Cast
Emily Watson
Acting
Cast
Emily Watson
Known for
Acting
Born
1967-01-14
From
Islington, London, England, UK
Also known as Emily Anita Watson, Emily Margaret Watson
Biography
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998). Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024). and A Pariare Farm Girl ( 2026). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy. Watson is a supporter of the children's charity the NSPCC. In 2004, she was inducted into the society's hall of fame for spearheading the successful campaign to appoint a Children's Commissioner for England. Receiving her award in the crowded House of Commons, she spoke out against the possibility that the Children's Commissioner become a figurehead with little real power.
★7.7
MOVIE2025
Hamnet
as Mary
★7.6
MOVIE2005
Corpse Bride
as Victoria Everglot (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Chief of Staff Fox
★7.3
MOVIE2011
War Horse
as Rose Narracott
★7.8
MOVIE2014
The Theory of Everything
as Beryl Wilde
★6.8
MOVIE2015
Everest
as Helen Wilton
★6.7
MOVIE2012
Anna Karenina
as Countess Lydia Ivanova
★6.4
MOVIE2025
Steve
as Jenny
★7.5
MOVIE2013
The Book Thief
as Rosa Hubermann
★6.5
MOVIE2007
The Water Horse
as Anne MacMorrow
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Equilibrium
as Mary O'Brien
MOVIETBA
The Clockmaker’s Secret: Lost in Spindlewood
as The Keeper of the Keys
★7.1
MOVIE2013
Belle
as Lady Mansfield
★7.5
MOVIE2008
Synecdoche, New York
as Tammy
★7.3
MOVIE2015
Testament of Youth
as Mrs. Brittain
★6.1
MOVIE2025
The Legend of Ochi
as Dasha
★6.6
MOVIE2021
Monster Family 2
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Punch-Drunk Love
as Lena Leonard
MOVIETBA
London Fog: A Ruby Gale Mystery
as (The Detective)
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Monster Family
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE2001
Gosford Park
as Elsie
MOVIETBA
A Christmas Child
as Emily Watson ( Self/Narrator )
★6.6
MOVIE2006
Miss Potter
as Millie Warne
★6.9
MOVIE2010
Oranges and Sunshine
as Margaret Humphreys
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Little Boy
as Emma Busbee
★6.1
MOVIE2018
On Chesil Beach
as Violet Ponting
★6.1
MOVIE2018
King Lear
as Regan
★7.3
MOVIE1999
Angela's Ashes
as Angela McCourt
★7.5
MOVIE1996
Breaking the Waves
as Bess McNeill
★6.2
MOVIE2018
The Happy Prince
as Constance Wilde
★6.7
MOVIE2024
Small Things Like These
as Sister Mary
★7.0
MOVIE2005
The Proposition
as Martha Stanley
★6.4
MOVIE1997
The Mill on the Floss
as Maggie Tulliver
★6.2
MOVIE2000
The Luzhin Defence
as Natalia Katkov
★6.6
MOVIE1998
Hilary and Jackie
as Jackie du Pré
MOVIETBA
Amri
as Marie Antoinette Gottesman
★5.0
MOVIE2002
Ballchewer
as Self
MOVIETBA
Holly Noel: The Winter Ball (Christmas 3)
as ( Host )
★6.2
MOVIE2008
Fireflies in the Garden
as Jane Lawrence
★6.3
MOVIE2024
Midas Man
as Queenie Epstein
★5.3
MOVIE2015
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
as Miss Trinklebury
★5.1
MOVIE2013
Some Girl(s)
as Lindsay
★6.1
MOVIE2022
God's Creatures
as Aileen O'Hara
★5.0
MOVIE2009
Within the Whirlwind
as Evgenia Ginzburg
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Cradle Will Rock
as Olive Stanton
★6.5
MOVIE2015
A Royal Night Out
as Queen Elizabeth
★6.7
MOVIE1997
The Boxer
as Maggie Hamill
MOVIETBA
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2015
The Dresser
as Her Ladyship
★5.9
MOVIE2005
Wah-Wah
as Ruby Compton
MOVIE2025
Inside Look: Hamnet
as Self (archive footage)
★6.5
MOVIE2010
Cemetery Junction
as Mrs. Kendrick
★4.8
MOVIE2000
Trixie
as Trixie Zurbo
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Red Dragon
as Reba McClane
MOVIE1994
A Summer Day's Dream
★7.0
MOVIE1998
In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
as Caroline Gil
★4.2
MOVIE2011
Meerkats 3D
as Narrator
★5.8
MOVIE1997
Metroland
as Marion
★6.6
MOVIE2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Anne Sellers
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Cold Souls
as Claire
★5.8
MOVIE2005
Separate Lies
as Anne Manning
★5.3
MOVIE2002
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Crusade in Jeans
as Mary Vega
★7.4
MOVIE1997
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
MOVIETBA
Fado!
★6.5
MOVIE2015
A Song for Jenny
as Julie Nicholson
MOVIETBA
Late in Summer
MOVIETBA
Midday Sun
as Sarah
★7.8
MOVIE2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2018
Weinstein
as Narrator (voice)