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Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a double Academy Award, Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. Biography Early life Thompson was born in Paddington, London to Eric Thompson (an English actor known for narrating the television series The Magic Roundabout) and Phyllida Law (a Scottish actress). Her sister is actress Sophie Thompson. Thompson went to Camden School for Girls and then took English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was ... a member, as well as vice-president, of the Footlights comedy club. While there, Thompson dated
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Emma Thompson (born April 15 1959) is an Emmy-, BAFTA-, Golden Globe- and two time Academy Award-winning English actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is ... a patron of the Refugee Council. Thompson was born in Paddington, London, England. Her father, Eric Thompson, was an actor known for narrating the English version of the French children's TV series The Magic Roundabout. Her mother, Phyllida Law, is a Scottish actress. Thompson's younger sister is actress Sophie Thompson.
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One of the first ladies of contemporary British stage and cinema, Emma Thompson has won equal acclaim for her work as an actress and a screenwriter. For a long time known as Kenneth Branagh's other half, Thompson was able to demonstrate her considerable talent to an international audience with Oscar-winning mid-1990s work in such films as Howards End and Sense and Sensibility. Born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, West London, Thompson grew up in a household well-suited for creative expression. Both of her parents were actors, her father, Eric Thompson, the creator of the popular TV series The Magic Roundabout, and her actress mother, Phyllida Law, a cast member of This Poisoned Earth (1961), Otley (1968) and several other films. Thompson and her sister, Sophie (who ... became an actress), enjoyed a fairly colorful upbringing; as Emma later said, "I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals." She excelled at school, was well liked, and went on to enroll at Cambridge University in 1978.
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One of the first ladies of contemporary British stage and cinema, "Emma Thompson" has won equal acclaim for her work as an actress and a screenwriter. For a long time known as "Kenneth Branagh"'s other half, Thompson was able to demonstrate her considerable talent to an international audience with Oscar-winning mid-1990s work in such films as "Howards End" and "Sense and Sensibility".
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Multiple-award winner Emma Thompson won her first Oscar in 1992, for her portrayal of Margaret in Howard's End, opposite Anthony Hopkins. Her second Oscar came to her in 1995, for her screen adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, making her the only person to have won Academy Awards for both acting and writing. She is ... one of a short list of performers to have been nominated for both a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor award in the same year, when, in 1993, she was nominated for Best Actress for her performance as a housekeeper in Merchant-Ivory's The Remains of the Day, again opposite Hopkins, and Best Supporting Actress for her turn as a barrister in In the Name of the Father. The list of other awards she has won is long, including Golden Globes and others from Los Angeles Film Critics Circle, BAFTA and Boston Society of Film Critics. In 1997 she took home the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, for her turn as a British actress named "Emma Thompson" who reveals she's a lesbian from Ohio, on the comedy series Ellen.
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Emma Thompson (Angel) won the Best Actress Academy Award® for "Howard's End" and the Oscar® for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for "Sense and Sensibility," for which she was ... nominated as Best Actress. In 1994, she received two Oscar(r) nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, both for Best Actress, in "The Remains of the Day" and for Best Supporting Actress in "In the Name of the Father." She won the London Film Critics Circle Best Actress Award for both "The Remains of the Day" and "Much Ado About Nothing." Her Golden Globe wins include Best Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility" and Best Actress for "Howard's End," as well as acting nominations for "Sense and Sensibility," "Junior" and HBO's "Wit." Her critically acclaimed performance in "Wit" garnered an Emmy® nomination as well as a SAG Award nomination, and the film went on to win the Emmy® for Outstanding Made For Television Movie. Along with Mike Nichols, she won the 2001 Humanitas Prize for the screenplay for "Wit," which also received an Emmy® nomination.
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