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Emily Watson

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.

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 Malka 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

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