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Emily Blunt
Blunt at the British Academy Film Awards, February 2007
Born	Emily Olivia Leah Blunt 23 February 1983 (1983-02-23) (age 25) London, England
Years active	2003 - present
Awards won Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries 2007 Gideon's Daughter

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a Golden Globe Award-winning English ¹ actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance in The Devil Wears Prada. She won the 2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the BBC TV film Gideon's Daughter and was nominated for the same award for The Devil Wears Prada.

Biography

Personal life

Blunt is from Roehampton, London, England. She is one of four children born to a barrister father and teacher mother. Her uncle is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate. At the age of 16 Blunt moved to a sixth-form college known for its performing arts programme, Hurtwood House, which is where she attracted an agent.

Blunt lives in London and Vancouver. In the latter she shared a home with her now ex-boyfriend, Canadian singer Michael Bublé,² whom she first met in Melbourne backstage at the Australian television Logie Awards in 2005. Bublé thought Blunt was a television producer when they met.³ She later provided background vocals on his cover of "Me and Mrs. Jones" on his album Call Me Irresponsible.⁴

In July 2008, Blunt ended her three-year relationship with Bublé, due to their busy schedules. ⁵

Career

Blunt made her professional debut in Bliss a new musical, written by Paul Sellar, at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe while she was still an A-level student. She went on to perform at the National Theatre and at Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2003, she made her screen debut in the British television drama Boudica, about the life of the ancient British warrior-queen who fought the Romans. She also won considerable praise for her performance as the 16th-century queen Catherine Howard in the two-part British television drama Henry VIII.

Blunt's breakout role was as Tamsin in the dark British movie, My Summer of Love in 2004, which depicted a story of deception and lesbian love in the English countryside. She shared an Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with co-star Nathalie Press.

In 2005 she co-starred with Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson in the British TV drama Gideon's Daughter, an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, in which she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner, played by veteran British character actor Bill Nighy.

More recently, she starred opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the box-office success, The Devil Wears Prada. Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable with Entertainment Weekly naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue. She appeared at the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Hathaway. Blunt and Hathaway also lost weight for their roles in the film. In an interview with Us Weekly, Hathaway said “I basically stuck with fruit, vegetables and fish (to slim down for the movie). I wouldn't recommend that. Emily Blunt and I would clutch at each other and cry because we were so hungry." Blunt also spoke about the weight loss, claiming she had to go "painfully thin".⁶

Blunt later co-starred with Susan Sarandon in the independent drama Irresistible. When Sarandon became attached to starring in another movie, The Girl In The Park she strongly suggested that director David Auburn should cast her. Blunt did audition for the part—she almost received the role—but lost out to Kate Bosworth.

As Jane Liddle in Charlie Wilson's War, Blunt appeared in a highly erotically charged scene with Tom Hanks dressed only in an open shirt that tantalisingly revealed an elegant white brassiere and some lace-edged panties.⁷ She has also worked on a number of upcoming movies: The Young Victoria (in which she plays the title character) Wild Target and The Wolf Man.

Filmography

Stage credits

• Bliss (2000, Edinburgh Festival) as Maddy
• The Royal Family (2001, West End) as Gwen
• Romeo and Juliet (2002, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Juliet
• Vincent in Brixton (2002, RNT) as Eugenie Loyer

Radio credits

• Bumps and Bruises (2004) as Holly

Awards

References

External links

• Emily Blunt at the Internet Movie Database