Emily Watson
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 (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). 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.
Acted in
The Legend of Ochi
2025
as Dasha
Dune: Prophecy
2024
as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
Small Things Like These
2024
as Sister Mary
Midas Man
2024
as Queenie Epstein
Fired on Mars
2023
as Sheila (voice)
God's Creatures
2022
as Aileen O'Hara
Monster Family 2
2021
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
Too Close
2021
as Dr. Emma Robinson
The Third Day
2020
as Mrs. Martin
Chernobyl
2019
as Ulana Khomyuk
King Lear
2018
as Regan
The Happy Prince
2018
as Constance Wilde
Weinstein
2018
as Narrator (voice)
On Chesil Beach
2018
as Violet Ponting
Little Women
2017
as Marmee March
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017
as Chief of Staff Fox
Monster Family
2017
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
Genius
2017
as Elsa Einstein
Apple Tree Yard
2017
as Yvonne Carmichael
The Dresser
2015
as Her Ladyship
Everest
2015
as Helen Wilton
A Song for Jenny
2015
as Julie Nicholson
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
2015
as Grace McKee
A Royal Night Out
2015
as Queen Elizabeth
Little Boy
2015
as Emma Busbee
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
2015
as Miss Trinklebury
The Theory of Everything
2014
as Beryl Wilde
Testament of Youth
2014
as Mrs. Brittain
The Book Thief
2013
as Rosa Hubermann
Some Girl(s)
2013
as Lindsay
Belle
2013
as Lady Mansfield
The Politician's Husband
2013
as Freya Gardner
Anna Karenina
2012
as Countess Lydia Ivanova
War Horse
2011
as Rose Narracott
Meerkats 3D
2011
as Narrator
Appropriate Adult
2011
as Janet Leach
Oranges and Sunshine
2010
as Margaret Humphreys
Cemetery Junction
2010
as Mrs. Kendrick
Within the Whirlwind
2009
as Evgenia Ginzburg
Cold Souls
2009
as Claire
Synecdoche, New York
2008
as Tammy
Fireflies in the Garden
2008
as Jane Lawrence
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
2008
as Caroline Gil
The Water Horse
2007
as Anne MacMorrow
Miss Potter
2006
as Millie Warne
Crusade in Jeans
2006
as Mary Vega
The Proposition
2005
as Martha Stanley
Separate Lies
2005
as Anne Manning
Corpse Bride
2005
as Victoria Everglot (voice)
Wah-Wah
2005
as Ruby Compton
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Anne Sellers
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Herself
Equilibrium
2002
as Mary O'Brien
Ballchewer
2002
Punch-Drunk Love
2002
as Lena Leonard
Red Dragon
2002
as Reba McClane
The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self
Gosford Park
2001
as Elsie
The Luzhin Defence
2000
as Natalia Katkov
Trixie
2000
as Trixie Zurbo
Angela's Ashes
1999
as Angela McCourt
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Olive Stanton
Hilary and Jackie
1998
as Jackie Du Pré
The Boxer
1997
as Maggie Hamill
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997
The Mill on the Floss
1997
as Maggie Tulliver
Metroland
1997
as Marion
Breaking the Waves
1996
as Bess McNeill
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
Performance
1991
as Rosalie
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Quicksand
as Sarah
Hamnet
as Mary Shakespeare
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