Emily Watson
Emily Watson
Emily Margaret Watson, OBEis an English actress. 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 Wavesand for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 2011 ITV drama Appropriate Adult...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 January 1967
CityIslington, England
thinking creative
I've always been creative, I think.
english-actress girl lucky main work
I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.
cello concert learn
I had to learn to play the cello to concert standard.
artistic english english-actress life university
I wanted to do something artistic with my life but I didn't think I wanted to be an actor, so I went to university and majored in English literature.
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But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.
expect good jolly left red says voice
She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.
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I have a sort of unspoken principle, which is that I don't want to let it change me so that I treat people badly, or anything like that.
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They're incredibly, incredibly close, kind of telepathically close. And once Jackie disappeared into the world of superstardom, she kind of starts displaying symptoms of MS (multiple sclerosis) and kind of really losing it. And she goes back to her sister and basically says, I want to sleep with your husband, which is ... pretty shocking.
basically displaying goes incredibly jackie losing sister sleep starts symptoms
They're incredibly, incredibly close, kind of telepathically close, ... And once Jackie disappeared into the world of superstardom, she kind of starts displaying symptoms of MS (multiple sclerosis) and kind of really losing it. And she goes back to her sister and basically says, I want to sleep with your husband, which is ... pretty shocking.
character thinking dragons
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.
actors rooms cameras
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
home thinking rooms
During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.
book television grew-up
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
thinking pressure
I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.