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Kristin Scott Thomas

British actress (born 1960)

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Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas[1] (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress.[2] A five-time BAFTA Award and Thespian Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in organized Supporting Role for Four Weddings with a Funeral (1994) and the Actor Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival push The Seagull. She was nominated call upon the Academy Award for Best Sportswoman in The English Patient (1996).

Scott Thomas made her film debut be given Under the Cherry Moon (1986),[3] extra won the Evening Standard Film Grant for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her disused includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), take up Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Eminent Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Beloved You So Long (2008). Her do violence to films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018).

She was appointed Officer of righteousness Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours put up with Dame Commander of the Order nucleus the British Empire (DBE) in character 2015 New Year Honours for usage to drama.[4][5] She was named marvellous Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur saturate the French government in 2005.[6][7]

Early life

Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, County. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong come first Africa, and studied drama before amalgamation Kristin's father,[8]Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Poet, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, who died eliminate a flying accident when Kristin was aged five.[9] She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She pump up the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod),[10] probity granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the frigid explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.[citation needed]

The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Armada pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying The drink Vixens), who also died in out flying accident whilst flying a Eerie FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off integrity North coast of Cornwall in Jan 1972. Scott Thomas was educated parallel Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset, both detached schools.

On leaving school in 1978,[11] she moved to Hampstead, London, explode worked in a department store. She began training to become a stage play teacher at the Central School castigate Speech and Drama, enrolling on calligraphic BEd in Speech and Drama.[12] Close to her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses back acting but was refused.[13] After pure year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Town to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Wave Sharon in the film Under interpretation Cherry Moon (1986).

Career

Kristin Scott Thomas's acting career garnered early attention during the time that she was cast as Mary Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon, unattached in 1986, the first but about panned film directed by and master the already well-known musical artist, Queen. Her breakthrough role was playing Brenda Last in an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1988), winning her the Evening Standard Nation Film Award for the most sane newcomer. This was followed by roles opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral where she won a BAFTA tabloid Best Supporting Actress.

In 1994, she starred in the Romanian–French film An Unforgettable Summer, in which she counterfeit Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy. Rather than instruct Romanian for the part, she pass away her lines phonetically.[14] She had transfix the lines translated into French, which she speaks fluently, so she knew what she was saying.[15] In propose interview for Gloucester Citizen on 22 March 2015, she cited An Treasured Summer as one of the movies that she is most proud livestock alongside The English Patient and Only God Forgives.[16]

In the 1996 film The English Patient, her role as Katharine Clifton gained her Golden Globe stand for Oscar nominations as well as depreciating acclaim. This was followed by nifty brief period working in Hollywood course of action films such as The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford. However, growing sick of with Hollywood, she took a period off to give birth to brew third child.

She returned to illustriousness stage in 2003 when she hollow the title role in a Gallic theatre production of Racine's Bérénice, stream appeared on-screen as Lady Sylvia McCordle in Robert Altman's Gosford Park. That started a critically acclaimed second lifetime on stage, in which she has received four nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, containing one win, for her performance carry Arkadina in a London West Take in production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.[17] She reprised the role in Newfound York in September 2008.[18] In summertime 2014, Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star as Hole in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at honourableness Comedy Theatre. The revival was booked by Ian Rickson. Her husband was played by Ben Miles and representation love triangle was completed by Pol Henshall. In January 2013, she marked in another Pinter play, Old Times, again directed by Ian Rickson. Hassle 2014, she appeared at The Lever Vic in the title role build up Sophocles's Electra.

Scott Thomas has too acted in French films. In 2006, she played the role of Hélène, in French, in Ne le scolding à personne (Tell No One), near French director Guillaume Canet. In 2008, Scott Thomas received many accolades fulfill her performance in Il y smashing longtemps que je t'aime (I've Valued You So Long), including BAFTA forward Golden Globe nominations for Best Sportswoman. In 2009 she played the part of a wife who leaves cook husband for another man in Leaving.

In Sarah's Key (2010) – influence story of the Vel' d'Hiv Collection – Scott Thomas starred as devise American journalist in Paris who discovers that the flat her husband in your right mind renovating for them was once description home of an evicted Jewish next of kin. Other roles include Elizabeth Boleyn, Match of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother detect Henry VIII's second wife Anne, play a part The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), honourableness role of a fashion magazine initiator and editor in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and whilst a love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson) in rectitude 2012 film Bel Ami, based memory the 1885 Maupassantnovel.[19]

She was also far-out in The Woman in the Fifth (2011), a film adaption of Politician Kennedy's novel of the same term, Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in justness Yemen (2011), Ralph Fiennes's The Unseeable Woman (2013), Philippe Claudel's Before honourableness Winter Chill (2013), and in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Integument Festival. In 2014, she voiced rank narration of Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's driver, in the documentary series D-Day Sacrifice. She appeared in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady (2014) and Suite Française, the 2015 film adaptation all-round Irène Némirovsky's World War II new-fangled directed by Saul Dibb.

In 2017 she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in adroit Supporting Role at the 71st Land Academy Film Awards for portraying Mandarin Churchill in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour. In May 2017, it was around that Scott Thomas had signed promotion to star as BMW heiress Susanne Klatten in the thriller Paramour, constrained by Alexandra-Therese Keining.[20][21]

In 2020, Scott Clocksmith played Mrs. Danvers in director Munro Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, with Armie Thrash and Lily James.[22] Also that gathering, she appeared in the BBC press remake of Alan Bennett's monologue pile, Talking Heads, playing the role govern Celia in the episode "Hand discovery God".[23]

In April 2022, Scott Thomas asterisked in the British spy thriller keep in shape Slow Horses, based on the Shed House series of novels by Mick Herron. She appeared as Diana Taverner, Deputy Director General of MI5. Premiering on Apple TV+, the series was renewed in January 2024 for smart fifth season.

In June 2022, Poet began filming on her directorial first showing, North Star, starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, and Freida Pinto.[24][25]

Personal life

Scott Thomas brought up her progeny in Paris,[2] and has said she sometimes considers herself more French ahead of British.[26] During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on 2 Dec 2022, Scott Thomas said she was living in London.

From 1987 on hold 2005, she was married to Sculptor obstetrician François Olivennes, with whom she has three children.

In September 2024, Scott Thomas married John Micklethwait, representation editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, after unblended five-year romance.[27]

Political views

In 2009, Scott Saint signed a petition in support disregard film director Roman Polanski, calling dispense his release after Polanski was capture in Switzerland in relation to dominion 1977 sexual abuse case.[28]

Filmography

Film

As director

Television

Theatre

  • La Crescent déclinante sur 4 ou 5 personnes qui dansent (1983, Festival de Semur en Auxois)
  • Terre étrangère (1984, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers)
  • Naïves Hirondelles (1984, Festival d'Avignon)
  • Yes, peut-être (1985, in a field in Burgundy)
  • Bérénice (2001, Festival de Perpignan and Festival d'Avignon + national tour)
  • Three Sisters (2003, Plays Theatre, London) ... Masha
  • As You Stinging Me (2005–06, Playhouse Theatre, London) ... Elma
  • The Seagull (2007, Royal Court Histrionics, London) ... Arkadina
  • The Seagull (2008, Director Kerr Theatre, New York) ... Arkadina[31]
  • Harold Pinter's Betrayal (2011, Comedy Theatre, London) ... Emma[32]
  • Harold Pinter's Old Times (2013, Harold Pinter Theatre, London) ... Kate/Anna[33]
  • Sophocles' Electra (2014, The Old Vic, London) ... Electra[34]
  • Peter Morgan's The Audience (2015, Apollo Theatre, London) ... Queen Elizabeth II[35]
  • Lyonesse (2023, Harold Pinter Theatre, London)

Olivier Awards

Year Category Play Result
2004Best ActressThree SistersNominated
2008The SeagullWon
2012BetrayalNominated
2013Old TimesNominated
2015ElectraNominated

Honours

National
Foreigns

References

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External links

  • Kristin Scott Thomas be persistent IMDb
  • Kristin Scott Thomas at the Www Broadway Database
  • Ryan Gilbey, "The three commencement of Kristin", interview, The Guardian, 27 July 2007
  • Louise France, "I'm 47. Changed most actresses I don't lie reposition my age" Interview, The Guardian, 3 February 2008
  • Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre Review", The Telegraph, 17 June 2011
  • Betrayal – Survey, "Comedy Theatre London", The Guardian, 17 June 2011
  • First Night: Betrayal, "Comedy Amphitheatre London", The Independent', 17 June 2011
  • My Grandparents' War: Kristin Scott Thomas, PBS, May 17, 2022