Emily Watson

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1967-01-14 (57 years old)

Place of Birth Islington, London, England, UK

Also Known As 에밀리 왓슨, Эмили Уотсон, Емілі Вотсон, 艾蜜莉·華森

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 (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.

Known For

Actor

Midday Sun

as Sarah

Hamnet

as Mary Shakespeare

2025
2024
2024
Midas Man

as Queenie Epstein

2024
Dune: Prophecy

as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen

2023
Fired on Mars

as Sheila (voice)

2022
God's Creatures

as Aileen O'Hara

2021
Monster Family 2

as Emma Wishbone (voice)

2021
Too Close

as Dr. Emma Robinson

2020
The Third Day

as Mrs. Martin

2019
Chernobyl

as Ulana Khomyuk

2018
King Lear

as Regan

2018
The Happy Prince

as Constance Wilde

2018
Weinstein

as Narrator (voice)

2018
On Chesil Beach

as Violet Ponting

2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle

as Chief of Staff Fox

2017
Monster Family

as Emma Wishbone (voice)

2017
Little Women

as Marmee March

2017
Genius

as Elsa Einstein

2017
Apple Tree Yard

as Yvonne Carmichael

2015
The Dresser

as Her Ladyship

2015
Everest

as Helen Wilton

2015
A Song for Jenny

as Julie Nicholson

2015
A Royal Night Out

as Queen Elizabeth

2015
Little Boy

as Emma Busbee

2014
2014
Testament of Youth

as Mrs. Brittain

2013
The Book Thief

as Rosa Hubermann

2013
Some Girl(s)

as Lindsay

2013
Belle

as Lady Mansfield

2013
The Politician's Husband

as Freya Gardner

2012
Anna Karenina

as Countess Lydia Ivanova

2011
War Horse

as Rose Narracott

2011
Meerkats 3D

as Narrator

2011
Appropriate Adult

as Janet Leach

2010
Oranges and Sunshine

as Margaret Humphreys

2010
Cemetery Junction

as Mrs. Kendrick

2009
Within the Whirlwind

as Evgenia Ginzburg

2009
Cold Souls

as Claire

2008
Fireflies in the Garden

as Jane Lawrence

2008
2007
The Water Horse

as Anne MacMorrow

2006
Miss Potter

as Millie Warne

2006
Crusade in Jeans

as Mary Vega

2005
The Proposition

as Martha Stanley

2005
Separate Lies

as Anne Manning

2005
Corpse Bride

as Victoria Everglot (voice)

2005
Wah-Wah

as Ruby Compton

2002
Equilibrium

as Mary O'Brien

2002
Punch-Drunk Love

as Lena Leonard

2002
Red Dragon

as Reba McClane

2001
Gosford Park

as Elsie

2000
The Luzhin Defence

as Natalia Katkov

2000
Trixie

as Trixie Zurbo

1999
Angela's Ashes

as Angela McCourt

1999
Cradle Will Rock

as Olive Stanton

1999
1998
Hilary and Jackie

as Jackie Du Pré

1997
The Boxer

as Maggie Hamill

1997
The Mill on the Floss

as Maggie Tulliver

1997
Metroland

as Marion

1996
Breaking the Waves

as Bess McNeill

1991
Performance

as Rosalie

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

2021
Too Close

as Executive Producer