Emily Watson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1967-01-14 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Islington, London, England, UK

Emily 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 Lo...

Acting

1996

Breaking the Waves

as Bess McNeill

2006

Crusade in Jeans

as Mary Vega

1999

Angela's Ashes

as Angela McCourt

2005

Corpse Bride

as Victoria Everglot (voice)

2001

Gosford Park

as Elsie

2009

Cold Souls

as Claire

2002

Equilibrium

as Mary O'Brien

2008

Fireflies in the Garden

as Jane Lawrence

2002

Punch-Drunk Love

as Lena Leonard

2000

Trixie

as Trixie Zurbo

1997

Metroland

as Marion

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Olive Stanton

2002

Red Dragon

as Reba McClane

2025

2021

Monster Family 2

as Emma Wishbone (voice)

2006

Miss Potter

as Millie Warne

2024

2010

Cemetery Junction

as Mrs. Kendrick

2008

2005

Wah-Wah

as Ruby Compton

2024

Midas Man

as Queenie Epstein

2005

Separate Lies

as Anne Manning

2005

The Proposition

as Martha Stanley

1997

The Boxer

as Maggie Hamill

1998

Hilary and Jackie

as Jackie Du Pré

2000

The Luzhin Defence

as Natalia Katkov

2010

Oranges and Sunshine

as Margaret Humphreys

2007

The Water Horse

as Anne MacMorrow

2011

Meerkats 3D

as Narrator

2011

War Horse

as Rose Narracott

2009

Within the Whirlwind

as Evgenia Ginzburg

2012

Anna Karenina

as Countess Lydia Ivanova

1997

The Mill on the Floss

as Maggie Tulliver

2013

Belle

as Lady Mansfield

2013

The Book Thief

as Rosa Hubermann

2013

Some Girl(s)

as Lindsay

2015

Little Boy

as Emma Busbee

2014

2015

Testament of Youth

as Mrs. Brittain

2015

A Royal Night Out

as Queen Elizabeth

2015

Everest

as Helen Wilton

-

Midday Sun

as Sarah

2015

A Song for Jenny

as Julie Nicholson

2015

The Dresser

as Her Ladyship

2018

On Chesil Beach

as Violet Ponting

2025

Hamnet

as Mary Shakespeare

2017

Monster Family

as Emma Wishbone (voice)

2018

The Happy Prince

as Constance Wilde

2018

King Lear

as Regan

2018

Weinstein

as Narrator (voice)

2017

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

as Chief of Staff Fox

2022

God's Creatures

as Aileen O'Hara

2025

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