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Times Online - Found Mar. 15, 2010 Emma Thompson is not impressed. Not impressed at all. Shes had enough and would clearly like to send us all off to bed without our tea. |
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Times Online - Found Mar. 13, 2010 Emma Thompson is not impressed. Not impressed at all. Shes had enough and would clearly like to send us all off to bed without our tea. |
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Glasgow Sunday Mail - Found Mar. 12, 2010 EMMA THOMPSON made a big splash in her new Nanny McPhee film - diving into a pond to perform as a synchronised swimming PIGLET. |
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Emma Thompson pens movie about Lakes writer's 'disaster' marriage
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News and Star - Found 4 hours ago Actress Emma Thompson has written a film about the disastrous love life of one of Cumbria?s greatest Victorian writers. |
Emma Thompson pens movie about Lakes writer's 'disaster' marriage
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Westmorland Gazette - Found Mar. 18, 2010 ... life of one of Cumbria?s most treasured artists and writers is to be the subject of a new film by BAFTA award winning actress Emma Thompson. |
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Emma Thompson Biography
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| Emma Thompson | |
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 Thompson at the Nanny McPhee London premiere, 2005 |
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| Born | 15 April 1959 Paddington, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress, comedienne, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth Branagh (1989–1995) Greg Wise (2003–present) |
Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, comedienne and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council.
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Early life
Thompson was born in Paddington, London, England. Her father was the actor Eric Thompson, best known for having written and narrated The Magic Roundabout, shown on BBC children's television in the 1960s and 1970s. Her mother is the Scottish actress Phyllida Law. Thompson's younger sister is actress Sophie Thompson. Thompson has spent part of her life in Scotland and has stated that she "feel[s] Scottish".1
Thompson went to Camden School for Girls and then studied English at Newnham College at the University of Cambridge where she was a member (along with fellow actors Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tony Slattery) and vice-president of the university's theatrical club, the Footlights. Her acting talent was so impressive that agent Richard Armitage signed her to a contract while she was still two years away from graduation. Thompson graduated from Cambridge in 1980. Soon after she came to fame with a leading role in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, opposite Robert Lindsay, followed by the BBC serial drama, Fortunes of War.
Career
Thompson's earliest television appearances included the comedy sketch show Alfresco, broadcast in 1983 and 1984 (as well as its three-part pilot There's Nothing to Worry About, shown in 1982), which also featured Ben Elton, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Also in 1984 she guested alongside Fry and Laurie in the episode "Bambi" of the sitcom The Young Ones, playing Miss Money-Sterling. Her breakthrough began in 1987 with her role as red-haired rock guitarist Suzi Kettles in the cult TV series Tutti Frutti. This was followed by acclaim for the BBC series Fortunes of War in which she starred with her future husband, Kenneth Branagh. For these two 1987 roles she won a BAFTA for Best Actress. In 1988, she starred in and wrote the eponymous Thompson comedy sketch series for BBC1; the series was not successful with audiences or critics. Described in Time Out magazine as "very clever-little-me-ish",citation needed it has never been repeated in Britain despite her Oscar successes, and Thompson has not returned to the sketch comedy field.
Thompson's first major film role was in Richard Curtis's 1989 romantic comedy, The Tall Guy, co-starring Jeff Goldblum. Her career took a more serious turn with a series of critically acclaimed performances and films, beginning with 1992's Howards End (for which she received an Oscar for best actress); the part of Gareth Peirce, the lawyer for the Guildford Four, in In the Name of the Father; The Remains of the Day opposite Anthony Hopkins; and as the British painter Dora Carrington in the film Carrington.
Thompson won her next Oscar in 1996, for best adapted screenplay for her adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, a film directed by Ang Lee, in which she also played the Oscar-nominated lead role opposite Hugh Grant. She has said that she keeps both of her award statues in her downstairs bathroom, citing embarrassment at placing them in a more prominent place.2
Thompson's recent television work has included a starring role in the 2001 HBO drama Wit, in which she played a dying cancer patient, and 2003's Angels in America, playing multiple roles, including one of the titular angels. Her Emmy Award was as a guest star in a 1997 episode of the show Ellen; in this episode she played a fictionalised parody of herself: a closeted lesbian more concerned with the media finding out she is actually American. She also appeared in an episode of Cheers in 1992 titled "One Hugs, the Other Doesn't".
Most recently, Thompson appeared in supporting roles such as Sybill Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She has also appeared in the comedy Love Actually. The film Nanny McPhee, adapted by Emma Thompson from Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda books, was first released in October 2005. Thompson worked on the project for nine years, having written the screenplay and starred alongside her mother (who has a cameo appearance). In the film Stranger than Fiction she plays an author planning on killing her main character, Harold Crick, who turns out to be a real person. Most recently, Thompson made a short uncredited cameo as a doctor introducing the cure for cancer in the form of measles in the latest film adaptation of I Am Legend, and starred in Last Chance Harvey opposite Dustin Hoffman, Eileen Atkins and Kathy Baker. In 2009, she appeared in An Education and The Boat That Rocked, the new Richard Curtis film, which also starred Gemma Arterton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, January Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Jack Davenport and Rhys Ifans.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Thompson will not reprise her role as Sybill Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.citation needed In 2009, she appeared on the panel of QI in the Film episode, which aired on 6 March 2009 and repeated on 29 January 2010.
Environmental work
Thompson is a Greenpeace activist, and, on 13 January 2009, after flying in from attending the Golden Globe ceremony in the US, it was announced that Thompson, in partnership with three other Greenpeace activists, had bought land near the village of Sipson, a village whose homes are under threat from the proposed third runway for Heathrow Airport.3 It is hoped that the area of ground, half the size of a football pitch, will prevent the government from carrying through its plan to expand Heathrow. The field, bought for an undisclosed sum from a local land owner, will be split into small squares and sold across the globe. When interviewed, Thompson said: "I don't understand how any government remotely serious about committing to reversing climate change can even consider these ridiculous plans. It's laughably hypocritical. That's why we've bought a plot on the runway. We'll stop this from happening even if we have to move in and plant vegetables."4
Personal life
While she was at Cambridge University, Thompson had a romantic relationship with fellow student and actor Hugh Lauriecitation needed, who was also a member of the Cambridge Footlights, and was conveniently attending Selwyn College right across the street from Newnham.5
Thompson married Kenneth Branagh, with whom she appeared in Fortunes of War, on 20 August 1989. They appeared together several times, in hit films such as Dead Again, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, but divorced in October 1995.
In 2003, Thompson married actor Greg Wise in Dunoon, Scotland (where she has a second home).6 The couple have a daughter, Gaia Romilly, born in 1999. In 2003, Thompson and Wise informally adopted a 16-year-old Rwandan refugee named Tindyebwa Agaba. They are currently fighting his deportation back to Rwanda where it is thought all his family were killed in the genocide.7
Thompson is an outspoken anti-religious atheist: "I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. 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."8
Filmography
Film
- Sources for Awards: Evening Standard British Film Awards — IMDB: Emma Thompson Awards
Television
The following is a partial list of Thompson's theatre credits:
- 1982 - Appeared in Not the Nine O'Clock News - UK tour.
- 1982 - Co-wrote and appeared in Beyond the Footlights - Lyric Hammersmith, London.
- 1984 - Wrote and starred in the one woman show Short Vehicle - Edinburgh Festival.
- 1984/5 - Played Sally in the musical Me and My Girl - Adelphi Theatre, London.
- 1989 - Played Alison in Look Back in Anger by John Osborne - Lyric Shaftesbury, London.
- 1990 - Played The Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream - International tour.
Further reading
- Hewison, Robert (1984). Footlights! A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy. Methuen, London. ISBN 0-413-56050-3.
- Branagh, Kenneth (1989). Beginning. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-05822-5.
- Shuttleworth, Ian (1994). Ken and Em. Headline Book Publishing, London. ISBN 0-7472-1225-2.
- Nickson, Chris (1997). Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson. Taylor Publishing. ISBN 0878339655.
References
- ^ Rick Fulton (12 October 2005). "It's nanny McMe". http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16236943&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=it-s-nanny-mcme-name_page.html. Retrieved 2007-11-18.
- ^ "Movie & TV News - WENN". IMDb.com. 2006-01-17. http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-01-17. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ "Protesters buy up Heathrow land". London: BBC News. 2009-01-13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7825169.stm. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ "Celebs buy Heathrow expansion land". pa.press.net. MSN News UK. 2009-01-13. http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/article.aspx?cp-documentid=12726578&icid=toptodayuk. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
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- ^ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16236943&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=it-s-nanny-mcme-name_page.html
- ^ Alison Boshoff (7 March 2008). "The young refugee who was adopted by a famous actress". http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=528573&in_page_id=1773. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- ^ Acting on outspoken beliefs, October 15, 2008, The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24497883-15803,00.html
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- Interview on her views on parenting, 10/01/05, Raisingkids
- Interview, 10/16/05
- Thompson answers questions on her AIDS charity work, 11/25/03
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