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Emma Thompson

January 13, 2023

For the Australian cricketer, see Emma Thompson (cricketer).

Dame Emma Thompson DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress. Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation, she has received numerous accolades throughout her four-decade-long career, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globes, a British Academy Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Dame

Emma Thompson

DBE
Thompson in 2022
Born (1959-04-15) 15 April 1959 (age 63)
London, England
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Actress
  • screenwriter
  • activist
  • author
Years active1982–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
Children2
Parents
RelativesSophie Thompson (sister)
AwardsFull list
Emma Thompson's voice
from the BBC programme The Film Programme, 28 November 2013.[1]

Born in London 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 came to prominence for her performances in two BBC TV 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).

For her performance in Howards End (1992), Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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—which makes her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA. Further acclaim came for her portrayal of author P. L. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks (2013).

Other notable film credits include Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), the Harry Potter series (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Late Night (2019), Cruella (2021), Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), and playing Miss Trunchbull in 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). Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children's books.

Early life and education

Thompson was born in London[2] on 15 April 1959.[3] Her mother is Scottish actress Phyllida Law, while her English father, Eric Thompson, was involved in theatre and was the writer–narrator of the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout.[4][5] Her godfather was the director and writer Ronald Eyre.[6][7] She has one sister, Sophie Thompson, who also works as an actress.[4] The family lived in the West Hampstead district of London,[5] and Thompson was educated at Camden School for Girls.[8] She spent much time in Scotland during her childhood and often visited Ardentinny, where her grandparents and uncle lived.[9]

 
ADC Theatre, University of Cambridge, where Thompson began performing with Footlights

In her youth, Thompson was intrigued by language and literature, a trait she attributes to her father, who shared her love of words.[10] After successfully taking A levels in English, French and Latin,[11] and securing a scholarship,[12] she began studying for an English degree at Newnham College, Cambridge,[13] arriving in 1977. Thompson believes that it was inevitable she would become an actor, remarking that she was "surrounded by creative people and I don't think it would ever have gone any other way, really".[14] While there, she had a "seminal moment" that turned her to feminism and inspired her to take up performing. She explained in a 2007 interview how she discovered the book The Madwoman in the Attic, "which is about Victorian female writers and the disguises they took on in order to express what they wanted to express. That completely changed my life."[15] She became a self-professed "punk rocker",[16] with short red hair and a motorbike, and aspired to be a comedian like Lily Tomlin.[15]

At Cambridge, Thompson was invited into the Cambridge Footlights, the university's prestigious sketch comedy troupe, by its president, Martin Bergman,[17] becoming its first female member.[18] Also in the troupe were fellow actors Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and she had a romantic relationship with the latter.[19] Fry recalled that "there was no doubt that Emma was going the distance. Our nickname for her was Emma Talented."[20] In 1980, Thompson served as the Vice President of Footlights,[21] and co-directed the troupe's first all-female revue, Woman's Hour.[17] The following year, she and her Footlights team won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their sketch show The Cellar Tapes.[22] She graduated with upper second-class honours.[23]

Thompson's father died in 1982, aged 52.[4] She has stated that this "tore [the family] to pieces",[24] and "I can't begin to tell you how much I regret his not being around".[25] She added, "At the same time, it's possible that were he still alive I might never have had the space or courage to do what I've done ... I have a definite feeling of inheriting space. And power."[25]

Career

See also: Emma Thompson on screen and stage and List of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson

Early work and breakthrough (1982–1989)

Thompson had her first professional role in 1982, touring in a stage version of Not the Nine O'Clock News.[3] She then turned to television, where much of her early work came with her Footlights co-stars Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The regional ITV comedy series There's Nothing To Worry About! (1982) was their first outing, followed by the one-off BBC show The Crystal Cube (1983).[26] There's Nothing to Worry About! later returned as the networked sketch show Alfresco (1983–84), which ran for two series with Thompson, Fry, Laurie, Ben Elton, and Robbie Coltrane.[3][26] She later collaborated again with Fry and Laurie on the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series Saturday Night Fry (1988).

 
Kenneth Branagh, Thompson's first husband, with whom she collaborated early on in her career

In 1985, Thompson was cast in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, co-starring Robert Lindsay. It provided a breakthrough in her career, as the production earned rave reviews.[3][27] She played the role of Sally Smith for 15 months, which exhausted her: she later remarked "I thought if I did the fucking "Lambeth Walk" one more time I was going to fucking throw up."[20] At the end of 1985, she wrote and starred in her own one-off special for Channel 4, Emma Thompson: Up for Grabs.[28]

Thompson achieved another breakthrough in 1987,[3] when she had leading roles in two television miniseries: Fortunes of War, a World War II drama costarring Kenneth Branagh, and Tutti Frutti, a dark comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane.[27] For these performances, Thompson won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.[29] The following year, she wrote and starred in her own sketch comedy series for BBC, Thompson, but this was poorly received.[30] In 1989, she and Branagh—with whom she had formed a romantic relationship—starred in a stage revival of Look Back in Anger, directed by Judi Dench and produced by Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company.[27][31] Later that year, the pair starred in a televised version of the play.[3][31]

Thompson's first cinema appearance came in the romantic comedy The Tall Guy (1989), the feature-film debut from screenwriter Richard Curtis.[27] It starred Jeff Goldblum as a West End actor, and Thompson played the nurse with whom he falls in love. The film was not widely seen,[32] but Thompson's performance was praised in The New York Times, where Caryn James called her "an exceptionally versatile comic actress".[33] She next turned to Shakespeare, appearing as Princess Katherine in Branagh's screen adaptation of Henry V (1989). The film was released to great critical acclaim.[34]

Howards End and worldwide recognition (1990–1993)

Thompson and Branagh are considered by American writer and critic James Monaco to have led the "British cinematic onslaught" in the 1990s.[35] She continued to experiment with Shakespeare in the new decade, appearing with Branagh in his stage productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear.[27][31] Reviewing the latter, the Chicago Tribune praised her "extraordinary" performance of the "hobbling, stooped hunchback Fool".[36] Thompson returned to cinema in 1991, playing a "frivolous aristocrat"[3] in Impromptu with Judy Davis and Hugh Grant.[37] and Thompson was nominated for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards.[38] Her second release of 1991 was another pairing with Branagh, who also directed, in the Los Angeles-based noir Dead Again. She played a woman who has forgotten her identity.[39] Early in 1992, Thompson had a guest role in an episode of Cheers as Frasier Crane's first wife.[40]

 
Anthony Hopkins starred with Thompson in Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993)

A turning point in Thompson's career[27] came when she was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), based on the novel by E. M. Forster. The film explored the social class system in Edwardian England, with Thompson playing an idealistic, intellectual, forward-looking woman who comes into association with a privileged and deeply conservative family. She actively pursued the role by writing to director James Ivory, who agreed to an audition and then gave her the part.[41] According to the critic Vincent Canby, the film allowed Thompson to "[come] into her own", away from Branagh.[42] Upon release, Roger Ebert wrote that she was "superb in the central role: quiet, ironic, observant, with steel inside".[43] Howards End was widely praised,[44] a "surprise hit",[45] and received nine Academy Award nominations.[46] Among its three wins was the Best Actress trophy for Thompson, who was also awarded a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance.[3] Reflecting on the role, The New York Times wrote that the actress "found herself an international success almost overnight".[3]

For her next two films, Thompson returned to working with Branagh. In Peter's Friends (1992), the pair starred with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, and Tony Slattery as a group of Cambridge alumni who are reunited ten years after graduating. The comedy was positively reviewed,[47] and Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote that Thompson was its highlight: "Even as a rather one-dimensional character, she exudes grace and an adroit sense of comic tragedy."[48] She followed this with Branagh's screen version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993). The couple starred as Beatrice and Benedick, alongside a cast that also included Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, and Michael Keaton. Thompson was widely praised for the on-screen chemistry with Branagh and the natural ease with which she played the role,[49][50] marking another critical success for Thompson.[51] Her performance earned a nomination for Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards.[38]

Thompson reunited with Merchant–Ivory and Anthony Hopkins to film The Remains of the Day (1993), a film which has been described as a "classic" and the production team's definitive film.[52][53] Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about a housekeeper and butler in interwar Britain, the story is acclaimed for its study of loneliness and repression, though Thompson was particularly interested in looking at "the deformity that servitude inflicts upon people", since her grandmother had worked as a servant and made many sacrifices.[54] She has named the film as one of the greatest experiences of her career, considering it to be a "masterpiece of withheld emotion".[55] The Remains of the Day was a critical and commercial success,[52] receiving eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and a second Best Actress nomination for Thompson.[56]

Along with her Best Actress nomination at the 66th Academy Awards, Thompson was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, making her the eighth performer in history to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year.[57] It came for her role as the lawyer Gareth Peirce in In the Name of the Father (1993), a drama about the Guildford Four starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The film was her second hit of the year, earning $65 million and critical praise, and was nominated for Best Picture along with The Remains of the Day.[58][59]

Sense and Sensibility and established actress (1994–1999)

In 1994, Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the blockbuster Junior. Although the male pregnancy storyline was poorly received by most critics and flopped at the box office,[60] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the lead trio.[61] She returned to independent cinema for a lead role in Carrington, which studied the platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey (played by Jonathan Pryce). Roger Ebert remarked that Thompson had "developed a specialty in unrequited love",[62] and the TV Guide Film & Video Companion commented that her "neurasthenic mannerisms, which usually drive us batty, are appropriate here".[63]

 
Efford House in Holbeton which stood in for Barton Cottage in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Thompson's Academy success continued with Sense and Sensibility (1995), generally considered to be the most popular and authentic of the numerous film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels made in the 1990s.[64][65][66] Thompson—a lifelong lover of Austen's work—was hired to write the film based on the period sketches in her series Thompson.[67] She spent five years developing the screenplay,[68] and took the role of the spinster sister Elinor Dashwood despite, aged 35, being 16 years older than the literary character.[69] Directed by Ang Lee and co-starring Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility received widespread critical acclaim and ranks among the highest-grossing films of Thompson's career.[70][71] Shelly Frome remarked that she displayed a "great affinity for Jane Austen's style and wit",[72] and Graham Fuller of Sight and Sound saw her as the film's auteur.[73] Thompson received a third nomination for Best Actress and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting.[74] She also earned a second BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.[3]

Thompson was absent from screens in 1996, but returned the following year with Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest. Set over one day in a Scottish seaside village, the drama allowed Thompson and her mother (Phyllida Law) to play mother and daughter on screen.[75] She then returned to America to appear in an episode of Ellen, and her self-parodying performance received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.[27][76]

For her second Hollywood role, Thompson starred with John Travolta in Mike Nichols's Primary Colors (1998), playing a couple based on Bill and Hillary Clinton.[77] Thompson's character, Susan, is described as that of an "ambitious, long-suffering wife" who has to deal with her husband's infidelity.[78] The film was critically well received but lost money at the box office.[79][80] According to Kevin O'Sullivan of the Daily Mirror, Americans were "blown away" by her performance and accent, and top Hollywood producers became increasingly interested in casting her.[81] Thompson rejected many of the offers, expressing concerns about living in Los Angeles behind walls with bodyguards, and stated "LA is lovely as long as you know you can leave". She also admitted to feeling tired and jaded with the industry at this point, which influenced her decision to leave film for a year.[82] Thompson followed Primary Colors by playing an FBI agent opposite Rickman in the poorly received thriller Judas Kiss (1998).[83]

Continued screen work and further acclaim (2000–2011)

When she became a mother in 1999, Thompson made a conscious decision to reduce her workload, and in the following years many of her appearances were supporting roles.[54][84] She was not seen on screen again until 2000, with only a small part in the British comedy Maybe Baby, which she appeared in as a favour to its director, her friend Ben Elton.[85]

For the HBO television film Wit (2001), however, Thompson happily took the lead role in what she felt was "one of the best scripts to have come out of America".[86] Adapted from Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, it focuses on a self-sufficient Harvard University professor who finds her values challenged when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Thompson was instrumental in bringing Mike Nichols to direct the project, and the pair spent months in rehearsal to get the complex character right.[87] She was greatly drawn to the "daredevil" role,[88] for which she had no qualms about shaving her head.[89] Reviewing the performance, Roger Ebert was touched by "the way she struggles with every ounce of her humanity to keep her self-respect", and in 2008 he called it Thompson's finest work.[90] Caryn James of The New York Times also described it as "one of her most brilliant performances", adding "we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body."[91] The film earned Thompson nominations at the Golden Globes, Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Thompson's only credit of 2002 was a voice role in Disney's Treasure Planet, an adaptation of Treasure Island, where she voiced Captain Amelia. The animation earned far less than its large budget and was considered a "box office disaster".[92] This failure was countered the following year by one of Thompson's biggest commercial successes, Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Love Actually.[71] As part of an ensemble cast that included Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, and Colin Firth, she played a middle-class wife who suspects her husband (played by Alan Rickman) of infidelity. The scene in which her stalwart character breaks down was described by one critic as "the best crying on screen ever",[54] and in 2013, Thompson mentioned that she gets commended for this role more than any other.[93] She explained, "I've had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer."[94] Her performance received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[95]

 
Thompson at the premiere of Nanny McPhee in 2005

Thompson continued with supporting roles in the 2003 drama Imagining Argentina, where she played a dissident-journalist abducted by the country's 1970s dictatorial regime. Antonio Banderas played the husband who tries to find her, in a film that most critics disliked.[96] The film was booed and jeered at when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival and received a scathing article in The Guardian.[97] Thompson had greater success that year when she worked with HBO for a second time in the acclaimed miniseries Angels in America (2003).[27] The show, also starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, deals with the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era America. Thompson played three roles – a nurse, a homeless woman, and the title role of The Angel of America – and was again nominated for an Emmy Award.[76] In 2004, she played the eccentric Divination teacher Sybill Trelawney in the third Harry Potter film, Prisoner of Azkaban, her character described as a "hippy chick professor who teaches fortune-telling".[98] She later reprised the role in Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011),[27] and has described her time working on the popular franchise as "great fun".[54]

"Nanny McPhee, it took nine years to make that movie, from the moment I picked up the book to the moment we walked into the movie theatre ... the [films] were labours of great love and commitment."

—Thompson on Nanny McPhee and its sequel, which she wrote and starred in.[54]

The year 2005 saw the release of a project Thompson had been working on for nine years.[54] Loosely based on the Nurse Matilda stories that she read as a child, Thompson wrote the screenplay for the children's film Nanny McPhee – which centres on a mysterious, unsightly nanny who must discipline a group of children. She also took the lead role, alongside Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury, in what was a highly personal project.[54][99] The film was a success, taking number one at the UK box office and earning $122 million worldwide.[100][101] Commenting on Thompson's screenplay, film critic Claudia Puig wrote that its "well-worn storybook features are woven effectively into an appealing tale of youthful empowerment".[102] The following year, Thompson appeared in the surreal American comedy–drama Stranger than Fiction, playing a novelist whose latest character (played by Will Ferrell) is a real person who hears her narration in his head. Reviews for the film were generally favourable.[103]

Following a brief, uncredited role in the post-apocalyptic blockbuster I Am Legend (2007),[104] Thompson played the devoutly Catholic Lady Marchmain in a 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Critics were unenthusiastic about the film,[105] but several picked Thompson out as its highlight.[106][107] Mark Kermode said "Emma Thompson is to some extent becoming the new Judi Dench, as the person who kind of comes in for 15 minutes and is brilliant ... [but then] when she goes away, the rest of the movie has a real problem living up to the wattage of her presence".[108]

 
Thompson receiving the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 2008

Thompson received further acclaim for her work in the London-based romance Last Chance Harvey (2008), where she and Dustin Hoffman played a lonely, middle-aged pair who cautiously begin a relationship. Critics praised the chemistry between the two leads, and both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances.[109][110] Thompson's two 2009 films were both set in 1960s England, and in both she made cameo appearances: as a headmistress in the critically praised drama An Education[111] and as a "tippling mother" in Richard Curtis's The Boat That Rocked.[112]

Five years after the original, Thompson reprised the role of Nanny McPhee with 2010's Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Her screenplay transported the story to Britain during World War II. Building on the first film's success, it was another UK box office number one and the sequel was widely seen as an improvement.[113][114] The same year, Thompson reunited with Alan Rickman for the BBC television film The Song of Lunch, which focused on two unnamed characters meeting at a restaurant 15 years after ending their relationship.[115] Thompson's performance earned her a fourth Emmy Award nomination.[76]

Career expansion and blockbuster films (2012–present)

In 2012, Thompson made a rare appearance in a big-budget Hollywood film[54] when she played the head Agent in Men in Black 3 – a continuation of the sci-fi comedy franchise starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin. With a worldwide gross of $624 million, MIB3 ranks as Thompson's highest-grossing release outside of the Harry Potter films.[71] This mainstream success continued with the Pixar film Brave, in which Thompson voiced Elinor – the Scottish queen despairing at her daughter's defiance against tradition.[27] It was her second consecutive blockbuster release, and critics were generally kind to the film.[71][116] Also in 2012, Thompson played Queen Elizabeth II in an episode of Playhouse Presents, which dramatised an incident in 1982 when an intruder broke into the Queen's bedroom.[117] Her first film of 2013 was the fantasy romance Beautiful Creatures, in which she played an evil mother. The film aimed to capitalise on the success of The Twilight Saga, but was poorly reviewed and a box office disappointment.[118][119] Film critic Peter Travers was critical of Thompson's performance and "outrageously awful Southern accent", and feared "the damage this crock may do to [her] reputation".[120]

Saving Mr. Banks, which depicted the making of Mary Poppins, starred Thompson in a leading role as P. L. Travers, the curmudgeonly author of the source novel, alongside Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Her performance, in contrast to her widely panned appearance in Beautiful Creatures, was received enthusiastically, with one journalist writing "Emma Thompson is back, firing on all cylinders."[121] She found it to be the best script she had read in years and was delighted to be offered the role. She considered it the most challenging of her career because she had "never really played anyone quite so contradictory or difficult before",[122] but found the inconsistent and complicated character "a blissful joy to embody".[54] The film was well-received, grossed $112 million worldwide, and Thompson's performance garnered critical acclaim.[121][123] The review in The Independent expressed thanks that her "playing of Travers is so deft that we instantly warm to her, and forgive her her snobbery",[124] while Total Film's critic felt that Thompson brought depth to the "predictable" film with "her best performance in years".[125] Thompson was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTAs, SAGs and Golden Globes, and was awarded the Lead Actress trophy from the National Board of Review. Meryl Streep, her co-star in Angels in America, admitted to being "shocked" at Thompson's failure to receive an Oscar nomination for Saving Mr. Banks.[126]

 
Thompson attending the premiere of The Love Punch at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival

The romantic comedy The Love Punch (2013) gave Thompson her second consecutive leading role, where she played half of a divorced couple who reunite to steal the man's ex-boss's diamond.[127] In March 2014, she made her first stage appearance in 24 years – and her New York debut – in a Lincoln Center production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She appeared in the musical for five nights, and her "playful" performance of Mrs Lovett was highly praised; the critic Kayla Epstein wrote that she "not only held her own against more experienced vocalists, but wound up running off with the show".[128] She received her sixth Primetime Emmy Award nomination, specifically for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the televised performance.[129] In 2014, Thompson provided the narration for Jason Reitman's comedy-drama film, Men, Women & Children.[130]

The period drama Effie Gray, a project that she had been working on for many years, based on the true-life story of John Ruskin's disastrous marriage, was written by Thompson but became the subject of a copyright suit before being cleared for cinemas. The American playwright Gregory Murphy said that Thompson's screenplay was an infringement on his play and screenplay The Countess, which he claimed he had submitted to Thompson through a mutual friend in 2003 to consider the role of Elizabeth Eastlake in a proposed film of his play, and to Thompson's husband Greg Wise through a casting director to consider the role of John Ruskin in the play's 2005 West End production.[131] In 2008, Thompson announced that she and Wise "had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we want to make into a film."[132] After meeting with Thompson and her producers, Potboiler Productions, Murphy was offered a screenwriting fee and co-screenwriting credit with Thompson in settlement of his claim.[133] This settlement offer was later abandoned by Thompson, Greg Wise and their partner Donald Rosenfeld, when their company Sovereign Films took over production of the film and instigated the suit, creating the independent entity Effie Film, LLC, spearheaded by Rosenfeld, to litigate it.[134][135] In March 2013, District Court Judge Thomas P. Griesa, after allowing Thompson to submit a second revised screenplay into evidence from which Murphy claimed "some of the most troubling material" had been removed,[136] ruled that while there were similarities, the screenplays were "quite dissimilar in their two approaches to fictionalising the same historical events".[137][138] In response to Murphy's attorney's concerns that the completed film Effie Gray would not adhere to Thompson's second revised screenplay, Judge Griesa concluded his ruling by saying that Thompson's film would not infringe Murphy's play or screenplay "only to the extent that it does not substantially deviate from the November 29, 2011 screenplay," the date of Thompson's second revised screenplay.[138] In May 2013, Effie Gray's Cannes Film Festival premiere was cancelled. In October 2013, the film was withdrawn from the Mill Valley Film Festival in California due to "unforeseen circumstances" according to producer Rosenfeld.[139][140] In December 2013, Thompson said of the still unreleased Effie Gray that its "time has probably passed," comparing it to another project of hers that "didn't happen either".[141] Effie Gray was released in October 2014, to a modest reception.[142] Thompson plays Elizabeth Eastlake and Greg Wise plays John Ruskin. They both declined to promote the film.[143][144] Camilla Long, reviewing Effie Gray in The Sunday Times, wrote "nothing fits together" and "no one seems to know why they made this film. Where is Thompson's passion and commitment, or any hint of what she intended to achieve."[145] Manohla Dargis in her review in The New York Times called Effie Gray "The cinematic equivalent of a Brazilian wax, the movie omits much of the story's most interesting material to create something that's been smoothly denatured."[146]

Thompson's first film of 2015 was A Walk in the Woods, a comedy adapted from the book by Bill Bryson of which she co-starred with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. She next starred in The Legend of Barney Thomson. Her role was a 77-year-old foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, Glaswegian former prostitute, the mother of the title character. Neither film was a critical success, although the latter received some positive reviews and Empire magazine wrote that Thomson was "unforgettable".[147][148][149] Later that year, she had a supporting role in the restaurant-based film Burnt. In 2016, she starred in the World War II-drama Alone in Berlin, based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel. She also co-wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones's Baby and appeared in the film as a doctor.

 
Thompson (center) attending the premiere of The Meyerowitz Stories at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

In 2017, Thompson appeared in a supporting role as Mrs. Potts (originally voiced by Angela Lansbury in the 1991 animated film) in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring her Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson in the leading role of Belle, alongside Dan Stevens as the Beast.[150] The film received positive reviews and grossed $1.2 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing live-action musical film, the second highest-grossing film of 2017, and the 17th highest-grossing film of all time.[151][152][153] She also had a supporting role as a hippy in the Noah Baumbach-directed dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim.[154] She followed it with a starring role in the film The Children Act, a drama about a family who refuse cancer treatment for their son based on religious beliefs. She had a cameo role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2017 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow. In 2018, she provided the voiceover for Greenpeace's palm-oil awareness commercial which Iceland (supermarket) picked to promote as their 2018 Christmas advertisement. The commercial was rejected by the advertising organisation Clearcast due to Greenpeace's alleged involvement in politics, thus violating their code of conduct.[155][156] Also that year, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[157]

Thompson starred in the comedy-drama Late Night (2019), which was written by Mindy Kaling (who also co-starred in that film) and featured her as a popular television host who hires a new writer to keep the show from getting replaced.[158] The film received positive reviews, with Thompson being singled out for praise, and Owen Gleiberman of Variety remarked that "Thompson truly seems like a born talk-show host. Even when she's just riffing, she grounds Late Night in something real."[159] She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.[160] In the same year, she voiced as the Yeti Elder in the stop-motion animated film Missing Link, reprised her role as Agent O in a more substantial part in Men in Black: International, and co-produced and co-starred alongside Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic comedy Last Christmas, which was based on the song of the same name by George Michael, and was written by Thompson, her husband Greg Wise, and Bryony Kimmings.[161]

In 2021, Thompson starred opposite Emma Stone as the titular protagonist villain in Cruella, a Disney live-action spin-off/reboot of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, directed by Craig Gillespie, which was released on 28 May 2021 to positive reviews and has grossed $233 million worldwide against its $100 million budget.[162][163][164] She won praise from critics for the role of the Baroness with Alonso Duralde from The Wrap writing, "Thompson sinking every last tooth into a role that's half Miranda Priestly and half Reynolds Woodcock."[165]

In 2022, Thompson starred opposite Daryl McCormack in the sex comedy-drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde.[166][167][168][169]

Upcoming projects

Thompson plays the authoritarian headmistress Miss Trunchbull in the film adaptation of Matilda the Musical, which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It is directed by Matthew Warchus, with a script written by Dennis Kelly and songs composed by Tim Minchin.[170] Following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 5 October 2022, film critic Robbie Collin of The Telegraph wrote Thompson's portrayal of Trunchbull is "a deranged villain to remember".[171] The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw stated "the gleefully sly comedy kindred spirits of Thompson and Minchin come together to form the film’s bedrock of naughtiness".[172] She will also be starring alongside Lily James and Sajal Aly in the romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It?.[173]

Reception and acting style

Thompson is regarded to be among the best actresses of her generation[174][175] and one of Britain's most recognisable actresses, held in high regard within Hollywood.[176][177] Early in her career, when she was closely associated with her first husband, Kenneth Branagh, she was considered a "luvvy".[177] The public warmed to her after the separation, and she became one of the key actresses of the 1990s.[177][178] Her status has continued to grow; in 2008, journalist Sarah Sands stated that Thompson has improved with age and experience,[175] and Mark Kermode said of her performances, "There is something about her which is — you just trust her. You just think 'I'm in proper hands here.' ... She's up there with the great, I mean really great, British female performers".[108]

"I am an instinctive actress. I don't have technique because I never learnt any. I do the cerebral bit before I start. Then I just let it be. I allow whatever rises to rise naturally. You are tricking your subconscious. I work from the inside out."

 – Thompson on her approach to acting[179]

Thompson is particularly known for playing reticent women,[180] and Sands describes her as "the best actress of our times on suffering borne with poignant dignity".[175] According to Kate Kellaway of The Guardian, she specialises in playing "a good woman in a frock".[179] She also plays many haughty characters, with a "bracing, nanny-like demeanour",[20] but she is noted for her ability to win the empathy of audiences.[117][180] Thompson belongs to a group of highly decorated British actresses including Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter who are known for appearing in "heritage films" and typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding".[181][182] Projecting a typically "British image",[177] Thompson's often dogmatic and tight-jawed manner has also been compared to that of Maggie Smith.[183]

With a background in comedy, Thompson's performances are typically delivered with an ironic touch. Ang Lee, director of Sense and Sensibility, stated that Thompson's comedic approach may be her greatest asset as an actress, remarking, "Emma is an extremely funny lady. Like Austen, she's laughing at her own culture while she's a part of it."[183] Thompson has stated that the "most moving things are often also funny, in life and in art" which is present in her film work.[14] She often brings her real personality to her roles, and Kellaway believes that her lack of conventional beauty contributes to her likeability as an actress.[175][179]

Writing

In 2012, Thompson wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit as an addition to the Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit.[184][185] She was approached by the publishers to write it, the first authorised Peter story since 1930 and the only one not written by Potter.[184] The book falls in the middle of the earlier series, rather than at the end, and takes Peter Rabbit outside of Mr. McGregor's garden and into Scotland. It was a New York Times Best Seller.[186] In 2013, Thompson wrote a second book in the series titled The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit.[186] A third book, The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit, was released in 2014.[187] In 2018, Thompson said she would like to write about "what it's like being human now".[188]

Other work

In 2014, Thompson was among a group of influential British women, which included Annie Lennox and Rita Ora, to feature in the latest iteration of British retailer Marks & Spencer's 'Leading Ladies' marketing campaign.[189][190]

Personal life

 
Thompson's husband, Greg Wise, whom she met on the set of Sense and Sensibility

Thompson has stated that she feels Scottish, saying: "not only because I am half Scottish but also because I've spent half my life [in Scotland]".[9][191] She frequently returns to Scotland and visits Dunoon in Argyll and Bute. She owns a home nearby, on the shore of Loch Eck.[192]

Relationships

Thompson's first husband was actor and director Kenneth Branagh, whom she met in 1987 while filming the television series Fortunes of War.[193] They married in 1989 and proceeded to appear in several films together, with Branagh often casting her in his own productions.[194] Dubbed a "golden couple" by the British press,[193] their relationship received substantial media coverage.[5] The pair attempted to keep the relationship private, refusing to be interviewed or photographed together.[195] Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995. They cited their work schedules as the reason, but it later emerged that he was having an affair with actress Helena Bonham Carter.[94]

Thompson was living alone as her relationship with Branagh deteriorated, and she became depressed.[24] While filming Sense and Sensibility in 1995, she began a relationship with her co-star Greg Wise. On how she was able to overcome her depression, she stated, "Work saved me and Greg saved me. He picked up the pieces and put them together again."[24] The couple have a daughter, Gaia, who was conceived via in vitro fertilisation when Thompson was 39.[5]

Thompson and Wise married in Dunoon in 2003.[196] The family's permanent residence is in West Hampstead, London, on the same road as her childhood home.[5] Also in 2003, Thompson and her husband informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier named Tindyebwa Agaba. They met at a Refugee Council event when he was sixteen, and she invited him to spend Christmas at their home.[5] "Slowly", Thompson has commented, "he became a sort of permanent fixture, came on holiday to Scotland with us, became part of the family."[197] Agaba became a British citizen in 2009.[198]

On 28 February 2020, Thompson and her husband were sworn in as honorary citizens of Venice and became legal residents of Italy as a result. The couple had previously purchased a house in the city and indicated their intention to relocate to Italy permanently.[199] They retain a home in West Hampstead.[200]

Views and activism

Thompson has said of her religious views:

I'm an atheist ... I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.[201]

She is politically liberal and a supporter of the Labour Party; she told the BBC Andrew Marr Show in 2010 that she had been a member of the party "all my life".[202] Thompson endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in both the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections.[203] She has also expressed support for the Women's Equality Party.[204]

Thompson has been a campaigner since her youth.[205] Since becoming a public figure she has regularly voiced her views and been involved in many issues, prompting criticism that she is overly outspoken.[205] She has justified her assertiveness by saying, "[W]hat I feel is that we all need to speak up and a woman who has got a louder voice needs to shout very loudly indeed."[205]

 
Thompson at the 2014 Climate March in London, England

She is particularly active in human rights work.[179] She is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture,[206] a patron of the Refugee Council,[207] and has a therapy room in her office for traumatised refugees.[179] Thompson is also an activist for Palestinians, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH! coalition that seeks to end the "Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank".[208] She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation,[209] and in 2009 Time magazine named her a "European Hero" in recognition of "her work to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa".[205]

Thompson is also an active environmentalist. She is a supporter of Greenpeace, and in January 2009, as part of her campaign against climate change, she and three other members of the organisation bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow Airport.[210] In August 2014, Thompson and her daughter, Gaia, went on a Greenpeace "Save the Arctic" expedition to raise awareness of the dangers of drilling for oil.[211] She narrated The Real News Network's The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science, a documentary short about Koch Industries and its efforts to discredit climate research.[212] The film was released on 31 October 2016. In 2019, she supported the London Extinction Rebellion rally against climate change, although she received some criticism for having flown 5,400 miles (8,700 km) to attend it.[213][214] She is also an ambassador for the Galapagos Conservation Trust.[215]

In 2010, Thompson criticised people who use "sloppy language." Speaking with the Radio Times she said, "I went to give a talk at my old school and the girls were all doing their 'likes' and 'innits?' and 'it ain'ts', which drives me insane. I told them 'Just don't do it. Because it makes you sound stupid and you're not stupid. There is the necessity to have two languages – one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity."[216][217]

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emma, thompson, australian, cricketer, cricketer, dame, born, april, 1959, british, actress, regarded, best, actresses, generation, received, numerous, accolades, throughout, four, decade, long, career, including, academy, awards, british, academy, film, award. For the Australian cricketer see Emma Thompson cricketer Dame Emma Thompson DBE born 15 April 1959 is a British actress Regarded as one of the best actresses of her generation she has received numerous accolades throughout her four decade long career including two Academy Awards two British Academy Film Awards two Golden Globes a British Academy Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award DameEmma ThompsonDBEThompson in 2022Born 1959 04 15 15 April 1959 age 63 London EnglandAlma materNewnham College CambridgeOccupationsActressscreenwriteractivistauthorYears active1982 presentWorksFull listSpousesKenneth Branagh m 1989 div 1995 wbr Greg Wise m 2003 wbr Children2ParentsEric Thompson father Phyllida Law mother RelativesSophie Thompson sister AwardsFull listEmma Thompson s voice source source source from the BBC programme The Film Programme 28 November 2013 1 Born in London 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 came to prominence for her performances in two BBC TV 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 For her performance in Howards End 1992 Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress 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 which makes her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing and once again won the BAFTA Further acclaim came for her portrayal of author P L Travers in Saving Mr Banks 2013 Other notable film credits include Primary Colors 1998 Love Actually 2003 the Harry Potter series 2004 2011 Nanny McPhee 2005 Stranger than Fiction 2006 Last Chance Harvey 2008 An Education 2009 Men in Black 3 2012 and the spin off Men in Black International 2019 Brave 2012 Beauty and the Beast 2017 Late Night 2019 Cruella 2021 Good Luck to You Leo Grande 2022 and playing Miss Trunchbull in 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 Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children s books Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Early work and breakthrough 1982 1989 2 2 Howards End and worldwide recognition 1990 1993 2 3 Sense and Sensibility and established actress 1994 1999 2 4 Continued screen work and further acclaim 2000 2011 2 5 Career expansion and blockbuster films 2012 present 2 5 1 Upcoming projects 3 Reception and acting style 4 Writing 5 Other work 6 Personal life 6 1 Relationships 6 2 Views and activism 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life and education EditThompson was born in London 2 on 15 April 1959 3 Her mother is Scottish actress Phyllida Law while her English father Eric Thompson was involved in theatre and was the writer narrator of the popular children s television series The Magic Roundabout 4 5 Her godfather was the director and writer Ronald Eyre 6 7 She has one sister Sophie Thompson who also works as an actress 4 The family lived in the West Hampstead district of London 5 and Thompson was educated at Camden School for Girls 8 She spent much time in Scotland during her childhood and often visited Ardentinny where her grandparents and uncle lived 9 ADC Theatre University of Cambridge where Thompson began performing with Footlights In her youth Thompson was intrigued by language and literature a trait she attributes to her father who shared her love of words 10 After successfully taking A levels in English French and Latin 11 and securing a scholarship 12 she began studying for an English degree at Newnham College Cambridge 13 arriving in 1977 Thompson believes that it was inevitable she would become an actor remarking that she was surrounded by creative people and I don t think it would ever have gone any other way really 14 While there she had a seminal moment that turned her to feminism and inspired her to take up performing She explained in a 2007 interview how she discovered the book The Madwoman in the Attic which is about Victorian female writers and the disguises they took on in order to express what they wanted to express That completely changed my life 15 She became a self professed punk rocker 16 with short red hair and a motorbike and aspired to be a comedian like Lily Tomlin 15 At Cambridge Thompson was invited into the Cambridge Footlights the university s prestigious sketch comedy troupe by its president Martin Bergman 17 becoming its first female member 18 Also in the troupe were fellow actors Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie and she had a romantic relationship with the latter 19 Fry recalled that there was no doubt that Emma was going the distance Our nickname for her was Emma Talented 20 In 1980 Thompson served as the Vice President of Footlights 21 and co directed the troupe s first all female revue Woman s Hour 17 The following year she and her Footlights team won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their sketch show The Cellar Tapes 22 She graduated with upper second class honours 23 Thompson s father died in 1982 aged 52 4 She has stated that this tore the family to pieces 24 and I can t begin to tell you how much I regret his not being around 25 She added At the same time it s possible that were he still alive I might never have had the space or courage to do what I ve done I have a definite feeling of inheriting space And power 25 Career EditSee also Emma Thompson on screen and stage and List of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson Early work and breakthrough 1982 1989 Edit Thompson had her first professional role in 1982 touring in a stage version of Not the Nine O Clock News 3 She then turned to television where much of her early work came with her Footlights co stars Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry The regional ITV comedy series There s Nothing To Worry About 1982 was their first outing followed by the one off BBC show The Crystal Cube 1983 26 There s Nothing to Worry About later returned as the networked sketch show Alfresco 1983 84 which ran for two series with Thompson Fry Laurie Ben Elton and Robbie Coltrane 3 26 She later collaborated again with Fry and Laurie on the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series Saturday Night Fry 1988 Kenneth Branagh Thompson s first husband with whom she collaborated early on in her career In 1985 Thompson was cast in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl co starring Robert Lindsay It provided a breakthrough in her career as the production earned rave reviews 3 27 She played the role of Sally Smith for 15 months which exhausted her she later remarked I thought if I did the fucking Lambeth Walk one more time I was going to fucking throw up 20 At the end of 1985 she wrote and starred in her own one off special for Channel 4 Emma Thompson Up for Grabs 28 Thompson achieved another breakthrough in 1987 3 when she had leading roles in two television miniseries Fortunes of War a World War II drama costarring Kenneth Branagh and Tutti Frutti a dark comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane 27 For these performances Thompson won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 29 The following year she wrote and starred in her own sketch comedy series for BBC Thompson but this was poorly received 30 In 1989 she and Branagh with whom she had formed a romantic relationship starred in a stage revival of Look Back in Anger directed by Judi Dench and produced by Branagh s Renaissance Theatre Company 27 31 Later that year the pair starred in a televised version of the play 3 31 Thompson s first cinema appearance came in the romantic comedy The Tall Guy 1989 the feature film debut from screenwriter Richard Curtis 27 It starred Jeff Goldblum as a West End actor and Thompson played the nurse with whom he falls in love The film was not widely seen 32 but Thompson s performance was praised in The New York Times where Caryn James called her an exceptionally versatile comic actress 33 She next turned to Shakespeare appearing as Princess Katherine in Branagh s screen adaptation of Henry V 1989 The film was released to great critical acclaim 34 Howards End and worldwide recognition 1990 1993 Edit Thompson and Branagh are considered by American writer and critic James Monaco to have led the British cinematic onslaught in the 1990s 35 She continued to experiment with Shakespeare in the new decade appearing with Branagh in his stage productions of A Midsummer Night s Dream and King Lear 27 31 Reviewing the latter the Chicago Tribune praised her extraordinary performance of the hobbling stooped hunchback Fool 36 Thompson returned to cinema in 1991 playing a frivolous aristocrat 3 in Impromptu with Judy Davis and Hugh Grant 37 and Thompson was nominated for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards 38 Her second release of 1991 was another pairing with Branagh who also directed in the Los Angeles based noir Dead Again She played a woman who has forgotten her identity 39 Early in 1992 Thompson had a guest role in an episode of Cheers as Frasier Crane s first wife 40 Anthony Hopkins starred with Thompson in Howards End 1992 and The Remains of the Day 1993 A turning point in Thompson s career 27 came when she was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End 1992 based on the novel by E M Forster The film explored the social class system in Edwardian England with Thompson playing an idealistic intellectual forward looking woman who comes into association with a privileged and deeply conservative family She actively pursued the role by writing to director James Ivory who agreed to an audition and then gave her the part 41 According to the critic Vincent Canby the film allowed Thompson to come into her own away from Branagh 42 Upon release Roger Ebert wrote that she was superb in the central role quiet ironic observant with steel inside 43 Howards End was widely praised 44 a surprise hit 45 and received nine Academy Award nominations 46 Among its three wins was the Best Actress trophy for Thompson who was also awarded a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance 3 Reflecting on the role The New York Times wrote that the actress found herself an international success almost overnight 3 For her next two films Thompson returned to working with Branagh In Peter s Friends 1992 the pair starred with Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie Imelda Staunton and Tony Slattery as a group of Cambridge alumni who are reunited ten years after graduating The comedy was positively reviewed 47 and Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote that Thompson was its highlight Even as a rather one dimensional character she exudes grace and an adroit sense of comic tragedy 48 She followed this with Branagh s screen version of Much Ado About Nothing 1993 The couple starred as Beatrice and Benedick alongside a cast that also included Denzel Washington Keanu Reeves and Michael Keaton Thompson was widely praised for the on screen chemistry with Branagh and the natural ease with which she played the role 49 50 marking another critical success for Thompson 51 Her performance earned a nomination for Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards 38 Thompson reunited with Merchant Ivory and Anthony Hopkins to film The Remains of the Day 1993 a film which has been described as a classic and the production team s definitive film 52 53 Based on Kazuo Ishiguro s novel about a housekeeper and butler in interwar Britain the story is acclaimed for its study of loneliness and repression though Thompson was particularly interested in looking at the deformity that servitude inflicts upon people since her grandmother had worked as a servant and made many sacrifices 54 She has named the film as one of the greatest experiences of her career considering it to be a masterpiece of withheld emotion 55 The Remains of the Day was a critical and commercial success 52 receiving eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture and a second Best Actress nomination for Thompson 56 Along with her Best Actress nomination at the 66th Academy Awards Thompson was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category making her the eighth performer in history to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year 57 It came for her role as the lawyer Gareth Peirce in In the Name of the Father 1993 a drama about the Guildford Four starring Daniel Day Lewis The film was her second hit of the year earning 65 million and critical praise and was nominated for Best Picture along with The Remains of the Day 58 59 Sense and Sensibility and established actress 1994 1999 Edit In 1994 Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the blockbuster Junior Although the male pregnancy storyline was poorly received by most critics and flopped at the box office 60 Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the lead trio 61 She returned to independent cinema for a lead role in Carrington which studied the platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey played by Jonathan Pryce Roger Ebert remarked that Thompson had developed a specialty in unrequited love 62 and the TV Guide Film amp Video Companion commented that her neurasthenic mannerisms which usually drive us batty are appropriate here 63 Efford House in Holbeton which stood in for Barton Cottage in Sense and Sensibility 1995 Thompson s Academy success continued with Sense and Sensibility 1995 generally considered to be the most popular and authentic of the numerous film adaptations of Jane Austen s novels made in the 1990s 64 65 66 Thompson a lifelong lover of Austen s work was hired to write the film based on the period sketches in her series Thompson 67 She spent five years developing the screenplay 68 and took the role of the spinster sister Elinor Dashwood despite aged 35 being 16 years older than the literary character 69 Directed by Ang Lee and co starring Kate Winslet Sense and Sensibility received widespread critical acclaim and ranks among the highest grossing films of Thompson s career 70 71 Shelly Frome remarked that she displayed a great affinity for Jane Austen s style and wit 72 and Graham Fuller of Sight and Sound saw her as the film s auteur 73 Thompson received a third nomination for Best Actress and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay making her the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting 74 She also earned a second BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay 3 Thompson was absent from screens in 1996 but returned the following year with Alan Rickman s directorial debut The Winter Guest Set over one day in a Scottish seaside village the drama allowed Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law to play mother and daughter on screen 75 She then returned to America to appear in an episode of Ellen and her self parodying performance received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series 27 76 For her second Hollywood role Thompson starred with John Travolta in Mike Nichols s Primary Colors 1998 playing a couple based on Bill and Hillary Clinton 77 Thompson s character Susan is described as that of an ambitious long suffering wife who has to deal with her husband s infidelity 78 The film was critically well received but lost money at the box office 79 80 According to Kevin O Sullivan of the Daily Mirror Americans were blown away by her performance and accent and top Hollywood producers became increasingly interested in casting her 81 Thompson rejected many of the offers expressing concerns about living in Los Angeles behind walls with bodyguards and stated LA is lovely as long as you know you can leave She also admitted to feeling tired and jaded with the industry at this point which influenced her decision to leave film for a year 82 Thompson followed Primary Colors by playing an FBI agent opposite Rickman in the poorly received thriller Judas Kiss 1998 83 Continued screen work and further acclaim 2000 2011 Edit When she became a mother in 1999 Thompson made a conscious decision to reduce her workload and in the following years many of her appearances were supporting roles 54 84 She was not seen on screen again until 2000 with only a small part in the British comedy Maybe Baby which she appeared in as a favour to its director her friend Ben Elton 85 For the HBO television film Wit 2001 however Thompson happily took the lead role in what she felt was one of the best scripts to have come out of America 86 Adapted from Margaret Edson s Pulitzer Prize winning play it focuses on a self sufficient Harvard University professor who finds her values challenged when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer Thompson was instrumental in bringing Mike Nichols to direct the project and the pair spent months in rehearsal to get the complex character right 87 She was greatly drawn to the daredevil role 88 for which she had no qualms about shaving her head 89 Reviewing the performance Roger Ebert was touched by the way she struggles with every ounce of her humanity to keep her self respect and in 2008 he called it Thompson s finest work 90 Caryn James of The New York Times also described it as one of her most brilliant performances adding we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body 91 The film earned Thompson nominations at the Golden Globes Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards Thompson s only credit of 2002 was a voice role in Disney s Treasure Planet an adaptation of Treasure Island where she voiced Captain Amelia The animation earned far less than its large budget and was considered a box office disaster 92 This failure was countered the following year by one of Thompson s biggest commercial successes Richard Curtis s romantic comedy Love Actually 71 As part of an ensemble cast that included Liam Neeson Keira Knightley and Colin Firth she played a middle class wife who suspects her husband played by Alan Rickman of infidelity The scene in which her stalwart character breaks down was described by one critic as the best crying on screen ever 54 and in 2013 Thompson mentioned that she gets commended for this role more than any other 93 She explained I ve had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom then having to go out and be cheerful gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer 94 Her performance received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress 95 Thompson at the premiere of Nanny McPhee in 2005 Thompson continued with supporting roles in the 2003 drama Imagining Argentina where she played a dissident journalist abducted by the country s 1970s dictatorial regime Antonio Banderas played the husband who tries to find her in a film that most critics disliked 96 The film was booed and jeered at when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival and received a scathing article in The Guardian 97 Thompson had greater success that year when she worked with HBO for a second time in the acclaimed miniseries Angels in America 2003 27 The show also starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep deals with the AIDS epidemic in Reagan era America Thompson played three roles a nurse a homeless woman and the title role of The Angel of America and was again nominated for an Emmy Award 76 In 2004 she played the eccentric Divination teacher Sybill Trelawney in the third Harry Potter film Prisoner of Azkaban her character described as a hippy chick professor who teaches fortune telling 98 She later reprised the role in Order of the Phoenix 2007 and Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011 27 and has described her time working on the popular franchise as great fun 54 Nanny McPhee it took nine years to make that movie from the moment I picked up the book to the moment we walked into the movie theatre the films were labours of great love and commitment Thompson on Nanny McPhee and its sequel which she wrote and starred in 54 The year 2005 saw the release of a project Thompson had been working on for nine years 54 Loosely based on the Nurse Matilda stories that she read as a child Thompson wrote the screenplay for the children s film Nanny McPhee which centres on a mysterious unsightly nanny who must discipline a group of children She also took the lead role alongside Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury in what was a highly personal project 54 99 The film was a success taking number one at the UK box office and earning 122 million worldwide 100 101 Commenting on Thompson s screenplay film critic Claudia Puig wrote that its well worn storybook features are woven effectively into an appealing tale of youthful empowerment 102 The following year Thompson appeared in the surreal American comedy drama Stranger than Fiction playing a novelist whose latest character played by Will Ferrell is a real person who hears her narration in his head Reviews for the film were generally favourable 103 Following a brief uncredited role in the post apocalyptic blockbuster I Am Legend 2007 104 Thompson played the devoutly Catholic Lady Marchmain in a 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited Critics were unenthusiastic about the film 105 but several picked Thompson out as its highlight 106 107 Mark Kermode said Emma Thompson is to some extent becoming the new Judi Dench as the person who kind of comes in for 15 minutes and is brilliant but then when she goes away the rest of the movie has a real problem living up to the wattage of her presence 108 Thompson receiving the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 2008 Thompson received further acclaim for her work in the London based romance Last Chance Harvey 2008 where she and Dustin Hoffman played a lonely middle aged pair who cautiously begin a relationship Critics praised the chemistry between the two leads and both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances 109 110 Thompson s two 2009 films were both set in 1960s England and in both she made cameo appearances as a headmistress in the critically praised drama An Education 111 and as a tippling mother in Richard Curtis s The Boat That Rocked 112 Five years after the original Thompson reprised the role of Nanny McPhee with 2010 s Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Her screenplay transported the story to Britain during World War II Building on the first film s success it was another UK box office number one and the sequel was widely seen as an improvement 113 114 The same year Thompson reunited with Alan Rickman for the BBC television film The Song of Lunch which focused on two unnamed characters meeting at a restaurant 15 years after ending their relationship 115 Thompson s performance earned her a fourth Emmy Award nomination 76 Career expansion and blockbuster films 2012 present Edit In 2012 Thompson made a rare appearance in a big budget Hollywood film 54 when she played the head Agent in Men in Black 3 a continuation of the sci fi comedy franchise starring Will Smith Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin With a worldwide gross of 624 million MIB3 ranks as Thompson s highest grossing release outside of the Harry Potter films 71 This mainstream success continued with the Pixar film Brave in which Thompson voiced Elinor the Scottish queen despairing at her daughter s defiance against tradition 27 It was her second consecutive blockbuster release and critics were generally kind to the film 71 116 Also in 2012 Thompson played Queen Elizabeth II in an episode of Playhouse Presents which dramatised an incident in 1982 when an intruder broke into the Queen s bedroom 117 Her first film of 2013 was the fantasy romance Beautiful Creatures in which she played an evil mother The film aimed to capitalise on the success of The Twilight Saga but was poorly reviewed and a box office disappointment 118 119 Film critic Peter Travers was critical of Thompson s performance and outrageously awful Southern accent and feared the damage this crock may do to her reputation 120 Saving Mr Banks which depicted the making of Mary Poppins starred Thompson in a leading role as P L Travers the curmudgeonly author of the source novel alongside Tom Hanks as Walt Disney Her performance in contrast to her widely panned appearance in Beautiful Creatures was received enthusiastically with one journalist writing Emma Thompson is back firing on all cylinders 121 She found it to be the best script she had read in years and was delighted to be offered the role She considered it the most challenging of her career because she had never really played anyone quite so contradictory or difficult before 122 but found the inconsistent and complicated character a blissful joy to embody 54 The film was well received grossed 112 million worldwide and Thompson s performance garnered critical acclaim 121 123 The review in The Independent expressed thanks that her playing of Travers is so deft that we instantly warm to her and forgive her her snobbery 124 while Total Film s critic felt that Thompson brought depth to the predictable film with her best performance in years 125 Thompson was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTAs SAGs and Golden Globes and was awarded the Lead Actress trophy from the National Board of Review Meryl Streep her co star in Angels in America admitted to being shocked at Thompson s failure to receive an Oscar nomination for Saving Mr Banks 126 Thompson attending the premiere of The Love Punch at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival The romantic comedy The Love Punch 2013 gave Thompson her second consecutive leading role where she played half of a divorced couple who reunite to steal the man s ex boss s diamond 127 In March 2014 she made her first stage appearance in 24 years and her New York debut in a Lincoln Center production of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street She appeared in the musical for five nights and her playful performance of Mrs Lovett was highly praised the critic Kayla Epstein wrote that she not only held her own against more experienced vocalists but wound up running off with the show 128 She received her sixth Primetime Emmy Award nomination specifically for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the televised performance 129 In 2014 Thompson provided the narration for Jason Reitman s comedy drama film Men Women amp Children 130 The period drama Effie Gray a project that she had been working on for many years based on the true life story of John Ruskin s disastrous marriage was written by Thompson but became the subject of a copyright suit before being cleared for cinemas The American playwright Gregory Murphy said that Thompson s screenplay was an infringement on his play and screenplay The Countess which he claimed he had submitted to Thompson through a mutual friend in 2003 to consider the role of Elizabeth Eastlake in a proposed film of his play and to Thompson s husband Greg Wise through a casting director to consider the role of John Ruskin in the play s 2005 West End production 131 In 2008 Thompson announced that she and Wise had written a script together about John Ruskin the Victorian art critic which we want to make into a film 132 After meeting with Thompson and her producers Potboiler Productions Murphy was offered a screenwriting fee and co screenwriting credit with Thompson in settlement of his claim 133 This settlement offer was later abandoned by Thompson Greg Wise and their partner Donald Rosenfeld when their company Sovereign Films took over production of the film and instigated the suit creating the independent entity Effie Film LLC spearheaded by Rosenfeld to litigate it 134 135 In March 2013 District Court Judge Thomas P Griesa after allowing Thompson to submit a second revised screenplay into evidence from which Murphy claimed some of the most troubling material had been removed 136 ruled that while there were similarities the screenplays were quite dissimilar in their two approaches to fictionalising the same historical events 137 138 In response to Murphy s attorney s concerns that the completed film Effie Gray would not adhere to Thompson s second revised screenplay Judge Griesa concluded his ruling by saying that Thompson s film would not infringe Murphy s play or screenplay only to the extent that it does not substantially deviate from the November 29 2011 screenplay the date of Thompson s second revised screenplay 138 In May 2013 Effie Gray s Cannes Film Festival premiere was cancelled In October 2013 the film was withdrawn from the Mill Valley Film Festival in California due to unforeseen circumstances according to producer Rosenfeld 139 140 In December 2013 Thompson said of the still unreleased Effie Gray that its time has probably passed comparing it to another project of hers that didn t happen either 141 Effie Gray was released in October 2014 to a modest reception 142 Thompson plays Elizabeth Eastlake and Greg Wise plays John Ruskin They both declined to promote the film 143 144 Camilla Long reviewing Effie Gray in The Sunday Times wrote nothing fits together and no one seems to know why they made this film Where is Thompson s passion and commitment or any hint of what she intended to achieve 145 Manohla Dargis in her review in The New York Times called Effie Gray The cinematic equivalent of a Brazilian wax the movie omits much of the story s most interesting material to create something that s been smoothly denatured 146 Thompson s first film of 2015 was A Walk in the Woods a comedy adapted from the book by Bill Bryson of which she co starred with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte She next starred in The Legend of Barney Thomson Her role was a 77 year old foul mouthed chain smoking Glaswegian former prostitute the mother of the title character Neither film was a critical success although the latter received some positive reviews and Empire magazine wrote that Thomson was unforgettable 147 148 149 Later that year she had a supporting role in the restaurant based film Burnt In 2016 she starred in the World War II drama Alone in Berlin based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel She also co wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones s Baby and appeared in the film as a doctor Thompson center attending the premiere of The Meyerowitz Stories at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival In 2017 Thompson appeared in a supporting role as Mrs Potts originally voiced by Angela Lansbury in the 1991 animated film in Disney s live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast directed by Bill Condon and starring her Harry Potter co star Emma Watson in the leading role of Belle alongside Dan Stevens as the Beast 150 The film received positive reviews and grossed 1 2 billion worldwide making it the highest grossing live action musical film the second highest grossing film of 2017 and the 17th highest grossing film of all time 151 152 153 She also had a supporting role as a hippy in the Noah Baumbach directed dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim 154 She followed it with a starring role in the film The Children Act a drama about a family who refuse cancer treatment for their son based on religious beliefs She had a cameo role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2017 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow In 2018 she provided the voiceover for Greenpeace s palm oil awareness commercial which Iceland supermarket picked to promote as their 2018 Christmas advertisement The commercial was rejected by the advertising organisation Clearcast due to Greenpeace s alleged involvement in politics thus violating their code of conduct 155 156 Also that year she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama 157 Thompson starred in the comedy drama Late Night 2019 which was written by Mindy Kaling who also co starred in that film and featured her as a popular television host who hires a new writer to keep the show from getting replaced 158 The film received positive reviews with Thompson being singled out for praise and Owen Gleiberman of Variety remarked that Thompson truly seems like a born talk show host Even when she s just riffing she grounds Late Night in something real 159 She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical 160 In the same year she voiced as the Yeti Elder in the stop motion animated film Missing Link reprised her role as Agent O in a more substantial part in Men in Black International and co produced and co starred alongside Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic comedy Last Christmas which was based on the song of the same name by George Michael and was written by Thompson her husband Greg Wise and Bryony Kimmings 161 In 2021 Thompson starred opposite Emma Stone as the titular protagonist villain in Cruella a Disney live action spin off reboot of One Hundred and One Dalmatians directed by Craig Gillespie which was released on 28 May 2021 to positive reviews and has grossed 233 million worldwide against its 100 million budget 162 163 164 She won praise from critics for the role of the Baroness with Alonso Duralde from The Wrap writing Thompson sinking every last tooth into a role that s half Miranda Priestly and half Reynolds Woodcock 165 In 2022 Thompson starred opposite Daryl McCormack in the sex comedy drama Good Luck to You Leo Grande written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde 166 167 168 169 Upcoming projects Edit Thompson plays the authoritarian headmistress Miss Trunchbull in the film adaptation of Matilda the Musical which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl It is directed by Matthew Warchus with a script written by Dennis Kelly and songs composed by Tim Minchin 170 Following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 5 October 2022 film critic Robbie Collin of The Telegraph wrote Thompson s portrayal of Trunchbull is a deranged villain to remember 171 The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw stated the gleefully sly comedy kindred spirits of Thompson and Minchin come together to form the film s bedrock of naughtiness 172 She will also be starring alongside Lily James and Sajal Aly in the romantic comedy What s Love Got to Do with It 173 Reception and acting style EditThompson is regarded to be among the best actresses of her generation 174 175 and one of Britain s most recognisable actresses held in high regard within Hollywood 176 177 Early in her career when she was closely associated with her first husband Kenneth Branagh she was considered a luvvy 177 The public warmed to her after the separation and she became one of the key actresses of the 1990s 177 178 Her status has continued to grow in 2008 journalist Sarah Sands stated that Thompson has improved with age and experience 175 and Mark Kermode said of her performances There is something about her which is you just trust her You just think I m in proper hands here She s up there with the great I mean really great British female performers 108 I am an instinctive actress I don t have technique because I never learnt any I do the cerebral bit before I start Then I just let it be I allow whatever rises to rise naturally You are tricking your subconscious I work from the inside out Thompson on her approach to acting 179 Thompson is particularly known for playing reticent women 180 and Sands describes her as the best actress of our times on suffering borne with poignant dignity 175 According to Kate Kellaway of The Guardian she specialises in playing a good woman in a frock 179 She also plays many haughty characters with a bracing nanny like demeanour 20 but she is noted for her ability to win the empathy of audiences 117 180 Thompson belongs to a group of highly decorated British actresses including Judi Dench Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter who are known for appearing in heritage films and typically showing restraint rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings and a sense of irony which demonstrates the heroine s superior understanding 181 182 Projecting a typically British image 177 Thompson s often dogmatic and tight jawed manner has also been compared to that of Maggie Smith 183 With a background in comedy Thompson s performances are typically delivered with an ironic touch Ang Lee director of Sense and Sensibility stated that Thompson s comedic approach may be her greatest asset as an actress remarking Emma is an extremely funny lady Like Austen she s laughing at her own culture while she s a part of it 183 Thompson has stated that the most moving things are often also funny in life and in art which is present in her film work 14 She often brings her real personality to her roles and Kellaway believes that her lack of conventional beauty contributes to her likeability as an actress 175 179 Writing EditIn 2012 Thompson wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit as an addition to the Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit 184 185 She was approached by the publishers to write it the first authorised Peter story since 1930 and the only one not written by Potter 184 The book falls in the middle of the earlier series rather than at the end and takes Peter Rabbit outside of Mr McGregor s garden and into Scotland It was a New York Times Best Seller 186 In 2013 Thompson wrote a second book in the series titled The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit 186 A third book The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit was released in 2014 187 In 2018 Thompson said she would like to write about what it s like being human now 188 Other work EditIn 2014 Thompson was among a group of influential British women which included Annie Lennox and Rita Ora to feature in the latest iteration of British retailer Marks amp Spencer s Leading Ladies marketing campaign 189 190 Personal life Edit Thompson s husband Greg Wise whom she met on the set of Sense and Sensibility Thompson has stated that she feels Scottish saying not only because I am half Scottish but also because I ve spent half my life in Scotland 9 191 She frequently returns to Scotland and visits Dunoon in Argyll and Bute She owns a home nearby on the shore of Loch Eck 192 Relationships Edit Thompson s first husband was actor and director Kenneth Branagh whom she met in 1987 while filming the television series Fortunes of War 193 They married in 1989 and proceeded to appear in several films together with Branagh often casting her in his own productions 194 Dubbed a golden couple by the British press 193 their relationship received substantial media coverage 5 The pair attempted to keep the relationship private refusing to be interviewed or photographed together 195 Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995 They cited their work schedules as the reason but it later emerged that he was having an affair with actress Helena Bonham Carter 94 Thompson was living alone as her relationship with Branagh deteriorated and she became depressed 24 While filming Sense and Sensibility in 1995 she began a relationship with her co star Greg Wise On how she was able to overcome her depression she stated Work saved me and Greg saved me He picked up the pieces and put them together again 24 The couple have a daughter Gaia who was conceived via in vitro fertilisation when Thompson was 39 5 Thompson and Wise married in Dunoon in 2003 196 The family s permanent residence is in West Hampstead London on the same road as her childhood home 5 Also in 2003 Thompson and her husband informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier named Tindyebwa Agaba They met at a Refugee Council event when he was sixteen and she invited him to spend Christmas at their home 5 Slowly Thompson has commented he became a sort of permanent fixture came on holiday to Scotland with us became part of the family 197 Agaba became a British citizen in 2009 198 On 28 February 2020 Thompson and her husband were sworn in as honorary citizens of Venice and became legal residents of Italy as a result The couple had previously purchased a house in the city and indicated their intention to relocate to Italy permanently 199 They retain a home in West Hampstead 200 Views and activism EditThompson has said of her religious views I m an atheist I regard religion with fear and suspicion It s not enough to say that I don t believe in God I actually regard the system as distressing I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur an and I refute them 201 She is politically liberal and a supporter of the Labour Party she told the BBC Andrew Marr Show in 2010 that she had been a member of the party all my life 202 Thompson endorsed Jeremy Corbyn s campaign in both the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections 203 She has also expressed support for the Women s Equality Party 204 Thompson has been a campaigner since her youth 205 Since becoming a public figure she has regularly voiced her views and been involved in many issues prompting criticism that she is overly outspoken 205 She has justified her assertiveness by saying W hat I feel is that we all need to speak up and a woman who has got a louder voice needs to shout very loudly indeed 205 Thompson at the 2014 Climate March in London England She is particularly active in human rights work 179 She is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture 206 a patron of the Refugee Council 207 and has a therapy room in her office for traumatised refugees 179 Thompson is also an activist for Palestinians having been a member of the British based ENOUGH coalition that seeks to end the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank 208 She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation 209 and in 2009 Time magazine named her a European Hero in recognition of her work to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa 205 Thompson is also an active environmentalist She is a supporter of Greenpeace and in January 2009 as part of her campaign against climate change she and three other members of the organisation bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow Airport 210 In August 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56050 3 Branagh Kenneth 1989 Beginning St Martin s Press New York ISBN 0 312 05822 5 Shuttleworth Ian 1994 Ken and Em Headline Book Publishing London ISBN 0 7472 1225 2 Nickson Chris 1997 Emma The Many Facets of Emma Thompson Taylor Publishing ISBN 0 87833 965 5 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emma Thompson Wikiquote has quotations related to Emma Thompson Emma Thompson at IMDb Emma Thompson at the Internet Broadway Database Emma Thompson at the British Film Institute Emma Thompson at the BFI s Screenonline Emma Thompson at the TCM Movie Database Emma Thompson at Rotten Tomatoes Emma Thompson at AllMovie Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Emma Thompson amp oldid 1132034268, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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