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Emily Watson
Actor, ProducerBorn January 14, 1967 (58 years)
Emily Margaret Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998).
Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024).
She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.
Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024).
She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.
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| 2025 | Hamnet · as Mary Shakespeare |
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| 2025 | The Legend of Ochi · as Dasha |
| 2024 | Dune: Prophecy (TV Series) · as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen |
| 2024 | Small Things Like These · as Sister Mary |
| 2024 | Midas Man · as Queenie Epstein |
| 2023 | Fired on Mars (TV Series) · as Sheila (voice) |
| 2022 | God's Creatures · as Aileen O'hara |
| 2021 | Monster Family 2 · as Emma Wishbone (voice) |
| 2021 | Too Close (TV Series) · as Dr. Emma Robinson |
| 2020 | The Third Day (TV Series) · as Mrs. Martin |
| 2019 | Chernobyl (TV Series) · as Ulana Khomyuk |
| 2018 | King Lear · as Regan |
| 2018 | The Happy Prince · as Constance Wilde |
| 2018 | Weinstein · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | On Chesil Beach · as Violet Ponting |
| 2017 | Little Women (2017) (TV Series) · as Marmee March |
| 2017 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle · as Chief Of Staff Fox |
| 2017 | Monster Family · as Emma Wishbone (voice) |
| 2017 | Genius (2017) (TV Series) · as Elsa Einstein |
| 2017 | Apple Tree Yard (TV Series) · 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 | The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (TV Series) · as Grace Mckee |
| 2015 | Little Boy · as Emma Busbee |
| 2015 | Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism · as Miss Trinklebury |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything · as Beryl Wilde |
| 2014 | Belle: The Story · as Lady Mansfield |
| 2014 | Belle: The History Behind the Painting · as Lady Mansfield |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Freya Gardner |
| 2012 | Anna Karenina · as Countess Lydia Ivanova |
| 2011 | War Horse · as Rose Narracott |
| 2011 | Meerkats 3D · as Narrator |
| 2011 | Appropriate Adult (TV Series) · as Janet Leach |
| 2010 | Oranges and Sunshine · as Margaret Humphreys |
| 2010 | Cemetery Junction · as Mrs. Kendrick |
| 2009 | Cold Souls · as Claire |
| 2009 | Within the Whirlwind · as Evgenia Ginzburg |
| 2008 | Synecdoche, New York · as Tammy |
| 2008 | Fireflies in the Garden · as Jane Lawrence |
| 2008 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter · as Caroline Gil |
| 2007 | The Water Horse · as Anne Macmorrow |
| 2006 | Miss Potter · as Millie Warne |
| 2006 | Crusade in Jeans · as Mary Vega |
| 2005 | Separate Lies · as Anne Manning |
| 2005 | The Proposition · as Martha Stanley |
| 2005 | Corpse Bride · as Victoria Everglot (voice) |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers · as Anne Sellers |
| 2004 | Back to Gaya · as Alanta |
| 2003 | Blossoms & Blood · as Lena Leonard |
| 2002 | Equilibrium · as Mary O'brien |
| 2002 | |
| 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 |
| 1998 | Hilary and Jackie · as Jackie Du Pré |
| 1997 | The Boxer · as Maggie Hamill |
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| 1997 | The Mill on the Floss · as Maggie Tulliver |
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| 1996 | Breaking the Waves · as Bess Mcneill |
| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) · as Rosalie |
| 1953 | Panorama (TV Series) · as Narrator |