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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1967-01-14 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Islington, London, England, UK

Emily Watson

Biography:

Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter.

Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Midas Man as Queenie Epstein
Dune: Prophecy as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen

2023

Fired on Mars as Sheila (voice)

2022

God's Creatures as Aileen O'Hara

2021

Monster Family 2 as Emma Wishbone (voice)
Too Close as Dr. Emma Robinson

2020

The Third Day as Mrs. Martin

2019

Chernobyl as Ulana Khomyuk

2018

On Chesil Beach as Violet Ponting
The Happy Prince as Constance Wilde
King Lear as Regan
Weinstein as Narrator (voice)

2017

Monster Family as Emma Wishbone (voice)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Chief of Staff Fox
Apple Tree Yard as Yvonne Carmichael
Genius as Elsa Einstein
Little Women as Marmee March

2015

Little Boy as Emma Busbee
Testament of Youth as Mrs. Brittain
A Royal Night Out as Queen Elizabeth
Everest as Helen Wilton
A Song for Jenny as Julie Nicholson
The Dresser as Her Ladyship

2014

2013

Belle as Lady Mansfield
The Book Thief as Rosa Hubermann
Some Girl(s) as Lindsay
The Politician's Husband as Freya Gardner

2012

Anna Karenina as Countess Lydia Ivanova

2011

Meerkats 3D as Narrator
War Horse as Rose Narracott
Appropriate Adult as Janet Leach

2010

Cemetery Junction as Mrs. Kendrick
Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys

2009

Cold Souls as Claire
Within the Whirlwind as Evgenia Ginzburg

2008

2007

The Water Horse as Anne MacMorrow

2006

Crusade in Jeans as Mary Vega
Miss Potter as Millie Warne

2005

Corpse Bride as Victoria Everglot (voice)
Wah-Wah as Ruby Compton
Separate Lies as Anne Manning
The Proposition as Martha Stanley

2004

2003

2002

Equilibrium as Mary O'Brien
Punch-Drunk Love as Lena Leonard
Red Dragon as Reba McClane

2001

Gosford Park as Elsie

2000

Trixie as Trixie Zurbo
The Luzhin Defence as Natalia Katkov

1999

Angela's Ashes as Angela McCourt
Cradle Will Rock as Olive Stanton

1998

Hilary and Jackie as Jackie Du Pré

1997

1996

Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill

1994

1991

Performance as Rosalie

1953

The Oscars as Self

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Production

2021

Too Close as Executive Producer