Emma Thompson

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Emma Thompson at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
Emma Thompson at the Munich Film Festival 2018

Dame Emma Thompson , DBE (born April 15, 1959 in Paddington , London ) is a British actress , film producer , screenwriter and multiple Golden Globe and Oscar winner.

life and career

Emma Thompson is the daughter of actress Phyllida Law and actor, director and television producer Eric Thompson . Her younger sister Sophie Thompson is also an actress. Mother Phyllida occasionally stars in films made by her eldest daughter Emma.

While studying English at Newnham College in Cambridge , Thompson played theater and appeared in sketches with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.In 1992, the three starred alongside Thompson's then husband Kenneth Branagh in his tragicomedy Peter's Friends . After training, she became a professional actress. She entered the British Comedy telecast Alfresco and the musical Me and My Girl at. 1986 she starred in the BBC - television series Fortunes of War , where she met her future husband Kenneth Branagh. In 1987 she got her own TV sitcom Thompson .

With Reunion in Howards End (1992) Thompson had her first major success, for which she was awarded a Golden Globe and an Oscar. In 1994 she got a role in Junior with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the first time in a Hollywood flick. She also writes screenplays, for example for the multi-award-winning hit movie Sinn und Sinnlichkeit (1995), for which she received her second Oscar in the Best Adapted Screenplay category .

Thompson holds a record at the Academy Awards: It is currently the only person who both an Academy Award for acting ( Best Actress for Howards End , 1992) as well as a screenplay ( adapted for Best Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility , 1995) win could. On August 6, 2010, she was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles . In 2013 she stood in front of the camera for Saving Mr. Banks , the backstory for the author of "Mary Poppins", and for the novel adaptation of Beautiful Creatures .

In 1986 Thompson met Kenneth Branagh while filming , with whom she went on a theater tour after the wedding in 1989 and made eleven films by the time they separated in 1995. Thompson has been dating her colleague Greg Wise , who played the role of John Willoughby , since filming Sense and Sensibility (1995) . A daughter was born in 1999, and the two married in 2003.

In December 2003, she learned in a year (u. A. Thompson) the then 16-year-old orphans Tindyebwa Agaba oriented Christmas celebration of the London Refugee Council of Rwanda know, long as before he fled several years child soldier had been abused and all family members to the genocide in Rwanda and AIDS . Thompson took him under her wing and introduced him to the English language, which he now has an excellent command of. Thompson and Wise adopted the boy just a few months after they first met. In 2009, the 22-year-old successfully completed his political science degree at the University of Exeter . On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2015, Thompson and Agaba shared their story in two video interviews on the official YouTube channel of the UNHCR ( UN Refugee Commission ).

On June 9, 2018, she was ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire .

Others

Thompson is one of the first to sign the call for a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations , which is intended to be a first step towards a world parliament.

Filmography (selection)

As an actress

As a screenwriter

As an executive producer

Awards

Oscar

  • 1992: Best Actress for Howards End Again
  • 1996: Best script adaptation for sense and sensuality

nominated:

  • 1993: Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father
  • 1993: Best Actress for What Was Left Of The Day
  • 1996: Best leading actress for sense and sensuality

British Academy Film Award

  • 1993: Best Actress for Howards End Again
  • 1996: Best leading actress for sense and sensuality

nominated:

  • 1994: Best Actress for What Was Left Of The Day
  • 2004: Best Supporting Actress for Actually ... Love

Golden Globe Award

  • 1993: Best Actress - Drama for Howards End Again
  • 1996: Best film script for sense and sensuality

nominated:

  • 1994: Best Actress - Drama for What Was Left Of The Day
  • 1994: Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father
  • 1995: Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Junior
  • 1996: Best Actress - Drama for Sense and Sensuality
  • 2009: Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for love at second sight
  • 2014: Best Actress - Drama for Saving Mr. Banks
  • 2020: Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Late Night

Empire Award

  • 2014: Saving Mr. Banks for Best Actress

CineMerit Award 2018

Web links

Commons : Emma Thompson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emma Thompson, How Jane Austen saved me from going under , on independent.co.uk , accessed December 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Emma Thomspon to be One of the Beautiful Creatures , on dreadcentral.com , accessed December 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Jo Clements: Proud Emma Thompson poses with adopted refugee son at graduation six years later. In: Daily Mail, July 23, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency : Emma Thompson wants you to get to know her son Tindy's story for World Refugee Day 2015 (Part 1) . Uploaded to YouTube on June 11, 2014. Accessed September 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency : Emma Thompson wants you to get to know her son Tindy's story for World Refugee Day 2015 (Part 2) . Uploaded to YouTube on June 19, 2014. Accessed September 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Emma Thompson made a dame in Queen's birthday honors. The Guardian , June 9, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Knights and Dames: SW-WAL at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  8. ↑ Gerrit Wustmann: Globalize Democracy . In: Telepolis , June 6, 2007, accessed December 24, 2014.
  9. ↑ Munich Film Festival honors Emma Thompson . Article dated May 23, 2018, accessed May 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress, film producer, screenwriter and, among others, multiple Golden Globe and Oscar winner
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Paddington , London , England, United Kingdom