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Emily Watson



Emily Watson Profile Biography Artist.
Born: 14 January 1967
Birthplace: Islington, London, England
Most commonly known as: Star from the movie Punch-Drunk Love
Emily Watson made her feature film debut within the 1996 movie Smashing the Waves. Her bold performance drew rave notices the to begin many strong performances in emotionally-charged dramas. She has also appeared in Hilary and Jackie (1998), The Cradle Will Rock (1999, with Hank Azaria), Angela's Ashes (1999), Red Dragon (2002, with Anthony Hopkins) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002, with Adam Sandler).


With soulful, saucer-like eyes and a coy smile that hints at playfulness, Oscar-nominated actress Emily Watson burst on top of the scene along with her shattering performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, a role that almost visited period-piece queen Helena_Bonham_Carter. Born the daughter associated with an architect with an English professor in Islington, a borough based in london, England, in January 1967, a sheltered upbringing initially led Watson to seek studies in English Literature. After studying in Bristol for three years, Watson made her first bid for drama school just to face disheartening rejection. After 3 years of being employed as a waitress along with a secretary, she was eventually accepted in to the London Drama Studio. It turned out during this early phase in their own career that Watson would meet husband to be Jack Waters.

Launching her career upon joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992, Watson soon set her sights on film. Fate intervened when actress Helena_Bonham_Carter brought out of director Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves on the very last minute due to film's explicit sexuality. Despite her deficiency of big-screen experience, Watson landed the feminine lead inside film after only one brief screen test. Playing a spiritually driven woman whose oil-rig worker husband (Stellan Saarsgaard) becomes paralized, she exhibited a brash, religiously transcendent sexuality, stunning art-house audiences and recieving an Oscar nomination in the process. The subsequent marriage dramedy Metroland turned out to be a nostalgia trip by comparison, Watson's honest performance again earned accolades. Watson's reputation continued to grow together with her intimate, conflicted portrayal with the Multiple Sclerosis-stricken concert cellist Jacqueline_Du_Pre in Hilary and Jackie (1998), which is why she was again Oscar-nominated, as well as when she totally love interest of an eccentric chess champion in The_Luzhin_Defence (2000).

After joining the talented ensemble of Robert_Altman's acclaimed comedy-mystery Gosford_Park, Watson made serious inroads into Hollywood, first in 2002 as the love interest of your temperamental (to put it mildly) small-business owner played by Adam Sandler in Paul_Thomas_Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love. That same fall also saw her playing the love interest of an murderous psychopath in Brett_Ratner's Hannibal prequel Red_Dragon, and re-teaming with Metroland co-star Christian_Bale within the little-seen sci-fi action vehicle Equilibrium. After doing voice help Tim Burton's animated gothic Corpse Bride -- alongside abdominal muscles woman she replaced in Damaging the Waves, Helena Bonham-Carter -- she returned to the British art-house scene with strong performances such films as Separate Lives and director Richard E. Grant's autobiographical Wah-Wah. Jason Buchanan, Rovi


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