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. In 2002, she starred in productions of
Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was
nominated for the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the
latter.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 BIFA Award for Best Actress for the latter.
For her role as Margaret Humphreys in Oranges and Sunshine (2010), she
was also nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading
Role.Her other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999),
Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), The
Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss
Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), War Horse (2011), The
Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) and
The Happy Prince (2018). 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. Emily Watson Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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