Emily Watson
64 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 14, 1967 (age 59)
- Place of birth
- Islington, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Emily Anita Watson · Emily Margaret Watson
Biography
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998).
Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024). and A Pariare Farm Girl ( 2026).
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She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.
Watson is a supporter of the children's charity the NSPCC. In 2004, she was inducted into the society's hall of fame for spearheading the successful campaign to appoint a Children's Commissioner for England. Receiving her award in the crowded House of Commons, she spoke out against the possibility that the Children's Commissioner become a figurehead with little real power.
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Known for
Emily Watson: movies and TV shows
Acting (77)
- Upcoming Midday Sun
as Sarah
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming The Clockmaker’s Secret: Lost in Spindlewood
as The Keeper of the Keys
- Upcoming London Fog: A Ruby Gale Mystery
as (The Detective)
- Upcoming Holly Noel: The Winter Ball (Christmas 3)
as ( Host )
- Upcoming Amri
as Marie Antoinette Gottesman
- 2025 Hamnet
as Mary
- 2025 Steve
as Jenny
- 2025 The Legend of Ochi
as Dasha
- 2024
- 2024 Small Things Like These
as Sister Mary
- 2024 Midas Man
as Queenie Epstein
- 2023
- 2022 God's Creatures
as Aileen O'Hara
- 2021 Monster Family 2
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018 King Lear
as Regan
- 2018 The Happy Prince
as Constance Wilde
- 2018 Weinstein
as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 On Chesil Beach
as Violet Ponting
- 2017
- 2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Chief of Staff Fox
- 2017 Monster Family
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
- 2017
- 2017
- 2015 The Dresser
as Her Ladyship
- 2015 Everest
as Helen Wilton
- 2015 A Song for Jenny
as Julie Nicholson
- 2015
- 2015 A Royal Night Out
as Queen Elizabeth
- 2015 Little Boy
as Emma Busbee
- 2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
as Miss Trinklebury
- 2015 Testament of Youth
as Mrs. Brittain
- 2014 The Theory of Everything
as Beryl Wilde
- 2013 The Book Thief
as Rosa Hubermann
- 2013 Some Girl(s)
as Lindsay
- 2013 Belle
as Lady Mansfield
- 2013
- 2012 Anna Karenina
as Countess Lydia Ivanova
- 2011 War Horse
as Rose Narracott
- 2011 Meerkats 3D
as Narrator
- 2011
- 2010 Oranges and Sunshine
as Margaret Humphreys
- 2010 Cemetery Junction
as Mrs. Kendrick
- 2009 Within the Whirlwind
as Evgenia Ginzburg
- 2009 Cold Souls
as Claire
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York
as Tammy
- 2008 Fireflies in the Garden
as Jane Lawrence
- 2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
as Caroline Gil
- 2007 The Water Horse
as Anne MacMorrow
- 2006 Miss Potter
as Millie Warne
- 2006 Crusade in Jeans
as Mary Vega
- 2005 The Proposition
as Martha Stanley
- 2005 Separate Lies
as Anne Manning
- 2005 Corpse Bride
as Victoria Everglot (voice)
- 2005 Wah-Wah
as Ruby Compton
- 2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Anne Sellers
- 2003
- 2002 Equilibrium
as Mary O'Brien
- 2002 Punch-Drunk Love
as Lena Leonard
- 2002 Red Dragon
as Reba McClane
- 2001 Gosford Park
as Elsie
- 2000 The Luzhin Defence
as Natalia Katkov
- 2000 Trixie
as Trixie Zurbo
- 1999 Angela's Ashes
as Angela McCourt
- 1999 Cradle Will Rock
as Olive Stanton
- 1998 Hilary and Jackie
as Jackie du Pré
- 1998 Metroland
as Marion
- 1997 The Boxer
as Maggie Hamill
- 1997
- 1997 The Mill on the Floss
as Maggie Tulliver
- 1996 Breaking the Waves
as Bess McNeill
- 1994
- 1991
Behind the camera (1)
- 2021
Talk shows and appearances (9)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 1999 The Early Show
1 episode
- 1998
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes