Kristin Scott Thomas was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient.
25 Facts About Kristin Scott Thomas
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Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon, and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust.
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Kristin Scott Thomas's work includes Bitter Moon, Mission: Impossible, The Horse Whisperer, Gosford Park, The Valet, and Tell No One.
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Kristin Scott Thomas won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long.
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Kristin Scott Thomas was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama.
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Kristin Scott Thomas was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur by the French government in 2005.
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Kristin Scott Thomas is the elder sister of Serena Scott Thomas, the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas, the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
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The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England.
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Kristin Scott Thomas's mother remarried to another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens, who died in a flying accident, whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972.
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Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset, both independent schools.
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Kristin Scott Thomas began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama.
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Kristin Scott Thomas' acting career garnered early attention when she was cast as Mary Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon, released in 1986, the first but widely panned film directed by and starring the already well-known musical artist, Prince.
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Kristin Scott Thomas had all the lines translated into French, which she speaks fluently, so she knew what she was saying.
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Kristin Scott Thomas returned to the stage in 2003 when she played the title role in a French theatre production of Racine's Berenice, and appeared on-screen as Lady Sylvia McCordle in Robert Altman's Gosford Park.
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Kristin Scott Thomas reprised the role in New York in September 2008.
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In summer 2014, Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star as Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre.
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Kristin Scott Thomas's husband was played by Ben Miles and the love triangle was completed by Douglas Henshall.
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In 2008, Scott Thomas received many accolades for her performance in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.
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Kristin Scott Thomas was seen in The Woman in the Fifth, a film adaption of Douglas Kennedy's novel of the same name, Lasse Hallstrom's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Ralph Fiennes's The Invisible Woman, Philippe Claudel's Before the Winter Chill, and in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Kristin Scott Thomas appeared in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady and Suite Francaise, the 2015 film adaptation of Irene Nemirovsky's World War II novel directed by Saul Dibb.
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In May 2017, it was reported that Scott Thomas had signed on to star as BMW heiress Susanne Klatten in the thriller Paramour, directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining.
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In 2020, Scott Thomas played Mrs Danvers in director Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, with Armie Hammer and Lily James.
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In June 2022, Thomas began filming her directorial debut My Mother's Wedding, starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham and Freida Pinto.
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Kristin Scott Thomas married and divorced Francois Olivennes, a French gynaecologist, with whom she has three children.
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Scott Thomas has lived in France since she was 19, brought up her children in Paris, and sometimes considers herself more French than British.