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Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. Thompson's wit was cultivated by a cheerful, clever, creative family atmosphere, and she was a popular and successful student. She attended Cambridge University, studying English Literature, and was part of the university's Footlights Group, the famous group where, previously, many of the Monty Python members had first met.
Thompson graduated in 1980 and embarked on her career in entertainment, beginning with stints on BBC radio and touring with comedy shows. She soon got her first major break in television, on the comedy skit program Alfresco (1983), writing and performing along with her fellow Footlights Group alums Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. She also worked on other TV comedy review programs in the mid-1980s, occasionally with some of her fellow Footlights alums, and often with actor Robbie Coltrane.
Thompson found herself collaborating again with Fry in 1985, this time in his stage adaptation of the play "Me and My Girl" in London's West End, in which she had a leading role, playing Sally Smith. The show was a success and she received favorable reviews, and the strength of her performance led to her casting as the lead in the BBC television 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 erupts. Thompson won a BAFTA Award for her work on the program. She married Branagh in 1989, continued to work with him professionally, and formed a production company with him. In the late 80s and early 90s, she starred in a string of well-received and successful television and film productions, most notably her lead role in the Merchant-Ivory production of Howards End (1992), which confirmed her ability to carry a movie on both sides of the Atlantic and appropriately showered her with trans-Atlantic honors - both an Oscar and a BAFTA award.
Since then, Thompson has continued to move effortlessly between the art film world and mainstream Hollywood, though even her Hollywood roles tend to be in more up-market productions. She continues to work on television as well, but is generally very selective about which roles she takes. She writes for the screen as well, such as the screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995), in which she also starred as Elinor Dashwood, and the teleplay adaptation of Margaret Edson's acclaimed play Wit (2001), in which she also starred.
Thompson is known for her sophisticated, skillful, though her critics say somewhat mannered, performances, and of course for her arch wit, which she is unafraid to point at herself - she is a fearless self-satirist. Thompson and Branagh divorced in 1994, and Thompson is now married to fellow actor Greg Wise, who had played Willoughby in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson and Wise have one child, Gaia, born 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.- Emma Thompson is known for The Next Three Days (2019).
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- Emma has enjoyed over 15 local/regional theater productions, most notably Christmas Magic in Manhattan at the Palace Theater and Les Miserables at Center Stage in Austin, Texas.
Emma performed Carmina Burana at the Long Center for the Performing Arts alongside the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Austin for their 50th anniversary season finale.
Emma was recently cast as Laken Rice in The Things We've Seen. - Actress
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Emma Thompson is known for House of Jack (2012).- Producer
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Emma Thompson is known for Matarife (2020) and La Fallacia del Cecchino Texano (2022).- Additional Crew
Emma Thompson is known for Formula 1: BBC Sport (2009).- Emma Thompson is known for Around Robin (2021).
- Emma Thompson is known for Blink If You Can Hear Me (2015).
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Emma Thompson is known for Bantam (2011).- Emma Thompson is known for Blink If You Can Hear Me (2015).
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Emma Thompson is known for Tramonto a Nord Ovest (2023).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Emma Thompson-McLeod is known for Moeder (2012).- Emma Thompson is known for Last Seen Online (2016).
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Emma Thompson is known for Antaries (2019) and The Game (2011).- Emma Thompson is known for The Last Days of Edgar Harding (2011).
- Emma Jean Thompson is known for It's Happening Right Here (2022).
- Emma Thompson is known for The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science (2016).
- Emma Thompson is known for Drunk History: Australia (2020).
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Emma Jane Thompson is known for Little Mix: Woman Like Me feat. Nicki Minaj (Vertical Video) (2018), Bubbles and the Shitrockers (2024) and Alexis Ffrench: Dreamland (2019).- Emma Thompson is known for Starstruck (2023).
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Emma Thompson is known for Hunter Flanagan: Camp Analog Blues (2019).