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Emma Thompson

Full Name:

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Nickname:

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Date of Birth:

5 April 1956

Place of Birth:

addington

, London, England

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Acting to the Thompson family appears to be in the blood. Born to
acting parents, the late Eric Thompson (The Magic Roundabout) and
Phyllida Law (Nanny McPhee, Much Ado About Nothing), it seems that
young Emma was destined to act. Keeping it in the family, her
younger sister, Sophie (Emma), is married to Richard Lumsden
(Sense and Sensibility); they have two children.

Thompson went to the University of Cambridge to study English
Literature. While she was there she joined the acclaimed
theatrical group, the Footlights. The Footlights group is famous
for producing such legendary talents as the Monty Python gang,
Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Frost and Thompson herself.

Her career spans film, television and theater. She is one of the
only actors to be nominated for both a Best Supporting Actor and
Best Actor Academy Award in the same year for her work in two
different films.

She is one of the only people to have Oscars for both acting and
writing. Her writing credits include Nanny McPhee, Wit, and the
Oscar winning adapted screenplay for Sense and Sensibility.

In her film career, her list of co-stars includes such acting
greats as Anthony Hopkins, Dame Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh,
Liam Neeson, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, Dame Eileen Atkins, Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl
Streep, Al Pacino, and Alan Rickman - just to name a few.

Beloved by her co-stars for her wit and sense of humor, Thompson
eventually married one of her famous co-stars, Kenneth Branagh, in
1989. They made several movies together including Fortunes of War,
Henry V, and Much Ado About Nothing, but eventually got divorced
in 1995. Though the two have parted ways, they continue to work
together, most recently in The Boat that Rocked.

Happiness has found our talented Thompson though and in 2003 she
married another co-star, Greg Wise. Wise played Willoughby in
1996’s Sense and Sensibility. Together, they have one daughter,
Gaia, born in 1999. Thompson has joked that she only took the role
of Professor Sybill Trelawney in the Harry Potter film series to
impress her daughter in the future.

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