Emma Thompson
Growing up in England, Emma Thompson gravitated towards writing and the arts, eventually pursuing an English degree at Newnham College at Cambridge. While there, she began to find her calling to acting, especially when she joined the school's sketch comedy group that included the likes of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. As she finished her time in school, she began to work her way onto the small screen, starting to break out in the mid-1980s with roles on shows such as "Tutti Frutti" (BBC 1987) and "Fortunes of War" (BBC1 1987), the latter of which is where she met her first husband Kenneth Branagh, who she would also go on to work with on a variety of films, including "Henry V" (1989), "Dead Again" (1991), and "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993). Her role in the Anthony Hopkins-starring "Howards End" (1992) drew her much acclaim and earned Thompson numerous Best Actress accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. The following year, she joined the exclusive club of getting a nomination for two projects, in this case, for "In the Name of the Father" (1993) and "The Remains of the Day" (1993), though she won neither award. Her marriage with Branagh ended around the same time as "Sense and Sensibility" (1995) debuted, which Thompson starred in and also wrote. Both her performance and her screenplay received critical acclaim, resulting in another Oscar win, this time for Best Adapted Screenplay. Following that, Thompson focused her acting more on the small screen again, finding plaudits for her work in various miniseries and TV movies including "Wit" (HBO 2001) and "Angels in America" (HBO 2003). Around the same time, she also appeared as Professor Trelawney in multiple Harry Potter films, first in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004). That was part of her return to more mainstream movies, as she appeared in both more nuanced dramas such as "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013) and box office smashes like "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) and "Men in Black 3" (2012). In 2019, Thompson starred in the Mindy Kaling-penned comedy "Late Night" (2019) as a beleaguered late night talk show host.
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Emma Thompson
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2026 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mediha | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
95% | No Score Yet | Merchant Ivory | Self | - | 2023 |
71% |
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What's Love Got to Do with It? | Cath Stevenson (Character) | $75.0K | 2022 |
93% |
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical | Miss Trunchbull (Character) | - | 2022 |
94% |
|
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Nancy Stokes (Character) | - | 2022 |
75% |
|
Cruella | The Baroness (Character) | $86.1M | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man With His Fingers In His Ears | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
15% |
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Dolittle | Poly (Voice) | $77.0M | 2020 |
79% |
|
How to Build a Girl | Amanda (Character) | $70.5K | 2019 |
46% |
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Last Christmas |
Petra (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
$35.1M | 2019 |
80% |
|
Late Night | Katherine Newbury (Character) | $15.5M | 2019 |
23% |
|
Men in Black: International | Agent O (Character) | $80.0M | 2019 |
88% |
|
Missing Link | The Elder (Voice) | $16.6M | 2019 |
91% |
|
King Lear | Goneril (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Reckoning: Hollywood's Worst Kept Secret | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
37% |
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Johnny English Strikes Again | Prime Minister (Character) | $4.3M | 2018 |
74% |
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The Children Act | Fiona Maye (Character) | $432.5K | 2017 |
92% |
|
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) | Maureen (Character) | - | 2017 |
71% |
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Beauty and the Beast | Mrs. Potts (Character) | $504.0M | 2017 |
69% | No Score Yet | Sea Sorrow | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
58% |
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Alone in Berlin | Anna Quangel (Character) | - | 2016 |
78% |
|
Bridget Jones's Baby |
Dr. Rawlings (Character), Screenwriter |
$24.1M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To the Ends of the Earth | Narrator | - | 2016 |
62% |
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The Legend of Barney Thomson | Cemolina (Character) | - | 2015 |
29% |
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Burnt | Dr. Rosshilde (Character) | $13.7M | 2015 |
46% |
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A Walk in the Woods | Catherine Bryson (Character) | $29.5M | 2015 |
56% |
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Sold | Executive Producer | - | 2014 |
44% |
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Effie Gray |
Lady Eastlake (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 2014 |
30% |
|
The Love Punch | Kate (Character) | - | 2013 |
79% |
|
Saving Mr. Banks | P.L. Travers (Character) | $83.3M | 2013 |
48% |
|
Beautiful Creatures |
Mrs. Lincoln/ |
$19.4M | 2013 |
67% |
|
Men in Black 3 | Agent O (Character) | $179.0M | 2012 |
78% |
|
Brave | Elinor (Voice) | - | 2012 |
96% |
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Sybill Trelawney (Character) | $381.0M | 2011 |
75% |
|
Nanny McPhee Returns |
Nanny McPhee (Character), Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
$29.0M | 2010 |
93% |
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An Education | Headmistress (Character) | $12.6M | 2009 |
59% |
|
Pirate Radio | Charlotte (Character) | $8.0M | 2009 |
72% |
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Last Chance Harvey | Kate Walker (Character) | $14.9M | 2008 |
62% |
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Brideshead Revisited | Lady Marchmain (Character) | $6.4M | 2008 |
78% |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Sybil Trelawney (Character) | $292.0M | 2007 |
73% |
|
Stranger Than Fiction | Kay Eiffel (Character) | $40.1M | 2006 |
74% |
|
Nanny McPhee |
Nanny McPhee (Character), Writer |
$47.1M | 2005 |
90% |
|
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Professor Trelawney (Character) | $249.4M | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Angels in America | Nurse Emily (Character) | - | 2003 |
31% |
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Imagining Argentina | Cecilia Rueda (Character) | - | 2003 |
64% |
|
Love Actually | Karen (Character) | $60.1M | 2003 |
69% |
|
Treasure Planet | Captain Amelia (Voice) | - | 2002 |
83% |
|
Wit |
Vivian Bearing (Character), Writer |
- | 2001 |
50% |
|
Maybe Baby | Druscilla (Character) | $19.1K | 2000 |
43% |
|
Judas Kiss | FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins (Character) | - | 1998 |
80% |
|
Primary Colors | Susan Stanton (Character) | $39.0M | 1998 |
63% |
|
The Winter Guest | Frances (Character) | $849.3K | 1997 |
97% |
|
Sense and Sensibility |
Elinor Dashwood (Character), Writer |
$42.0M | 1995 |
54% |
|
Carrington | Dora Carrington (Character) | $2.3M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blue Boy | Marie Bonnar (Character) | - | 1994 |
39% |
|
Junior | Dr. Diana Reddin (Character) | $36.7M | 1994 |
94% |
|
In the Name of the Father | Gareth Peirce (Character) | $24.6M | 1993 |
96% |
|
The Remains of the Day | Miss Kenton (Character) | $23.0M | 1993 |
90% |
|
Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice (Character) | $22.5M | 1993 |
94% |
|
Howards End | Margaret Schlegel (Character) | $157.9K | 1992 |
65% |
|
Peter's Friends | Maggie Chester (Character) | $4.1M | 1992 |
81% |
|
Dead Again |
Grace/ |
$35.5M | 1991 |
74% |
|
Impromptu | Duchess D'Antan (Character) | $128.6K | 1991 |
86% |
|
The Tall Guy | Kate (Character) | $91.1K | 1989 |
98% |
|
Henry V | Katherine (Character) | $10.2M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fortunes of War | Harriet Pringle (Character) | - | 1987 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 48% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018-2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 11% | The View | Guest | 2018 2022 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2018-2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2013-2014 2017-2018 2020 |
89% | 88% | Years and Years | Vivienne Rook MP (Character) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2013 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live From Lincoln Center | Unknown (Character) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2013 |
100% | 78% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Playhouse Presents | The Queen (Character) | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 100% | QI | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
90% | 93% | Angels in America | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ellen | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
87% | 95% | Cheers | Nanny Gee (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fortunes of War | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Young Ones | Miss Money-Sterling (Guest Star) | 1984 |