Emily Watson
Acting
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) 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.
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Mary
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Jenny
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Dasha
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Sister Mary
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Queenie Epstein
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Aileen O'Hara
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Emma Wishbone (voice)
... 2021
Regan
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Constance Wilde
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Narrator (voice)
... 2018
Violet Ponting
... 2018
Chief of Staff Fox
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Emma Wishbone (voice)
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Her Ladyship
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Helen Wilton
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Julie Nicholson
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Queen Elizabeth
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Emma Busbee
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Miss Trinklebury
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Mrs. Brittain
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Beryl Wilde
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Rosa Hubermann
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Lindsay
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Lady Mansfield
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Countess Lydia Ivanova
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Rose Narracott
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Narrator
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Margaret Humphreys
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Mrs. Kendrick
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Evgenia Ginzburg
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Claire
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Tammy
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Jane Lawrence
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Caroline Gil
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Anne MacMorrow
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Millie Warne
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Mary Vega
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Martha Stanley
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Anne Manning
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Victoria Everglot (voice)
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Ruby Compton
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Anne Sellers
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Mary O'Brien
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Lena Leonard
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Reba McClane
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Elsie
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Natalia Katkov
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Trixie Zurbo
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Angela McCourt
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Olive Stanton
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Jackie Du Pré
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Maggie Hamill
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Maggie Tulliver
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Marion
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Bess McNeill
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Sarah