Actor
Emily Watson
Biography

Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- The Legend of Ochi | Dasha
2024 -- Small Things Like These | Sister Mary
2024 -- Dune: Prophecy - Lincoln Centre Premiere | Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
2024 -- Midas Man | Queenie Epstein
2022 -- God's Creatures | Aileen O'Hara
2021 -- Monster Family 2 | Emma Wishbone (voice)
2018 -- King Lear | Regan
2018 -- The Happy Prince | Constance Wilde
2018 -- Weinstein | Narrator (voice)
2018 -- On Chesil Beach | Violet Ponting
2017 -- Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Chief of Staff Fox
2017 -- Monster Family | Emma Wishbone (voice)
2015 -- The Dresser | Her Ladyship
2015 -- Everest | Helen Wilton
2015 -- A Song for Jenny | Julie Nicholson
2015 -- A Royal Night Out | Queen Elizabeth
2015 -- Little Boy | Emma Busbee
2015 -- Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism | Miss Trinklebury
2014 -- The Theory of Everything | Beryl Wilde
2014 -- Testament of Youth | Mrs. Brittain
2013 -- The Book Thief | Rosa Hubermann
2013 -- Some Girl(s) | Lindsay
2013 -- Belle | Lady Mansfield
2012 -- Anna Karenina | Countess Lydia Ivanova
2011 -- War Horse | Rose Narracott
2011 -- Meerkats 3D | Narrator
2010 -- Oranges and Sunshine | Margaret Humphreys
2010 -- Cemetery Junction | Mrs. Kendrick
2009 -- Within the Whirlwind | Evgenia Ginzburg
2009 -- Cold Souls | Claire
2008 -- Synecdoche, New York | Tammy
2008 -- Fireflies in the Garden | Jane Lawrence
2008 -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Caroline Gil
2007 -- The Water Horse | Anne MacMorrow
2006 -- Miss Potter | Millie Warne
2006 -- Crusade in Jeans | Mary Vega
2005 -- The Proposition | Martha Stanley
2005 -- Separate Lies | Anne Manning
2005 -- Corpse Bride | Victoria Everglot (voice)
2005 -- Wah-Wah | Ruby Compton
2004 -- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Anne Sellers
2003 -- A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Herself
2002 -- Equilibrium | Mary O'Brien
2002 -- Ballchewer |
2002 -- Punch-Drunk Love | Lena Leonard
2002 -- Red Dragon | Reba McClane
2002 -- The Making of 'Gosford Park' | Self
2001 -- Gosford Park | Elsie
2000 -- The Luzhin Defence | Natalia Katkov
2000 -- Trixie | Trixie Zurbo
1999 -- Angela's Ashes | Angela McCourt
1999 -- Cradle Will Rock | Olive Stanton
1998 -- Hilary and Jackie | Jackie Du Pré
1997 -- The Boxer | Maggie Hamill
1997 -- Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier |
1997 -- The Mill on the Floss | Maggie Tulliver
1997 -- Metroland | Marion
1996 -- Breaking the Waves | Bess McNeill
1994 -- A Summer Day's Dream |
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