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Emily Watson is a Actor British born on 14 january 1967 at London (United-kingdom)
Emily Margaret Watson, OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress who gave an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. She is a two-time Academy Award nominee and four-time BAFTA Award nominee.
Watson began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her roles as Bess McNeil in the 1996 film Breaking the Waves and Jacqueline du Pré in the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie. In 2002, she returned to the stage in Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse. Also at the Donmar in 2003, she starred in Uncle Vanya and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress. On television, she starred in the ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.
Her other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Within the Whirlwind (2009), War Horse (2011), and The Book Thief (2013).
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Birth name Emily Margaret Watson
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 january 1967 (57 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 january 1967 (57 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Watson began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her roles as Bess McNeil in the 1996 film Breaking the Waves and Jacqueline du Pré in the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie. In 2002, she returned to the stage in Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse. Also at the Donmar in 2003, she starred in Uncle Vanya and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress. On television, she starred in the ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.
Her other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Within the Whirlwind (2009), War Horse (2011), and The Book Thief (2013).
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Watson married Jack Waters, whom she had met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1995. Their daughter, Juliet, was born in autumn 2005, and her son Dylan in 2009. Watson's mother fell ill with encephalitis shortly before filming commenced on Oranges and Sunshine. Watson returned home to England to attend to her, but she had died five minutes before she arrived in London.Best films
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Cemetery Junction (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode
Roles Mrs. Kendrick
Rating67%
In early 1970s England, three friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to escape their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door insurance salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives forever.
Cold Souls (2010)
, 1h41Directed by Sophie Barthes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Actors Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, David Strathairn, Dina Korzun, Katheryn Winnick, Lauren Ambrose
Roles Claire
Rating63%
Paul Giamatti is an actor who becomes so impassioned with the characters and roles that he plays that he has trouble disassociating himself from the character after the scene is done. As a result, his mind and spirit are a tangled mass of emotions that he seems to have trouble separating from his own feelings. As he struggles to play Uncle Vanya, he reads an article in The New Yorker regarding "Soul Storage," which in fact is a procedural clinic that physically removes one's soul from his body.
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Jim Loach
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane, Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
Roles Margaret Humphreys
Rating70%
The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
Within the Whirlwind (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Marleen Gorris
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors Emily Watson, Pam Ferris, Ian Hart, Ben Miller, Ulrich Tukur, Benjamin Sadler
Roles Evgenia Ginzburg
Rating66%
During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, literature professor Evgenia Ginzburg is falsely convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a Soviet concentration camp. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets Dr. Anton Walter (Ulrich Tukur), a Crimean German political prisoner who is a camp doctor in Kolyma. He recommends her for a position as a nurse in the camp infirmary. They fall in love and, slowly, Evgenia begins to come back to life.
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Julia Roberts, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere
Roles Jane Lawrence
Rating63%
Set in the present with extensive flash-backs to the past, this film revolves around two generations of an extended family: domineering father, English professor Charles (Willem Dafoe), his wife Lisa (Julia Roberts), their son Michael (young: Cayden Boyd; adult: Ryan Reynolds) and daughter Ryne (Shannon Lucio); as well as Lisa's (much younger) sister Jane (young: Hayden Panettiere; adult: Emily Watson), her husband Jimmy (George Newbern), their son Christopher (Chase Ellison) and daughter Leslie (Brooklynn Proulx). Included in the family mix is Michael's ex-wife Kelly (Carrie-Anne Moss).
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
, 2h4Directed by Charlie Kaufman, Uwe Boll
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson
Roles Tammy
Rating75%
Theater director Caden Cotard finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, an artist, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-year-old daughter, Olive, with her.
The Water Horse (2007)
, 1h51Directed by Jay Russell
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Emily Watson, Alex Etel, David Morrissey, Craig Hall, Ben Chaplin, Brian Cox
Roles Anne MacMorrow
Rating64%
In present-day Scotland, an American tourist couple go into a bar where they meet an old man who tells them a story about the Loch Ness Monster.
Miss Potter (2006)
, 1h33Directed by Chris Noonan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Bill Paterson, Barbara Flynn, David Bamber
Roles Millie Warne
Rating69%
The story begins with Beatrix Potter nervously packing her portfolio and narrating that she is a London spinster, and that her ambition to become a children's author meets with wide disapproval. She and her chaperone, Miss Wiggin, visit the publishing house of the Warne brothers and they decide to publish her book. Beatrix is thrilled and returns home, taking a drive through the parks to celebrate first. However it is revealed that the Warne brothers think her book is ridiculous and will no doubt be a failure. The only reason they agreed to publish her story is because they promised their youngest brother, Norman, a project.
Crusade in Jeans (2006)
Directed by Ben Sombogaart
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Historical
Themes Time travel films, Children's films
Actors Joe Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Stephanie Leonidas, Emily Watson, Benno Fürmann, Michael Culkin
Roles Mary Vega
Rating60%
Dolf is a 15-year-old boy from Rotterdam who plays for the junior national football team. At the beginning of the film, Dolf and his team are playing an important championship game against the Belgian team in the German city of Speyer, which they lose because of Dolf.
The Proposition (2005)
, 1h44Directed by John Hillcoat
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, David Wenham, John Hurt
Roles Martha Stanley
Rating72%
Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, likely committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang.
Separate Lies (2005)
, 1h25Directed by Julian Fellowes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett, David Harewood, Linda Bassett, Hermione Norris
Roles Anne Manning
Rating63%
"No life is perfect - even if it seems to be," says James Manning, a wealthy London solicitor. When it comes to matters of right and wrong, he likes to think of himself as inflexible. Anne, his much younger wife, is accommodating and dutiful and likes the life they lead, the house in London, the Buckinghamshire hideaway. The couple seems to have it all, yet events soon will prove them wrong.
Corpse Bride (2005)
, 1h16Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Ghost films, Zombie films, Musical films, Films about marriage
Actors Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley
Roles Victoria Everglot (voice)
Rating74%
In an unspecified Victorian-era village somewhere in Europe, Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp), the son of nouveau riche fish merchants, and Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson), the neglected daughter of hateful aristocrats, are preparing for their arranged marriage, which will raise the social class of Victor's parents and restore the wealth of Victoria's penniless family. Both have concerns about marrying someone they do not know, but upon meeting for the first time, they fall for each other. After the shy Victor ruins the wedding rehearsal and is scolded by Pastor Galswells (Christopher Lee), he flees and practices his wedding vows in the nearby forest, placing the wedding ring on a nearby upturned tree root.
Wah-Wah (2005)
, 1h37Directed by Richard E. Grant
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Nicholas Hoult, Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie
Roles Ruby Compton
Rating66%
With this semi-autobiographical tale of his childhood in Swaziland during the last days of the British Empire in Africa in 1960s, Grant relates the story of Ralph Compton, whose family’s disintegration mirrors the end of British rule. After witnessing his mother's adultery with his father's best friend, Ralph must survive not only boarding school but also his beloved father's remarriage to Ruby, a fast-talking American Airlines stewardess, and his father's gradual descent into alcoholism.
, 2h2Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Vaughan
Roles Anne Sellers
Rating68%
The film shows Peter Sellers as a complex and tormented genius, whose success as a film star concealed his difficult and relatively unhappy private life. This "troubled life" is the primary focus of this biopic, which personalizes "one of the greatest comic actors in the history of the British cinema," and shows the many masks he wore and characters he played as an actor.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2004)
, 1h30Directed by Mick Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol, Molly Dunsworth
Roles Caroline Gil
Rating65%
En plein hiver 1964, en compagnie d'une infirmière Caroline Gil, le docteur David Henry aide sa femme Nora à mettre leurs jumeaux au monde. D'abord c'est un garçon baptisé Paul, puis une fille Phoebe. Il constate immédiatement que sa fille est trisomique. Il décide alors de la confier à l'infirmière pour qu'elle la place dans une institution spécialisée, en lui expliquant que ce syndrome ne lui donne pas une longue espérance de vie. L'infirmière, une fois arrivée là-bas avec le bébé, voit la triste situation d'autres patients atteints de la même maladie chromosomique et, écœurée, décide d'élever elle-même l'enfant…