Age: 67
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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
Johanna Van Helsing
for Johanna Van Helsing in The Brides of Dracula
Suggested by adam_1998
The eleventh installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and a sequel to the "Dracula" pick. It's been 34 years since the destruction of Dracula, in such time, the son of Jonathan and Mina has grown up, now Quincey Harker has a family of his own, with a wife and a daughter. One evening, Quincey receives a letter from Countess Mircalla, in which she asks them for the property rights to buy Carfax abbey. Quincey gives the property to her and from then on, the family babysitter, Laura Bloom, has been having nightmares about a woman that visits her on her dreams. During one of those days, Quincey receives a letter from Van Helsing in which his wife describes a similar nightmare from that of Laura, but instead of a woman, is a man. Van Helsing suspects that Dracula might be alive. Together, Quincey and Van Helsing find out that Mircalla was actually a princess called Carmilla, Dracula's lover. She has been able to revive him and now he wants revenge against the Harkers and Van Helsing, by turning Miranda, Johanna and Laura into his new brides. The post credits scene shows Germany 1939, a nazi troop enters into Van Helsing's house and nazi doctor, Heinrich Von Frankenstein steals the diary of Victor Frankenstein
