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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). Has a very vitriolic friendship with Creator/StephenFry.
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born 15 April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). Has a very vitriolic friendship with Creator/StephenFry.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' (one episode)[[Recap/CheersS10E16 memorable episode]] in which she plays Frasier Crane's first wife)
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** She also nearly played Emma Peel in the film adaptation of ''Series/TheAvengers''. The role went to Uma Thurman.
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** She also nearly played Emma Peel in the film adaptation of ''Series/TheAvengers''. ''Film/TheAvengers1998''. The role went to Uma Thurman.Creator/UmaThurman.
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* ''Theatre/HenryV'' (Creator/KennethBranagh version)
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). Has a very vitriolic friendship with Creator/StephenFry.
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). Has a very vitriolic friendship with Creator/StephenFry.
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuds with Creator/StephenFry.
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuds Has a very vitriolic friendship with Creator/StephenFry.
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** She was, at 36, by all rights far too old to play Elinor Dashwood in ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'' -- something about which nobody cared one jot after seeing even a fraction of her excellent performance in the film.
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** She was, at 36, by all rights far too old to play 19-year-old Elinor Dashwood (aged to 25) in ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'' -- something about which nobody cared one jot after seeing even a fraction of her excellent performance in the film.
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** ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' has the captain as a male. ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' changes it to a woman to accommodate Emma. [[invoked]]
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** ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' has the captain as a male. ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' changes it to a woman to accommodate Emma. [[invoked]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: For ''Series/AngelsInAmerica'' she plays an angel, a homeless woman and Nurse Emily.
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* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/KellyMacdonald in ''Film/NannyMacphee'', ''Brave'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. [[invoked]]
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* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/KellyMacdonald in ''Film/NannyMacphee'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'', ''Brave'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. [[invoked]]
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Creator/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuds with Creator/StephenFry.
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Dame Emma Thompson, DBE, is a distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959 and best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Creator/AlanisMorissette Music/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuds with Creator/StephenFry.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' has the captain as a male. ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' changes it to a woman to accommodate Emma. [[invoked]]
* AdamWesting: In ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' she's caught making out with a woman, and encouraged to come out to the public...then gets cold feet about whether it could lead to the discovery of her even greater shame of being ''American''. She won an Emmy for the performance, which included a perfect midwestern accent.
* AdamWesting: In ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' she's caught making out with a woman, and encouraged to come out to the public...then gets cold feet about whether it could lead to the discovery of her even greater shame of being ''American''. She won an Emmy for the performance, which included a perfect midwestern accent.
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** She was, at 36, by all rights far too old to play Elinor Dashwood in ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'' -- something about which nobody cared one jot after seeing even a fraction of her excellent performance in the film.
* AdamWesting: In ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' she's caught making out with a woman, and encouraged to come out to the public...then gets cold feet about whether it could lead to the discovery of her even greater shame of being ''American''. She won an Emmy for the performance, which included a perfectmidwestern Midwestern accent.
** ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' has the captain as a male. ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' changes it to a woman to accommodate Emma. [[invoked]]
** She was, at 36, by all rights far too old to play Elinor Dashwood in ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'' -- something about which nobody cared one jot after seeing even a fraction of her excellent performance in the film.
* AdamWesting: In ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' she's caught making out with a woman, and encouraged to come out to the public...then gets cold feet about whether it could lead to the discovery of her even greater shame of being ''American''. She won an Emmy for the performance, which included a perfect
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** She quit the Skydance Animation film ''Luck'' in protest of the studio hiring the disgraced John Lasseter.
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* AdamWesting: In ''Series/{{Ellen}}'' she's caught making out with a woman, and encouraged to come out to the public...then gets cold feet about whether it could lead to the discovery of her even greater shame of being ''American''. She won an Emmy for the performance, which included a perfect midwestern accent.
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** ''Film/MenInBlack3'' (2012)
** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' (2019)
** ''Film/MenInBlack3'' (2012)
** ''Film/MenInBlackInternational'' (2019)
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Distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959, best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Creator/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuds with Creator/StephenFry.
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** Actually inverted since she began her career in comedy alongside her old flame Creator/HughLaurie and GayBestFriend Creator/StephenFry. Her current career path is more a reversion to the mean than a sudden shift. She has nothing left to prove and can do what she loves. Here's a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRy3J1YMS0 good sample of how naturally funny she is].
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** Actually inverted since she began her career in comedy alongside her old flame Creator/HughLaurie and GayBestFriend Creator/StephenFry. Her current career path is more a reversion to the mean than a sudden shift. She has nothing left to prove and can do what she loves. Here's a [https://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRy3J1YMS0 good sample of how naturally funny she is].is]].
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**Actually inverted since she began her career in comedy alongside her old flame Creator/HughLaurie and GayBestFriend Creator/StephenFry. Her current career path is more a reversion to the mean than a sudden shift. She has nothing left to prove and can do what she loves. Here's a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRy3J1YMS0 good sample of how naturally funny she is].
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* FakeNationality: Sort of. She plays the Australian PL Travers in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', but Travers had lost her accent and spoke with an English one at the time Emma plays her.
* FakeScot: She voices Scottish Queen Elinor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}''. It's quite good, helped no doubt by having Scottish family members.
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Got her start doing various period dramas for Merchant & Ivory films. These days she's more likely to turn up in a comedy as 'that quirky English lady'. Even in the drama ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' she still plays TheComicallySerious.
* FakeScot: She voices Scottish Queen Elinor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}''. It's quite good, helped no doubt by having Scottish family members.
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Got her start doing various period dramas for Merchant & Ivory films. These days she's more likely to turn up in a comedy as 'that quirky English lady'. Even in the drama ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' she still plays TheComicallySerious.
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* FakeScot: She voices Scottish Queen Elinor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}''. It's quite good, helped no doubt by having Scottish familymembers.
members. [[invoked]]
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Got her start doing various period dramas for Merchant & Ivory films. These days she's more likely to turn up in a comedy as 'that quirky English lady'. Even in the drama ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' she still plays TheComicallySerious. [[invoked]]
* FakeScot: She voices Scottish Queen Elinor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}''. It's quite good, helped no doubt by having Scottish family
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Got her start doing various period dramas for Merchant & Ivory films. These days she's more likely to turn up in a comedy as 'that quirky English lady'. Even in the drama ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' she still plays TheComicallySerious. [[invoked]]
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* RealLifeRelative: Her sister Sophie Thompson stars in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', though she appears in Part 1 and Emma in Part 2.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: She took the role of Professor Trelawney to impress her daughter.
* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/KellyMacdonald in ''Film/NannyMacphee'', ''Brave'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
* ThrowItIn: In ''Brave'' she ad-libbed Elinor's line "there'll be fire and sword if it's not set right."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: She took the role of Professor Trelawney to impress her daughter.
* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/KellyMacdonald in ''Film/NannyMacphee'', ''Brave'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
* ThrowItIn: In ''Brave'' she ad-libbed Elinor's line "there'll be fire and sword if it's not set right."
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daughter. [[invoked]]
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* WrittenByCastMember: An Oscar-winning screenwriter herself, she has contributed to the scripts of many projects she's worked on.
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Distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959, best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Creator/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuddies with Creator/StephenFry.
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Distinguished British actress, born April 15, 1959, best known for a lot of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Ivory_Productions Merchant Ivory]] movies, as well as ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', ''Film/DeadAgain'', ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'', ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. Introduced [[Creator/StephenFry Fry]] to [[Creator/HughLaurie Laurie]], thus making her responsible for a veritable English institution. Also almost played [[Film/{{Dogma}} God]] (it was decided that Creator/AlanisMorissette would be [[RuleOfFunny funnier]]). ''Very'' much VitriolicBestBuddies VitriolicBestBuds with Creator/StephenFry.
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* AbilityOverAppearance: ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' has the captain as a male. ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' changes it to a woman to accommodate Emma.
* BeautyInversion: In ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' where she appears under old age prosthetics - and Nanny becomes more beautiful as the story goes on. Emma joked it took more make-up to have her appear beautiful.
* TheCameo: As the Headmistress in ''Film/AnEducation''.
* CastTheExpert: Very appropriate that she be chosen to play a writer in ''Film/StrangerThanFiction''.
* CastingGag: She plays Hugh Grant's sister in ''Film/LoveActually'', when they had played lovers in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''.
* DawsonCasting: At 36 she played Elinor Dashwood who is around 19.
* DyeingForYourArt: She gained thirty pounds for ''Film/LoveActually''.
* EnforcedMethodActing:
** For ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' she fed lines to Will Ferrell through an earpiece, so that his reaction to words other people can't hear would be more natural.
** She and Kate Winslet lived together while filming ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' in order to develop a natural sisterly chemistry.
* FakeNationality: Sort of. She plays the Australian PL Travers in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', but Travers had lost her accent and spoke with an English one at the time Emma plays her.
* FakeScot: She voices Scottish Queen Elinor in ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}''. It's quite good, helped no doubt by having Scottish family members.
* LeslieNielsenSyndrome: Got her start doing various period dramas for Merchant & Ivory films. These days she's more likely to turn up in a comedy as 'that quirky English lady'. Even in the drama ''Film/SavingMrBanks'' she still plays TheComicallySerious.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: For ''Series/AngelsInAmerica'' she plays an angel, a homeless woman and Nurse Emily.
* RealLifeRelative: Her sister Sophie Thompson stars in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', though she appears in Part 1 and Emma in Part 2.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: She took the role of Professor Trelawney to impress her daughter.
* ThoseTwoActors: With Creator/KellyMacdonald in ''Film/NannyMacphee'', ''Brave'' and ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''.
* ThrowItIn: In ''Brave'' she ad-libbed Elinor's line "there'll be fire and sword if it's not set right."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** She was nearly cast as Catherine Tromell in ''Film/BasicInstinct'' but backed out of the deal.
** She also nearly played Emma Peel in the film adaptation of ''Series/TheAvengers''. The role went to Uma Thurman.
** A kiss was filmed between her and Hugh Grant in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', but cut as it would have been inappropriate for the time the novel was written.
** Creator/MerylStreep was interested in Miss Kenton in ''The Remains of the Day''. As it was written with Emma in mind, it remains one of only three parts that Meryl has ever been turned down for.
* WrittenByCastMember: An Oscar-winning screenwriter herself, she has contributed to the scripts of many projects she's worked on.
