Cast
Emma Thompson
Acting
Cast
Emma Thompson
Known for
Acting
Born
1959-04-15
From
Paddington, London, England, UK
Also known as Dame Emma Thompson
Biography
Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 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.
★7.9
MOVIE2026
The Sheep Detectives
as Lydia Harbottle
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Sybill Trelawney
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Sybill Trelawney
★7.0
MOVIE2012
Brave
as Elinor (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Sybill Trelawney
★8.0
MOVIE2021
Cruella
as The Baroness
★7.2
MOVIE2007
I Am Legend
as Dr. Alice Krippin
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Beauty and the Beast
as Mrs. Potts
★5.9
MOVIE2019
Men in Black: International
as Agent O
★7.6
MOVIE2002
Treasure Planet
as Captain Amelia (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2025
Dead of Winter
as Barb
★6.6
MOVIE2020
Dolittle
as Poly (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2012
Men in Black 3
as Agent O
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Love Actually
as Karen
★7.4
MOVIE1995
Sense and Sensibility
as Elinor Dashwood
★6.3
MOVIE2018
Johnny English Strikes Again
as Prime Minister
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Nanny McPhee
as Nanny McPhee
★6.8
MOVIE2022
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
as Agatha Trunchbull
★6.4
MOVIE2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Dr Rawlings
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
as Nanny McPhee
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
as Nancy Stokes
★6.4
MOVIE2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Dr Rawlings
★6.9
MOVIE2019
Missing Link
as Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2013
Beautiful Creatures
as Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
★6.5
MOVIE2014
Men, Women & Children
as Narrator (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE2019
Last Christmas
as Petra Andrich
★5.7
MOVIE2003
Imagining Argentina
as Cecilia Rueda
★7.3
MOVIE2013
Saving Mr. Banks
as P.L. Travers
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The Boat That Rocked
as Charlotte
★7.0
MOVIE1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
★7.9
MOVIE1993
In the Name of the Father
as Gareth Peirce
★6.1
MOVIE2015
A Walk in the Woods
as Catherine Bryson
★7.4
MOVIE1993
The Remains of the Day
as Miss Kenton
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Junior
as Dr. Diana Reddin
★7.3
MOVIE2006
Stranger Than Fiction
as Karen Eiffel
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Howards End
as Margaret Schlegel
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Brideshead Revisited
as Lady Marchmain
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Burnt
as Dr. Rosshilde
★6.5
MOVIE2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
as Maureen Meyerowitz
★6.9
MOVIE2009
An Education
as Headmistress
★5.0
MOVIE1998
Junket Whore
as Self
★6.4
MOVIE2019
Late Night
as Katherine Newbury
★5.9
MOVIE2014
Effie Gray
as Lady Eastlake
★6.6
MOVIE2018
The Children Act
as Fiona Maye
★6.4
MOVIE1991
Dead Again
as Margaret Strauss / Grace
★8.3
MOVIE2026
Everybody to Kenmure Street
as Van Guy
★7.7
MOVIE2024
Merchant Ivory
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2018
King Lear
as Goneril
★6.1
MOVIE1991
Impromptu
as Duchess D'Antan
★6.0
MOVIE2014
The Love Punch
as Kate
★7.2
MOVIE2011
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE2020
How to Build a Girl
as Amanda
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Last Chance Harvey
as Kate Walker
★5.4
MOVIE1994
My Father the Hero
as Isabel (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Primary Colors
as Susan Stanton
★8.4
MOVIE2021
An Audience with Adele
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE1989
Henry V
as Katherine
★6.1
MOVIE2023
What's Love Got to Do with It?
as Cath Stevenson
★10.0
MOVIE2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Wit
as Vivian Bearing
★4.0
MOVIE2014
The Real Mary Poppins
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2010
Fry and Laurie Reunited
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1997
The Winter Guest
as Frances
★6.7
MOVIE2016
Alone in Berlin
as Anna Quangel
★4.5
MOVIE2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
as Cemolina
★5.7
MOVIE1989
The Tall Guy
as Kate
MOVIE1990
Tin Fish
★6.3
MOVIE1994
The Blue Boy
as Marie Bonnar
MOVIE2009
Locating the World of Sense & Sensibility
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1989
The Winslow Boy
as Catherine Winslow
★6.6
MOVIE1992
Peter's Friends
as Maggie Chester
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Judas Kiss
as FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
★5.4
MOVIE2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE2010
The Song of Lunch
as She
MOVIE2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
★6.6
MOVIE2024
Bad Tidings
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1982
The Cellar Tapes
as various
MOVIE2009
A Sense of Character
as Self
★9.3
MOVIE1989
Look Back in Anger
as Alison Porter
★7.0
MOVIE2022
The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later – A Diane Sawyer Special
as Self
★5.4
MOVIE2000
Maybe Baby
as Druscilla
MOVIETBA
Hear Me Roar
as Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
MOVIE2007
Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out
as Self
MOVIE1989
Colleagues From Hell
MOVIE2009
Elegance & Simplicity: The Wardrobe of Sense & Sensibility
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1995
Carrington
as Dora Carrington
★5.3
MOVIE2017
Sea Sorrow
as Self
MOVIE2009
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2015
Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2016
To the Ends of the Earth
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2001
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1997
Hospital!
as Elephant Woman
MOVIE1984
Royal Variety Performance 1984
MOVIE2012
Walking the Dogs
as The Queen
★8.1
MOVIE2014
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Mrs. Lovett
MOVIE1991
Rabbit Ears - The White Cat
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
MOVIETBA
James Ivory: In Search of Love and Beauty
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2005
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
★2.0
MOVIE1984
Slags
as Young Woman
★7.0
MOVIE2001
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
as Self
MOVIE2016
Die vielen Gesichter der Emma Thompson
as Elle-Même
MOVIE2019
Hollywood's Dark Secret
as Self
MOVIE2019
Extinction
MOVIE2016
The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIETBA
How to Stop a Nuclear War
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2018
Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom
as Narrator (voice)