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
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.
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.
thinking pressure
I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
thinking creative
I've always been creative, I think.
drama school thinking
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
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.
english-actress great lambs silence somebody suspense
I think Silence of the Lambs was a great film and when somebody does that kind of suspense thing, with that much restraint, it's impressive.
english-actress hollywood jump mainstream time warmer
I thought it was time to jump into that Hollywood mainstream and see what the temperature was. And it was warmer than I expected.
ball english-actress great job rolling starts theatre
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.
change english-actress people sort treat unspoken
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.
amazing generous hard human outside
I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.
english-actress people
Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.
books grew loved
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.