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Name
Emily Watson

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1967-01-14 (59 years old)

Place of Birth
Islington, London, England, UK

Biography

Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998).

Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024). and A Pariare Farm Girl ( 2026).

She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.

Watson is a supporter of the children's charity the NSPCC. In 2004, she was inducted into the society's hall of fame for spearheading the successful campaign to appoint a Children's Commissioner for England. Receiving her award in the crowded House of Commons, she spoke out against the possibility that the Children's Commissioner become a figurehead with little real power.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1996 Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill
2006 Crusade in Jeans as Mary Vega
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Anne Sellers
1999 Angela's Ashes as Angela McCourt
2005 Corpse Bride as Victoria Everglot (voice)
2001 Gosford Park as Elsie
2008 Synecdoche, New York as Tammy
2009 Cold Souls as Claire
2002 Equilibrium as Mary O'Brien
2008 Fireflies in the Garden as Jane Lawrence
2002 Punch-Drunk Love as Lena Leonard
2000 Trixie as Trixie Zurbo
1998 Metroland as Marion
1999 Cradle Will Rock as Olive Stanton
2002 Red Dragon as Reba McClane
2025 The Legend of Ochi as Dasha
2021 Monster Family 2 as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2006 Miss Potter as Millie Warne
2024 Small Things Like These as Sister Mary
2010 Cemetery Junction as Mrs. Kendrick
2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter as Caroline Gil
2005 Wah-Wah as Ruby Compton
2024 Midas Man as Queenie Epstein
2005 Separate Lies as Anne Manning
2005 The Proposition as Martha Stanley
1997 The Boxer as Maggie Hamill
1998 Hilary and Jackie as Jackie du Pré
1997 Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1994 A Summer Day's Dream
2000 The Luzhin Defence as Natalia Katkov
2010 Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys
2007 The Water Horse as Anne MacMorrow
2011 Meerkats 3D as Narrator
2011 War Horse as Rose Narracott
2009 Within the Whirlwind as Evgenia Ginzburg
2012 Anna Karenina as Countess Lydia Ivanova
1997 The Mill on the Floss as Maggie Tulliver
2013 Belle as Lady Mansfield
2013 The Book Thief as Rosa Hubermann
2013 Some Girl(s) as Lindsay
2015 Little Boy as Emma Busbee
2014 The Theory of Everything as Beryl Wilde
2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
2015 Testament of Youth as Mrs. Brittain
2015 A Royal Night Out as Queen Elizabeth
2015 Everest as Helen Wilton
Soon Midday Sun as Sarah
2015 A Song for Jenny as Julie Nicholson
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Trinklebury
2015 The Dresser as Her Ladyship
2018 On Chesil Beach as Violet Ponting
2025 Hamnet as Mary
2017 Monster Family as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2018 The Happy Prince as Constance Wilde
2018 King Lear as Regan
2018 Weinstein as Narrator (voice)
2002 Ballchewer as Self
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Chief of Staff Fox
2002 The Making of Gosford Park as Self
2022 God's Creatures as Aileen O'Hara
Soon Late in Summer
Soon Fado!
2025 Steve as Jenny
1998 In Doctor von Trier's Laboratory: Back to the Magic of Cinema as Self
Soon A Christmas Child as Emily Watson ( Self/Narrator )
Soon The Clockmaker’s Secret: Lost in Spindlewood as The Keeper of the Keys
Soon London Fog: A Ruby Gale Mystery as (The Detective)
Soon Holly Noel: The Winter Ball (Christmas 3) as ( Host )
Soon Amri as Marie Antoinette Gottesman
2025 Inside Look: Hamnet as Self (archive footage)
Soon RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare as Self

1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2011 Appropriate Adult ( 2 episodes ) as Janet Leach
2013 The Politician's Husband ( 3 episodes ) as Freya Gardner
2023 Fired on Mars ( 2 episodes ) as Sheila (voice)
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Rosalie
2017 Apple Tree Yard ( 4 episodes ) as Yvonne Carmichael
2017 Genius ( 10 episodes ) as Elsa Einstein
2017 Little Women ( 3 episodes ) as Marmee March
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe ( 2 episodes ) as Grace McKee
2019 Chernobyl ( 5 episodes ) as Ulana Khomyuk
2024 Dune: Prophecy ( 14 episodes ) as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
2021 Too Close ( 3 episodes ) as Dr. Emma Robinson
2020 The Third Day ( 6 episodes ) as Mrs. Martin
2003 Working Shakespeare ( 5 episodes )

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