Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She 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 (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). For her role in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Legend of Ochi as Dasha
- 2024 · Small Things Like These as Sister Mary
- 2024 · Midas Man as Malka Epstein
- 2023 · Fired on Mars as Sheila (voice)
- 2022 · God's Creatures as Aileen O'Hara
- 2021 · Monster Family 2 as Emma Wishbone (voice)
- 2021 · Too Close as Dr. Emma Robinson
- 2020 · The Third Day as Mrs. Martin
- 2019 · Chernobyl as Ulana Khomyuk
- 2018 · King Lear as Regan
- 2018 · The Happy Prince as Constance Wilde
- 2018 · Weinstein as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · On Chesil Beach as Violet Ponting
- 2017 · Little Women as Marmee March
- 2017 · Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Chief of Staff Fox
- 2017 · Monster Family as Emma Wishbone (voice)
- 2017 · Genius as Elsa Einstein
- 2017 · Apple Tree Yard as Yvonne Carmichael
- 2015 · The Dresser as Her Ladyship
- 2015 · Everest as Helen Wilton
- 2015 · A Song for Jenny as Julie Nicholson
- 2015 · The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe as Grace McKee
- 2015 · A Royal Night Out as Queen Elizabeth
- 2015 · Little Boy as Emma Busbee
- 2015 · Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism as Miss Trinklebury
- 2014 · The Theory of Everything as Beryl Wilde
- 2014 · Testament of Youth as Mrs. Brittain
- 2013 · The Book Thief as Rosa Hubermann
- 2013 · Some Girl(s) as Lindsay
- 2013 · Belle as Lady Mansfield
- 2013 · The Politician's Husband as Freya Gardner
- 2012 · Anna Karenina as Countess Lydia Ivanova
- 2011 · War Horse as Rose Narracott
- 2011 · Meerkats 3D as Narrator
- 2011 · Appropriate Adult as Janet Leach
- 2010 · Oranges and Sunshine as Margaret Humphreys
- 2010 · Cemetery Junction as Mrs. Kendrick
- 2009 · Within the Whirlwind as Evgenia Ginzburg
- 2009 · Cold Souls as Claire
- 2008 · Synecdoche, New York as Tammy
- 2008 · Fireflies in the Garden as Jane Lawrence
- 2008 · The Memory Keeper's Daughter as Caroline Gil
- 2007 · The Water Horse as Anne MacMorrow
- 2006 · Miss Potter as Millie Warne
- 2006 · Crusade in Jeans as Mary Vega
- 2005 · The Proposition as Martha Stanley
- 2005 · Separate Lies as Anne Manning
- 2005 · Corpse Bride as Victoria Everglot (voice)
- 2005 · Wah-Wah as Ruby Compton
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Anne Sellers
- 2003 · A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Herself
- 2002 · Equilibrium as Mary O'Brien
- 2002 · Ballchewer as
- 2002 · Punch-Drunk Love as Lena Leonard
- 2002 · Red Dragon as Reba McClane
- 2002 · The Making of 'Gosford Park' as Self
- 2001 · Gosford Park as Elsie
- 2000 · The Luzhin Defence as Natalia Katkov
- 2000 · Trixie as Trixie Zurbo
- 1999 · Angela's Ashes as Angela McCourt
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Olive Stanton
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1998 · Hilary and Jackie as Jackie Du Pré
- 1997 · The Boxer as Maggie Hamill
- 1997 · Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier as
- 1997 · The Mill on the Floss as Maggie Tulliver
- 1997 · Metroland as Marion
- 1996 · Breaking the Waves as Bess McNeill
- 1994 · A Summer Day's Dream as
- 1991 · Performance as Rosalie
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 2024 · Quicksand as Sarah
- 2024 · Hamnet as
- 2024 · 33 Liberty Lane as
- 2024 · Late in Summer as
- 2024 · Fado! as
- 2024 · Dune: Prophecy as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen