
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.848 |
Birthday | 1967-01-14 |
Place of Birth | Islington, London, England, UK |
Also Known As | 에밀리 왓슨, Эмили Уотсон, Емілі Вотсон, 艾蜜莉·華森, امیلی واتسون, |

1996

Breaking the Waves
7.5/1001
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it...
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Breaking the Waves

2006

Crusade in Jeans
5.8/60
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part...
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Crusade in Jeans

2004

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
6.6/178
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

1999

Angela's Ashes
7.274/323
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prej...
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Angela's Ashes

2005

Corpse Bride
7.579/9466
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his...
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Corpse Bride

2001

Gosford Park
6.83/1122
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...
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Gosford Park

2008

Synecdoche, New York
7.546/1444
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...
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Synecdoche, New York

2009

Cold Souls
6.041/159
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-t...
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Cold Souls

2002

Equilibrium
7.045/4598
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A...
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Equilibrium

2008

Fireflies in the Garden
6.2/209
The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
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Fireflies in the Garden

2002

Punch-Drunk Love
7.1/2387
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
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Punch-Drunk Love

2000

Trixie
5/21
Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino...
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Trixie

1997

Metroland
5.9/48
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unex...
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Metroland

1999

Cradle Will Rock
6.5/87
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Cradle Will Rock

2002

Red Dragon
7.028/4330
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it...
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Red Dragon

2025

The Legend of Ochi
0/0
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri di...
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The Legend of Ochi

2021

Monster Family 2
6.7/86
To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire, Frankenstein's...
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Monster Family 2

2006

Miss Potter
6.6/496
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
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Miss Potter

2024

Small Things Like These
6.9/189
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers trut...
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Small Things Like These

2010

Cemetery Junction
6.5/288
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class...
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Cemetery Junction

2008

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
6.405/37
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

2005

Wah-Wah
6/34
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...
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Wah-Wah

2024

Midas Man
6.5/13
When Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he saw something no one else could – a glimmer of gold....
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Midas Man

2005

Separate Lies
5.7/66
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
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Separate Lies

2005

The Proposition
7/643
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hun...
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The Proposition

1997

The Boxer
6.706/281
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlf...
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The Boxer

1998

Hilary and Jackie
6.7/101
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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Hilary and Jackie

1997

Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
6.7/3
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his fil...
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier

1994

A Summer Day's Dream
0/0
Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in...
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A Summer Day's Dream

2000

The Luzhin Defence
6.1/38
Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
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The Luzhin Defence

2010

Oranges and Sunshine
6.9/85
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the force...
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Oranges and Sunshine

2007

The Water Horse
6.5/1065
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
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The Water Horse

2011

Meerkats 3D
4.2/2
Narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson, MEERKATS 3D takes audiences on a journey with a family of meerkats as they cope with the twists and...
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Meerkats 3D

2011

War Horse
7.3/3439
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey beg...
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War Horse

2009

Within the Whirlwind
5.194/18
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everythi...
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Within the Whirlwind

2012

Anna Karenina
6.714/2301
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...
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Anna Karenina

1997

The Mill on the Floss
6/11
Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of...
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The Mill on the Floss

2013

Belle
7.136/685
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...
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Belle

2013

The Book Thief
7.494/4357
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home...
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The Book Thief

2013

Some Girl(s)
5.2/75
On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.
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Some Girl(s)

2015

Little Boy
7.224/531
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love...
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Little Boy

2014

The Theory of Everything
7.846/10631
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who fall...
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The Theory of Everything

2003

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
8/2
This documentary follows director Brett Ratner through nearly every stage of production for the film Red Dragon (2002).
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A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

2014

Testament of Youth
7.3/757
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
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Testament of Youth

2015

A Royal Night Out
6.478/314
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in...
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A Royal Night Out

2015

Everest
6.819/4925
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-i...
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Everest


Midday Sun
0/0
Couple Dan and Sarah, living out their dream in paradisal Spain, come to grief when their visiting son is accidentally killed. A stranger offers to av...
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Midday Sun

2015

A Song for Jenny
6.4/10
A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station....
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A Song for Jenny

2015

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
5.3/91
An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

2015

The Dresser
6.2/81
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bom...
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The Dresser

2018

On Chesil Beach
6.2/365
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and f...
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On Chesil Beach


Hamnet
0/0
Agnes Shakespeare – the wife of the world's most famous writer – struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet.
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Hamnet

2017

Monster Family
5.942/345
The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are c...
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Monster Family

2018

The Happy Prince
6.3/178
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover....
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The Happy Prince

2018

King Lear
6/94
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
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King Lear

2018

Weinstein
6.5/2
Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history, but beneath the glitz and glamour, there was a dark story of thre...
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Weinstein

2002

Ballchewer
4.8/5
A short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Part of Adam Sandler's 'Meatball Series'. Shot during the filming of 'Punch-Drunk Love'.
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Ballchewer

2017

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
6.96/10526
When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency...
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

2002

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
5/2
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'


33 Liberty Lane
0/0
A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.
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33 Liberty Lane

2022

God's Creatures
6/82
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips...
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God's Creatures


Late in Summer
0/0
Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love...
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Late in Summer


Fado!
0/0
The film follows Linda (Watson), a crossword enthusiast, choral society member, wife and mother of two, and her music lecturer husband, Jim (Grant), w...
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