Emily Margaret Watson , OBE (born January 14, 1967) is a British actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil at Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du PrÃÆ' © at Hilary and Jackie (1998), won the BIFA Award for Best Actress for the latter. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach on television television ITV 2011 Adult Appropriate .
Watson began his career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, he starred in the production of Twelfth Night and Uncle's Barn at Donmar's Warehouse, and was nominated for the Olivier Award 2003 for Best Actress for the latter. Other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park < Drunk Love <2002>, Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005 ), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Orange and Sunlight < War (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017).
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Watson was born in Islington. His father, Richard Watson, is an architect, and his mother Katharine ( nÃÆ' Â © e Venables) is an English teacher at St. David's Girls' School, West London. He was raised as an Anglican. Watson describes his childhood as a good middle-class English girl... I want to say that I am a rebellious teenager, but I am not.
Watson was educated at St James Independent Schools, in west London, which he described as 'progressive'. He attended the University of Bristol, where he earned a BA (1988, English). Following the university, he trained at Drama Studio London. He then received MA (2003, honorary) from Bristol University.
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Theater career
Watson's career started onstage. His theater credits include Children's Clock (at the Royal National Theater), Three Sisters , Many Ado About Nothing and The Princess of Oceans . Watson also worked with Royal Shakespeare Company at The Jovial Crew, The Taming of the Shrew, Everything Good That Well Changeling . In 2002, he took a leave of absence from the cinema to play two roles in the production of Sam Mendes's treasures of Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night, first at Mendes' Donmar Warehouse in London and later on Brooklyn Music Academy. His performance was widely recognized on both sides of the Atlantic and garnered an Olivier Award nomination for Uncle Vanya.
Movie careers
Movie debut
Watson was almost unknown until director Lars von Trier chose him to star in his controversial Breaking the Waves (1996) after Helena Bonham Carter came out. Watson's appearance as Bess McNeill won it in Los Angeles, London, and the New York Critics' Circle Awards, US National Film Critics Association for Best Actress, and Oscar nomination.
Next career
Watson came to public notice again in another controversial role, as cellist Jacqueline du Prà ©  © in Hilary and Jackie, where she learned to play cello in three months, and received another Oscar nomination. He also plays a major role in Cradle Will Rock, a story about a theatrical performance in the 1930s, directed by Tim Robbins. Although she won the title role of Frank McCourt's mother in the adaptation of her acclaimed memoir, Angela's Ashes, the film performed poorly. In 2001, he appeared with John Turturro at The Luzhin Defense and in the ensemble ensemble of Robert Altman Gosford Park .
The following year, he starred as Reba McClane in the adaptation of Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs prequel, Red Dragon , as a romantic interest in Adam Sandler at Paul Thomas Anderson Punch- Drunk Love and in the sci-fi thriller Equilibrium action with Christian Bale.
In 2004, Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Peter Sellers 'first wife, Anne Howe, in Peter Sellers' Life and Death HBO movie. 2005 saw Watson starred in four films: Wah-Wah , the debut of autobiographical director Richard E. Grant; Separate Lies , directed by Gosford Park Julian Fellowes writer; The animated film Tim Burton Corpse Bride , with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter; and "Western Australia" by John Hillcoat, The Proposition .
In 2006, she took on a supporting role in Miss Potter, a biographical film by children's author Beatrix Potter from Chris Noonan's director Chris Eon McGregor and Renà © © Zellweger, as well as in the novel adaptation of Thea Beckman's children Crusade in Jeans . In 2007, he appeared in Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, an adaptation of the Dick King-Smith children's novel about the origin of the Loch Ness Monster.
In 2008, Watson starred in Julia Roberts and Carrie-Anne Moss on Fireflies in the Garden, Lifetime Television's The Memory Keeper's Daughter (based on a novel of the same name), [ and in the director's debut screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York. In 2009 she appeared in the movie Cold Souls, from first director Sophie Barthes, and In Whirlwind, a biopic of Russian poets and Gulag survivors of Evgenia Ginzburg from the director of The Luzhin Defense Marleen Gorris. Watson regards Ginzburg as his last best role; However, the film was not taken for distribution.
In 2010, she starred in Orange and Sunshine, a movie that tells the true story of children being sent to a rough care home in Australia, directed by Jim Loach, and also the following year (2011) at < i> War Horse , an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's prizewinning novel, directed by Steven Spielberg. In 2011, she plays Janet Leach in the two-part ITV The Right Adult movie, about the serial killer Fred West, in which she won the BAFTA.
In 2014, Watson had a supporting role at The Book Thief, along with Geoffrey Rush and Sophie NÃÆ' Â © lisse, and Oscar-nominated The Theory of Everything , describing Jane Wilde, Hawking's mother, along with Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones. By 2015, he has a supporting role in the Testament of Youth, alongside Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, Eduardo VerÃÆ'¡gregi's Little Boy and A Royal Night Out i>, where he described Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She also received a warm reception for her role as Julie Nicholson in the BBC A Song for Jenny Drama, with experts tip her to win the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
Watson was appointed UK Government Official (OBE) at the 2015 New Year's Prize for drama services. In 2017, he starred in the mini-series BBC Apple Tree Yard .
Scriptwriting
In 2007, the Mood Indigo , a script written by Watson and her husband, was selected by Capitol Films. The film is a love story created during the Second World War and involves a young woman who falls in love with a pilot.
Role missed
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet wrote the character Amy Lie for Watson to play (AmÃÆ' Â © lie originally named Emily) but he eventually changed the role due to the difficulty of speaking French and the desire to not go from home. That role became Audrey Tautou's star. She was also the first choice to portray Elizabeth I in the film Shekhar Kapur Elizabeth , a role that won Cate Blanchett as an Academy Award nomination.
She is often confused with Emma Watson, the actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series due to the closeness in the name. He has stated that he is not right whoever made that mistake, for he is "quite flattered that people think I am 21".
Charity
Watson is a supporter of the NSPCC children's charity. In 2004, he was inducted into the public fame hall to pioneer a successful campaign to appoint a Commissioner of Children for England. Receiving his appreciation in the lively House of Commons, he spoke against the possibility that the Children's Commissioner became a puppet with little real power. She is also one of the children's protector of London, Scene & amp; Hear.
Personal life
Watson married Jack Waters, whom he met at Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. Their daughter, Juliet, was born in 2005, and their son Dylan in 2009. They live in Greenwich, London. Her mother fell ill with encephalitis just before the filming began at Orange and Sunshine. Watson returned to London but arrived just after his death.
Credit
Movies and TV
Theater
- School for Mother and The Mistake (double bill of one-act drama), White Bear Theater, London, 1991
- All Good That Ends Well (Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theater, Stratford-upon-Avon 1992, then Pit Theater, London, 1993) as Marianna
- The Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theater, London, 1993) as Mrs. Ruth Banks-Ellis
- The Changeling (Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit Theater, 1993)
- Jovial Crew (Royal Shakespeare Company, Pit Theater, 1993) as Amie
- Lady of the Sea (Theater Lyric Hammersmith, London, 1994) as Hilde Wangel
- Children's Clock (Theater Lyttelton, London, 1994) as Mary Tilford
- Three Sisters (Out of Joint, 1995)
- Othello (1996, theater)
- Twelfth Night / Uncle Vanya (Donmar Warehouse, 2002/BAM, 2003)
Radio
- Wolf Willoughby Chase (1994, radio)
- Wuthering Heights (1995, radio series)
- The Glass Piano (2010, radio drama about Princess Alexandra of Bavaria)
References
External links
- Emily Watson on IMDb
- Premiere Magazine: Emily Watson Q & amp; A and podcasts
- Emily Watson at the Edinburgh Festival
- Emily Watson in Movie Bug
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