Emma Thompson

ACTRESS, WRITER, PRODUCER

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Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. Thompson's wit was cultivated by a cheerful, clever, creative family atmosphere, and she was a popular and successful student. She attended Cambridge University, studying English Literature, and was part of the university's Footlights Group, the famous group where, previously, many of the Monty Python members had first met.Thompson graduated in 1980 and embarked on her career in entertainment, beginning with stints on BBC radio and touring with comedy shows. She soon got her first major break in television, on the comedy skit program Alfresco (1983), writing and performing along with her fellow Footlights Group alums Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. She also worked on other TV comedy review programs in the mid-1980s, occasionally with some of her fellow Footlights alums, and often with actor Robbie Coltrane.Thompson found herself collaborating again with Fry in 1985, this time in his stage adaptation of the play "Me and My Girl" in London's West End, in which she had a leading role, playing Sally Smith. The show was a success and she received favorable reviews, and the strength of her performance led to her casting as the lead in the BBC television miniseries Fortunes of War (1987), in which Thompson and her co-star, Kenneth Branagh, play an English ex-patriate couple living in Eastern Europe as the Second World War erupts. Thompson won a BAFTA Award for her work on the program. She married Branagh in 1989, continued to work with him professionally, and formed a production company with him. In the late 80s and early 90s, she starred in a string of well-received and successful television and film productions, most notably her lead role in the Merchant-Ivory production of Tilbake til Howard's End (1992), which confirmed her ability to carry a movie on both sides of the Atlantic and appropriately showered her with trans-Atlantic honors - both an Oscar and a BAFTA award.Since then, Thompson has continued to move effortlessly between the art film world and mainstream Hollywood, though even her Hollywood roles tend to be in more up-market productions. She continues to work on television as well, but is generally very selective about which roles she takes. She writes for the screen as well, such as the screenplay for Ang Lee's Fornuft og følelser (1995), in which she also starred as Elinor Dashwood, and the teleplay adaptation of Margaret Edson's acclaimed play Wit (2001), in which she also starred.Thompson is known for her sophisticated, skillful, though her critics say somewhat mannered, performances, and of course for her arch wit, which she is unafraid to point at herself - she is a fearless self-satirist. Thompson and Branagh divorced in 1994, and Thompson is now married to fellow actor Greg Wise, who had played Willoughby in Ang Lee's Fornuft og følelser (1995). Thompson and Wise have one child, Gaia, born in 1999. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Larry-115

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Emma Thompson’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Emma Thompson on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1982 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Emma Thompson movies released per year from 2008 till 2021.

Top Genres

Emma Thompson works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 31% of Emma Thompson movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Emma Thompson worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Emma Thompson has worked on is 6.9.

6.9 / 10

Emma Thompson's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Follows a busy family from Manchester with their lives converging on one crucial night in 2019.

8.3/1060 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy,Romance
Angels in America (2003)

Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his political epic about the A.I.D.S. crisis during the mid 1980s and centers the story around a group of separate but connected individuals.

8.1/10352 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

8/1099 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

7.8/10129 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.

7.8/10134 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.

7.7/10136 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.

7.6/10113 min

Available in 11 platform(s).

Biography,Comedy,Drama
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

7.5/10125 min

Available in 11 platform(s).