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.
2025
as Dasha
2024
as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
2024
as Sister Mary
2024
as Queenie Epstein
2023
as Sheila (voice)
2022
as Aileen O'Hara
2021
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2021
as Dr. Emma Robinson
2020
as Mrs. Martin
2019
as Ulana Khomyuk
2018
as Regan
2018
as Constance Wilde
2018
as Narrator (voice)
2018
as Violet Ponting
2017
as Marmee March
2017
as Chief of Staff Fox
2017
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2017
as Elsa Einstein
2017
as Yvonne Carmichael
2015
as Her Ladyship
2015
as Helen Wilton
2015
as Julie Nicholson
2015
as Grace McKee
2015
as Queen Elizabeth
2015
as Emma Busbee
2015
as Miss Trinklebury
2014
as Beryl Wilde
2014
as Mrs. Brittain
2013
as Rosa Hubermann
2013
as Lindsay
2013
as Lady Mansfield
2013
as Freya Gardner
2012
as Countess Lydia Ivanova
2011
as Rose Narracott
2011
as Narrator
2011
as Janet Leach
2010
as Margaret Humphreys
2010
as Mrs. Kendrick
2009
as Evgenia Ginzburg
2009
as Claire
2008
as Tammy
2008
as Jane Lawrence
2008
as Caroline Gil
2007
as Anne MacMorrow
2006
as Millie Warne
2006
as Mary Vega
2005
as Martha Stanley
2005
as Anne Manning
2005
as Victoria Everglot (voice)
2005
as Ruby Compton
2004
as Anne Sellers
2003
as Herself
2002
as Mary O'Brien
2002
2002
as Lena Leonard
2002
as Reba McClane
2002
as Self
2001
as Elsie
2000
as Natalia Katkov
2000
as Trixie Zurbo
1999
as Angela McCourt
1999
as Olive Stanton
1998
as Jackie Du Pré
1997
as Maggie Hamill
1997
1997
as Maggie Tulliver
1997
as Marion
1996
as Bess McNeill
1994
1991
as Rosalie
1953
as Self
as Sarah
as Mary Shakespeare