Emily Mortimer
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PERSONAL DATA OF EMILY MORTIMER
Age: 49 years old
Born in: London, Great Britain
Born on: 01/12/1971
BIOGRAPHY OF EMILY MORTIMER
Emily Mortimer, born Emily Kathleen Anne, is born the December 1, 1971 in Hammersmith, in London, where she grew up attending the private institute of St. Paul’s Girls’ School and later Oxford University, specializing in Russian language and literature. During the academic years he spent a few months of study in Moscow, where he studied acting at the Moscow Drama School. Daughter of the famous screenwriter and author John Mortimer, during her university years she performed in some school theater productions, subsequently wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph and wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of Bad Bloods, the memoirs of the author Lorna Sage. Her acting skills, however, did not escape one of the producers present at the school plays, who launched her in the television adaptation of Catherine Cookson’s novel, The Glass Virgin (1995). He later appears in other British TV series and with a first film role in Lord of Misrule (1996) of Guy Jenkin. In the same year it appears in American production Spirits in the darkness (1996) with Val Kilmer is Michael Douglas and in Irish The last of the great kings (1996), first film starring Jared Leto.
After a few small appearances, including the interpretation of the queen’s housekeeper in Elizabeth (1998), was cast for two minor roles in films of great interest, such as that of the perfect girl (left by Hugh Grant) in Notting Hill (1999) and that of Angelina, the protagonist of Squartati 3, on which it focuses Scream 3 (2000). It is precisely the 21st century that inaugurates a career rise with participation in comedies Lost love pains (2000) by Kenneth Branagh is Face to face (2000) with Bruce Willis, closely followed by the action movie Code 51 (2001) with Samuel L. Jackson is Robert Carlyle; it is from this moment that the British actress begins to be really noticed and to play relevant characters within the filmic plot.
In 2004 comes the first leading role with Dear Frankie, where it reads next to Gerard Butler, which is followed by a decisive turning point for his career, that is Match Point (2005) of Woody Allen, in which she plays the wife of the cheater Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Definitely in the spotlight, in 2008 she is the sister-in-law of Ryan Gosling in the comedy directed by Craig Gillespie, Lars is a girl of his own. Allen, however, is not the only great master of cinema to insert her in one of his films, a few years later, in fact, precisely in 2010, Mortimer is the patient Rachel Solando, around which the research of Leonardo Dicaprio in Shutter Island of Martin Scorsese.
From the television point of view, the actress takes part as a guest star in the last three episodes of the first season of 30 Rock (2006) and is one of the protagonists of The Newsroom (2012); but the TV also sees her as a co-creator, together with her colleague Dolly Wells, of the series Doll & Em (2014), inspired by their real friendship.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY EMILY MORTIMER
Relic
Role: Actress
Year: 2020
Mary
Role: Actress
Year: 2019
Phil
Role: Actress
Year: 2019
Mary Poppins Returns
Role: Actress
Year: 2018 Go to the complete Filmography
THE MOST RECENT TV SERIES BY EMILY MORTIMER
The Newsroom
Role: Actress
Year: 2012 Go to all TV series
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF EMILY MORTIMER
Comedy: 24% Drama: 22% Action: 12% Thriller: 8%
EMILY MORTIMER STATISTICS ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY EMILY MORTIMER
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Relic | Kay |
Phil | Alicia |
Mary Poppins Returns | Jane Banks |
The house of books | Florence Green |
An Unforgettable Journey | Sarah |
The other half of the story | Sarah Ford |
Spectral | Fran Madison |
Cars 2 | Holley Shiftwell (original voice) |
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