Born
15 April 1959 (66)
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
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 app...
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.
The Sheep Detectives
2026
Everybody to Kenmure Street
2026
Dead of Winter
2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
Bad Tidings
2024
Merchant Ivory
2024
What's Love Got to Do with It?
2023
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2022
An Audience with Adele
2021
Cruella
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
How to Build a Girl
2020
Dolittle
2020
Last Christmas
2019
Extinction
2019
Hollywood's Dark Secret
2019
Men in Black: International
2019
Missing Link
2019
Late Night
2019
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
2018
The Children Act
2018
King Lear
2018
Sea Sorrow
2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
Beauty and the Beast
2017
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
2016
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
2016
To the Ends of the Earth
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
Alone in Berlin
2016
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
2015
Burnt
2015
A Walk in the Woods
2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
2015
Men, Women & Children
2014