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Emma Thompson

Birth date: 15.04.1959

Emma Thompson was born in London on April 15, 1959, into a family of actors - her father was Eric Thompson, who has passed away, and her mother, Phyllida Law, has co-starred with Thompson in several films (her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well). Thompson's wit was earlier cultivated by a cheerful, clever, creative family atmosphere, and she was a popular and successful student. She attended Cambridge University, studying English Literature, and was part of the university's Footlights Group, the famous group where, previously, many of the Monty Python members had first met. Thompson graduated in 1980 and embarked on her career in entertainment, beginning with stints on BBC radio and touring with comedy shows. She soon got her first major break in television, on the comedy skit program "Alfresco" (1983), writing and performing along with her fellow Footlights Group alums Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. She also worked on other TV comedy review programs in the mid-1980s, occasionally with some of her fellow Footlights alums, and often with actor Robbie Coltrane. Thompson found herself collaborating again with Fry in 1985, this time in his stage adaptation of the play "Me and My Girl" in London's West End, in which she had a leading role, playing Sally Smith. The show was a success and she received favorable reviews, and the strength of her performance led to her casting as the lead in the BBC television miniseries "Fortunes of War" (1987) (mini), in which Thompson and her co-star, Kenneth Branagh, play an English ex-patriate couple living in Eastern Europe as the Second World War erupts. Thompson won a BAFTA award for her work on the program. She married Branagh in 1989, continued to work with him professionally, and formed a production company with him. In the late 80s and early 90s, she starred in a string of well-received and successful television and film productions, most notably her lead role in the Merchant-Ivory production of Howards End (1992), which confirmed her ability to carry a movie on both sides of the Atlantic and appropriately showered her with trans-Atlantic honors - both an Oscar and a BAFTA award. Since then, Thompson has continued to move effortlessly between the art film world and mainstream Hollywood, though even her Hollywood roles tend to be in more up-market productions. She continues to work on television as well, but is generally very selective about which roles she takes. She writes for the screen as well, such as the screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995), in which she also starred as Elinor Dashwood, and the teleplay adaptation of Margaret Edson's acclaimed play Wit (2001) (TV), in which she also starred. Thompson is known for her sophisticated, skillful, though her critics say somewhat mannered, performances, and of course for her arch wit, which she is unafraid to point at herself - she is a fearless self-satirist. Thompson and Branagh divorced in 1994, and Thompson is now married to fellow actor Greg Wise, who had played Willoughby in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson and Wise have one child, Gaia, born in 1999.

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Filmography

# Last Chance Harvey movie download page (2008) # Brideshead Revisited (2008) .... Lady Marchmain # I Am Legend movie download page (2007) (uncredited) .... TV Doctor ... aka I Am Legend movie download page: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie download page (2007) .... Sybil Trelawney ... aka Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie download page: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) ... aka The Order of the Phoenix (USA: short title) # Stranger Than Fiction movie download page (2006) .... Karen Eiffel # Nanny McPhee (2005) .... Nanny McPhee ... aka Nanny McPhee (France) # Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie download page (2004) .... Professor Sybil Trelawney ... aka Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie download page: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version) # "Angels in America" .... Homeless Woman / ... (6 episodes, 2003) - Millennium Approaches: Chapter Three - The Messenger (2003) TV episode .... Nurse Emily/Homeless Woman/The Angel of America - Perestroika: Chapter Five - Beyond Nelly (2003) TV episode .... Nurse Emily/Homeless Woman/The Angel of America - Millennium Approaches: Chapter One - Bad News (2003) TV episode .... Nurse Emily/Homeless Woman/The Angel of America - Millennium Approaches: Chapter Two - In Vitro (2003) TV episode .... Nurse Emily/Homeless Woman/The Angel of America - Perestroika: Chapter Four - Stop Moving! (2003) TV episode .... Nurse Emily/Homeless Woman/The Angel of America (1 more) # Imagining Argentina (2003) .... Cecilia Rueda # Love Actually (2003) .... Karen # Treasure Planet (2002) (voice) .... Captain Amelia # Wit (2001) (TV) .... Vivian Bearing # Maybe Baby (2000) .... Druscilla # Judas Kiss (1998) .... FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins # Primary Colors (1998) .... Susan Stanton ... aka Mit aller Macht (Germany) ... aka Primary Colors (France) # The Winter Guest (1997) .... Frances # Hospital! (1997) (TV) .... Elephant Woman # Sense and Sensibility (1995) .... Elinor Dashwood # Carrington (1995) .... Dora Carrington # Junior (1994) .... Dr. Diana Reddin # The Blue Boy (1994) (TV) .... Marie Bonnar # My Father the Hero (1994) (uncredited) .... Isabel ... aka My father, ce héros (France) # In the Name of the Father (1993) .... Gareth Peirce # The Remains of the Day (1993) .... Mary Kenton # Much Ado About Nothing (1993) .... Beatrice # Peter's Friends (1992) .... Maggie Chester # Howards End (1992) .... Margaret J. 'Meg' Schlegel # "Cheers" .... Nanette Guzman (1 episode, 1992) - One Hugs, the Other Doesn't (1992) TV episode .... Nanette Guzman # Dead Again (1991) .... Grace / Margaret Strauss # Impromptu (1991) .... Duchess D'Antan # The Winslow Boy (1990) (TV) .... Catherine Winslow # Henry V (1989) .... Katherine # The Tall Guy (1989) .... Kate Lemmon # Look Back in Anger (1989) (TV) .... Alison Porter # Knuckle (1989) (TV) # "Thompson" (1988) TV series .... Various roles (unknown episodes) # "Fortunes of War" (1987) (mini) TV mini-series .... Harriet Pringle # "Tutti Frutti" .... Suzy Kettles (6 episodes, 1987) - A Wop-Boppa Loo-Bop a Wop-Bam Boom (1987) TV episode .... Suzy Kettles - Love Hurts (1987) TV episode .... Suzy Kettles - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O (1987) TV episode .... Suzy Kettles - Gin a Body, Dig a Body (1987) TV episode .... Suzy Kettles - On the Road Again (1987) TV episode .... Suzy Kettles (1 more) # Emma Thompson: Up for Grabs (1985) (TV) # "Assaulted Nuts" (1985) TV series .... Various # "The Young Ones" .... Miss Money Sterling (1 episode, 1984) - Bambi movie download page (1984) TV episode .... Miss Money Sterling # "The Comic Strip Presents..." .... Young Woman (1 episode, 1984) - Slags (1984) TV episode .... Young Woman # The Crystal Cube (1983) (TV) .... Jackie Meld/Various roles # "Alfresco" .... Various roles (1 episode, 1983) - Episode #1.1 (1983) TV episode # "There's Nothing to Worry About!" (3 episodes, 1982) - Episode #1.3 (1982) TV episode - Episode #1.2 (1982) TV episode - Episode #1.1 (1982) TV episode # Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982) (TV) .... Various Characters