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Born
Emily Margaret Watson

(1967-01-14) 14 January 1967 (age 57)
Islington, London, England
Alma mater University of Bristol
Drama Studio London
OccupationActress
Years active1992–present
Spouse
Jack Waters
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(m. 1995)​
Children2

Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) [1] 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, and was nominated for the 2003 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 role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998).

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Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), 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).

For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl , she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and 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 the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy .

Early life

Watson was born 14 January 1967 in London. [2] Her father, Richard Watson, was an architect, and her mother, Katharine (née Venables), was an English teacher at St David's Girls' School, West London. [3] [4] She has an older sister, Harriet. [5] Watson was brought up as an Anglican. [6] She has described her childhood-self as 'a nice middle-class English girl ... I'd love to say I was a rebellious teenager, but I wasn't.' [7] She is a childhood friend of actress and writer Clara Salaman, and starred in the screen adaptation of Salaman's novel Too Close . [8]

Watson was educated at St James Independent Schools in west London which were founded by the School of Economic Science. [9] Whilst there, she witnessed "incidents of extreme cruelty" that were "very scarring for people going forward in their lives". [10] She attended the University of Bristol, where she obtained a BA (1988, English). [3] Watson subsequently trained at Drama Studio London. [5] In 2003 she received an honorary MA from Bristol University. [11] Watson was a member of the School of Economic Science until 1996, when aged 29 she was expelled following her part in Breaking the Waves . She describes the organisation as a "very repressive regime" [10] and a "system where you were supposed to think a certain way and you weren't really allowed to think any other way". Breaking out of it, she says, was a "very powerful release" in her life. [12]

Career

Watson's career began on the stage. Her theatre credits include The Children's Hour (at the Royal National Theatre), Three Sisters , Much Ado About Nothing and The Lady from the Sea . Watson has also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Jovial Crew , The Taming of the Shrew , All's Well That Ends Well and The Changeling . [13]

Watson was virtually unknown until director Lars von Trier chose her to star in Breaking the Waves (1996) after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out. [14] Watson's performance as Bess McNeill won her the Los Angeles, London and New York Critics' Circle Awards for Best Actress, as well as the US National Society of Film Critics' Award for Best Actress and nominations at the Academy Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards. [15]

Watson at the British Academy Film Awards in the Royal Opera House, February 2007 EmilyWatsonBAFTA07.jpg
Watson at the British Academy Film Awards in the Royal Opera House, February 2007

Watson came to public notice again in another controversial[ clarification needed ] role, that of cellist Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie , for which she learned to play the cello in three months, [3] and received another Oscar nomination. She also played a leading role in Cradle Will Rock , a story of a theatre show in the 1930s, directed by Tim Robbins. Though she won the title role of Frank McCourt's mother in the adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Angela's Ashes , the film underperformed. [16] In 2001, she appeared with John Turturro in The Luzhin Defence and in Robert Altman's ensemble piece Gosford Park . [17]

Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet wrote the character Amélie for Watson to play (Amélie was originally named Emily) but she eventually turned the role down due to difficulties speaking French and a desire not to be away from home. [18] The role made a star of Audrey Tautou. She was also the first choice to play Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's film Elizabeth , the role that won Cate Blanchett an Academy Award nomination. [19]

The following year, she starred as Reba McClane in the adaptation of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs prequel, Red Dragon , as the romantic interest of Adam Sandler in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love and in the sci-fi action thriller Equilibrium with Christian Bale. In 2002, she took time off from cinema to play two roles in Sam Mendes' repertory productions of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night , first at Mendes' Donmar Warehouse in London and later at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her performance was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Uncle Vanya. [20]

In 2004, Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Peter Sellers's first wife, Anne Howe, in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers . 2005 saw Watson star in four films: Wah-Wah , Richard E. Grant's autobiographical directorial debut; Separate Lies , directed by Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes; Tim Burton's animated film Corpse Bride , with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter; and John Hillcoat's Australian Western, The Proposition .

In 2006, Watson took a supporting role in Miss Potter, a biographical drama about children's author Beatrix Potter, from Babe director Chris Noonan, with Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger; and also in an adaptation of Thea Beckman's children's novel Crusade in Jeans . In 2007, she appeared in The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep , an adaptation of the Dick King-Smith children's novel about the origin of the Loch Ness Monster. [21] [22] In 2007, Mood Indigo, a script written by Watson and her husband, was optioned by Capitol Films. The film is a love story set during the Second World War and concerns a young woman who falls in love with a pilot. [23]

In 2008, Watson starred with Julia Roberts and Carrie-Anne Moss in Fireflies in the Garden , [24] the Lifetime Television movie The Memory Keeper's Daughter (based on the novel with the same name), and in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. [25] In 2009 she appeared in the film Cold Souls , from first-time director Sophie Barthes, [26] and Within the Whirlwind , a biographical film of Russian poet and Gulag survivor Evgenia Ginzburg from The Luzhin Defence director Marleen Gorris. [27] Watson considers Ginzburg her best recent role; however, the film was not picked up for distribution. [28]

In 2010, she starred in Oranges and Sunshine , a film recounting the true story of children sent into abusive care homes in Australia, directed by Jim Loach, and also the following year (2011) in War Horse , an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's prizewinning novel, directed by Steven Spielberg. In 2011, she played Janet Leach in the ITV two-part film Appropriate Adult , about serial killer Fred West, for which she won a BAFTA. [3]

In 2014, Watson had supporting roles in The Book Thief , alongside Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse, and the Oscar-nominated film The Theory of Everything , portraying Jane Wilde, Hawking's mother in law, alongside Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. In 2015, she had supporting roles in Testament of Youth , alongside Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, Eduardo Verástegui's Little Boy and A Royal Night Out , in which she portrayed Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She also received rave reviews [29] for her portrayal of Julie Nicholson in the BBC Drama A Song for Jenny, with experts tipping her to win the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.

In 2019 she appeared as a nuclear scientist — a composite of several real scientists — in the miniseries Chernobyl .

Watson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. [30] [31] [32] In 2017, she starred in the BBC mini-series Apple Tree Yard . [33]

Personal life

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Watson in 2014

Watson married Jack Waters, whom she had met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1995. Waters is a former actor who now works as a potter. [5] They have a daughter born in 2005, [34] and a son in 2009. [28] They live in Greenwich, London. [35] [36]

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. [37] 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. [38] She is also one of the patrons of the London children's charity Scene & Heard. [39] In April 2018, Watson presented Maternity Worldwide as her chosen charity on the BBC Radio 4 Appeal. [40]

Acting credits

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Breaking the Waves Bess McNeill
1997 Metroland Marion
The Boxer Maggie
1998 Hilary and Jackie Jacqueline du Pré
1999 Cradle Will Rock Olive Stanton
Angela's Ashes Angela McCourt
2000 Trixie Trixie Zurbo
The Luzhin Defence Natalia Katkov
2001 Gosford Park Elsie
2002 Punch-Drunk Love Lena Leonard
Red Dragon Reba McClane
Equilibrium Mary O'Brien
2004 Boo, Zino & the Snurks AtlantaVoice role
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Anne Sellers
2005 Separate Lies Anne Manning
Wah-Wah Ruby Compton
Corpse Bride Victoria EverglotVoice role
The Proposition Martha Stanley
2006 Miss Potter Amelia "Millie" Warne
Crusade in Jeans Mary Vega
2007 The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep Anne MacMorrow
2008 Fireflies in the Garden Adult Jane Lawrence
Synecdoche, New York Tammy
2009 Cold Souls Claire
Within the Whirlwind Evgenia Ginzburg
2010 Cemetery Junction Mrs. Kendrick
2011 Oranges and Sunshine Margaret Humphreys
War Horse Rose Narracott
2012 Anna Karenina Countess Lydia
2013 Some Girl(s) Lindsay
The Book Thief Rosa Hubermann
Belle Lady Mansfield
2014 The Theory of Everything Beryl Wilde
Testament of Youth Mrs. Brittain
2015 Little Boy Emma Busbee
A Royal Night Out Queen Elizabeth
Everest Helen Wilton
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism Miss Trinklebury
2017 Kingsman: The Golden Circle White House Chief of Staff Fox
On Chesil Beach Violet Ponting
Monster Family Emma WishboneVoice role
2018 The Happy Prince Constance Lloyd
2021 Monster Family 2 Emma WishboneVoice role
2022 God's Creatures Aileen O'Hara
2024 Small Things like These Sister Mary
Midas Man Malka Epstein [41]
2025 The Legend of Ochi DashaPost-production
TBA Hamnet Post-production

Television

Emily Watson television work
YearTitleRoleNotes
1994A Summer Day's DreamRosalieTelevision film
1997 The Mill on the Floss Maggie TulliverTelevision film
2008 The Memory Keeper's Daughter Caroline GilTelevision film
2011 Appropriate Adult Janet Leach2 episodes
2013 The Politician's Husband Freya3 episodes
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Grace McKee2 episodes
2015 A Song for Jenny Julie NicholsonTelevision film
2015 The Dresser Her LadyshipTelevision film
2017 Apple Tree Yard Yvonne Carmichael4 episodes
2017 Genius Elsa Einstein 4 episodes
2017 Little Women Marmee3 episodes
2018 King Lear Regan Television film
2019 Chernobyl Ulyana Khomyuk4 episodes
2020 The Third Day Mrs. Martin6 episodes
2021 Too Close Dr. Emma Robertson3 episodes
2024 Dune: Prophecy Valya Harkonnen Main role

Theatre

Radio

Awards and nominations

YearTitleAwardResult
1996 Breaking the Waves Bodil Award for Best Actress Won
European Film Award for Best Actress Won
Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer Won
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival President Award for Best ActressWon
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Newcomer of the Year Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association's New Generation Award Won
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Won
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Won
Robert Award for Best Actress Won
Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress Nominated
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Actress of the Year Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated
1998 Hilary and Jackie British Independent Film Award for Best Actress Won
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Actress of the Year (also for Angela's Ashes)Won
Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Nominated
1999 Cradle Will Rock London Film Critics' Award for Best British Supporting Actress of the Year Nominated
Angela's Ashes London Film Critics' Award for Best British Actress of the Year (also for Hilary and Jackie)Won
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated
IFTA Award for Best Actress Nominated
2000 The Luzhin Defence British Independent Film Award for Best Actress Nominated
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Actress of the Year Nominated
2001 Gosford Park Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast Won
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Won
Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture Won
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Won
European Film Awards Audience Award for Best Actress Nominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best CastNominated
Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated
2002 Punch-Drunk Love Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Won
MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Adam Sandler)Nominated
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Red Dragon Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress (2nd place)Won
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Supporting Actress of the Year Won
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated
Empire Award for Best Actress Nominated
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
2005 Separate Lies London Film Critics' Award for Best British Actress of the Year Nominated
Wah-Wah British Independent Film Award for Best Actress Nominated
The Proposition IF Award for Best Actress Nominated
London Film Critics' Award for Best British Supporting Actress of the Year Nominated
2008 Synecdoche, New York Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast Won
Independent Spirit Award's Robert Altman Award Won
2009 Cold Souls Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated
2011 Oranges and Sunshine AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Won
Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Nominated
Appropriate Adult BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress Won
Golden Nymph for Outstanding Actress in a MiniseriesWon
RTS Television Award for Best Actor (Female)Won
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Movie/Miniseries Actress Nominated
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated
2013 The Book Thief Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nominated
2014 The Theory of Everything Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated
2017 Apple Tree Yard International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an ActressNominated
2019 Chernobyl Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Nominated
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Nominated
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
2022 Too Close British Academy Television Award for Best Actress Nominated
God's Creatures British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Performance Nominated
2024 Small Things like These Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance Won

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