Emily Watson Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Emily Watson
Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

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PERSONAL DATA OF EMILY WATSON

Age: 54 years old
Height: 173 cm
Born in: London, Great Britain
Born on: 14/01/1967

EMILY WATSON BIOGRAPHY

Born in the London Borough of Islington il January 14, 1967, Emily Watson holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Bristol and studied acting at the London Drama Studio. Subsequently she begins to perform in the theater, while she keeps carrying out the most humble and disparate jobs, but it is in 1996 that luck smiles at her, when she debuts in the cinema with the controversial Lars von Trier, who wants her as the protagonist of The waves of fate, a role with which she was immediately nominated for the Oscars and Golden Globes and which earned her the eighteenth place of the hundred greatest interpretations of all time on Première Magazine. In 1997 she is the wife of Christian Bale in Metroland, set in 1977 London, and the woman loved by Daniel Day-Lewis in The Boxer of Jim Sheridan. Two years later she received a second Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a leading role for the character of cellist Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998) and stars with Robert Carlyle in the bio-pic Angela’s ashes (1999) of Alan Parker on writer Frank McCourt.

The 2000s opened with the dramatic film The match – Luzin’s defense (2000), based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov, where he supports John Turturro. Find again on the set of Equilibrium (2001) Bale and is directed by Paul Thomas Anderson in comedy Drunk with love (2002), for which he was awarded together with Adam Sandler an MTV movie Awards nomination for Best Kiss. She is Reba McClane, the blind woman who falls in love with serial killer Francis Dolarhyde, played by Ralph Fiennes, in Red Dragon (2002), thriller in which they also appear Anthony Hopkins ed Edward Norton as Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham. Watson also collects in her curriculum a western with the participation in The proposal (2005) with Guy Pearce is Ray Winstone and a Golden Globe nomination playing Peter Seller’s wife in You call me Peter (2004). Shares the set with Tom Wilkinson is Rupert Everett in the dramatic One day by mistake (2005), but in recent years he also measured himself with dubbing – which he had already done in 2004 with Gaya – with the Timburtian animated film The Corpse Bride (2005), voicing Victor’s girlfriend Victoria. In the following years he took part in several bio-pic: in Miss Potter (2006) as a secondary character and in Journey into vertigo (2009) as the protagonist.

It is directed by Steven Spielberg in War Horse (2011), adaptation of the homonymous dramatic novel which is the background of the outbreak of the Great War, and from Joe Wright in Anna Karenina (2012), where is Countess Lydia. These literary works are followed by works mainly of a historical genre, such as Story of a book thief (2013), Lost generation (2014) and Little Boy (2015), focusing on the two world wars, and bio-pic ranging from the 18th century The girl in the painting (2013) to more recent times with The theory of everything (2014) ed Everest (2015). After acting next Colin Firth in the spy comedy Kingsman – The Golden Circle, finds the actor in the cast of The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde’s last portrait (2018), a biopic about the great English writer in which Watson participates along with two other old acquaintances, Everett and Wilkinson.