps
Playhouse Presents
The Queen · 1 eps
The Young Ones
Miss Money-Sterling · 1 eps
Down Cemetery Road
Zoë Boehm · 8 eps
The Comic Strip Presents...
Young Woman · 1 eps
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Lady Marcham · 1 eps
Fortunes of War
Harriet Pringle · 7 eps
Angels in America
Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel · 5 eps
Years and Years
Vivienne Rook · 6 eps
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
1 eps
Alfresco
Various · 13 eps
Tutti Frutti
Suzi Kettles · 6 eps
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Various · 3 eps
The Crystal Cube
Jackie Meld / Various Roles · 1 eps
Self / Appearances (44)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 6 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self - Guest · 2 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Leute heute
Self · 1 eps
QI
Self · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 3 eps
GMTV
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Timeshift
self · 1 eps
Sucré salé
Self · 1 eps
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
Junket Whore
Self
Merchant Ivory
Self
Fry and Laurie Reunited
Self
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic
Self / Mrs. Lovett
An Audience with Adele
Self
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
The Real Mary Poppins
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
Sea Sorrow
Self
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Self
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
Self
Hollywood's Dark Secret
Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
Writing (11)
Sense and Sensibility
Screenplay
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Screenplay
Nanny McPhee
Screenplay
Last Christmas
Screenplay
Bridget Jones's Baby
Screenplay
Wit
Writer
Wit
Teleplay
Effie Gray
Screenplay
Alfresco
Writer
There's Nothing to Worry About!
Writer
The Cellar Tapes
Writer
Producing (8)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Executive Producer
Down Cemetery Road
Executive Producer
Dead of Winter
Executive Producer
Last Christmas
Producer
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Executive Producer
Mediha
Executive Producer
Ponyboi
Co-Producer
Sold
Executive Producer
