Emma Thompson
Actor | Producer | Writer
Actor | Producer | Writer
Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End. The following year Thompson garnered dual Academy Award nominations, as Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and as Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father. In 1995, Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), and Nanny ... Show more...
Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End. The following year Thompson garnered dual Academy Award nominations, as Best Actress for The Remains of the Day and as Best Supporting Actress for In the Name of the Father. In 1995, Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable film and television credits have included the Harry Potter film series, Wit (2001), Love Actually (2003), Angels in America (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Last Chance Harvey (2008), An Education (2009), and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010). Thompson is also a patron of the Refugee Council and President of the Teaching Awards.
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As: Baroness von Hellman
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who ...
Directed by: Craig Gillespie
Stars: Emma Stone | Emma Thompson | Emily Beecham | Paul Walter Hauser | Joel Fry
As: Poly (voice)
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Stephen Gaghan
Stars: Antonio Banderas | Michael Sheen | Jim Broadbent | Robert Downey Jr. | Jessie Buckley
As: Amanda
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Directed by: Coky Giedroyc
Stars: Alfie Allen | Paddy Considine | Frank Dillane | Sarah Solemani | Beanie Feldstein
As: Petra Andrich
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Paul Feig
Stars: Emma Thompson | Michelle Yeoh | Lydia Leonard | Emilia Clarke | Henry Golding
As: Agent O
The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Stars: Rafe Spall | Chris Hemsworth | Tessa Thompson | Rebecca Ferguson | Kumail Nanjiani
As: Katherine Newbury
Legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Nisha Ganatra
Stars: Emma Thompson | Max Casella | Hugh Dancy | John Lithgow | Mindy Kaling
As: Dora the Yeti Elder (voice)
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Chris Butler
Stars: Zoe Saldana | Zach Galifianakis | Timothy Olyphant | Stephen Fry | Hugh Jackman
As: Prime Minister
Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man -- Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he'll need all of his skills -- what few he has -- as the man with yesterday's ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: David Kerr
Stars: Emma Thompson | Rowan Atkinson | Olga Kurylenko | Ben Miller | Adam Greaves-Neal
As: Herself (archive footage)
Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew him in the industry, and a discussion of the start of the #MeToo movement.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Jordan Hill
Stars: Harvey Weinstein | Kristyn Burtt | Caroline Heldman | Ashley Pearson | Marc Malkin
As: Goneril
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre | Richard Eyre
Stars: Emma Thompson | Emily Watson | Anthony Hopkins | Jim Broadbent | Florence Pugh
As: Fiona Maye
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Ben Chaplin | Emma Thompson | Eileen Walsh | Fionn Whitehead
As: Maureen Meyerowitz
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Ben Stiller | Emma Thompson | Elizabeth Marvel | Adam Sandler | Dustin Hoffman
As: Herself
Sea Sorrow marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very personal, dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners and children mixing past and present, documentary and drama in its reflection on the importance of human rights.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Vanessa Redgrave
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Emma Thompson | Ralph Fiennes | Daisy Bevan | Alfred Dubs
As: Mrs. Potts
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Bill Condon
Stars: Josh Gad | Luke Evans | Kevin Kline | Emma Watson | Dan Stevens
As: Dr. Rawlings
Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Patrick Dempsey | Gemma Jones | Jim Broadbent
As: Anna Quangel
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Vincent Pérez
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Emma Thompson | Daniel Brühl | Katharina Schüttler | Mikael Persbrandt
As: Narrator (voice)
This compassionate doc follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction; as they denounce the rise of extreme energy, they also envision the new world that is taking shape in its stead, at the end of the fossil fuel era.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: David Lavallee
Stars: Emma Thompson
As: Dr. Rosshilde
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Wells
Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio | Bradley Cooper | Daniel Brühl | Omar Sy | Sienna Miller
As: various
A TV version of the Cambridge Footlights Revue. Starring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer, and Penny Dwyer.
Runtime: 50 min.
Stars: Emma Thompson | Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie | Tony Slattery | Paul Shearer
As: Cemolina
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Carlyle
Stars: James Cosmo | Ray Winstone | Emma Thompson | Robert Carlyle | Ashley Jensen
As: Catherine Bryson
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Ken Kwapis
Stars: Nick Nolte | Emma Thompson | Kristen Schaal | Robert Redford | Nick Offerman
As: Herself (archive footage)
550 Artists were interviewed over the last ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. Some stuck to one, some said more, some answered quickly, some thought it through, and some didn't answer at all. That question... Lennon or McCartney.
Runtime: 34 min.
Directed by: Matt Schichter
Stars: Dylan Bruce | Ashleigh Ball | Kelly Asbury | Jeff Baena | Ian Astbury
As: Narrator (voice)
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Stars: Judy Greer | Rosemarie DeWitt | Jennifer Garner | Adam Sandler | Dean Norris
As: Mrs. Lovett
Murder, mayhem and the ultimate revenge. Stephen Sondheim's macabre musical masterpiece comes back to life in this bold new production, starring Bryn Terfel and Academy Award winner Emma Thompson.
Runtime: 144 min.
Directed by: Lonny Price
Stars: Emma Thompson | Bryn Terfel | Jeff Blumenkrantz | Christian Borle | Kyle Brenn
As: Lady Eastlake
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Richard Laxton
Stars: Emma Thompson | Dakota Fanning | Tom Sturridge | Robbie Coltrane | Greg Wise
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Jeffrey Friedman | Rob Epstein
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Annette Bening | Billy Crystal | Anjelica Huston | Cher
As: P.L. Travers
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Tom Hanks | Paul Giamatti | Colin Farrell | Emma Thompson | Ruth Wilson
As: Kate
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Joel Hopkins
Stars: Emma Thompson | Pierce Brosnan | Timothy Spall | Tuppence Middleton | Celia Imrie
As: Mrs. Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Alden Ehrenreich | Viola Davis | Emmy Rossum | Jeremy Irons | Alice Englert
As: Elinor (voice)
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Brenda Chapman | Mark Andrews
Stars: Emma Thompson | Julie Walters | Billy Connolly | Robbie Coltrane | Kelly Macdonald
As: Agent O
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Emma Thompson | Jemaine Clement | Tommy Lee Jones | Josh Brolin | Will Smith
As: Sybill Trelawney
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Rupert Grint | Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
As: Herself
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to reunite for a TV special to mark the 30th anniversary of their partnership.
Runtime: 67 min.
Directed by: Mike Reilly
Stars: Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie | Alison Steadman | Jack Dee | Jo Brand
As: She
Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson star in The Song Of Lunch, a powerful and visually arresting film, made by BBC Drama Production for BBC Two, to mark National Poetry Day on 7 October. The film, a dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem, tells the story of an unnamed book editor (Alan Rickman) who, 15 years after their break-up, is meeting his former love (Emma Thompson) for a nostalgic lunch ...
Runtime: 50 min.
Directed by: Niall MacCormick
Stars: Emma Thompson | Alan Rickman | Joseph Long | Siubhan Harrison | Georgina Sutcliffe
As: Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Susanna White
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Asa Butterfield | Maggie Smith | Emma Thompson | Ralph Fiennes
As: Headmistress
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Rosamund Pike | Carey Mulligan | Olivia Williams | Dominic Cooper | Peter Sarsgaard
As: Charlotte
The Boat that Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Stars: Rhys Ifans | Emma Thompson | Tom Sturridge | Bill Nighy | Philip Seymour Hoffman
As: Kate Walker
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Joel Hopkins
Stars: Kathy Baker | Emma Thompson | Eileen Atkins | Dustin Hoffman | Liane Balaban
As: Lady Marchmain
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Stars: Emma Thompson | Michael Gambon | Ben Whishaw | Matthew Goode | Hayley Atwell
As: Dr. Alice Krippin
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Charlie Tahan | Alice Braga | Salli Richardson-Whitfield | Will Smith | Dash Mihok
As: Sybil Trelawney
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of students – dubbed 'Dumbledore's Army' – to defend themselves against the dark arts.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: David Yates
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Michael Gambon | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
As: Karen Eiffel
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Marc Forster
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Will Ferrell | Emma Thompson | Queen Latifah | Dustin Hoffman
As: Nanny McPhee
Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Kirk Jones
Stars: Colin Firth | Emma Thompson | Eliza Bennett | Kelly Macdonald | Thomas Brodie-Sangster
As: Cecilia Rueda
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Christopher Hampton
Stars: Emma Thompson | Antonio Banderas | Rubén Blades | Maria Canals-Barrera | Leticia Dolera
As: Sybill Trelawney
Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black – and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Gary Oldman | Rupert Grint | Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
As: Karen
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Richard Curtis
Stars: Laura Linney | Emma Thompson | Bill Nighy | Hugh Grant | Alan Rickman
As: Captain Amelia (voice)
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent on mutiny!
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John Musker | Ron Clements
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Emma Thompson | David Hyde Pierce | Martin Short | Brian Murray
As: Herself
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: Karina Friend Buck
Stars: Emma Thompson | Anthony Hopkins | Christopher Reeve | Kazuo Ishiguro | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
As: Vivian Bearing
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Emma Thompson | Christopher Lloyd | Eileen Atkins | Jonathan M. Woodward | Audra McDonald
As: Druscilla
Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Ben Elton
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen | Adrian Lester | Joely Richardson | Hugh Laurie | Yasmin Bannerman
As: FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Sebastián Gutiérrez
Stars: Gil Bellows | Emma Thompson | Simon Baker | Alan Rickman | Carla Gugino
As: Susan Stanton
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken ...
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kathy Bates | Adrian Lester | Billy Bob Thornton | John Travolta
As: Frances
It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances (Emma Thompson) has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law), travels to Frances' house to reconnect with her daughter and grandson, Alex (Gary Hollywood). Meanwhile, old women Chloe (Sandra Voe) and Lily (Sheila Reid) go to a funeral, youngsters Sam ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Alan Rickman
Stars: Emma Thompson | Phyllida Law | Sandra Voe | Sheila Reid | Arlene Cockburn
As: Elephant Woman
Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.
Runtime: 60 min.
Stars: Celia Imrie | Bob Peck | Greg Wise | Mark Heap | Haydn Gwynne
As: Elinor Dashwood
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Ang Lee
Stars: Kate Winslet | Emma Thompson | Hugh Grant | James Fleet | Alan Rickman
As: Dora Carrington
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Christopher Hampton
Stars: Emma Thompson | Rufus Sewell | Steven Waddington | Samuel West | Jonathan Pryce
As: Dr. Diana Reddin
As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Emma Thompson | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Frank Langella | Danny DeVito | Pamela Reed
As: Marie Bonnar
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Paul Murton
Stars: Emma Thompson | Eleanor Bron | Phyllida Law | Adrian Dunbar | David Horovitch
As: Isabel (uncredited)
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Steve Miner
Stars: Gérard Depardieu | Katherine Heigl | Dalton James | Lauren Hutton | Faith Prince
As: Gareth Peirce
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Emma Thompson | John Lynch | Corin Redgrave | Daniel Day-Lewis
As: Miss Kenton
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: James Ivory
Stars: Emma Thompson | James Fox | Anthony Hopkins | Hugh Grant | Christopher Reeve
As: Beatrice
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Michael Keaton | Kenneth Branagh | Richard Briers | Robert Sean Leonard
As: Maggie Chester
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe, but it's less clear how much they have in common now.Peter's friends are Andrew (Branagh), now a writer in Hollywood; married jingle writers Roger (Laurie) and Mary (Staunton); glamorous costume ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Imelda Staunton | Stephen Fry | Hugh Laurie
As: Margaret Schlegel
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: James Ivory
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Vanessa Redgrave | Emma Thompson | Anthony Hopkins | Samuel West
As: Margaret Strauss / Grace
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Lois Hall | Richard Easton | Andy García
As: Duchess D'Antan
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: James Lapine
Stars: Julian Sands | Hugh Grant | Mandy Patinkin | Judy Davis | Bernadette Peters
As: Katherine
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Paul Scofield | Kenneth Branagh | Brian Blessed | James Larkin
As: Kate
An American actor in England tries to find love and work.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Mel Smith
Stars: Geraldine James | Jeff Goldblum | Emma Thompson | Rowan Atkinson | Emil Wolk
As: Alison Porter
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Judi Dench
Stars: Emma Thompson | Kenneth Branagh | Gerard Horan | Siobhan Redmond | Edward Jewesbury
As: Jackie Meld
The Crystal Cube was a mockumentary television pilot written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast on 7 July 1983 on BBC2 at 22:10. The pilot was one of Fry and Laurie's first television appearances and the first show they had written themselves. However, the BBC chose not to take it to a full series, and Fry and Laurie did not get a chance to make their own programme for the BBC until ...
Runtime: 30 min.
Stars: Emma Thompson | Stephen Fry | Robbie Coltrane | Hugh Laurie