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DameEmma ThompsonDBE
Thompson in 2022
Born	(1959-04-15) 15 April 1959 (age 65) London, England
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge
Occupations	Actress screenwriter
Years active	1982–present
Works	Full list
Spouses	Kenneth Branagh (m. 1989; div. 1995) Greg Wise (m. 2003)
Children	2
Parents	Phyllida Law Eric Thompson
Relatives	Sophie Thompson (sister)
Awards	Full list
Emma Thompson's voice from the BBC programme The Film Programme, 28 November 2013.

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 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 came to prominence 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).

For her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. 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.

Early life and education

Thompson was born in London on 15 April 1959. Her mother is Scottish actress Phyllida Law, while her English father, Eric Thompson, was an actor best known as the writer of the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout. Her godfather was the director and writer Ronald Eyre. She has a younger sister, Sophie, who is also an actress. The family lived in the West Hampstead district of London, and Thompson was educated at Camden School for Girls. She spent much time in Scotland during her childhood and often visited Ardentinny, where her grandparents and uncle lived.

In her youth, Thompson was intrigued by language and literature, a trait she attributes to her father, who shared her love of words. After successfully taking A levels in English, French and Latin, and securing a scholarship, she began studying for an English degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, arriving in 1977. Thompson believes that it was inevitable she would become an actor, remarking that she was "surrounded by creative people and I don't think it would ever have gone any other way, really". While there, she had a "seminal moment" that turned her to feminism and inspired her to take up performing. She explained in a 2007 interview how she discovered the book The Madwoman in the Attic, "which is about Victorian female writers and the disguises they took on in order to express what they wanted to express. That completely changed my life." She became a self-professed "punk rocker", with short red hair and a motorbike, and aspired to be a comedian like Lily Tomlin.

At Cambridge, Thompson was invited into the Cambridge Footlights, the university's prestigious sketch comedy troupe, by its president, Martin Bergman, becoming its first female member. Also in the troupe were fellow actors Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, and she had a romantic relationship with the latter. Fry recalled that "there was no doubt that Emma was going the distance. Our nickname for her was Emma Talented." In 1980, Thompson served as the Vice President of Footlights, and co-directed the troupe's first all-female revue, Woman's Hour. The following year, she and her Footlights team won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their sketch show The Cellar Tapes. She graduated with upper second-class honours.

Thompson's father died in 1982, aged 52. She has stated that this "tore to pieces", and "I can't begin to tell you how much I regret his not being around". She added, "At the same time, it's possible that were he still alive I might never have had the space or courage to do what I've done ... I have a definite feeling of inheriting space. And power."

Career

Early work and breakthrough (1980–1989)

During Thompson's years studying at Cambridge, she starred in a BBC Radio 4 comedy series called Injury Time. This was recorded and broadcast from 1980 to 1982

Thompson had her first professional role in 1982, touring in a stage version of Not the Nine O'Clock News. She then turned to television, where much of her early work came with her Footlights co-stars Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The regional ITV comedy series There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982) was their first outing, followed by the one-off BBC show The Crystal Cube (1983). There's Nothing to Worry About! later returned as the networked sketch show Alfresco (1983–84), which ran for two series with Thompson, Fry, Laurie, Ben Elton, and Robbie Coltrane. She later collaborated again with Fry and Laurie on the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series Saturday Night Fry (1988).

Early in her career, Thompson collaborated with her first husband, Kenneth Branagh (*pictured in 2011*).

In 1985, Thompson was cast in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, co-starring Robert Lindsay. It provided a breakthrough in her career, as the production earned rave reviews. She played the role of Sally Smith for 15 months, which exhausted her: she later remarked "I thought if I did the fucking "Lambeth Walk" one more time I was going to fucking throw up." At the end of 1985, she wrote and starred in her own one-off special for Channel 4, Emma Thompson: Up for Grabs.

Thompson achieved another breakthrough in 1987, when she had leading roles in two television miniseries: Fortunes of War, a World War II drama costarring Kenneth Branagh, and Tutti Frutti, a dark comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane. For these performances, Thompson won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. The following year, she wrote and starred in her own sketch comedy series for BBC, Thompson, but this was poorly received. In 1989, she and Branagh—with whom she had formed a romantic relationship—starred in a stage revival of Look Back in Anger, directed by Judi Dench and produced by Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company. Later that year, the pair starred in a televised version of the play.

Thompson's first cinema appearance came in the romantic comedy The Tall Guy (1989), the feature-film debut from screenwriter Richard Curtis. It starred Jeff Goldblum as a West End actor, and Thompson played the nurse with whom he falls in love. The film was not widely seen, but Thompson's performance was praised in The New York Times, where Caryn James called her "an exceptionally versatile comic actress". She next turned to Shakespeare, appearing as Princess Katherine in Branagh's screen adaptation of Henry V (1989). The film was released to great critical acclaim.

Howards End and worldwide recognition (1990–1993)

Thompson and Branagh are considered by American writer and critic James Monaco to have led the "British cinematic onslaught" in the 1990s. She continued to experiment with Shakespeare in the new decade, appearing with Branagh in his stage productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear. Reviewing the latter, the Chicago Tribune praised her "extraordinary" performance of the "hobbling, stooped hunchback Fool". Thompson returned to cinema in 1991, playing a "frivolous aristocrat" in Impromptu with Judy Davis and Hugh Grant. and Thompson was nominated for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Awards. Her second release of 1991 was another pairing with Branagh, who also directed, in the Los Angeles-based noir Dead Again. She played a woman who has forgotten her identity. Early in 1992, Thompson had a guest role in an episode of Cheers as Frasier Crane's first wife.

Anthony Hopkins (*pictured in 1992*) starred with Thompson in *Howards End* (1992) and *The Remains of the Day* (1993).

A turning point in Thompson's career came when she was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), based on the novel by E. M. Forster. The film explored the social class system in Edwardian Britain, with Thompson playing an idealistic, intellectual, forward-looking woman who comes into association with a privileged and deeply conservative family. She actively pursued the role by writing to director James Ivory, who agreed to an audition and then gave her the part. According to the critic Vincent Canby, the film allowed Thompson to " into her own", away from Branagh. Upon release, Roger Ebert wrote that she was "superb in the central role: quiet, ironic, observant, with steel inside". Howards End was widely praised, a "surprise hit", and received nine Academy Award nominations. Among its three wins was the Best Actress trophy for Thompson, who was also awarded a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her performance. Reflecting on the role, The New York Times wrote that the actress "found herself an international success almost overnight".

For her next two films, Thompson returned to working with Branagh. In Peter's Friends (1992), the pair starred with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, and Tony Slattery as a group of Cambridge alumni who are reunited ten years after graduating. The comedy was positively reviewed, and Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote that Thompson was its highlight: "Even as a rather one-dimensional character, she exudes grace and an adroit sense of comic tragedy." She followed this with Branagh's screen version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993). The couple starred as Beatrice and Benedick, alongside a cast that also included Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, and Michael Keaton. Thompson was widely praised for the on-screen chemistry with Branagh and the natural ease with which she played the role, marking another critical success for Thompson. Her performance earned a nomination for Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Thompson reunited with Merchant–Ivory and Anthony Hopkins to film The Remains of the Day (1993), a film which has been described as a "classic" and the production team's definitive film. Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about a housekeeper and butler in interwar Britain, the story is acclaimed for its study of loneliness and repression, though Thompson was particularly interested in looking at "the deformity that servitude inflicts upon people", since her grandmother had worked as a servant and made many sacrifices. She has named the film as one of the greatest experiences of her career, considering it to be a "masterpiece of withheld emotion". The Remains of the Day was a critical and commercial success, receiving eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and a second Best Actress nomination for Thompson.

Along with her Best Actress nomination at the 66th Academy Awards, Thompson was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, making her the eighth performer in history to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year. It came for her role as the lawyer Gareth Peirce in In the Name of the Father (1993), a drama about the Guildford Four starring Daniel Day-Lewis. The film was her second hit of the year, earning $65 million and critical praise, and was nominated for Best Picture along with The Remains of the Day.

Sense and Sensibility and established actress (1994–1999)

In 1994, Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Junior. Although the male pregnancy storyline was poorly received by most critics and flopped at the box office, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the lead trio. She returned to independent cinema for a lead role in Carrington, which studied the platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey (played by Jonathan Pryce). Roger Ebert remarked that Thompson had "developed a specialty in unrequited love", and the TV Guide Film & Video Companion commented that her "neurasthenic mannerisms, which usually drive us batty, are appropriate here".

Thompson's Academy success continued with Sense and Sensibility (1995), generally considered to be the most popular and authentic of the numerous film adaptations of Jane Austen's novels made in the 1990s. Thompson—a lifelong lover of Austen's work—was hired to write the film based on the period sketches in her series Thompson. She spent five years developing the screenplay, and took the role of the spinster sister Elinor Dashwood despite, aged 35, being 16 years older than the literary character. Directed by Ang Lee and co-starring Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility received widespread critical acclaim and ranks among the highest-grossing films of Thompson's career. Shelly Frome remarked that she displayed a "great affinity for Jane Austen's style and wit", and Graham Fuller of Sight and Sound saw her as the film's auteur. Thompson received a third nomination for Best Actress and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting. She also earned a second BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

Thompson was absent from screens in 1996, but returned the following year with Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest. Set over one day in a Scottish seaside village, the drama allowed Thompson and her mother (Phyllida Law) to play mother and daughter on screen. She then returned to America to appear in an episode of Ellen, and her self-parodying performance received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

For her second Hollywood role, Thompson starred with John Travolta in Mike Nichols's Primary Colors (1998), playing a couple based on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Thompson's character, Susan, is described as that of an "ambitious, long-suffering wife" who has to deal with her husband's infidelity. The film was critically well received but lost money at the box office. According to Kevin O'Sullivan of the Daily Mirror, Americans were "blown away" by her performance and accent, and top Hollywood producers became increasingly interested in casting her. Thompson rejected many of the offers, expressing concerns about living in Los Angeles behind walls with bodyguards, and stated "LA is lovely as long as you know you can leave". She also admitted to feeling tired and jaded with the industry at this point, which influenced her decision to leave film for a year. Thompson followed Primary Colors by playing an FBI agent opposite Rickman in the poorly received thriller Judas Kiss (1998).

Continued screen work and further acclaim (2000–2011)

When she became a mother in 1999, Thompson made a conscious decision to reduce her workload, and in the following years many of her appearances were supporting roles. She was not seen on screen again until 2000, with only a small part in the British comedy Maybe Baby, which she appeared in as a favour to its director, her friend Ben Elton.

For the HBO television film Wit (2001), however, Thompson happily took the lead role in what she felt was "one of the best scripts to have come out of America". Adapted from Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, it focuses on a self-sufficient Harvard University professor who finds her values challenged when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Thompson was instrumental in bringing Mike Nichols to direct the project, and the pair spent months in rehearsal to get the complex character right. She was greatly drawn to the "daredevil" role, for which she had no qualms about shaving her head. Reviewing the performance, Roger Ebert was touched by "the way she struggles with every ounce of her humanity to keep her self-respect", and in 2008 he called it Thompson's finest work. Caryn James of The New York Times also described it as "one of her most brilliant performances", adding "we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body." The film earned Thompson nominations at the Golden Globes, Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Thompson's only credit of 2002 was a voice role in Disney's Treasure Planet, an adaptation of Treasure Island, where she voiced Captain Amelia. The animation earned far less than its large budget and was considered a "box office disaster". This failure was countered the following year by one of Thompson's biggest commercial successes, Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Love Actually. As part of an ensemble cast that included Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, and Colin Firth, she played a middle-class wife who discovers her husband (played by Alan Rickman) has been unfaithful to her. The scene in which her stalwart character breaks down was described by one critic as "the best crying on screen ever", and in 2013, Thompson mentioned that she gets commended for this role more than any other. She explained, "I've had so much bloody practice at crying in a bedroom then having to go out and be cheerful, gathering up the pieces of my heart and putting them in a drawer." Her performance received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Thompson continued with supporting roles in the 2003 drama Imagining Argentina, where she played a dissident-journalist abducted by the country's 1970s dictatorial regime. Antonio Banderas played the husband who tries to find her, in a film that most critics disliked. The film was booed and jeered at when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival and received a scathing article in The Guardian. Thompson had greater success that year when she worked with HBO for a second time in the acclaimed miniseries Angels in America (2003). The show, also starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, deals with the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era America. Thompson played three roles – a nurse, a homeless woman, and the title role of The Angel of America – and was again nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2004, she played the eccentric Divination teacher Sybill Trelawney in the third Harry Potter film, Prisoner of Azkaban, her character described as a "hippy chick professor who teaches fortune-telling". She later reprised the role in Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), and has described her time working on the popular franchise as "great fun".

"Nanny McPhee, it took nine years to make that movie, from the moment I picked up the book to the moment we walked into the movie theatre ... the were labours of great love and commitment."

—Thompson on Nanny McPhee and its sequel, which she wrote and starred in.

The year 2005 saw the release of a project Thompson had been working on for nine years. Loosely based on the Nurse Matilda stories that she read as a child, Thompson wrote the screenplay for the children's film Nanny McPhee – which centres on a mysterious, unsightly nanny who must discipline a group of children. She also took the lead role, alongside Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury, in what was a highly personal project. The film was a success, taking number one at the UK box office and earning $122 million worldwide. Commenting on Thompson's screenplay, film critic Claudia Puig wrote that its "well-worn storybook features are woven effectively into an appealing tale of youthful empowerment".

The following year, Thompson appeared in the surreal American comedy–drama Stranger than Fiction, playing a novelist whose latest character (played by Will Ferrell) is a real person who hears her narration in his head. Reviews for the film were generally favourable. Following a brief, uncredited role in the post-apocalyptic blockbuster I Am Legend (2007), Thompson played the devoutly Catholic Lady Marchmain in a 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. Critics were unenthusiastic about the film, but several picked Thompson out as its highlight. Mark Kermode said "Emma Thompson is to some extent becoming the new Judi Dench, as the person who kind of comes in for 15 minutes and is brilliant ... when she goes away, the rest of the movie has a real problem living up to the wattage of her presence".

Thompson received further acclaim for her work in the London-based romance Last Chance Harvey (2008), where she and Dustin Hoffman played a lonely, middle-aged pair who cautiously begin a relationship. Critics praised the chemistry between the two leads, and both received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. Thompson's two 2009 films were both set in 1960s United Kingdom, and in both she made cameo appearances: as a headmistress in the critically praised drama An Education and as a "tippling mother" in Richard Curtis's The Boat That Rocked.

Five years after the original, Thompson reprised the role of Nanny McPhee with 2010's Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Her screenplay transported the story to Britain during World War II. Building on the first film's success, it was another UK box office number one and the sequel was widely seen as an improvement. The same year, Thompson reunited with Alan Rickman for the BBC television film The Song of Lunch, which focused on two unnamed characters meeting at a restaurant 15 years after ending their relationship. Thompson's performance earned her a fourth Emmy Award nomination.

Career expansion and blockbuster films (2012–present)

In 2012, Thompson made a rare appearance in a big-budget Hollywood film when she played the head Agent in Men in Black 3 – a continuation of the sci-fi comedy franchise starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin. With a worldwide gross of $624 million, MIB3 ranks as Thompson's highest-grossing release outside of the Harry Potter films. This mainstream success continued with the Pixar film Brave, in which Thompson voiced Elinor – the Scottish queen despairing at her daughter's defiance against tradition. It was her second consecutive blockbuster release, and critics were generally kind to the film. Also in 2012, Thompson played Queen Elizabeth II in an episode of Playhouse Presents, which dramatised an incident in 1982 when an intruder broke into the Queen's bedroom. Her first film of 2013 was the fantasy romance Beautiful Creatures, in which she played an evil mother. The film aimed to capitalise on the success of The Twilight Saga, but was poorly reviewed and a box office disappointment. Film critic Peter Travers was critical of Thompson's performance and "outrageously awful Southern accent", and feared "the damage this crock may do to reputation".

Saving Mr. Banks, which depicted the making of Mary Poppins, starred Thompson in a leading role as P. L. Travers, the curmudgeonly author of the source novel, alongside Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Her performance, in contrast to her widely panned appearance in Beautiful Creatures, was received enthusiastically, with one journalist writing "Emma Thompson is back, firing on all cylinders." She found it to be the best script she had read in years and was delighted to be offered the role. She considered it the most challenging of her career because she had "never really played anyone quite so contradictory or difficult before", but found the inconsistent and complicated character "a blissful joy to embody". The film was well-received, grossed $112 million worldwide, and Thompson's performance garnered critical acclaim. The review in The Independent expressed thanks that her "playing of Travers is so deft that we instantly warm to her, and forgive her her snobbery", while Total Film's critic felt that Thompson brought depth to the "predictable" film with "her best performance in years". Thompson was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTAs, SAGs and Golden Globes, and was awarded the Lead Actress trophy from the National Board of Review. Meryl Streep, her co-star in Angels in America, admitted to being "shocked" at Thompson's failure to receive an Oscar nomination for Saving Mr. Banks.

The romantic comedy The Love Punch (2013) gave Thompson her second consecutive leading role, where she played half of a divorced couple who reunite to steal the man's ex-boss's diamond. In March 2014, she made her first stage appearance in 24 years – and her New York debut – in a Lincoln Center production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She appeared in the musical for five nights, and her "playful" performance of Mrs Lovett was highly praised; the critic Kayla Epstein wrote that she "not only held her own against more experienced vocalists, but wound up running off with the show". She received her sixth Primetime Emmy Award nomination, specifically for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for the televised performance. In 2014, Thompson provided the narration for Jason Reitman's comedy-drama film, Men, Women & Children.

The period drama Effie Gray, a project that she had been working on for many years, based on the true-life story of John Ruskin's disastrous marriage, was written by Thompson but became the subject of a copyright suit before being cleared for cinemas. The American playwright Gregory Murphy said that Thompson's screenplay was an infringement on his play and screenplay The Countess, which he claimed he had submitted to Thompson through a mutual friend in 2003 to consider the role of Elizabeth Eastlake in a proposed film of his play, and to Thompson's husband Greg Wise through a casting director to consider the role of John Ruskin in the play's 2005 West End production. In 2008, Thompson announced that she and Wise "had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we want to make into a film." After meeting with Thompson and her producers, Potboiler Productions, Murphy was offered a screenwriting fee and co-screenwriting credit with Thompson in settlement of his claim. This settlement offer was later abandoned by Thompson, Greg Wise and their partner Donald Rosenfeld, when their company Sovereign Films took over production of the film and instigated the suit, creating the independent entity Effie Film, LLC to litigate it. In March 2013, District Court Judge Thomas P. Griesa, after allowing Thompson to submit a second revised screenplay into evidence from which Murphy claimed "some of the most troubling material" had been removed, ruled that while there were similarities, the screenplays were "quite dissimilar in their two approaches to fictionalising the same historical events". In response to Murphy's attorney's concerns that the completed film Effie Gray would not adhere to Thompson's second revised screenplay, Judge Griesa concluded his ruling by saying that Thompson's film would not infringe Murphy's play or screenplay "only to the extent that it does not substantially deviate from the November 29, 2011 screenplay," the date of Thompson's second revised screenplay. In May 2013, Effie Gray's Cannes Film Festival premiere was cancelled. In October 2013, the film was withdrawn from the Mill Valley Film Festival in California due to "unforeseen circumstances" according to producer Rosenfeld. In December 2013, Thompson said of the still unreleased Effie Gray that its "time has probably passed," comparing it to another project of hers that "didn't happen either". Effie Gray was released in October 2014, to a modest reception. Thompson plays Elizabeth Eastlake and Greg Wise plays John Ruskin. They both declined to promote the film. Camilla Long, reviewing Effie Gray in The Sunday Times, wrote "nothing fits together" and "no one seems to know why they made this film. Where is Thompson's passion and commitment, or any hint of what she intended to achieve." Manohla Dargis in her review in The New York Times called Effie Gray "The cinematic equivalent of a Brazilian wax, the movie omits much of the story's most interesting material to create something that's been smoothly denatured."

Thompson's first film of 2015 was A Walk in the Woods, a comedy adapted from the book by Bill Bryson of which she co-starred with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. She next starred in The Legend of Barney Thomson. Her role was a 77-year-old foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, Glaswegian former prostitute, the mother of the title character. Neither film was a critical success, although the latter received some positive reviews and Empire magazine wrote that Thomson was "unforgettable". Later that year, she had a supporting role in the restaurant-based film Burnt. In 2016, she starred in the World War II-drama Alone in Berlin, based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel. She also co-wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones's Baby and appeared in the film as a doctor.

In 2017, Thompson appeared in a supporting role as Mrs. Potts (originally voiced by Angela Lansbury in the 1991 animated film) in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring her Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson in the leading role of Belle, alongside Dan Stevens as the Beast. The film received positive reviews and grossed $1.2 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing live-action musical film, the second highest-grossing film of 2017, and the 17th highest-grossing film of all time. She also had a supporting role as a hippy in the Noah Baumbach-directed dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. She followed it with a starring role in the film The Children Act, a drama about a family who refuse cancer treatment for their son based on religious beliefs. She had a cameo role as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2017 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow. In 2018, she provided the voiceover for Greenpeace's palm-oil awareness commercial which Iceland (supermarket) picked to promote as their 2018 Christmas advertisement. The commercial was rejected by the advertising organisation Clearcast due to Greenpeace's alleged involvement in politics, thus violating their code of conduct. Also that year, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama. In 2018, she also starred in Johnny English Strikes Again as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom alongside Rowan Atkinson

Thompson starred in the comedy-drama Late Night (2019), which was written by Mindy Kaling (who also co-starred in that film) and featured her as a popular television host who hires a new writer to keep the show from getting replaced. The film received positive reviews, with Thompson being singled out for praise, and Owen Gleiberman of Variety remarked that "Thompson truly seems like a born talk-show host. Even when she's just riffing, she grounds Late Night in something real." She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In the same year, she voiced as the Yeti Elder in the stop-motion animated film Missing Link, reprised her role as Agent O in a more substantial part in Men in Black: International, and co-produced and co-starred alongside Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic comedy Last Christmas, which was based on the song of the same name by George Michael, and was written by Thompson, her husband Greg Wise, and Bryony Kimmings.

In 2021, Thompson starred opposite Emma Stone as the titular protagonist villain in Cruella, a Disney live-action spin-off/reboot of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, directed by Craig Gillespie, which was released on 28 May 2021 to positive reviews and has grossed $233 million worldwide against its $100 million budget. She won praise from critics for the role of the Baroness with Alonso Duralde from The Wrap writing, "Thompson sinking every last tooth into a role that's half Miranda Priestly and half Reynolds Woodcock." In 2022, Thompson starred opposite Daryl McCormack in the sex comedy-drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde.

Thompson plays the authoritarian headmistress Miss Trunchbull in the film adaptation of Matilda the Musical, which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. It is directed by Matthew Warchus, with a script written by Dennis Kelly and songs composed by Tim Minchin. Following its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 5 October 2022, film critic Robbie Collin of The Telegraph wrote Thompson's portrayal of Trunchbull is "a deranged villain to remember". The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw stated "the gleefully sly comedy kindred spirits of Thompson and Minchin come together to form the film's bedrock of naughtiness". In 2022, she also starred alongside Lily James and Sajal Aly in the romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It?

In the upcoming film The Fisherwoman, directed by Brian Kirk, Thompson is attached to star alongside Laurel Marsden and Judy Greer. The film was shot in the 2024 winter in North Karelia, Finland, where Thompson praised the skills of the local working crew, even writing a laudatory letter dedicated to the Finns, published by Helsingin Sanomat. Because of this, the Finnish president Alexander Stubb personally called Thompson and thanked the actress "for her beautiful words, trust in Finns and welcomed her back to Finland".

Reception and acting style

Thompson is regarded to be among the best actresses of her generation and one of Britain's most recognisable actresses, held in high regard within Hollywood. Early in her career she was closely associated with her first husband, Kenneth Branagh. The public warmed to her after the separation, and she became one of the key actresses of the 1990s. Her status has continued to grow; in 2008, journalist Sarah Sands stated that Thompson has improved with age and experience, and Mark Kermode said of her performances, "There is something about her which is — you just trust her. You just think 'I'm in proper hands here.' ... She's up there with the great, I mean really great, British female performers".

"I am an instinctive actress. I don't have technique because I never learnt any. I do the cerebral bit before I start. Then I just let it be. I allow whatever rises to rise naturally. You are tricking your subconscious. I work from the inside out."

– Thompson on her approach to acting

Thompson is particularly known for playing reticent women, and Sands describes her as "the best actress of our times on suffering borne with poignant dignity". According to Kate Kellaway of The Guardian, she specialises in playing "a good woman in a frock". She also plays many haughty characters, with a "bracing, nanny-like demeanour", but she is noted for her ability to win the empathy of audiences. Thompson belongs to a group of highly decorated British actresses including Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Helena Bonham Carter who are known for appearing in "heritage films" and typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding". Projecting a typically "British image", Thompson's often dogmatic and tight-jawed manner has also been compared to that of Maggie Smith.

With a background in comedy, Thompson's performances are typically delivered with an ironic touch. Ang Lee, director of Sense and Sensibility, stated that Thompson's comedic approach may be her greatest asset as an actress, remarking, "Emma is an extremely funny lady. Like Austen, she's laughing at her own culture while she's a part of it." Thompson has stated that the "most moving things are often also funny, in life and in art" which is present in her film work. She often brings her real personality to her roles, and Kellaway believes that her lack of conventional beauty contributes to her likeability as an actress.

Writing

In 2012, Thompson wrote The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit as an addition to the Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Potter to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. She was approached by the publishers to write it, the first authorised Peter story since 1930 and the only one not written by Potter. The book falls in the middle of the earlier series, rather than at the end, and takes Peter Rabbit outside of Mr. McGregor's garden and into Scotland. It was a New York Times Best Seller. In 2013, Thompson wrote a second book in the series titled The Christmas Tale of Peter Rabbit. A third book, The Spectacular Tale of Peter Rabbit, was released in 2014. In 2018, Thompson said she would like to write about "what it's like being human now".

Other work

In 2014, Thompson was among a group of influential British women, which included Annie Lennox and Rita Ora, to feature in the latest iteration of British retailer Marks & Spencer's 'Leading Ladies' marketing campaign.

Acting credits and accolades

Thompson has won two Academy Awards, for Best Actress in James Ivory's Howards End (1992) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson has received numerous accolades including three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Grammy Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, and six Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2018, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama.

Personal life

Thompson has stated that she feels Scottish, saying: "not only because I am half Scottish but also because I've spent half my life ". She frequently returns to Scotland and visits Dunoon in Argyll and Bute. She owns a home nearby, on the shore of Loch Eck.

Relationships

Thompson's first husband was actor and director Kenneth Branagh, whom she met in 1987 while filming the television series Fortunes of War. They married in 1989 and appeared in several films together, with Branagh often casting her in his productions. Dubbed a "golden couple" by the British press, their relationship received substantial media coverage. The pair attempted to keep the relationship private, refusing to be interviewed or photographed together. Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995. They cited their work schedules as the reason, but it later emerged that he was having an affair with actress Helena Bonham Carter.

Thompson was living alone as her relationship with Branagh deteriorated and she became depressed. While filming Sense and Sensibility in 1995, she began a relationship with her co-star Greg Wise. On how she was able to overcome her depression, she stated, "Work saved me and Greg saved me. He picked up the pieces and put them together again." The couple have a daughter, Gaia, who was conceived via in vitro fertilisation when Thompson was 39.

Thompson and Wise married in Dunoon in 2003. The family's permanent residence is in West Hampstead, London, on the same road as her childhood home. Also in 2003, Thompson and Wise informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier named Tindyebwa Agaba. They met at a Refugee Council event when he was sixteen, and she invited him to spend Christmas at their home. "Slowly," Thompson has commented, "he became a sort of permanent fixture, came on holiday to Scotland with us, became part of the family." Agaba became a British citizen in 2009.

On 28 February 2020, Thompson and Wise were sworn in as honorary citizens of Venice and became legal residents of Italy. The couple had previously purchased a house in the city and indicated their intention to relocate to Italy permanently. They retain a home in West Hampstead.

Views and activism

Thompson has said of her religious views:

I'm an atheist I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

She is politically liberal and a supporter of the Labour Party; she told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show in 2010 that she had been a member of the party "all my life". Thompson endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in both the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections. She has also expressed support for the Women's Equality Party.

Thompson has been a campaigner since her youth. Since becoming a public figure she has regularly voiced her views and been involved in many issues, prompting criticism that she is overly outspoken. She has justified her assertiveness by saying, "hat I feel is that we all need to speak up and a woman who has got a louder voice needs to shout very loudly indeed."

She is particularly active in human rights work. She is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, a patron of the Refugee Council, and has a therapy room in her office for traumatised refugees. In 2017, she marched in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British charity worker who was held captive in Iran. Thompson is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Time magazine named her a "European Hero" in 2009 in recognition of "her work to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa".

She is an active environmentalist and a supporter of Greenpeace; in January 2009, as part of her campaign against climate change, she and three other members of the organisation bought land near the village of Sipson to deter the building of a third runway for Heathrow Airport. In August 2014, Thompson and her daughter Gaia went on a Greenpeace "Save the Arctic" expedition to raise awareness of the dangers of drilling for oil. She narrated The Real News Network's The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science, a documentary short about Koch Industries and its efforts to discredit climate research, which was released on 31 October 2016. She supported the London Extinction Rebellion rally against climate change in 2019, although she received some criticism for having flown 5,400 miles (8,700 km) to attend it. She is also an ambassador for the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

In 2010, Thompson criticised people who use "sloppy language". Speaking with the Radio Times, she said: "I went to give a talk at my old school and the girls were all doing their 'likes' and 'innits?' and 'it ain'ts', which drives me insane. I told them 'Just don't do it. Because it makes you sound stupid and you're not stupid. There is the necessity to have two languages – one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity."

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External links

Emma Thompson at IMDb
Emma Thompson at the Internet Broadway Database
Emma Thompson at the British Film Institute
Emma Thompson at Rotten Tomatoes
Emma Thompson at the BFI's Screenonline
Emma Thompson at the TCM Movie Database
Emma Thompson at AllMovie

Awards for Emma Thompson

v t e Academy Award for Best Actress
1928–1950	Janet Gaynor (1928) Mary Pickford (1929) Norma Shearer (1930) Marie Dressler (1931) Helen Hayes (1932) Katharine Hepburn (1933) Claudette Colbert (1934) Bette Davis (1935) Luise Rainer (1936) Luise Rainer (1937) Bette Davis (1938) Vivien Leigh (1939) Ginger Rogers (1940) Joan Fontaine (1941) Greer Garson (1942) Jennifer Jones (1943) Ingrid Bergman (1944) Joan Crawford (1945) Olivia de Havilland (1946) Loretta Young (1947) Jane Wyman (1948) Olivia de Havilland (1949) Judy Holliday (1950)
1951–1975	Vivien Leigh (1951) Shirley Booth (1952) Audrey Hepburn (1953) Grace Kelly (1954) Anna Magnani (1955) Ingrid Bergman (1956) Joanne Woodward (1957) Susan Hayward (1958) Simone Signoret (1959) Elizabeth Taylor (1960) Sophia Loren (1961) Anne Bancroft (1962) Patricia Neal (1963) Julie Andrews (1964) Julie Christie (1965) Elizabeth Taylor (1966) Katharine Hepburn (1967) Katharine Hepburn / Barbra Streisand (1968) Maggie Smith (1969) Glenda Jackson (1970) Jane Fonda (1971) Liza Minnelli (1972) Glenda Jackson (1973) Ellen Burstyn (1974) Louise Fletcher (1975)
1976–2000	Faye Dunaway (1976) Diane Keaton (1977) Jane Fonda (1978) Sally Field (1979) Sissy Spacek (1980) Katharine Hepburn (1981) Meryl Streep (1982) Shirley MacLaine (1983) Sally Field (1984) Geraldine Page (1985) Marlee Matlin (1986) Cher (1987) Jodie Foster (1988) Jessica Tandy (1989) Kathy Bates (1990) Jodie Foster (1991) Emma Thompson (1992) Holly Hunter (1993) Jessica Lange (1994) Susan Sarandon (1995) Frances McDormand (1996) Helen Hunt (1997) Gwyneth Paltrow (1998) Hilary Swank (1999) Julia Roberts (2000)
2001–present	Halle Berry (2001) Nicole Kidman (2002) Charlize Theron (2003) Hilary Swank (2004) Reese Witherspoon (2005) Helen Mirren (2006) Marion Cotillard (2007) Kate Winslet (2008) Sandra Bullock (2009) Natalie Portman (2010) Meryl Streep (2011) Jennifer Lawrence (2012) Cate Blanchett (2013) Julianne Moore (2014) Brie Larson (2015) Emma Stone (2016) Frances McDormand (2017) Olivia Colman (2018) Renée Zellweger (2019) Frances McDormand (2020) Jessica Chastain (2021) Michelle Yeoh (2022) Emma Stone (2023)

v t e Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
1928–1950	Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Frances Marion (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940) Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943) Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975	Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960) Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)
1976–2000	William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980) Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000)
2001–present	Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016) James Ivory (2017) Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee (2018) Taika Waititi (2019) Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020) Sian Heder (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023)

v t e AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story
2000s	Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave – The Gathering Storm (2002) Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton – Something's Gotta Give (2003) James Garner and Gena Rowlands – The Notebook (2004) Craig T. Nelson and Diane Keaton – The Family Stone (2005) Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner – The Last Kiss (2006) John Travolta and Christopher Walken – Hairspray (2007) Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey (2008) Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (2009)
2010s	Annette Bening and Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right (2010) Jim Broadbent and Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady (2011) Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren – Hitchcock (2012) James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said (2013) John Lithgow and Alfred Molina – Love Is Strange (2014) Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton – 5 Flights Up (2015) Richard Jenkins and Margo Martindale – The Hollars (2016) Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams – The Greatest Showman (2017) Robert Forster and Blythe Danner – What They Had (2018) No Award (2019)
2020s	Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci – Supernova (2020) Peter Dinklage and Haley Bennett – Cyrano (2021) Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) No Award (2023)

BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

1952–1967

British	Vivien Leigh (1952) Audrey Hepburn (1953) Yvonne Mitchell (1954) Katie Johnson (1955) Virginia McKenna (1956) Heather Sears (1957) Irene Worth (1958) Audrey Hepburn (1959) Rachel Roberts (1960) Dora Bryan (1961) Leslie Caron (1962) Rachel Roberts (1963) Audrey Hepburn (1964) Julie Christie (1965) Elizabeth Taylor (1966) Edith Evans (1967)
Foreign	Simone Signoret (1952) Leslie Caron (1953) Cornell Borchers (1954) Betsy Blair (1955) Anna Magnani (1956) Simone Signoret (1957) Simone Signoret (1958) Shirley MacLaine (1959) Shirley MacLaine (1960) Sophia Loren (1961) Anne Bancroft (1962) Patricia Neal (1963) Anne Bancroft (1964) Patricia Neal (1965) Jeanne Moreau (1966) Anouk Aimée (1967)

1968–present

Katharine Hepburn (1968)
Maggie Smith (1969)
Katharine Ross (1970)
Glenda Jackson (1971)
Liza Minnelli (1972)
Stéphane Audran (1973)
Joanne Woodward (1974)
Ellen Burstyn (1975)
Louise Fletcher (1976)
Diane Keaton (1977)
Jane Fonda (1978)
Jane Fonda (1979)
Judy Davis (1980)
Meryl Streep (1981)
Katharine Hepburn (1982)
Julie Walters (1983)
Maggie Smith (1984)
Peggy Ashcroft (1985)
Maggie Smith (1986)
Anne Bancroft (1987)
Maggie Smith (1988)
Pauline Collins (1989)
Jessica Tandy (1990)
Jodie Foster (1991)
Emma Thompson (1992)
Holly Hunter (1993)
Susan Sarandon (1994)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Brenda Blethyn (1996)
Judi Dench (1997)
Cate Blanchett (1998)
Annette Bening (1999)
Julia Roberts (2000)
Judi Dench (2001)
Nicole Kidman (2002)
Scarlett Johansson (2003)
Imelda Staunton (2004)
Reese Witherspoon (2005)
Helen Mirren (2006)
Marion Cotillard (2007)
Kate Winslet (2008)
Carey Mulligan (2009)
Natalie Portman (2010)
Meryl Streep (2011)
Emmanuelle Riva (2012)
Cate Blanchett (2013)
Julianne Moore (2014)
Brie Larson (2015)
Emma Stone (2016)
Frances McDormand (2017)
Olivia Colman (2018)
Renée Zellweger (2019)
Frances McDormand (2020)
Joanna Scanlan (2021)
Cate Blanchett (2022)
Emma Stone (2023)

v t e BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress
1955–1975	Googie Withers (1955) Virginia McKenna (1956) Rosalie Crutchley (1957) Gwen Watford (1959) Catherine Lacey (1960) Billie Whitelaw (1961) Ruth Dunning (1962) Brenda Bruce (1963) Vivien Merchant (1964) Katharine Blake (1965) Gwen Watford (1966) Vanessa Redgrave (1967) Judi Dench (1968) Wendy Craig (1969) Margaret Tyzack (1970) Annette Crosbie (1971) Patricia Hayes (1972) Billie Whitelaw (1973) Celia Johnson (1974) Lee Remick (1975)
1976–2000	Annette Crosbie (1976) Siân Phillips (1977) Penelope Keith (1978) Francesca Annis (1979) Cheryl Campbell (1980) Peggy Ashcroft (1981) Judi Dench (1982) Beryl Reid (1983) Coral Browne (1984) Peggy Ashcroft (1985) Claire Bloom (1986) Anna Massey (1987) Emma Thompson (1988) Thora Hird (1989) Diana Rigg (1990) Geraldine McEwan (1991) Helen Mirren (1992) Helen Mirren (1993) Helen Mirren (1994) Juliet Aubrey (1995) Jennifer Ehle (1996) Gina McKee (1997) Daniela Nardini (1998) Thora Hird (1999) Thora Hird (2000)
2001–present	Judi Dench (2001) Julie Walters (2002) Julie Walters (2003) Julie Walters (2004) Anamaria Marinca (2005) Anna Maxwell Martin (2006) Victoria Wood (2007) Eileen Atkins (2008) Anna Maxwell Martin (2009) Julie Walters (2010) Vicky McClure (2011) Emily Watson (2012) Sheridan Smith (2013) Olivia Colman (2014) Georgina Campbell (2015) Suranne Jones (2016) Sarah Lancashire (2017) Molly Windsor (2018) Jodie Comer (2019) Glenda Jackson (2020) Michaela Coel (2021) Jodie Comer (2022) Kate Winslet (2023) Sarah Lancashire (2024)

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress

v t e Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
Screenplay (1980–2021)	Bo Goldman (1980) Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (1981) Barry Levinson (1982) Éric Rohmer (1983) Alex Cox (1984) Woody Allen (1985) Woody Allen (1986) James L. Brooks (1987) Ron Shelton (1988) Woody Allen (1989) Nicholas Kazan (1990) David Cronenberg (1991) Neil Jordan (1992) Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt (1993) Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Frank (1998) Charlie Kaufman (1999) Cameron Crowe / Steve Kloves (2000) Christopher Nolan (2001) Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002) Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Dan Futterman (2005) William Monahan (2006) Brad Bird (2007) Dustin Lance Black (2008) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) Nicole Holofcener (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo / Richard Linklater (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Charlie Kaufman (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
Original Screenplay (2022–present)	Martin McDonagh (2022) David Hemingson (2023) Sean Baker (2024)
Adapted Screenplay (2022–present)	Kogonada (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes (2024)

Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
Best Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001)	Emma Thompson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) Christopher Nolan (2001)
Best Writer (2002–2018)	Charlie Kaufman (2002) Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Best Original Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997) Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000) Quentin Tarantino (2009) David Seidler (2010) Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle / Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Paul Schrader (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Emerald Fennell (2020) Kenneth Branagh (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023)
Best Adapted Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Smith (1998) Frank Darabont (1999) Stephen Gaghan / Steve Kloves (2000) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023)

Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress

Ingrid Bergman (1957)
Deborah Kerr (1959)
Audrey Hepburn (1960)
Brigitte Bardot (1961)
Audrey Hepburn (1962)
Geraldine Page (1963)
Shirley MacLaine (1964)
Audrey Hepburn (1965)
Julie Andrews (1966)
Julie Christie / Elizabeth Taylor (1967)
Faye Dunaway / Katharine Hepburn (1968)
Mia Farrow / Barbra Streisand (1969)
Liza Minnelli (1970)
Ali MacGraw (1971)
Elizabeth Taylor (1972)
Liza Minnelli (1973)
Barbra Streisand / Tatum O'Neal (1974)
Liv Ullmann (1975)
Isabelle Adjani / Glenda Jackson (1976)
Faye Dunaway / Annie Girardot (1977)
Jane Fonda / Simone Signoret (1978)
Ingrid Bergman / Liv Ullmann (1979)
Isabelle Huppert (1980)
Catherine Deneuve (1981)
Diane Keaton (1982)
Julie Andrews (1983)
Shirley MacLaine (1984)
Meryl Streep (1985)
Meryl Streep (1986)
Norma Aleandro (1987)
Cher (1988)
Jodie Foster (1989)
Jessica Tandy (1990)
Anne Parillaud (1991)
Geena Davis / Susan Sarandon (1992)
Emmanuelle Béart / Tilda Swinton / Emma Thompson (1993)
Emma Thompson (1994)
Jodie Foster (1995)
Susan Sarandon (1996)

v t e Edinburgh Comedy Award winners
Best Comedy Show 1981: Cambridge Footlights (Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) 1982: Writer's Inc (Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller) 1983: Los Trios Ringbarkus 1984: The Brass Band 1985: Theatre de Complicité 1986: Ben Keaton 1987: Brown Blues... (Arnold Brown with Barb Jungr and Michael Parker) 1988: Jeremy Hardy 1989: Simon Fanshawe 1990: Sean Hughes – A One Night Stand 1991: Frank Skinner 1992: Steve Coogan – In Character with John Thomson 1993: Lee Evans 1994: Lano and Woodley 1995: Jenny Eclair – Prozac & Tantrums 1996: Dylan Moran – Dylan Moran Is Indisposed 1997: The League of Gentlemen 1998: Tommy Tiernan – Undivine Comedy 1999: Al Murray as The Pub Landlord – And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady 2000: Rich Hall – Otis Lee Crenshaw 2001: Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade and Alice Lowe) 2002: Daniel Kitson – Something 2003: Demetri Martin – If I... 2004: Will Adamsdale – Jackson's Way 2005: Laura Solon – Kopfraper's Syndrome 2006: Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist 2007: Brendon Burns – So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now 2008: David O'Doherty – Let's Comedy 2009: Tim Key – The Slutcracker 2010: Russell Kane – Smokescreens and Castles 2011: Adam Riches – Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches 2012: Doctor Brown – Befrdfgth 2013: Bridget Christie – A Bic for Her 2014: John Kearns – Shtick 2015: Sam Simmons – Spaghetti for Breakfast 2016: Richard Gadd – Monkey See Monkey Do 2017: Hannah Gadsby – Nanette & John Robins – The Darkness of Robins 2018: Rose Matafeo – Horndog 2019: Jordan Brookes – I've Got Nothing 2022: Sam Campbell – Comedy Show 2023: Ahir Shah – Ends 2024: Amy Gledhill – Make Me Look Fit on the Poster
Best Newcomer 1992: Harry Hill – Flies! 1993: Dominic Holland – Red Hot Dutch with Dominic 1994: Scott Capurro – Risk Gay 1995: Tim Vine – The Tim Vine Fiasco 1996: Milton Jones – The Head 1997: Arj Barker – Arj Barker's Letter to America 1998: The Mighty Boosh (Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Rich Fulcher) 1999: Ben'n'Arn's Big Top (Ben Willbond and Arnold Widdowson) 2000: Noble and Silver 2001: Garth Cruickshank & Eddie McCabe – Let's Have a Right Royal Shambles 2002: The Consultants – Finger in the Wind 2003: Gary Le Strange – Polaroid Suitcase 2004: Wil Hodgson – The Passion of the Hodgson 2005: Tim Minchin – Dark Side 2006: Josie Long – Kindness & Exuberance 2007: Tom Basden – Won't Say Anything 2008: Sarah Millican – Sarah Millican's Not Nice 2009: Jonny Sweet – Mostly About Arthur 2010: Roisin Conaty – Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar 2011: Humphrey Ker – Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher 2012: Daniel Simonsen – Champions 2013: John Kearns – Sight Gags For Perverts 2014: Alex Edelman – Millennial 2015: Sofie Hagen – Bubblewrap 2016: Scott Gibson – Life After Death 2017: Natalie Palamides – LAID 2018: Ciarán Dowd – Don Rodolfo 2019: Catherine Cohen – The Twist? She's Gorgeous 2022: Lara Ricote – GRL/LATNX/DEF 2023: Urooj Ashfaq – Oh No! 2024: Joe Kent-Walters – Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
Panel Prize 2006: Mark Watson 2007: Arthur Smith – Arturart 2008: All the performers 2009: Peter Buckley Hill – Peter Buckley Hill Free Fringe 2010: Bo Burnham – Words Words Words 2011: Max & Ivan – The Wrestling 2012: The Boy With Tape On His Face – More Tape 2013: Adrienne Truscott – Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One Lady Rape About Comedy 2014: Funz and Gamez 2015: Karen Koren 2016: Iraq Out & Loud – Heroes of Fringe 2018: Angela Barnes, Sameena Zehra and Pauline Eyre – Home Safe Collective 2019: Fringe of Colour 2022: Best in Class 2023: A Show for Gareth Richards 2024: Rob Copland: Gimme (One With Everything)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

1975–2000

Cloris Leachman (1975)
Beah Richards (1988)
Colleen Dewhurst (1989)
Swoosie Kurtz (1990)
Colleen Dewhurst (1991)
No Award (1992)
Tracey Ullman (1993)
Eileen Heckart (1994)
Cyndi Lauper (1995)
Betty White (1996)
Carol Burnett (1997)
Emma Thompson (1998)
Tracey Ullman (1999)
Jean Smart (2000)

2001–present

Jean Smart (2001)
Cloris Leachman (2002)
Christina Applegate (2003)
Laura Linney (2004)
Kathryn Joosten (2005)
Cloris Leachman (2006)
Elaine Stritch (2007)
Kathryn Joosten (2008)
Tina Fey (2009)
Betty White (2010)
Gwyneth Paltrow (2011)
Kathy Bates (2012)
Melissa Leo (2013)
Uzo Aduba (2014)
Joan Cusack (2015)
Tina Fey & Amy Poehler (2016)
Melissa McCarthy (2017)
Tiffany Haddish (2018)
Jane Lynch (2019)
Maya Rudolph (2020)
Maya Rudolph (2021)
Laurie Metcalf (2022)
Judith Light (2023)
Jamie Lee Curtis (2024)

Empire Award for Best Actress

Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
1943–1975	Jennifer Jones (1943) Ingrid Bergman (1944) Ingrid Bergman (1945) Rosalind Russell (1946) Rosalind Russell (1947) Jane Wyman (1948) Olivia de Havilland (1949) Gloria Swanson (1950) Jane Wyman (1951) Shirley Booth (1952) Audrey Hepburn (1953) Grace Kelly (1954) Anna Magnani (1955) Ingrid Bergman (1956) Joanne Woodward (1957) Susan Hayward (1958) Elizabeth Taylor (1959) Greer Garson (1960) Geraldine Page (1961) Geraldine Page (1962) Leslie Caron (1963) Anne Bancroft (1964) Samantha Eggar (1965) Anouk Aimée (1966) Edith Evans (1967) Joanne Woodward (1968) Geneviève Bujold (1969) Ali MacGraw (1970) Jane Fonda (1971) Liv Ullmann (1972) Marsha Mason (1973) Gena Rowlands (1974) Louise Fletcher (1975)
1976–2000	Faye Dunaway (1976) Jane Fonda (1977) Jane Fonda (1978) Sally Field (1979) Mary Tyler Moore (1980) Meryl Streep (1981) Meryl Streep (1982) Shirley MacLaine (1983) Sally Field (1984) Whoopi Goldberg (1985) Marlee Matlin (1986) Sally Kirkland (1987) Jodie Foster / Shirley MacLaine / Sigourney Weaver (1988) Michelle Pfeiffer (1989) Kathy Bates (1990) Jodie Foster (1991) Emma Thompson (1992) Holly Hunter (1993) Jessica Lange (1994) Sharon Stone (1995) Brenda Blethyn (1996) Judi Dench (1997) Cate Blanchett (1998) Hilary Swank (1999) Julia Roberts (2000)
2001–present	Sissy Spacek (2001) Nicole Kidman (2002) Charlize Theron (2003) Hilary Swank (2004) Felicity Huffman (2005) Helen Mirren (2006) Julie Christie (2007) Kate Winslet (2008) Sandra Bullock (2009) Natalie Portman (2010) Meryl Streep (2011) Jessica Chastain (2012) Cate Blanchett (2013) Julianne Moore (2014) Brie Larson (2015) Isabelle Huppert (2016) Frances McDormand (2017) Glenn Close (2018) Renée Zellweger (2019) Andra Day (2020) Nicole Kidman (2021) Cate Blanchett (2022) Lily Gladstone (2023)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
1965–1975	Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) Stirling Silliphant (1968) Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove (1969) Erich Segal (1970) Paddy Chayefsky (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Robert Towne (1974) Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)
1976–2000	Paddy Chayefsky (1976) Neil Simon (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) William Peter Blatty (1980) Ernest Thompson (1981) John Briley (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Woody Allen (1985) Robert Bolt (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari (1987) Naomi Foner (1988) Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Callie Khouri (1991) Bo Goldman (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1996) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997) Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998) Alan Ball (1999)
2001–present	Stephen Gaghan (2000) Akiva Goldsman (2001) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) Peter Morgan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014) Aaron Sorkin (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Martin McDonagh (2017) Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Aaron Sorkin (2020) Kenneth Branagh (2021) Martin McDonagh (2022) Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)

v t e London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Supporting Actress of the Year
Minnie Driver (1997) Kate Beckinsale / Minnie Driver (1998) Lynn Redgrave (1999) Samantha Morton (2000) Helen Mirren (2001) Emily Watson (2002) Emma Thompson (2003) Romola Garai (2004) Thandiwe Newton (2005) Emily Blunt (2006) Kelly Macdonald / Vanessa Redgrave (2007) Tilda Swinton (2008) Anne-Marie Duff (2009) Olivia Williams (2010)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Florinda Bolkan (1975)
Liv Ullmann (1976)
Shelley Duvall (1977)
Jane Fonda (1978)
Sally Field (1979)
Sissy Spacek (1980)
Meryl Streep (1981)
Meryl Streep (1982)
Shirley MacLaine (1983)
Kathleen Turner (1984)
Meryl Streep (1985)
Sandrine Bonnaire (1986)
Holly Hunter / Sally Kirkland (1987)
Christine Lahti (1988)
Andie MacDowell / Michelle Pfeiffer (1989)
Anjelica Huston (1990)
Mercedes Ruehl (1991)
Emma Thompson (1992)
Holly Hunter (1993)
Jessica Lange (1994)
Elisabeth Shue (1995)
Brenda Blethyn (1996)
Helena Bonham Carter (1997)
Fernanda Montenegro / Ally Sheedy (1998)
Hilary Swank (1999)
Julia Roberts (2000)
Sissy Spacek (2001)
Julianne Moore (2002)
Naomi Watts (2003)
Imelda Staunton (2004)
Vera Farmiga (2005)
Helen Mirren (2006)
Marion Cotillard (2007)
Sally Hawkins (2008)
Yolande Moreau (2009)
Kim Hye-ja (2010)
Yoon Jeong-hee (2011)
Jennifer Lawrence / Emmanuelle Riva (2012)
Cate Blanchett / Adèle Exarchopoulos (2013)
Patricia Arquette (2014)
Charlotte Rampling (2015)
Isabelle Huppert (2016)
Sally Hawkins (2017)
Olivia Colman (2018)
Mary Kay Place (2019)
Carey Mulligan (2020)
Penélope Cruz (2021)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay