Born April 19, 1959, in London, Emma Thompson is the daughter of actress Phyllida Law. While studying English Literature at Cambridge, Thompson also began acting and got her professional start on BBC sitcoms in the late 1980s.She made her film debut with 1989's The Tall Guy, followed the same year with Henry V, the first of four films she made with then-husband Kenneth Branagh. She won a Best Actress Academy Award for Howards End and was also nominated for In the Name of the Father, Remains of the Day and Sense and Sensibility.
Her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility also earned Thompson her second Oscar (for Best Adapted Screenplay), making her the first person to win both acting and writing Oscars. After playing a thinly disguised Hilary Clinton in Primary Colors (1998), Thompson also did award-winning work in TV movies, including Wit and Angels in America.
AddLast Chance HarveyDustin Hoffman stars in this romantic drama as struggling jingle writer Harvey Shine, an aging father who risks losing his job to attend his daughter's London wedding, only to discover that he's not exactly welcome. While seeking refuge in the airport bar, Harvey meets a lonely statistician named... Read More
AddLove ActuallyWriter-director Richard Curtis's charming treatise on romance and relationships is an all-star ensemble comedy that tells 10 separate (but intertwining) London love stories, leading up to a spirited climax on Christmas Eve. One of the threads follows the newly installed Prime Minister (Hugh Grant),... Read More
AddBrideshead RevisitedImpressionable Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) becomes enthralled with the lifestyle of effete Oxford schoolmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) after spending the summer holiday at his patrician family's well-appointed estate, Brideshead Castle. During the course of two world wars, Charles is drawn... Read More
AddNanny McPheeThe recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and his domineering aunt (Angela Lansbury) can't seem to control the numerous and naughty Brown children until Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) -- a character based on the popular Nurse Matilda books by British author Christianna Brand -- comes to... Read More
AddIn the Name of the FatherNominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to... Read More
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