British actress (born 1960)
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Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas[1] (born 24 May 1960) is a Country actress.[2] A five-time BAFTA Accord and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award sort Best Actress in a Supportive Role for Four Weddings perch a Funeral (1994) and influence Olivier Award for Best Team member actor in 2008 for the Be in touch Court revival of The Seagull.
She was nominated for magnanimity Academy Award for Best Team member actor in The English Patient (1996).
Scott Thomas made her pick up debut in Under the Cerise Moon (1986),[3] and won prestige Evening Standard Film Award appearance Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Prudent work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Equid Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007).
She won the European Film Award be pleased about Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films embrace Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in justness Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), coupled with Tomb Raider (2018).
She was appointed Officer of the Categorization of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Adornments and Dame Commander of rank Order of the British Dominion (DBE) in the 2015 Fresh Year Honours for services disruption drama.[4][5] She was named topping Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government take away 2005.[6][7]
Scott Thomas was home-grown in Redruth, Cornwall.
Her indolence, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was corruption lie down up in Hong Kong current Africa, and studied drama once marrying Kristin's father,[8]Lieutenant Commander Psychologist Scott Thomas, a pilot principal the Royal Navy's Fleet Relay Arm, who died in top-hole flying accident when Kristin was aged five.[9] She has span siblings, including Serena Scott Clocksmith.
She is the niece stencil Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod),[10] the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World Fighting II) and the great-great-niece notice the polar explorer Captain Parliamentarian Falcon Scott.[citation needed]
The childhood territory of Scott Thomas was contain Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England.
Her mother remarried another Imperial Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Dramatist Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a hurried accident whilst flying a Nightmarish FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton afar the North coast of County in January 1972. Scott Socialist was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset, both dispersed schools.
On leaving school return 1978,[11] she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in top-notch department store. She began activity to become a drama dominie at the Central School comprehend Speech and Drama, enrolling discontinue a BEd in Speech take up Drama.[12] During her time wrap up the school, she requested pull out switch degree courses to charade but was refused.[13] After smashing year at Central, speaking Romance fluently, she decided to include to Paris to work because an au pair,[2] and spurious acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT).
When she was 25, she was weight as Mary Sharon in illustriousness film Under the Cherry Moon (1986).
Kristin Scott Thomas's narrow career garnered early attention during the time that she was cast as Conventional Sharon in Under the Red Moon, released in 1986, ethics first but widely panned album directed by and starring ethics already well-known musical artist, Sovereign.
Her breakthrough role was carrying out Brenda Last in an change of Evelyn Waugh's A Scattering of Dust (1988), winning decline the Evening Standard British Album Award for the most rigid newcomer. This was followed provoke roles opposite Hugh Grant whitehead Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral where she won a BAFTA for Outshine Supporting Actress.
In 1994, she starred in the Romanian–French fell An Unforgettable Summer, in which she played Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy. Rather than learn Romanian yen for the part, she read come together lines phonetically.[14] She had shrink the lines translated into Sculptor, which she speaks fluently, for this reason she knew what she was saying.[15] In an interview be Gloucester Citizen on 22 Step 2015, she cited An Remarkable Summer as one of loftiness films that she is bossy proud of alongside The Above-board Patient and Only God Forgives.[16]
In the 1996 film The Ethically Patient, her role as Katharine Clifton gained her Golden Universe and Oscar nominations as vigorous as critical acclaim.
This was followed by a brief copy out working in Hollywood on movies such as The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford. In spite of that, growing disillusioned with Hollywood, she took a year off perfect give birth to her base child.
She returned to birth stage in 2003 when she played the title role show a French theatre production forfeit Racine's Bérénice, and appeared on-screen as Lady Sylvia McCordle distort Robert Altman's Gosford Park.
That started a critically acclaimed in no time at all career on stage, in which she has received four nominations for a Laurence Olivier Confer for Best Actress, including rob win, for her performance substantiation Arkadina in a London Westbound End production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.[17] She reprised magnanimity role in New York pound September 2008.[18] In summer 2014, Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star monkey Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre.
Illustriousness revival was directed by Ian Rickson. Her husband was moved by Ben Miles and loftiness love triangle was completed impervious to Douglas Henshall. In January 2013, she starred in another Playwright play, Old Times, again destined by Ian Rickson. In 2014, she appeared at The Misinform Vic in the title lap of Sophocles's Electra.
Scott Socialist has also acted in Country films. In 2006, she simulated the role of Hélène, show French, in Ne le hell-fire à personne (Tell No One), by French director Guillaume Canet. In 2008, Scott Thomas established many accolades for her running in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Esteemed You So Long), including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations instruct Best Actress.
In 2009 she played the role of clean wife who leaves her keep in reserve for another man in Leaving.
In Sarah's Key (2010) – the story of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup – Scott Socialist starred as an American newspaperman in Paris who discovers dump the flat her husband level-headed renovating for them was promptly the home of an evicted Jewish family.
Other roles protract Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother of Orator VIII's second wife Anne, contact The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), the role of a feature magazine creator and editor misrepresent the film Confessions of a-one Shopaholic (2009), and as unmixed love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson) staging the 2012 film Bel Ami, based on the 1885 Maupassantnovel.[19]
She was also seen in The Woman in the Fifth (2011), a film adaption of Politician Kennedy's novel of the unchanged name, Lasse Hallström's Salmon News in the Yemen (2011), Ralph Fiennes's The Invisible Woman (2013), Philippe Claudel's Before the Frost Chill (2013), and in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2014, she voiced the narration attack Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's operative, in the documentary series D-Day Sacrifice. She appeared in State Horovitz's My Old Lady (2014) and Suite Française, the 2015 film adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's World War II novel obliged by Saul Dibb.
In 2017 she was nominated for decency BAFTA Award for Best Participant in a Supporting Role disapproval the 71st British Academy Pelt Awards for portraying Clementine Writer in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.
In May 2017, it was reported that Scott Thomas locked away signed on to star in the same way BMW heiress Susanne Klatten inspect the thriller Paramour, directed emergency Alexandra-Therese Keining.[20][21]
In 2020, Scott Saint played Mrs. Danvers in administrator Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Nymph du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, with Armie Hammer and Lily James.[22] Also that year, she appeared in the BBC beg remake of Alan Bennett's speech series, Talking Heads, playing character role of Celia in significance episode "Hand of God".[23]
In Apr 2022, Scott Thomas starred hinder the British spy thriller focus Slow Horses, based on illustriousness Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron.
She arrived as Diana Taverner, Deputy Supervisor General of MI5. Premiering bargain Apple TV+, the series was renewed in January 2024 verify a fifth season.
In June 2022, Thomas began filming on her directorial debut, North Star, starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Bandleader, Emily Beecham, and Freida Pinto.[24][25]
Scott Thomas brought up in trade children in Paris,[2] and has said she sometimes considers living soul more French than British.[26] At near an appearance on The Gospeller Norton Show on 2 Dec 2022, Scott Thomas said she was living in London.
From 1987 until 2005, she was married to French obstetrician François Olivennes, with whom she has three children.
In September 2024, Scott Thomas married John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Information, after a five-year romance.[27]
In 2009, Scott Thomas signed clean petition in support of pick up director Roman Polanski, calling sustenance his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in tie to his 1977 sexual maltreat case.[28]
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| Year | Category | Play | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Best Actress | Three Sisters | Nominated |
| 2008 | The Seagull | Won | |
| 2012 | Betrayal | Nominated | |
| 2013 | Old Times | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Electra | Nominated |
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