Emily Watson
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. 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 British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. Watson's other films include The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), Miss Potter (2006), Synecdoche, New York (2008), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Happy Prince (2018) and God's Creatures (2022). 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.
Corpse Bride
as Victoria Everglot (voice)In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the...
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle
as Chief of Staff FoxWhen an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and...
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The Theory of Everything
as Beryl WildeThe Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds,...
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Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the...
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In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a...
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The Book Thief
as Rosa HubermannWhile subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and...
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Small Things Like These
as Sister MaryWhile working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing...
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The Water Horse
as Anne MacMorrowA lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.
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Gosford Park
as ElsieIn 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of...
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Punch-Drunk Love
as Lena LeonardA socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being...
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King Lear
as ReganAn aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and...
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The Proposition
as Martha StanleyIn 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save...
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Breaking the Waves
as Bess McNeillIn a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have...
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On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his...
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Synecdoche, New York
as TammyA theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create...
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Little Boy
as Emma BusbeeAn eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his...
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In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother....
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Angela's Ashes
as Angela McCourtAn Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The...
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Belle
as Lady MansfieldDido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an...
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Monster Family 2
as Emma Wishbone (voice)To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone...
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The Boxer
as Maggie HamillNineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He...
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A Royal Night Out
as Queen ElizabethThe re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were...
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Testament of Youth
as Mrs. BrittainTestament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World...
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Monster Family
as Emma Wishbone (voice)The Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun...
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Miss Potter
as Millie WarneBeatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles...
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Hilary and Jackie
as Jackie Du PréThe tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of...
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Anne SellersThe turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his...
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Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism
as Miss TrinkleburyAn orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
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God's Creatures
as Aileen O'HaraIn a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own...
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The Happy Prince
as Constance WildeIn 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of...
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Some Girl(s)
as LindsayOn the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with...
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The Luzhin Defence
as Natalia KatkovBased upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to...
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Fireflies in the Garden
as Jane LawrenceThe semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family...
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Cold Souls
as ClairePaul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles...
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
as Caroline GilDuring a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse...
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Oranges and Sunshine
as Margaret HumphreysThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most...
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Cemetery Junction
as Mrs. KendrickIn 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and...
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The Dresser
as Her LadyshipOne fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring...
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Separate Lies
as Anne ManningFollowing a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.
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Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal'...
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Wah-Wah
as Ruby ComptonSet at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom,...
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Midas Man
as Queenie EpsteinWhen Brian Epstein set foot in the Cavern Club in November 1961 to watch The Beatles perform, he...
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On Chesil Beach
as Violet PontingIn 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual...
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Crusade in Jeans
as Mary VegaDolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to...
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Cradle Will Rock
as Olive StantonA true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and...
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Metroland
as MarionIn late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet...
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The Legend of Ochi
as DashaIn a remote northern village, a young girl, Yuri, is raised to never go outside after dark and...
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Within the Whirlwind
as Evgenia GinzburgDuring Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years...
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The Mill on the Floss
as Maggie TulliverLawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have...
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Trixie
as Trixie ZurboPassed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie...
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
as uncreditedA portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting...
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Hamnet
as Mary ShakespeareAgnes Shakespeare – the wife of the world's most famous writer – struggles to come to terms with...
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Weinstein
as Narrator (voice)Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most successful producers in Hollywood history, but beneath...
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A Song for Jenny
as Julie NicholsonA Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder...
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Meerkats 3D
as NarratorNarrated by Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson, MEERKATS 3D takes audiences on a journey with...
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Ballchewer
as uncreditedA short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Part of Adam Sandler's 'Meatball Series'. Shot...
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The Making of 'Gosford Park'
as SelfA documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film...
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A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as HerselfThis documentary follows director Brett Ratner through nearly every stage of production for the...
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Dune: Prophecy
as Mother Superior Valya HarkonnenTen thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen...
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Chernobyl
as Ulana KhomyukThe true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear...
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Genius
as Elsa EinsteinThe life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Performance
as RosalieAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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The Third Day
as Mrs. MartinA unique story told over two distinct halves, "Summer" follows Sam, a man drawn to a mysterious...
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Little Women
as Marmee MarchSet against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and...
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Fired on Mars
as Sheila (voice)After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift...
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Appropriate Adult
as Janet LeachThe extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the...
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The Early Show
as SelfThe Early Show is an American morning television show which was broadcast by CBS from New York...
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The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
as Grace McKeeA chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate...
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The Politician's Husband
as Freya GardnerA drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.
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Apple Tree Yard
as Yvonne CarmichaelWhat starts out as a simple, reckless mid-life affair between a genetic scientist named Yvonne...
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Too Close
as Dr. Emma RobinsonA dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Emma Robertson, is assigned to assess the sanity of Connie...
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