Age: 67
female
Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama. Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she became famous for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992). In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Late Night (2019), and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022). Other notable film credits include the Harry Potter series (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Cruella (2021), and Matilda the Musical (2022). Her television credits include Wit (2001), Angels in America (2003), The Song of Lunch (2010), King Lear (2018) and Years and Years (2019). She portrayed Mrs. Lovett in a Lincoln Center production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2014. Authorised by the publishers of Beatrix Potter, Thompson has also written three Peter Rabbit children's books.
Emma Thompson
International Space Station (Voice)
for International Space Station (Voice) in Destiny of Tomorrow: Legacy of the Space Shuttle
Suggested by ltathena
An epic documentary film made from enhanced NASA archival footage from the Space Shuttle era with archival interview audio of the astronauts musing on their thoughts on the shuttles before and after spaceflight. Three-dimensional computer rendered and radio-controlled miniature model scenes depicting multiple facets of the program with the voices of the shuttles themselves also use National Geographic and IMAX archival footage to paint a picture of these shuttles also evolving during their times alive and in spaceflight of humanity. The prologue follows Gene Cernan's words from Apollo 17 about the 'Destiny of Tomorrow' that the Space Shuttle Program would service as told through the voices of the astronauts and shuttles themselves. Act I covers the entry and landing of a Shuttle to her processing. Early concepts and testing are featured in Act II. Assembly, rollout and launch are focused on in Act III. Musings on Earth history, humanity and the world below from space by the shuttles take over for Act IV. The challenges of spaceflight on orbit are evidenced in Act V. The epilogue follows the words of the surviving Shuttles remembering their fallen sisters and wondering what comes next for humankind into space.
