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
May Parker
for May Parker in Spider-Man: Dark Side
Suggested by underworld_stories
Taking place before the events of The X-Men: Rise and Fall, and 1 year after Spider-Man: Freshman Year, this movie follows Peter Parker, now a sophomore as he has to face new threats. William Baker was a worker for hire and during an excavation of a ruined Egyptian tomb, he accidentally unleashed an ethereal entity that took over him and gave him the powers of sand. Meanwhile when S.H.I.E.L.D's helicarrier is compromised a dark, black substance gets loose and it's first target is Mac Gargan, aka the Scorpion, who was hired by Tombstone to take the Spider-Man down. Spider-Man has trouble fighting Scorpion now that he has the power of the symbiote, but end up accidentally taking it from him. As the movie goes on Peter becomes darker and darker and colder to the people he cares about. Meanwhile Harry, with all this distance has become more set on killing Spider-Man for killing his father, as he believes. Peter has to fight off the symbiote in a bell tower as he remembers Uncle Ben and the words ringing in his ears "with great power, there must also come great responsibility" and as he rips it off he goes to stop William from destroying New York. Peter uses everything in his power to get William to the harbor and get him wet. He mushes up and becomes stiff giving Peter time to kick William out of the entity, saving the city. In the credits scene we see that Harry is looking at his father's old belongings.
