Overview
Born : April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, England, UK
Birth Name : Emma Thompson
Height : 5' 7¾" (1.72 m)
Emma Thompson was brought into the world on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a group of entertainers - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-featured with Thompson in a few movies. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an entertainer also. Her dad was English-conceived and her mom is Scottish-conceived. Thompson's mind was developed by a merry, cunning, innovative family environment, and she was a well known and effective understudy. She went to Cambridge University, concentrating on English Literature, and was important for the college's Footlights Group, the well known gathering where, already, a significant number of the Monty Python individuals had initially met.
Thompson graduated in 1980 and set out on her profession in amusement, starting with spells on BBC radio and visiting with parody shows. She before long got her first significant break in TV, on the parody play program Alfresco (1983), composing and performing alongside her kindred Footlights Group alums Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. She likewise chipped away at other TV parody survey programs during the 1980s, at times with a portion of her kindred Footlights alums, and frequently with entertainer Robbie Coltrane.
Thompson ended up teaming up again with Fry in 1985, this time in his stage variation of the play "Me and My Girl" in London's West End, wherein she played a main part, playing Sally Smith. The show was a triumph and she got ideal audits, and the strength of her presentation prompted her giving a role as the lead in the BBC TV miniseries Fortunes of War (1987), in which Thompson and her co-star, Kenneth Branagh, play an English ex-patriate couple living in Eastern Europe as the Second World War ejects. Thompson won a BAFTA Award for her work on the program. She wedded Branagh in 1989, kept on working with him expertly, and framed a creation organization with him. In the last part of the 80s and mid 90s, she featured in a line of generally welcomed and fruitful TV and film creations, most eminently her lead job in the Merchant-Ivory creation of Howards End (1992), which affirmed her capacity to convey a film on the two sides of the Atlantic and properly gave her overseas distinctions - both an Oscar and a BAFTA grant.
From that point forward, Thompson has kept on moving easily between the workmanship film world and standard Hollywood, however even her Hollywood jobs will more often than not be in additional up-market creations. She keeps on dealing with TV also, yet is for the most part exceptionally particular with regards to what jobs she takes. She composes for the screen too, like the screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995), in which she likewise featured as Elinor Dashwood, and the teleplay transformation of Margaret Edson's acclaimed play Wit (2001), in which she additionally featured.
Thompson is known for her refined, capable, however her faultfinders say fairly mannered, exhibitions, and obviously for her curve mind, which she is unafraid to point at herself - she is a courageous self-comedian. Thompson and Branagh separated in 1994, and Thompson is currently hitched to individual entertainer Greg Wise, who had played Willoughby in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson and Wise have one youngster, Gaia, brought into the world in 1999.She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.
Mother, with spouse Greg Wise, of a little girl Gaia Wise (b. December 4, 1999) and embraced child Tindyebwa Agaba (b. 1987).
Positioned #91 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Joined in and moved on from Camden School for Girls, and the all-ladies Newnham College of Cambridge University with an English degree (1982). Jodhi May likewise went to Camden School for Girls.
She co-composed, co-created, and co-coordinated Cambridge University's first all-female revue "Lady's Hour" (1983).
Senior sister of Sophie Thompson.
Was named to the Board of Advisors for Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival (already Fahrenheit Theater Company) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Her mom is Phyllida Law, who has showed up in a few films with her.
Her dad was TV moderator Eric Thompson. He was generally well known for being the English storyteller of the French energized show The Magic Roundabout (1964).
She was initially ready to assume the part of "God" in Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999). She couldn't perform because of her pregnancy.
She turned down the job of Anna Leonowens in Anna and the King (1999), which went to Jodie Foster.
She was at first given a role as the lead job in Basic Instinct (1992), however denied later on. About Sharon Stone's appearance she said: "As may be obvious, from Sharon Stone's affection scene in Basic Instinct (1992), they shaped her body out of extreme Plasticine. She was shagging Michael Douglas like a jackass, and not an inch moved. Assuming that had been me, there would have been things zooming around hitting me in the eye.".
Lives across the road from her mom and down the road from her sister.
Her brother by marriage is Richard Lumsden, a British entertainer joke artist.
She was positioned fifth in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of most noteworthy British film entertainers.
Is one of just twelve entertainers who have been designated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award around the same time for their accomplishments in two unique motion pictures. The other eleven are Fay Bainter, Cate Blanchett, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (selected in the two classifications for a similar job in a similar film), Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Scarlett Johansson. Holly Hunter accepted her twofold selection around the same time that Thompson did.
Has one melody committed to her and named after her, on well known French artist Georges Moustaki's collection "Moustaki" (2003).
Is the main individual to have won Academy Awards for both acting and composing. She won Best Actress for Howards End (1992), and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Acknowledged the job of Professor Trelawny in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) to intrigue her little girl, Gaia.
Peruse English Literature at Cambridge University.
Used to keep her Oscar statuettes in her restroom yet needed to move her Oscars to account for her little girl Gaia's craftsmanship. She presently keeps them in her office.
Her exhibition as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (1993) is positioned #52 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
She was an individual from the Cambridge Footlights and in 1981, alongside Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Hugh Laurie, Paul Dwyer and Paul Shearer, she turned into the victor of the very first Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Has played Hugh Grant's adoration interest in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and his sister in Love Actually (2003).
Has won both of her Oscars for films that likewise included entertainers she would work with again in the Harry Potter films. Helena Bonham Carter, who showed up in Howards End (1992), additionally played Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Alan Rickman, who showed up in Sense and Sensibility (1995), had played Professor Severus Snape in eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011.
She was considered for the lead job of Emma Peel in the high-profile film variation of The Avengers (1998), which went to Uma Thurman.
Old buddies with Meryl Streep in the wake of featuring with her in Angels in America (2003).
However she isn't seen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) after her personality is terminated, it is her voice that talks the prediction that Harry recovers at the film's closure.
Was to leader produce the movie "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline", that should have been composed and coordinated by Fay Efrosini Lellios (1998). Entertainers Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Winslet, Rufus Sewell, Miranda Richardson and Paul McGann were engaged with the task. The shooting was set to begin in June 1998 in New Hampshire. The film was dropped because of monetary withdrawal.
While chipping away at the Oscar winning content for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Emma's PC fostered a major issue and she couldn't find the record. She took the PC to Stephen Fry who, following seven hours, at long last figured out how to recover the content.
Ex-sister-in-law of Joyce Branagh.
Gotten back to work eight months in the wake of bringing forth her girl Gaia to start recording Wit (2001).
Old buddies with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hayley Atwell.
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6714 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 6, 2010. Among the individuals who assisted her with celebrating were Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Laurie.
Met spouse to-be Greg Wise on the arrangement of Sense and Sensibility (1995).
First experience of Los Angeles happened in 1973 when, at age 14, she went with her dad Eric Thompson who was booked to coordinate a dramatic creation of Alan Ayckbourn's "The Norman Conquests" at the Ahmanson Theater. Incidentally, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (contiguous the Ahmanson) would be the place where, 20 years on, Thompson was granted her first Best Actress Oscar for Howards End (1992) in 1993.
On August 7, 2010, she was granted a Star (#2416) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just external the 'English' milestone bar the Pig 'n' Whistle. Long-lasting companion Hugh Laurie, likewise a previous beau during students at Cambridge University... was available to convey affectionate expressions of honor.
Prior to bringing forth her little girl Gaia in 1999, Thompson became pregnant by her then-spouse Kenneth Branagh in 1994 and accomplice Greg Wise in 1997; she endured unsuccessful labors on the two events. Thompson and Wise utilized IVF to imagine Gaia.
A few of her Harry Potter castmates have showed up in her Nanny McPhee films too: Imelda Staunton, Kelly Macdonald, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith and Rhys Ifans.
Has been dearest companions with Simon McBurney since the time they were teens.As indicated by a 2012 Guardian profile of Emma Thompson, in 2003, she and Greg Wise (who had as of now had their little girl, Gaia), casually embraced a teen kid. Their child, Tindyebwa ("Tindy") Agaba, was a previous kid trooper from Rwanda whom Thompson initially met when he was 16 at a party for the cause association the Refugee Council. Tindy's family had passed on previously or during the Rwandan massacre, and after he got away from his constrained kid trooper hood, he lived in the city of London prior to getting help from the Refugee Council.
Thompson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hanks, Daniel Brühl, Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams are the main entertainers to get a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Award assignment for a similar exhibition and afterward neglect to be Oscar-named for it: for their exhibitions in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Departed (2006), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Rust and Bone (2012), Captain Phillips (2013), Rush (2013),Nightcrawler (2014) and Arrival (2016), separately.
Has won two Oscars and at the two functions, her statuettes were introduced to her by incessant co-star Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Starting at 2018, has showed up in five movies that were selected for the Best Picture Oscar: Howards End (1992), In the Name of the Father (1993), The Remains of the Day (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995) and An Education (2009). She was Oscar selected for her exhibitions in these movies with the exception of An Education.
Was the 105th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Howards End (1992) at The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993) on March 29, 1993.
Had done an uncredited last cleaning of the screenplay for Paddington (2014).
She showed up in four movies coordinated by her then, at that point, spouse Kenneth Branagh: Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), Peter's Friends (1992) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
Is the main cast part to play a Shakespearian part straightforwardly after a British debut participation, upon that very day as the job other co-stars matched Emma Thompson's joined/on the side of a Shakespeare themed occasion. [May 1989]
Whenever she won the Best Actress Oscar for her exhibition in Howards End (1992), she got that from Sir Anthony Hopkins, who had been her co-star in that film. The following year, she introduced the Best Actor Oscar to Tom Hanks for his exhibition in Philadelphia (1993). The two would co-star in Saving Mr. Banks (2013).
Shares her birthday with her Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson (April 15).
Alongside Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson, she is one of just twelve entertainers to get Academy Award designations in two acting classes around the same time. She was designated for Best Actress for The Remains of the Day (1993) and Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father (1993) at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994. Tracker was in like manner designated for the two honors at the 66th Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Piano (1993).
In 2016, Emma Thompson played a super charged variant of herself in the parody web series High Road. The exhibition acquired Thompson a "Best Guest Actress - Comedy" designation at the eighth Annual Indie Series Awards. Her better half, Greg Wise, is likewise designated for his work in a similar episode. Champs will be declared at the ISAs function in Los Angeles on April 5, 2017.
Is one of three entertainers who have won both the Best Actress Oscar (hers being for Howards End (1992)) and the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy (hers being for Ellen (1994)). Different entertainers are Gwyneth Paltrow and Kathy Bates.
She was granted Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honors List for her administrations to show. She is an entertainer in London, England.
Both Emma and her more youthful sister, Sophie Thompson, met their future spouses - Greg Wise and Richard Lumsden separately - on the arrangement of Sense and Sensibility (1995).
During the Primary Colors (1998) shoot after her separation from Kenneth Branagh had at last been settled, Emma was in her trailer when a call came straightforwardly through to her from Donald Trump who offered her convenience in Trump Tower with the possibility of a supper date. Incidentally, he also had quite recently been separated from Marla Maples. Prophetic, considering Emma was playing a person in view of Hillary Clinton who might turn into Trump's opponent during his run for the administration in 2016.
In 2003, Thompson and her significant other Greg Wise casually embraced a Rwandan vagrant and previous youngster officer named Tindyebwa Agaba. They met at a Refugee Council occasion when he was 16, and she welcomed him to spend Christmas at their home. "Gradually", Thompson has remarked, "he turned into a kind of long-lasting apparatus, came on vacation to Scotland with us, turned out to be essential for the family." Agaba turned into a British resident in 2009.
Playfully referred to her little girl Gaia as "jane.com".
She was the first decision for the female lead in Quite a while (1985). Notwithstanding, she was inaccessible as she won the lead in the melodic "Me and My Girl".
First on-screen kiss was with Jeff Goldblum in The Tall Guy (1989).
Her guardian is the essayist, chief and maker Ronald Eyre.
List of Emma Thompson Movies
- Matilda (filming)
- What's Love Got to Do with It? (post-production)
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Twelve Nights (Video short)
- Cruella
- Dolittle
- Last Christmas
- Extinction (Short)
- How to Build a Girl
- Men in Black: International
- Missing Link
- Late Night
- Johnny English Strikes Again
- Greenpeace: There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom (Video short)
- King Lear (TV Movie)
- Upstart Crow (TV Series)
- The Children Act
- The Meyerowitz Stories
- Beauty and the Beast
- High Road (TV Series short)
- The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science (Short)
- Bridget Jones's Baby
- Alone in Berlin
- Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity (Video short)
- Burnt
- The Legend of Barney Thomson
- Love Song (Short)
- Funny Valentines (TV Mini Series)
- A Walk in the Woods
- Effie Gray
- Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series)
- Men, Women & Children
- Saving Mr. Banks
- The Love Punch
- Beautiful Creatures
- Brave
- Playhouse Presents (TV Series)
- Men in Black 3
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- The Song of Lunch (TV Movie)
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
- The Boat That Rocked
- An Education
- Last Chance Harvey
- Brideshead Revisited
- I Am Legend
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Stranger Than Fiction
- Nanny McPhee
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Treasure Planet Read-Along DVD (Video short)
- Love Actually
- Imagining Argentina
- Sense and Sensibility: Deleted Scenes (Video short)
- Treasure Planet (Video Game)
- Treasure Planet
- Wit (TV Movie)
- Maybe Baby
- Judas Kiss
- Primary Colors
- Ellen (TV Series)
- The Winter Guest
- Hospital! (TV Movie)
- Sense and Sensibility
- Carrington
- Junior
- The Blue Boy (TV Movie)
- My Father the Hero
- In the Name of the Father
- The Remains of the Day
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Peter's Friends
- Howards End
- Cheers (TV Series)
- Dead Again
- Impromptu
- Look Back in Anger (TV Movie)
- Henry V
- Theatre Night (TV Series)
- The Tall Guy
- Managing Problem People. Behavioral Skills for Leaders
- Thompson (TV Series)
- Saturday Live (TV Series)
- Assaulted Nuts (TV Series)
- Alfresco (TV Series)
- The Young Ones (TV Series)
- The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series)
- The Crystal Cube (TV Movie)
- Carrott's Lib (TV Series)
- There's Nothing to Worry About! (TV Series) & Many More….
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