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Date of Birth : Apr 15th 1959

Thompson’s first major film role was in a romantic comedy, The Tall Guy (1989). Her career took a more serious turn with a series of critically acclaimed performances and films, beginning with 1992’s Howards End (for which she received an Oscar for Best Actress), the part of Gareth Peirce, the lawyer for the Guildford Four, in 1993’s In the Name of the Father, The Remains of the Day opposite Anthony Hopkins, and as the British painter Dora Carrington in the film Carrington (1995). She won her next Oscar in 1996, for Best Adapted Screenplay for her screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, a film in which she also played the Oscar-nominated lead actress role. She has said that she keeps both of her award statues in her downstairs bathroom, citing embarrassment at placing them in a more prominent place.

One of Thompson’s earliest television appearances was in 1984 alongside Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as guest stars on the sitcom The Young Ones. In 1988, she starred in and wrote the eponymous Thompson comedy sketch series for BBC1; the series was not successful with audiences or critics. Described in Time Out magazine as “very clever-little-me-ish”, it has never been repeated in Britain despite her Oscar successes, and Thompson has not returned to the sketch comedy field.

Thompson’s recent television work has included a starring role in the 2001 HBO drama Wit, in which she played a dying cancer victim, and 2003’s Angels in America, playing multiple roles, including one of the titular angels. Her Emmy Award was as a guest star in a 1997 episode of the show Ellen; in the episode, she played a fictionalised parody of herself: a closeted lesbian more concerned with the media finding out she’s actually American. She also appeared in an episode of Cheers in 1992. Her character, Nanette “Nanny” Gee, was the host of a children’s television programme and Frasier Crane’s first wife.Thompson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


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Cruella ( 2021 )

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Dolittle ( 2020 )

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Last Christmas ( 2019 )

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Missing Link ( 2019 )

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King Lear ( 2018 )

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The Children Act ( 2018 )

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Alone in Berlin ( 2017 )

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Burnt ( 2015 )

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Survivor ( 2015 )

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Effie Gray ( 2014 )

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The Love Punch ( 2014 )

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Saving Mr. Banks ( 2013 )

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Brave ( 2012 )

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Men in Black III ( 2012 )

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An Education ( 2009 )

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I Am Legend ( 2007 )

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Nanny McPhee ( 2005 )

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Love Actually ( 2003 )

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Treasure Planet ( 2003 )

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Maybe Baby ( 2000 )

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Primary Colors ( 1998 )

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The Winter Guest ( 1998 )

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Carrington ( 1995 )

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Junior ( 1994 )

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Howard’s End ( 1992 )

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Henry V ( 1989 )

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