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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 15, 1959
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- اما تامپسون
- 艾瑪湯普遜
Emma Thompson
5.4 Popularity
Biography
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emma Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
0.0
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2026
6.6
Dr. Rawlings
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
6.0
Self
The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20
2024
7.7
Self
Merchant Ivory
2024
6.0
Cath
What's Love Got to Do with It?
2023
4.0
Self
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
2022
6.8
Agatha Trunchbull
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2022
0.0
Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
7.0
Nancy Stokes
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2022
6.5
Lady Marcham
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2022
Credits
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
2026
0.0
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Dr. Rawlings
2025
6.6
The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
2024
6.0
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
7.7
What's Love Got to Do with It?
as Cath
2023
6.0
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
2022
4.0
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
as Agatha Trunchbull
2022
6.8
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
2022
0.0
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Nancy Stokes
2022
7.0
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Lady Marcham
2022
6.5
Twelve Nights
as Narrator
2021
0.0
An Audience with Adele
as Self
2021
8.3
Cruella
as The Baroness
2021
8.0
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
2021
4.5
How to Build a Girl
as Amanda
2020
5.7
Dolittle
as Poly (voice)
2020
6.6
Last Christmas
as Petra Andrich
2019
7.2
Extinction
2019
0.0
Hollywood's Dark Secret
as Self
2019
0.0
Men in Black: International
as Agent O
2019
5.9
Years and Years
as Vivienne Rook
2019
7.6
Missing Link
as Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
2019
6.9
Late Night
as Katherine Newbury
2019
6.4
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Prime Minister
2018
6.3
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
5.7
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
as Narrator (voice)
2018
0.0
The Children Act
as Fiona Maye
2018
6.6
King Lear
as Goneril
2018
6.1
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017
5.3
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
as Maureen Meyerowitz
2017
6.5
Beauty and the Beast
as Mrs. Potts
2017
7.0
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
as Elle-Même
2016
0.0
🎬
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
as Narrator (voice)
2016
0.0
To the Ends of the Earth
as Narrator (voice)
2016
0.0
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Dr Rawlings
2016
6.4
Alone in Berlin
as Anna Quangel
2016
6.7
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
as Narrator (voice)
2015
9.0
Burnt
as Dr. Rosshilde
2015
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.3
A Walk in the Woods
as Catherine Bryson
2015
6.1
The Legend of Barney Thomson
as Cemolina
2015
6.1
🎬
Funny Valentines
as Debbie
2015
6.0
Men, Women & Children
as Narrator (voice)
2014
6.4
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mrs. Lovett
2014
8.1
Effie Gray
as Lady Eastlake
2014
5.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
5.8
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
7.0
The Real Mary Poppins
as Self
2014
3.5
The Love Punch
as Kate Jones
2014
6.0
Saving Mr. Banks
as P.L. Travers
2013
7.3
Beautiful Creatures
as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
2013
6.0
Brave
as Elinor (voice)
2012
7.0
Walking the Dogs
as The Queen
2012
0.0
Men in Black 3
as Agent O
2012
6.5
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
2011
7.0
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
5.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Sybill Trelawney
2011
8.1
Fry and Laurie Reunited
as Self
2010
6.8
The Song of Lunch
as She
2010
6.5
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Nanny McPhee
2010
6.3
Creating the World of Harry Potter
as Self - 'Professor Trelawney'
2009
10.0
An Education
as Headmistress
2009
6.9
The Boat That Rocked
as Charlotte
2009
7.2
Last Chance Harvey
as Kate Walker
2008
6.3
Brideshead Revisited
as Lady Marchmain
2008
6.3
I Am Legend
as Dr. Alice Krippin
2007
7.2
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
2007
0.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Sybill Trelawney
2007
7.7
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
2007
7.2
Stranger Than Fiction
as Karen Eiffel
2006
7.3
Hoodwinked!
as Lesa (voice) (uncredited)
2005
6.2
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
2005
10.0
Nanny McPhee
as Nanny McPhee
2005
6.7
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
2005
0.0
🎬
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
6.1
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Sybill Trelawney
2004
8.0
Angels in America
as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel
2003
7.7
Imagining Argentina
as Cecilia Rueda
2003
5.6
QI
as Self
2003
7.9
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.7
Love Actually
as Karen
2003
7.1
Treasure Planet
as Captain Amelia (voice)
2002
7.6
Timeshift
as self
2002
7.0
Sucré salé
as Self
2002
9.3
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2001
5.8
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
as Self
2001
6.0
Wit
as Vivian Bearing
2001
7.4
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
2001
6.0
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
as Self
2001
6.0
Maybe Baby
as Druscilla
2000
5.4
Junket Whore
as Self
1998
0.0
Judas Kiss
as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
1998
5.7
Primary Colors
as Susan Stanton
1998
6.3
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
The Winter Guest
as Frances
1997
6.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.5
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.5
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
3.0
Hospital!
as Elephant Woman
1997
5.0
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
Sense and Sensibility
as Elinor Dashwood
1995
7.4
Carrington
as Dora Carrington
1995
6.2
Junior
as Dr. Diana Reddin
1994
5.2
The Blue Boy
as Marie Bonnar
1994
5.3
Ellen
as Emma Thompson
1994
6.2
My Father the Hero
as Isabel (uncredited)
1994
5.3
In the Name of the Father
as Gareth Peirce
1993
7.9
The Remains of the Day
as Miss Kenton
1993
7.4
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
1993
6.9
GMTV
as Self
1993
5.6
Peter's Friends
as Maggie Chester
1992
6.5
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Howards End
as Margaret Schlegel
1992
7.0
🎬
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Dead Again
as Margaret Strauss / Grace
1991
6.4
Impromptu
as Duchess D'Antan
1991
6.1
Tin Fish
1990
0.0
Look Back in Anger
as Alison Porter
1989
9.0
Henry V
as Katherine
1989
7.1
🎬
The Winslow Boy
as Catherine Winslow
1989
0.0
The Tall Guy
as Kate
1989
5.8
🎬
Thompson
as Self - Host
1988
1.0
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.5
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.5
Fortunes of War
as Harriet Pringle
1987
6.4
Tutti Frutti
as Suzi Kettles
1987
7.1
Slags
as Young Woman
1984
0.0
The Crystal Cube
as Jackie Meld / Various Roles
1983
6.5
Alfresco
as Various
1983
6.0
The Young Ones
as Miss Money-Sterling
1982
7.9
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Young Woman
1982
7.4
There's Nothing to Worry About!
as Various
1982
5.0
Cheers
as Nanny Gee
1982
7.6
The Cellar Tapes
as various
1982
6.8
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
🎬
The Val Doonican Music Show
1977
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
6.9
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.4
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Down Cemetery Road
as Zoë Boehm
N/A
0.0
The Dead of Winter
N/A
0.0
🎬
Hear Me Roar
as Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
N/A
0.0
🎬
How to Stop a Nuclear War
as Narrator
N/A
0.0
🎬
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self
N/A
0.0