Dame Emma Thompson\u00a0(born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.\u00a0Her work\u00a0spans over four decades of screen and stage, and\u00a0her accolades\u00a0include two\u00a0Academy Awards, three\u00a0BAFTA Awards, two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards\u00a0and a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0for her contributions to\u00a0drama.<\/p>\n
Born to actors\u00a0Eric Thompson\u00a0and\u00a0Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at\u00a0Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the\u00a0Footlights\u00a0troupe and appeared in the comedy sketch series\u00a0Alfresco\u00a0(1983\u20131984). In 1985, she starred in the\u00a0West End\u00a0revival of the musical\u00a0Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she became famous for her performances in two\u00a0BBC\u00a0series,\u00a0Tutti Frutti\u00a0and\u00a0Fortunes of War, winning the\u00a0BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress\u00a0for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director\u00a0Kenneth Branagh in films such as\u00a0Henry V\u00a0(1989),\u00a0Dead Again\u00a0(1991), and\u00a0Much Ado About Nothing\u00a0(1993).<\/p>\n
Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the\u00a0Merchant-Ivory\u00a0period drama\u00a0Howards End\u00a0(1992). In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations\u2014Best Actress and\u00a0Best Supporting Actress\u2014for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in\u00a0The Remains of the Day\u00a0and a lawyer in\u00a0In the Name of the Father, becoming one of\u00a0the few actors\u00a0to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in\u00a0Sense and Sensibility\u00a0(1995), for which she won the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay\u2014making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing\u2014and once again won the BAFTA. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in\u00a0Primary Colors\u00a0(1998),\u00a0Love Actually\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Saving Mr. Banks\u00a0(2013),\u00a0Late Night\u00a0(2019), and\u00a0Good Luck to You, Leo Grande\u00a0(2022).<\/p>\n
Other notable film credits include the\u00a0Harry Potter\u00a0series\u00a0(2004\u20132011),\u00a0Nanny McPhee\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Stranger than Fiction\u00a0(2006),\u00a0An Education\u00a0(2009),\u00a0Men in Black 3\u00a0(2012) and the spin-off\u00a0Men in Black: International\u00a0(2019),\u00a0Brave\u00a0(2012),\u00a0Beauty and the Beast\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Cruella\u00a0(2021), and\u00a0Matilda the Musical\u00a0(2022). Her television credits include\u00a0Wit\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Angels in America\u00a0(2003),\u00a0The Song of Lunch\u00a0(2010),\u00a0King Lear\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0Years and Years\u00a0(2019). She portrayed\u00a0Mrs. Lovett\u00a0in a\u00a0Lincoln Center\u00a0production of\u00a0Stephen Sondheim’s\u00a0Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u00a0in 2014. Authorised by the publishers of\u00a0Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three\u00a0Peter Rabbit\u00a0children’s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dame Emma Thompson\u00a0(born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.\u00a0Her work\u00a0spans over four decades of screen and stage, and\u00a0her accolades\u00a0include two\u00a0Academy Awards, three\u00a0BAFTA Awards, two\u00a0Golden Globe Awards\u00a0and a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II\u00a0for her contributions to\u00a0drama. Born to actors\u00a0Eric Thompson\u00a0and\u00a0Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at\u00a0Newnham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-189","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n