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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 14, 1967
Place of Birth
Islington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Emily Anita Watson
Emily Watson
3.2 Popularity
Biography
Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as a newlywed in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her portrayal of Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie (1998). Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), and Small Things like These (2024). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. She won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic Appropriate Adult. She was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for the 2017 BBC miniseries Apple Tree Yard. In 2024, she portrayed the lead role of Valya Harkonnen in the HBO science fiction series Dune: Prophecy.
Known For
8.2
Mary
Hamnet
2025
6.4
Jenny
Steve
2025
6.2
Dasha
The Legend of Ochi
2025
7.3
Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
Dune: Prophecy
2024
6.7
Sister Mary
Small Things Like These
2024
6.4
Queenie Epstein
Midas Man
2024
7.0
Sheila (voice)
Fired on Mars
2023
6.0
Aileen O'Hara
God's Creatures
2022
6.6
Emma Wishbone (voice)
Monster Family 2
2021
5.9
Dr. Emma Robinson
Too Close
2021
Credits
Hamnet
as Mary
2025
8.2
Steve
as Jenny
2025
6.4
The Legend of Ochi
as Dasha
2025
6.2
Dune: Prophecy
as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
2024
7.3
Small Things Like These
as Sister Mary
2024
6.7
Midas Man
as Queenie Epstein
2024
6.4
Fired on Mars
as Sheila (voice)
2023
7.0
God's Creatures
as Aileen O'Hara
2022
6.0
Monster Family 2
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2021
6.6
Too Close
as Dr. Emma Robinson
2021
5.9
The Third Day
as Mrs. Martin
2020
6.5
Chernobyl
as Ulana Khomyuk
2019
8.7
King Lear
as Regan
2018
6.1
The Happy Prince
as Constance Wilde
2018
6.3
Weinstein
as Narrator (voice)
2018
6.5
On Chesil Beach
as Violet Ponting
2018
6.1
Little Women
as Marmee March
2017
7.1
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Chief of Staff Fox
2017
7.0
Monster Family
as Emma Wishbone (voice)
2017
6.0
Genius
as Elsa Einstein
2017
7.5
Apple Tree Yard
as Yvonne Carmichael
2017
6.3
The Dresser
as Her Ladyship
2015
6.2
Everest
as Helen Wilton
2015
6.8
A Song for Jenny
as Julie Nicholson
2015
6.5
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
as Grace McKee
2015
6.7
A Royal Night Out
as Queen Elizabeth
2015
6.5
Little Boy
as Emma Busbee
2015
7.2
Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
as Miss Trinklebury
2015
5.3
Testament of Youth
as Mrs. Brittain
2015
7.3
The Theory of Everything
as Beryl Wilde
2014
7.8
The Book Thief
as Rosa Hubermann
2013
7.5
Some Girl(s)
as Lindsay
2013
5.1
Belle
as Lady Mansfield
2013
7.1
The Politician's Husband
as Freya Gardner
2013
6.8
Anna Karenina
as Countess Lydia Ivanova
2012
6.7
War Horse
as Rose Narracott
2011
7.3
Meerkats 3D
as Narrator
2011
4.2
Appropriate Adult
as Janet Leach
2011
6.7
Oranges and Sunshine
as Margaret Humphreys
2010
6.9
Cemetery Junction
as Mrs. Kendrick
2010
6.5
Within the Whirlwind
as Evgenia Ginzburg
2009
5.0
Cold Souls
as Claire
2009
6.0
Synecdoche, New York
as Tammy
2008
7.5
Fireflies in the Garden
as Jane Lawrence
2008
6.2
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
as Caroline Gil
2008
6.4
The Water Horse
as Anne MacMorrow
2007
6.5
Miss Potter
as Millie Warne
2006
6.6
Crusade in Jeans
as Mary Vega
2006
5.8
The Proposition
as Martha Stanley
2005
7.0
Separate Lies
as Anne Manning
2005
5.8
Corpse Bride
as Victoria Everglot (voice)
2005
7.6
Wah-Wah
as Ruby Compton
2005
5.8
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Anne Sellers
2004
6.6
Working Shakespeare
2003
0.0
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
2003
7.3
Equilibrium
as Mary O'Brien
2002
7.0
Ballchewer
as Self
2002
5.0
Punch-Drunk Love
as Lena Leonard
2002
7.1
Red Dragon
as Reba McClane
2002
7.0
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
2002
5.0
Gosford Park
as Elsie
2001
6.8
The Luzhin Defence
as Natalia Katkov
2000
6.1
Trixie
as Trixie Zurbo
2000
4.6
Angela's Ashes
as Angela McCourt
1999
7.3
Cradle Will Rock
as Olive Stanton
1999
6.4
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Hilary and Jackie
as Jackie Du Pré
1998
6.5
The Boxer
as Maggie Hamill
1997
6.7
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997
6.8
The Mill on the Floss
as Maggie Tulliver
1997
6.1
Metroland
as Marion
1997
5.8
Breaking the Waves
as Bess McNeill
1996
7.5
🎬
A Summer Day's Dream
1994
0.0
Performance
as Rosalie
1991
6.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Fado!
N/A
0.0
🎬
Late in Summer
N/A
0.0
🎬
Midday Sun
as Sarah
N/A
0.0