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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 6, 1971
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Emily Kathleen Mortimer
- Emily Kathleen A. Mortimer
- Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer
Emily Mortimer
2.9 Popularity
Biography
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She provided Sophie's voice in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004). She starred in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point(2005), The Pink Panther (2006), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo(2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Relic(2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Mortimer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Self - Candy / Writer
The Making of Jay Kelly
2025
6.0
Candy
Jay Kelly
2025
6.9
Cressida Dick
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
2025
6.8
Mary Brown
Paddington in Peru
2024
7.5
Elsa Lombardi
The New Look
2024
0.0
Nettie
The Spirit of 1926
2022
7.0
Self - Guest
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
7.4
With/In Volume 2
2022
4.0
(segment "Neighborhood Watch")
With/In Volume 2
2021
6.6
The Bolter
The Pursuit of Love
2021
Credits
The Making of Jay Kelly
as Self - Candy / Writer
2025
6.0
Jay Kelly
as Candy
2025
6.0
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
as Cressida Dick
2025
6.9
Paddington in Peru
as Mary Brown
2024
6.8
The New Look
as Elsa Lombardi
2024
7.5
The Spirit of 1926
as Nettie
2022
0.0
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
as Self - Guest
2022
7.0
With/In Volume 2
2022
7.4
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
2021
4.0
The Pursuit of Love
as The Bolter
2021
6.6
Don't Look Deeper
as Sharon Carter
2020
6.5
Don't Look Deeper
as Sharon
2020
6.9
Relic
as Kay
2020
6.1
Good Posture
as Julia Price
2019
5.0
Mary
as Sarah
2019
5.0
Phil
as Alicia
2019
4.7
Lost Holiday
as NPR Commentary (voice)
2019
4.2
Mary Poppins Returns
as Jane Banks
2018
6.5
Head Full of Honey
as Sarah
2018
6.3
One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure
as Hanka
2018
6.2
Write When You Get Work
as Nan Noble
2018
3.9
Wig Shop
as Chaya
2017
10.0
The Bookshop
as Florence Green
2017
6.5
The Party
as Jinny
2017
6.3
The Sense of an Ending
as Sarah Ford
2017
6.4
Spectral
as Fran Madison
2016
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
10,000 Saints
as Diane Urbanski
2015
6.0
Ladygrey
as Olive
2015
4.4
Rio, I Love You
as Dorothy (segment "La Fortuna")
2014
4.8
Doll & Em
as Em
2014
6.4
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Newsroom
as MacKenzie McHale
2012
8.1
Hugo
as Lisette
2011
7.2
Our Idiot Brother
as Liz Rochlin Byng
2011
6.1
Cars 2
as Holley Shiftwell (voice)
2011
6.2
Leonie
as Leonie
2010
5.6
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Shutter Island
as Rachel 1
2010
8.2
Harry Brown
as D.I. Alice Frampton
2009
6.8
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
City Island
as Molly Charlesworth
2009
6.9
The Pink Panther 2
as Nicole
2009
5.7
Redbelt
as Laura Black
2008
6.5
TransSiberian
as Jessie
2008
6.4
Chaos Theory
as Susan Allen
2007
6.3
Lars and the Real Girl
as Karin
2007
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
30 Rock
as Phoebe
2006
7.5
🎬
Rabbit Fever
as Herself
2006
5.8
Paris Je T'aime
as Frances (Père-Lachaise)
2006
6.8
The Pink Panther
as Nicole
2006
5.8
Match Point
as Chloe Hewett Wilton
2005
7.4
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
6.7
Dear Frankie
as Lizzie
2004
7.0
A Foreign Affair
as Angela Beck
2004
5.4
Bright Young Things
as Nina Blount
2003
6.2
Young Adam
as Cathie Dimly
2003
5.8
The Sleeping Dictionary
as Cecil
2003
6.4
Nobody Needs to Know
as Emily
2003
6.0
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
as Lady Diana - Princess of Wales
2002
4.2
Lovely & Amazing
as Elizabebeth Marks
2002
6.0
The 51st State
as Dakota Parker
2001
6.1
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest
2001
6.0
The Kid
as Amy
2000
6.7
Love's Labour's Lost
as Katherine
2000
5.5
The Miracle Maker
as Mary of Nazareth (voice)
2000
6.1
Scream 3
as Angelina Tyler
2000
6.0
Killing Joe
1999
0.0
Notting Hill
as Perfect Girl
1999
7.3
Noah's Ark
as Esther
1999
4.3
Cider with Rosie
as Miss Flynn
1998
5.4
Elizabeth
as Kat Ashley
1998
7.2
Coming Home
as Judith Dunbar
1998
0.0
Coming Home
as Judith Dunbar
1998
5.1
A Dance to the Music of Time
as Polly Duport
1997
4.3
The Saint
as Woman on Plane
1997
6.1
Midsomer Murders
as Katherine Lacey
1997
7.5
The Last of the High Kings
as Romy Thomas
1996
5.6
The Ghost and the Darkness
as Helena Patterson
1996
6.8
🎬
Lord of Misrule
as Emma
1996
0.0
No Bananas
as Una
1996
5.0
Silent Witness
1996
7.5
A Very Open Prison
as Amanda Ellis
1995
10.0
Sharpe's Sword
as Lass
1995
7.2
The Glass Virgin
as Annabella Lagrange
1995
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
🎬
Ladies First
N/A
0.0