Emily Watson

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Breaking the Waves (1996): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge…; Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Mill On the Floss (1997): Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Emily Watson, Bernard Hill; The incandescent Emily Watson justifies this Masterpiece Theatre version of George Eliot's Victorian novel (considerably simplified), bringing some…
Boxer, The (1998): Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson; Former IRA man Daniel Day–Lewis is released from 14 years behind bars to set up a non–sectarian community boxing club while private wars…
Hilary and Jackie (1998): Dir. Anand Tucker
Feat. Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths; Musical biopic buoyed by a quite fascinating subject – prodigious English Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre – adapted from the controversial…
Angela's Ashes (1999): Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Emily Watson, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens…; Lovingly–detailed adaptation of Frank McCourt's best–selling memoir of the worst kind of childhood – the deprived Irish Catholic…
Cradle Will Rock (1999): Dir. Tim Robbins
Feat. John Cusack, Bill Murray, John Turturro…; Caught between government paranoia and unionist principles in depression–era New York, a theatre troupe voice their dissent by attempting to…
Trixie (2000): Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Dermot Mulroney…; Uneven attempt at a film–noir spoof by cult dir. Rudolph (who did it better in LOVE AT LARGE) with Emily Watson as a low–wattage…
Luzhin Defence, The (2000): Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. John Turturro, Emily Watson; Combining the intricacies of the chessboard with manoeuvres of the heart, this Nabakov adaptation opens its game at a chess tournament in 1920s…
Gosford Park (2001): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Maggie Smith…; A handsome recital of Agatha Christie–style whodunnit and ‘upstairs–downstairs’ class–drama set in the confines of an English…
Red Dragon (2002): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes…; Betraying the odds after the lackluster “Hannibal”, this accomplished ‘prequel’ based on Thomas Harris’ novel of the same name more than…
Punch-Drunk Love (2002): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman…; Popular mainstream comic Adam Sandler takes a left turn for the director of MAGNOLIA and BOOGIE NIGHTS in this doggedly off–beat yet beguiling…
Equilibrium (2003): Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson; Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (2004): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson…; An entertaining, if disturbing summary of the turbulent life of British comedian Peter Sellers, with Geoffrey Rush starring as the man who famously…
Back to Gaya (Boo, Zino and the Snurks) (2004): Dir. Lenard Fritz Krawinke, Holger Tappe
Feat. Patrick Stewart, Emily Watson; The first completely CGI feature to emerge from Germany follows the postmodern tone of SHREK, with a gaggle of cartoon characters from a fantasy TV…
Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) (2005): Dir. Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Feat. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson; An animated tour–de–force from dir. Burton which fuses spindley puppetry and subtle CGI for its mythic tale of a sallow young bridegroom…
Proposition, The (2005): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston…; Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
Separate Lies (2005): Dir. Julian Fellowes
Feat. Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett; Tense tragedy of manners stars Tom Wilkinson as a complacent lawyer whose young wife (Watson) confesses to being tangled–up in a fatal…
Wah-Wah (2005): Dir. Richard E. Grant
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson…; A caustic memoir of colonial growing pains from actor Richard E. Grant (WITHNAIL AND I), chronicling his own adolescence in Swaziland during the…
Miss Potter (2006): Dir. Chris Noonan
Feat. Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson; Charming biopic tells the tale of Beatrix Potter – specifically the story of the woman behind the drawings – and her fixation from a…
Crusade: A March Through Time (Kruistocht in spijkerbroek) (2006): Dir. Ben Sombogaart
Feat. Stephanie Leonidas, Joe Flynn, Emily Watson…; From the popular Dutch children’s book, this biblical fantasy follows a young boy who accidentally travels through time back to the 13th Century,…
Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007): Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…; NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
Fireflies In The Garden (2008): Dir. Dennis Lee
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson…; A heavyweight cast helm this drama centered on a family who finally uncover their deep–seated grievances after a tragic accident. Despite…
Synecdoche, New York (2008): Dir. Charlie Kaufman
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener…; Screenwriting extraordinaire Charlie Kaufman turns his hand to directing for the first time with another amusing existential conundrum, here enjoying…
Cold Souls (2009): Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…; A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
Within the Whirlwind (2009): Dir. Marleen Gorris
Feat. Emily Watson, Ulrich Tukur, Ian Hart…; The memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, a Russian academic sentenced to ten years labor in a Siberian Gulag, are brought to life in this harrowing account…
Cemetery Junction (2010): Dir. Ricky Gervais
Feat. Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan…; Ricky Gervais directs this 70s coming of age tale of three young and rebellious insurance salesman set against the less–than–glamorous…
Oranges and Sunshine (2010): Dir. Jim Loach
Feat. Hugo Weaving, Emily Watson, David Wenham…; Dir. Jim Loach (son of Ken) tackles the scandalous post–war history of Britain's deportation of lower class children to the colonies –…
War Horse (2011): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson…; Steven Spielberg revives the magic of Old Hollywood with this rousing saga of a plucky farm stallion who goes on to inspire soldiers and citizens…
Appropriate Adult (TV Mini-series) (2011): Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Emily Watson, Dominic West; Utterly riveting, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning mini–series that details the crucial part played by a trainee social worker in uncovering the…
Book Thief, The (2013): Dir. Brian Percival
Feat. Sophie Nelisse, Heike Makatsch, Geoffrey Rush…; Earnest wartime drama about a foster child who begins stealing books and sharing them with a Jewish refugee hiding in her basement in Nazi Germany.
Belle (2013): Dir. Amma Asante
Feat. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson…; Exemplary costume piece about the true story of a mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral who is raised by her aristocratic great–uncle in…
Theory of Everything, The (2014): Dir. James Marsh
Feat. Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis…; Acclaimed look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife as he struggles with the onset of motor neuron disease.…
Testament of Youth (2015): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington, Taron Egerton…; Vera Brittain's acclaimed coming–of–age memoir is given the cinematic treatment in this fine adaptation, with Alicia Vikander (EX…
Royal Night Out, A (2015): Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Bel Powley, Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson…; Amusing imagining of the two royal princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, celebrating V.E. Day by slipping out of Buckingham Palace to go dancing at the…
Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, The (TV Mini-Series) (2015): Dir. Laurie Collyer
Feat. Kelli Garner, Susan Sarandon, Emily Watson…; Lavish mini–series chronicles Marilyn Monroe's family life and how she succeeded in hiding her most intimate secrets from the press and an…
Everest (2015): Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal…; This lavishly mounted account of the ill–fated climbing expedition that claimed the life of New Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall is especially…
Apple Tree Yard (TV Mini-series) (2017): Dir. Jessica Hobbs
Feat. Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin; Gripping drama with Emily Watson superb as a woman whose impulsive and passionate affair with a complete stranger is the first in a series of events…
Genius (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Johnny Flynn, Emily Watson; Biographical series with Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, covering his life as a struggling clerk through to his emergence as a respected scientist…
Little Women (Mini-series) (2017): Feat. Emily Watson; Immaculate BBC adaptation of the classic 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, structured as three one hour episodes. The story follows the lives of the…
Happy Prince, The (2018): Dir. Rupert Everett
Feat. Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan…; Rupert Everett directs and stars in this passionate evocation of Oscar Wilde's final years. After being imprisoned for his love affair with Lord…
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series) (2019): Dir. Johan Renck
Feat. Jared Harris, Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard…; Powerful dramatisation of the 1986 nuclear accident in Ukraine, one of the worst man–made catastrophes in history. Unfolds in 5…

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Filmography (All Films)