Emily Watson
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"Emily Margaret Watson", Order of the British Empire/OBE is an English actress who gave an acclaimed debut film performance in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. She is a two-time Academy Award nominee and four-time BAFTA Award nominee.

Watson began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. She received Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Actress/Best Actress for her roles as Bess McNeil in the 1996 film Breaking the Waves and Jacqueline du Pré in the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie. In 2002, she returned to the stage in Twelfth Night at the Donmar Warehouse. Also at the Donmar in 2003, she starred in Uncle Vanya and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress/Olivier Award for Best Actress. On television, she starred in the ITV Network/ITV drama Appropriate Adult in 2011, for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress/BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.

Her other films include, The Boxer (1997 film)/The Boxer (1997), Angela's Ashes (film)/Angela's Ashes (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (film)/Red Dragon (2002), Equilibrium (film)/Equilibrium (2002), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Within the Whirlwind (2009) and The Book Thief (film)/The Book Thief (2013).

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I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking.

I had to learn to play the cello to concert standard.

They're incredibly, incredibly close, kind of telepathically close, ... And once Jackie disappeared into the world of superstardom, she kind of starts displaying symptoms of MS (multiple sclerosis) and kind of really losing it. And she goes back to her sister and basically says, I want to sleep with your husband, which is ... pretty shocking.

They're incredibly, incredibly close, kind of telepathically close. And once Jackie disappeared into the world of superstardom, she kind of starts displaying symptoms of MS (multiple sclerosis) and kind of really losing it. And she goes back to her sister and basically says, I want to sleep with your husband, which is ... pretty shocking.

She says she hangs on to the voice even after we've left the studio, so expect an, 'I'm having a jolly good time' from her on the red carpet.

I think we all like the idea of putting five dollars in and getting 100 from it. That's appealing, but I think it's also entertaining for a lot of people. It's something for Shirley in accounting to talk about with Bill in marketing. It's a way to connect.

If you find someone who makes it their end all and be all of the next two weeks, if they can't focus on anything else then it could continue to (trouble) gambling. There are warning signs and that's something to look at with March Madness.

I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.

I thought it was time to jump into that Hollywood mainstream and see what the temperature was. And it was warmer than I expected.