1. Emily Olivia Laura Blunt was born on 23 February 1983 and is a British actress.
63 Facts About Emily Blunt
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Emily Blunt is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and four British Academy Film Awards.
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Emily Blunt made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love.
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Emily Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy film The Devil Wears Prada.
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Emily Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in The Young Victoria, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Adjustment Bureau, Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, and Into the Woods.
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Emily Blunt received critical acclaim for playing an idealistic FBI agent in the crime film Sicario, an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train, and a survivalist mother in her husband John Krasinski's horror film A Quiet Place, for which she won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Emily Blunt has since starred in the sequels Mary Poppins Returns and A Quiet Place Part II, and the miniseries The English.
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Emily Blunt has been working with the American Institute for Stuttering since 2006 to help children overcome stuttering through educational resources and raise awareness of the realities of the condition.
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Emily Blunt is on the board of directors of the institute, and hosts a gala for it to raise funds for speech therapy scholarships for children and adults.
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Emily Olivia Laura Blunt was born in London on 23 February 1983.
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Emily Blunt is the second of four children, born to a former actress and English teacher, Joanna Mackie, and a barrister, Oliver Blunt QC.
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Emily Blunt's mother gave up acting to parent full time before Blunt started school.
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Emily Blunt has said that her stutter largely receded in adulthood, but still occasionally emerges under stress.
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Emily Blunt attended Hurtwood House, a sixth-form boarding school in Surrey, known for its performing arts programme.
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In November 2001, Emily Blunt made her professional acting debut at age 18 in Peter Hall's West End production of the play The Royal Family, in which she played the granddaughter of Judi Dench's character.
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In 2003, Emily Blunt made her screen debut in the British television drama Boudica, about the life of the ancient Celtic warrior-queen who fought the Romans.
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Emily Blunt won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer and was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
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Emily Blunt co-starred as the troubled only child of a New Labour spin doctor in the British television drama film Gideon's Daughter, and played Emily Charlton, the senior assistant of fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, in the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada.
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Emily Blunt received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the latter.
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Emily Blunt's profile continued to rise, and in 2007, she appeared in four films: the horror film Wind Chill, the romantic drama The Jane Austen Book Club, the comedy-drama Dan in Real Life, and the biographical comedy-drama Charlie Wilson's War.
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In 2008, Emily Blunt appeared in Sunshine Cleaning in the role of Norah Lorkowski, an underachiever who starts a crime-scene clean-up business with her sister Rose.
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In 2009, Emily Blunt portrayed Queen Victoria in the independent period drama The Young Victoria, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and written by Julian Fellowes, which focused primarily on her early life and reign, as well as her marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
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Emily Blunt voiced Matilda Mouseling, the mother of the titular character, in the television series Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps.
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In 2010, Emily Blunt played a supporting role in the period horror film The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro and Anthony Hopkins.
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In 2011, Emily Blunt co-starred with Matt Damon in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau, playing a dancer who is "being mysteriously kept apart" from a politician.
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Emily Blunt starred in the British romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
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Emily Blunt played a financial adviser who recruits a fisheries expert to help realise a sheikh's vision of bringing the sport of fly fishing to the Yemen desert, resulting in a spiritual journey for both in the process.
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In November 2011, Emily Blunt was named the ambassador of the new Yves Saint Laurent fragrance Opium.
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In 2012, Emily Blunt starred in the romantic comedy The Five-Year Engagement, directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-starring Jason Segel, in which she and Segel played a couple whose relationship becomes strained when their engagement is continually extended.
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Emily Blunt played Sara, a tough farm woman and single mother, who aids and falls in love with a time-traveller.
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In 2014, Emily Blunt starred in Edge of Tomorrow, a film adaptation of the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill, written by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
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Emily Blunt played Sergeant Rita Vrataski, a Special Forces warrior tasked with training a public relations officer to defeat invading extraterrestrials.
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Emily Blunt trained three months for her role, "focusing on everything from weights to sprints to yoga, aerial wire work and gymnastics", and studying Krav Maga.
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Emily Blunt then played the role of the Baker's Wife in The Walt Disney Company's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall and featuring an ensemble cast.
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Ironically, Emily Blunt was pregnant throughout filming, while playing a character who is barren throughout the film's first act.
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The film was a commercial success and earned generally positive reviews, with Emily Blunt earning praise for her acting and singing.
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In 2015, Emily Blunt starred in the crime thriller Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve.
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Emily Blunt played Kate Macer, a principled FBI agent assigned to take down the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel.
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Emily Blunt was nominated for her second consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie.
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In 2016, Emily Blunt co-starred in The Huntsman: Winter's War, which serves as both a prequel and sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.
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Emily Blunt then headlined the mystery thriller The Girl on the Train, directed by Tate Taylor.
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Owen Gleiberman of Variety found Emily Blunt to be "practically perfect in every way" and added that she "inhabits Mary Poppins' snappishly entrancing spirit, and in the musical numbers she generates her own spit-spot radiance".
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Emily Blunt received two SAG nominations for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, winning Best Supporting Actress for A Quiet Place, and she received her sixth Golden Globe nomination for Mary Poppins Returns.
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In 2020, Emily Blunt guest-starred in her husband's web series Some Good News, which began streaming on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Emily Blunt reprised her role in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II, which was released after a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Peter Bradshaw bemoaned that the "excellent" Emily Blunt did not have more screen time.
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Later that year, Emily Blunt starred alongside Dwayne Johnson in the adventure film Jungle Cruise, based on the eponymous amusement ride.
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Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times disliked the picture and opined that "not even Emily Blunt, doing her best Katharine Hepburn impression, can keep this leaky boat ride afloat".
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Lucy Mangan of The Guardian opined, "Emily Blunt is at her best yet, giving us a woman made brave and undauntable by resolve".
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In Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, Blunt portrayed the eponymous scientist's wife, Katherine, who was a member of the Communist Party USA.
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Emily Blunt took a pay cut to work on the film, earning in lieu of her usual salary.
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Emily Blunt's performance received praise, and was singled out for elevating the limited material she had.
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Emily Blunt received nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, and BAFTA Award, in addition to her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Emily Blunt next starred with Ryan Gosling in David Leitch's action comedy film The Fall Guy.
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Emily Blunt then had a voice role in Krasinski's live-action animated fantasy film IF.
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Screen Rant stated that Emily Blunt has "a number of iconic roles under her belt".
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Emily Blunt helps to promote and raise funds for the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation that advocates for girls' education, co-founded by Malala Yousafzai.
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Emily Blunt has been working with the American Institute for Stuttering since 2006 to help children overcome stuttering through educational resources and raise awareness of the realities of the condition.
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Emily Blunt is on the board of directors of the institute, and hosts a gala for it each year to raise funds for speech therapy scholarships for children and adults.
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Emily Blunt was in a relationship with Canadian singer Michael Buble from 2005 to 2008.
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In 2012, Emily Blunt became the sister-in-law of actor Stanley Tucci when he married her sister Felicity.
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In 2015, Emily Blunt became an American citizen through naturalisation, making her a dual citizen of the UK and US.
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Emily Blunt has received multiple accolades for her work across film, television and stage, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for an Academy Award and four British Academy Film Awards.