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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 26) London, England
Years active	2003 - present

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is an English 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 in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film for the BBC TV film Gideon's Daughter and was nominated for the same award in the movie category for The Devil Wears Prada.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Personal life

Blunt is from Roehampton, London, England. She is one of four children born to barrister Oliver Blunt QC,¹ and a 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 was discovered by an agent.

Blunt previously shared a home with her now ex-boyfriend, Canadian singer Michael Bublé² 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 She currently lives in London.

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.

In 2006 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 Prada co-star Hathaway. Blunt and Hathaway 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".⁵

Blunt 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, which she almost received but lost to Kate Bosworth. In 2007, she appeared in the film Charlie Wilson's War.

She has also worked on a number of upcoming movies: Wild Target, the Toby Spanton-directed short film Curiosity and The Wolfman.

Blunt was in the final stages to star as Black Widow in Iron Man II and Avengers film, but had to drop out do to scheduling conflicts. That part then went to Scarlett Johannson.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Boudica	Isolda
	Henry VIII	Catherine Howard	Serial
	Foyle's War	Lucy Markham	in episode War Games
2004	Poirot	Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle	in episode Death on the Nile
	My Summer of Love	Tamsin
2005	Empire	Camane	miniseries
	The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle	Jean Leckie
	Gideon's Daughter	Natasha	TV movie
2006	Irresistible	Mara
	The Devil Wears Prada	Emily Charlton
2007	Wind Chill	Girl
	The Jane Austen Book Club	Prudie Drummond
	Dan in Real Life	Ruthie Draper
	Charlie Wilson's War	Jane Liddle
2009	The Simpsons (TV)	Juliet	in episode Lisa the Drama Queen
	Sunshine Cleaning	Norah Lorkowski
	The Great Buck Howard	Valerie Brennan
	The Young Victoria	Queen Victoria
	Curiosity	Emma	Short Film/ completed
	The Wolfman	Gwen Conliffe	post-production
	Wild Target	Rose	post-production
2010	Gulliver's Travels	Princess Glory	filming
	The Girl	TBA	pre-production
	Gnomeo and Juliet	Juliet (voice)	pre-production
2011	Damn Yankees	Lola	pre-production

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

Year	Award	Category	Result	For
2004	BIFA	Most Promising Newcomer	Nominated	My Summer of Love
2005	LCC	British Newcomer of the Year	Nominated
	ESBFA	Most Promising Newcomer	Won
2006	Teen Choice Award	Choice Breakout	Nominated	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	BAFTA	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Nominated
		Rising Star	Nominated
	LCC	British Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role	Nominated
	MTV Movie Award	Best Comedic Performance	Nominated
	ALFS Award	British Supporting Actress of the Year	Won
	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Nominated
		Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television	Won	Gideon's Daughter

References

External links

• Emily Blunt at the Internet Movie Database

Awards
Golden Globe Award
Preceded by Sandra Oh for Grey's Anatomy	Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 2007 for Gideon's Daughter	Succeeded by Samantha Morton for Longford

Persondata
NAME	Blunt, Emily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blunt, Emily Olivia L.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English actress
DATE OF BIRTH	23 February 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH