Emily Blunt

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Emily Blunt at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born February 23, 1983 in London ) is a British - American actress .

life and career

Emily Blunt was born the daughter of a lawyer and a teacher. She grew up with three other siblings in Roehampton and was enthusiastic about singing and playing the cello at an early age , before she turned to acting by chance as a teenager. At the age of 16 she came to the prestigious Hurtwood House boarding school , where she devoted herself to theater work for fun. She was discovered by an agent while she was still in school. After studying acting for a year in her hometown, Blunt, who stuttered as a child , began to gain a foothold in the theater. In 2001 she made her debut at the age of eighteen in George S. Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's play The Royal Family at the Haymarket Theater Royal in London. Directed by Peter Hall, Blunt starred alongside Judi Dench and Toby Stephens as a member of a famous family of actors who dedicate their lives exclusively to the theater. The critics praised her play, and the young Englishwoman won the Evening Standard Award for Best Young Actress for the part of Gwen Cavendish. According to The Royal Family , Blunt was seen alongside Clare Higgins and Jochum Ten Haaf in Richard Eyre's production of Vincent in Brixton at London's National Theater in early 2002 , where she was recognized for her touching innocent and wise portrayal of Eugenie. In the autumn of the same year she interpreted the title roles in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Chichester Theater Festival with Lex Shrapnel .

Blunt made her debut on British television in 2003 on the side of Alex Kingston in the historical drama Boudica , after which she was to appear mainly in costume films. That same year followed Pete Travis ' award-winning television multipartist Henry VIII , in which Emily Blunt played a supporting role as Catherine Howard , the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England (played by Ray Winstone ). After the supporting role as a murder victim in the television version of Agatha Christie's crime novel Death on the Nile , Poirot: Death on the Nile , Blunt received her first leading role in a motion picture in 2004. In Paweł Pawlikowski's drama My Summer of Love , she mimes the rich and educated 16-year-old Tamsin, who is involved in a liaison with the rough proletarian Mona (played by Nathalie Press ) for one summer . The film, from the New York Times as a triumph over mood and implication celebrating, stood in the favor of critics and was in 2005 with the prestigious British Film Awards BAFTA Award as best British film production of the year. Emily Blunt also took center stage, whose performance as a spoiled senior daughter brought her, together with her colleague Nathalie Press, the Evening Standard British Film Award as the most promising young actress.

Known to an international audience through the success of My Summer of Love , she received several leading roles in both British and international television productions, including as a psychic Vestal in the award-winning historical multi-part series Empire and as the neglected daughter of a successful PR consultant (played by Bill Nighy ) in Stephen Poliakoff's drama Gideon's Daughter , for which she won the Golden Globe . In 2006, Blunt was seen again as a manipulative beauty alongside Susan Sarandon and Sam Neill in Ann Turner's family drama Irresistible , which she spent several months filming in Australia . In the same year, David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada, followed her first engagement in Hollywood . In the subtle comedy about the New York fashion world, she acted alongside Anne Hathaway as the ambitious assistant to a successful editor of a fashion journal (played by Meryl Streep ). Blunt received critical acclaim from US critics and was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Best Young Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress that same year . The actress then followed several offers for American cinema productions from 2007 to 2008, including the female lead alongside Tom Hanks and John Malkovich in the drama The Great Buck Howard . In 2009, Blunt took on the title role as the young Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in Jean-Marc Vallée's biography Victoria, the Young Queen . As a result, the actress, who prefers to choose characters “who are not so streamlined” , was able to establish herself further in Hollywood and received leading roles such as next to Benicio del Toro in the remake of the horror film Wolfman (2010) and next to Matt Damon in the science fiction thriller The Plan (2011). She was Jon Favreau's first choice for the role of Black Widow in Iron Man 2 , but had to turn down the role because of the filming of Gulliver's Travels , which Scarlett Johansson took over. In 2012 she starred for the third time alongside Jason Segel in the film Almost Married . Before that, both of them were already in front of the camera for Gulliver's Travels - Something Big Is Coming Up (2010) and The Muppets (2011). Since 2012 she has been promoting the perfume Opium by Yves Saint Laurent . She played a leading role alongside Tom Cruise in the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow , released in 2014 .

Blunt from 2005 to 2008, the Canadian jazz - singer Michael Bublé dating, whom she met at one of his concerts and with whom she alternately in London and Vancouver lived. Since July 10, 2010, she has been married to fellow actor John Krasinski , with whom she has two daughters (* 2014 and 2016). Since August 2015, Blunt has both British and US citizenship.

Filmography (selection)

Blunt at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival
Emily Blunt at the British Academy Film Awards at London's Royal Opera House 2007

Plays

  • 2001: The Royal Family
  • 2002: Vincent in Brixton
  • 2002: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

Awards and nominations

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

British Academy Film Award

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Saturn Award

Satellite Award

Web links

Commons : Emily Blunt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liz Hoggard: Meet the Mac pack . In: Sunday Review, June 10, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Daniel Sanders: Biest mit Herz , Spiegel Online , May 25, 2009 (accessed on June 26, 2009)
  3. ↑ Karl Quinn: Rich girl, poor girl , theage.com.au, June 26, 2005 (English)
  4. ↑ cf. Sunday Times review at nationaltheatre.org.uk
  5. ↑ cf. Review by AO Scott in the New York Times, June 17, 2005
  6. ↑ Michael Reisner: Iron Man 2: Will Scarlett Johansson replace Emily Blunt as Black Widow? , MovieGod, February 14, 2009
  7. ↑ Isabelle Kohlenbeck: Emily Blunt for Yves Saint Laurent , Beautyaddicted, November 15, 2011
  8. ↑ cf. jdl / dpa : Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé solo again , Spiegel online, July 11, 2008 (accessed on July 12, 2008).
  9. ↑ Christian Junklewitz: The Office: Pam and Jim got married ... , Serienjunkies.de , July 11, 2010
  10. ↑ Maggie Coughlan: John Krasinski and Emily Blunt Welcome Daughter Hazel , People.com, February 16, 2014 (English)
  11. ↑ John Krasinski and Emily Blunt announce arrival of baby daughter , Daily Mail Online, July 4, 2016 (English)
  12. ↑ Emily Blunt Becomes A Us Citizen , World Entertainment News Network at contactmusic.com, August 6, 2015 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Blunt, Emily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blunt, Emily Olivia Leah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK