Emily Margaret Watson was born on 14 January 1967 and is an English actress.
28 Facts About Emily Watson
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Emily Watson began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992.
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Emily Watson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves and for her role as Jacqueline du Pre in Hilary and Jackie, winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter.
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Emily Watson won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult and was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard.
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Emily Watson's father, Richard Watson, was an architect, and her mother, Katharine, was an English teacher at St David's Girls' School, West London.
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Emily Watson has described her childhood-self as 'a nice middle-class English girl.
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Emily Watson was educated at St James Independent Schools in west London which were founded by the School of Economic Science.
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Emily Watson attended the University of Bristol, where she obtained a BA.
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Emily Watson was a member of the School of Economic Science until 1996, when aged 29 she was expelled following her part in Breaking the Waves.
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Emily Watson describes the organisation as a "very repressive regime" and a "system where you were supposed to think a certain way and you weren't really allowed to think any other way".
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Emily Watson has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Jovial Crew, The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well and The Changeling.
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Emily Watson's performance was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic and she was nominated for an Olivier Award nomination for Uncle Vanya.
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Emily Watson was virtually unknown until director Lars von Trier chose her to star in Breaking the Waves after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out.
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Emily Watson came to public notice again in another controversial role, that of cellist Jacqueline du Pre in Hilary and Jackie, for which she learned to play the cello in three months, and received another Oscar nomination.
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Emily Watson played a leading role in Cradle Will Rock, a story of a theatre show in the 1930s, directed by Tim Robbins.
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In 2004, Emily Watson received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Peter Sellers's first wife, Anne Howe, in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
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In 2006, Emily Watson took a supporting role in Miss Potter, a biographical drama about children's author Beatrix Potter, from Babe director Chris Noonan, with Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger; and in an adaptation of Thea Beckman's children's novel Crusade in Jeans.
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In 2008, Emily Watson starred with Julia Roberts and Carrie-Anne Moss in Fireflies in the Garden, the Lifetime Television movie The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and in screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York.
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Emily Watson considers Ginzburg her best recent role; however, the film was not picked up for distribution.
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In 2014, Emily Watson had supporting roles in The Book Thief, alongside Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nelisse, and the Oscar-nominated film The Theory of Everything, portraying Jane Wilde, Hawking's mother in law, alongside Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.
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Emily Watson received rave reviews for her portrayal of Julie Nicholson in the BBC Drama A Song for Jenny, with experts tipping her to win the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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Emily Watson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama.
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Emily Watson is frequently confused with Emma Watson, the actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series due to the similarity of their names.
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Emily Watson has stated that she does not correct anyone who makes that mistake, as she is "quite flattered that people think I'm 21".
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Emily Watson is a supporter of the children's charity the NSPCC.
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Emily Watson married Jack Waters, whom she had met at the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1995.
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Emily Watson's mother fell ill with encephalitis shortly before filming commenced on Oranges and Sunshine.
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Emily Watson returned to London but arrived just after her death.