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
Madam Mim
for Madam Mim in The Hood and The Legend of The Sword in The Stone
Suggested by melaniecoyde
The movie opens in the late 11 as Arthur Pendragon fights Sir Kay for the honor of pulling the legendary sword from the stone and become king of Camelot. Kay manages to get Aurthur to the floor and grabs the sword but instantly turns to dust. Aurthur realizes that if you're not worthy of the Excaliber than you die. Aurthur walks up to the sword, he closes his eyes and grabs the handle. Aurthur begins to pull but then disappears. It turns out Aurthur wasn't worthy and paid the price for an impure sole. We cut to a shot of a man in a green cloak riding a horse through the kingdom of Nottinghamshire. We see he had just stolen from Prince John and is off to give the money to the people of Camelot. Once there the man named Robin of Loxley aka The Hood meets with his wife Marian and leaves to the forest, but Robin starts seeing things, he starts seeing visions. Robin opens his eyes and he's in the forest next to Excaliber. Just then the Sherrif of Nottingham arrives and has been looking for Robin. The two get into a sword fight but the Sherrif knocks Robin's sword away, so Robin takes Excaliber and doesn't die. The two fight some more but Robin dodges all of the Sherrif's attacks but then the Sherrif shoots Robin and just then Robin opens his eyes and is in a modern-day hospital bed. He runs outside with Excaliber to see he's in the future and that after he was shot to save his life Excaliber took him somewhere that could heal a bullet wound.
