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Why do we love Emma?
A one-time stand-up comedienne who is as at home with Shakespeare as she is in comedies and period dramas, Emma Thompson has made a career out of playing strong women. The child of a theater-director father and actress mother, Emma began acting at Cambridge University with the comedy troupe Footlights. She soon found her way to British television where she she met her eventual husband, Kenneth Branagh. Their collaborations on Shakespeare projects brought the Bard to a new generation of filmgoers. Seeking a new challenge after their marriage ended, Emma followed several award-winning film performances by completing her lifelong dream of adapting Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility for the screen. A true wit and class act, Emma continues to carve out a remarkable niche as both an actor and writer.
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Biography:
Born - April 15, 1959
Paddington, London, England.
Achievements:
- Academy Award winner for Best Actress, Howards End (1992).
- Academy Award winner for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Sense and Sensibility in 1996 and was also nominated for Best Actress, Sense and Sensibility.
- Received two Academy Award Nominations in 1993 for Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father.
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published - Sense and Sensibility (1996).
- Winner of the 1996 Golden Globe Award, for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for Sense and Sensibility for which she was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
- 1995 Golden Globe Award nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, for Junior.
- Winner Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, Sense and Sensibility (1995).
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Sense and Sensibility (1995).
- Nominated for two Golden Globe Awards in 1994, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for The Remains of the Day and Best Performance by an Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for In the Name of the Father.
- Golden Globe Award winner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, for Howards End (1992).
- Winner Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Howards End (1992).
- National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, Howards End (1992).
- 1998 Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on Ellen.
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In her own words -- On Fame and Feminism:
"I think fame is poisonous....I'm old enough now not to think, 'Hey, I'm great.' Too much attention doesn't make you feel very well"
"I went faintly radically feminist - which I still am!" |
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