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Emily Watson
Born · January 14, 1967 (58 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Islington, London, England, UK
Bio
Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.
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Dune: Prophecy
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2024
Small Things Like These
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2024
Midas Man
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6.5
2024
Fired on Mars
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6.9
2023
God's Creatures
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6.0
2022
Monster Family 2
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6.7
2021
Too Close
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5.9
2021
The Third Day
Mrs. Martin · (6 episodes)
6.5
2020
Chernobyl
Ulana Khomyuk · (5 episodes)
8.7
2019
King Lear
Regan
6.0
2018
The Happy Prince
Constance Wilde
6.3
2018
Weinstein
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6.5
2018
On Chesil Beach
Violet Ponting
6.2
2018
Little Women
Marmee March · (3 episodes)
7.1
2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
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7.0
2017
Monster Family
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5.9
2017
Genius
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7.7
2017
Apple Tree Yard
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6.4
2017
The Dresser
Her Ladyship
6.2
2015
Everest
Helen Wilton
6.8
2015
A Song for Jenny
Julie Nicholson
6.4
2015
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
Grace McKee · (2 episodes)
6.7
2015
A Royal Night Out
Queen Elizabeth
6.5
2015
Little Boy
Emma Busbee
7.2
2015
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Miss Trinklebury
5.3
2015
The Theory of Everything
Beryl Wilde
7.8
2014
Testament of Youth
Mrs. Brittain
7.3
2014
The Book Thief
Rosa Hubermann
7.5
2013
Some Girl(s)
Lindsay
5.2
2013
Belle
Lady Mansfield
7.1
2013
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Herself
8.0
2003
Midday Sun
Sarah
0.0
Hamnet
Mary Shakespeare
0.0
The Politician's Husband
Freya Gardner · (3 episodes)
6.9
2013
Anna Karenina
Countess Lydia Ivanova
6.7
2012
War Horse
Rose Narracott
7.3
2011
Meerkats 3D
Narrator
4.2
2011
Appropriate Adult
Janet Leach · (2 episodes)
6.7
2011
Oranges and Sunshine
Margaret Humphreys
6.9
2010
Cemetery Junction
Mrs. Kendrick
6.5
2010
Within the Whirlwind
Evgenia Ginzburg
5.2
2009
Cold Souls
Claire
6.0
2009
Synecdoche, New York
Tammy
7.5
2008
Fireflies in the Garden
Jane Lawrence
6.2
2008
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Caroline Gil
6.4
2008
The Water Horse
Anne MacMorrow
6.5
2007
Miss Potter
Millie Warne
6.6
2006
Crusade in Jeans
Mary Vega
5.8
2006
The Proposition
Martha Stanley
7.0
2005
Separate Lies
Anne Manning
5.7
2005
Corpse Bride
Victoria Everglot (voice)
7.6
2005
Wah-Wah
Ruby Compton
6.0
2005
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Anne Sellers
6.6
2004
Equilibrium
Mary O'Brien
7.0
2002
Ballchewer
4.8
2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Lena Leonard
7.1
2002
Red Dragon
Reba McClane
7.0
2002
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
Self
5.0
2002
Gosford Park
Elsie
6.8
2001
The Luzhin Defence
Natalia Katkov
6.1
2000
Trixie
Trixie Zurbo
5.0
2000
Angela's Ashes
Angela McCourt
7.3
1999
Cradle Will Rock
Olive Stanton
6.5
1999
Hilary and Jackie
Jackie Du Pré
6.7
1998
The Boxer
Maggie Hamill
6.7
1997
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
6.7
1997
The Mill on the Floss
Maggie Tulliver
6.0
1997
Metroland
Marion
5.9
1997
Breaking the Waves
Bess McNeill
7.5
1996
A Summer Day's Dream
0.0
1994
33 Liberty Lane
0.0
Late in Summer
0.0
Fado!
0.0
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.7
1999
Performance
Rosalie · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
The Oscars
Self · (2 episodes)
6.9
1953