Emma Thompson

At 65 years old, Emma Thompson has this physical status:

Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress, screenwriter, campaigner, and comedian.

She often portrays enigmatic and matronly characters with a sense of humour, especially in period dramas and literary adaptations.

She has received numerous awards, including two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, three BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. Thompson, a born in London to English actor Eric Thompson and Scottish actress Phyllida Law, was educated at University of Cambridge's Newnham College, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe.

She rose to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for her role in both series after appearing on numerous comedy programs.

She appeared in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy, which was her first film appearance.

She frequently collaborated with her then-husband, actor, and director Kenneth Branagh in the early 1990s.

The pair made a name for themselves in British media, as well as in several films, including Dead Again (1991) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Thompson received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his role in Howards End in 1992.

She received two Academy Award nominations for her work in The Remains of the Day as the housekeeper of a grand household and In the Name of the Father as a lawyer in 1993.

Thompson wrote and appeared in Sense and Sensibility (1995), which earned her numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to be recognized for both acting and writing, as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

In 2013, she received acclaim and multiple award nominations for her role as author P. L. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks.

Other notable film and television credits include Harry Potter's film adaptation (2004–2011), Love Actually (2004), Angels in America (2004), Nanny McPhee (2005), Men in Black (2006), Later Night (2019), and BBC/HBO's Years and Years (2019). Thompson is married to actor Greg Wise, with whom she lives in London.

They have one child.

She has been chastised for her outspokenness in the areas of human rights and environmentalism, and has been chastised for her outspokenness.

She has written two books based on The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

In the 2018 Birthday Honours, Elizabeth II named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to drama.

Early life

Thompson was born in London on April 15, 1959. Phyllida Law, a Scottish actress, appeared in theatre, and was the author-narrator of the famous children's television series The Magic Roundabout. Ronald Eyre, a director and writer, was her godfather. Sophie Thompson, Sophie Thompson, who also works as an actress, is one of her one sister. Thompson was educated at Camden School for Girls in West Hampstead, north London, and his family was raised in West Hampstead. She spent a lot of time in Scotland during her childhood, and she often visited Ardentinny, where her grandparents and uncle lived.

Thompson was attracted by language and literature as a child, a characteristic she attributes to her father, who revealed her love of words. After gaining a scholarship and taking A levels in English, French, and Latin, she began studying for an English degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1977. Thompson believes that she was meant to be an actress, adding that she was "surrounded by brilliant people and I don't think it could have gone any other way." She had a "seminal moment" that led to her conversion to feminism and encouraged her to keep performing while she was there. In an interview in 2007, she discussed how she discovered the book The Madwoman in the Attic, "which is about Victorian female writers and the disguises they wore in order to show what they wanted to say." "It's changed my life." She aspired to be Lily Tomlin's self-professed "punk rocker" with short red hair and a motorbike, and aspired to be a comedian.

Thompson was accepted by Cambridge Footlights, the university's most coveted sketch comedy troupe, by its president, Martin Bergman, as the university's first female member. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, both in the cast, had a personal friendship with the latter. Emma was going the distance, according to Fry, "there was no doubt" she was going the distance." Emma Talented was her nicknamed "Gay" by her. Thompson was Vice President of Footlights and co-directed the troupe's first all-female revue, Woman's Hour, in 1980. Thompson and her Footlights crew earned the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their sketch exhibit The Cellar Tapes. Thompson received first-class honours for his second year.

Thompson's father died at the age of 52 in 1982. "The family] has been ripped to pieces," the actress has uttered, and "I can't begin to tell you how much I regret his not being around." "At the same time, it's likely that if he were still alive, I might not have had the space or courage to do what I've done," she said. I have a strong feeling of inheriting space. "Awesome" also has power.

Personal life

Thompson has claimed that she feels Scottish, not because she is half Scottish but also because I have lived half of my life [in Scotland]" She returns to Scotland often and visits Dunoon, Argyll, and Bute. She owns a home on the shore of Loch Eck, which is just south of Loch Eck.

Kenneth Branagh, actor and producer who appeared in 1987 while filming the television series Fortunes of War, was Thompson's first husband. They married in 1989 and went on to appear in many films together, with Branagh frequently portraying her in his own films. Their marriage, dubbed a "golden couple" by the British press, attracted a lot of national attention. The pair attempted to keep their private information private, refusing to be interviewed or photographed together. Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995; they blamed their work schedules as the reason; but it later emerged that he was having an affair with actress Helena Bonham Carter.

Thompson was living alone as Branagh's friendship degraded, and he became depressed. She began a friendship with her co-star Greg Wise when filming Sense and Sensibility in 1995. She told BBC Radio 4, "Work saved me and Greg saved me from going into depression." He collected the pieces and assembled them back up again. Gaia, Thompson's daughter who was conceived through in vitro fertilization when he was 39 years old, has been pregnant.

Thompson and Wise were married in Dunoon in 2003. The family's permanent home is in West Hampstead, London, on the same route as her childhood home. Tindyebwa Agaba, a Rwandan orphanage and former child soldier, was also adopted by Thompson and her husband in 2003. When he was 16, she invited him to spend Christmas at their house, and he was at a Refugee Council function. "He became a sort of permanent fixture" on vacation to Scotland with us, and became a member of the family," Thompson said. In 2009, Agaba became a British citizen.

Thompson and her husband were sworn in as honorary citizens of Venice, Italy, on February 28, 2020, and as a result, legal residents of Italy. The couple had previously owned a house in the city and expressed their intention to move to Italy permanently. They still have a house in West Hampstead, London.

Thompson has expressed her religious convictions: she has shared her beliefs:

She is a feminist and a supporter of the Labour Party, and she told the BBC Andrew Marr Show in 2010 that she had been a member of the party "all my life." Thompson supported Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in both the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections. She has also expressed support for the Women's Equality Party.

Thompson has been a campaigner from the start of her career. Since becoming a public figure, she has regularly articulated her opinions and been active on many fronts, prompting criticism that she is overtly outspoken. "Emma Thompson: a national treasure or Britain's most annoying woman" was the headline in a newspaper in 2010. "I think we should all be able to speak out, and a woman with a louder voice needs to shout even more," she claims.

She is especially active in human rights advocacy. She has traveled to Uganda, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Liberia, Burma, and South Africa as an ambassador for ActionAid. She is chair of the Helen Bamber Foundation for the Protection of Victims of Torture, a refugee Council member, and she has a therapy room in her office for traumatized refugees. Thompson is also a campaigner for Palestinians, having been a member of the British-based ENOUGH! The Gaza Strip and West Bank have been occupied by a group attempting to bring an end to the "Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank." She is a member of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Time magazine named her a "European Hero" in honor of "her efforts to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa in 2009.

Thompson is also an avid environmentalist. She is a supporter of Greenpeace, and she and three other members of the group purchased property near Sipson village in January 2009 to discourage the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport. Thompson and her daughter, Gaia, went on a Greenpeace "Save the Arctic" trip in August 2014 to raise concerns of the risks of fracking for oil. She narrated The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science, a documentary short about Koch Industries and its attempts to denigrate climate science. On October 31, 2016, the film was released. Although she received some flak over the fact that she travelled 5,400 miles (8,700 km) to attend it in 2019, she defended the London Extinction Rebellion opposition to climate change in 2019. She is also an ambassador for the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

Thompson chastised people who use "sloppy words" in 2010. "I went to speak at my old school, and the girls were all doing their 'likes' and 'innits,' she said. 'It ain'ts', which makes me insane. I told them, 'Just don't do it.' Since it makes you sound stupid and not stupid, it is unlikely that you're right. Both languages are important, one that you use with your colleagues and the other that you use in any official capacity."

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Career

Thompson appeared in a stage version of Not the Nine O'Clock News in 1982 for her first professional appearance. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, co-stars on Footlights, moved to television, where much of her early work came from television. There's nothing to be concerned about with this regional ITV comedy series. (1982) was their first outing, followed by the one-off BBC show The Crystal Cube (1983).

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The networked sketch show Alfresco (1983–84), which starred Thompson, Fry, Laurie, Ben Elton, and Robbie Coltrane, was later revived as the networked sketch show Alfresco (1983–84). She appeared on the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show Saturday Night Fry (1988), where she starred with Fry and Laurie.

Thompson appeared in the West End revival of Me and My Girl in 1985, co-starring Robert Lindsay. It was a breakthrough in her career, as the production received rave reviews. She lasted for 15 months as Sally Smith, which drained her. "I was sure if I did the fucking "Lambeth Walk" one more time, I would have a fucking throw up," she later said. Emma Thompson, Up for Grabs, wrote and appeared in her own one-off special for Channel 4 at the end of 1985.

Thompson had another breakthrough in 1987 when she appeared in two television miniseries: Fortunes of War, a World War II drama co-starring Kenneth Branagh, and Tutti Frutti, a dark-comedy about a Scottish rock band with Robbie Coltrane. Thompson received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for these performances. She wrote and performed in her own sketch comedy series for BBC, Thompson, but it was not well received the following year. She and Branagh, who had had formed a romantic relationship, appeared in a revival of Look Back in Anger, directed by Judi Dench and produced by Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1989. The pair appeared in a televised version of the play later this year.

Thompson's first cinema appearance appeared in The Tall Guy (1989), Richard Curtis' first cinema appearance. Jeff Goldblum appeared as a West End actor, and Thompson played the nurse with whom he falls in love. Thompson's performance in The New York Times was not widely seen, but Caryn James called her "an exceptionally versatile comic actress" in the New York Times. In Branagh's screen version of Henry V (1989), she returned to Shakespeare, playing Princess Katherine. The film received acclaim from critics who saw it.

Thompson and Branagh were considered by American writer and commentator James Monaco to have pioneered the "British cinematic onslaught" in the 1990s. In the new decade, she continued to experiment with Shakespeare, appearing alongside Branagh in his stage productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear. The Chicago Tribune praised her "extraordinary" result of the "hobbling, stooped fool" in his review of the former. Thompson appeared in Impromptu with Judy Davis and Hugh Grant in 1991, playing a "frivolous aristocrat" in Impromptu. At the Independent Spirit Awards, Thompson was nominated for Best Supporting Female. Branagh, who also starred in the Los Angeles-based noir Dead Again, was her second appearance in 1991. She played a woman who has mistook her name for the time being. Thompson appeared in a Frasier Crane interview as Frasier Crane's first wife early in 1992.

Thompson was a turning point in Thompson's career when she was portrayed opposite Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave in the Merchant Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), based on E. M. Forster's novel. Thompson plays an idealistic, cerebral, forward-looking woman who comes into contact with a wealthy and deeply conservative family in Edwardian England. She pursued the role by writing to director James Ivory, who agreed to an audition and then gave her the opportunity. Thompson was able to "come] into her own" away from Branagh, according to critic Vincent Canby. Roger Ebert wrote that she was "most prominent in the central role: quiet, ironic, observant, with steel inside." Howards End was widely praised, a "surprise hit," and has received nine Academy Award nominations. Thompson's Best Actress trophy was one of her three victories, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA for her work. The actress "discovered herself an international superstar almost overnight," the New York Times reported.

Thompson returned to Branagh for her next two films. The pair appeared in Peter's Friends (1992) as a group of Cambridge alumni reunited ten years after graduating. Thompson, according to Desson Howe of The Washington Post, she was positively regarded, "even as a rather one-dimensional character, she exudes love and a keen sense of humor." Branagh's screen version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993) was followed by her. Beatrice and Benedick appeared in the film alongside Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, and Michael Keaton. Thompson was praised for her on-screen chemistry with Branagh and the natural ease with which she portrayed another critical triumph for Thompson. She received a nomination for Best Female Lead at the Independent Spirit Awards for her efforts.

Thompson reunited with Merchant–Ivory and Anthony Hopkins to film The Remains of the Day (1993), a film that has been described as a "classic" and the production team's definitive film. The book, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's book about a housekeeper and butler in interwar Britain, has been praised for its investigation of loneliness and repression, though Thompson was particularly interested in investigating "the deformity that servitude inflicts on people," because her grandmother had served as a servant and made many sacrifices. She has rated the film as one of her best experiences of her career, considering it to be a "masterpiece of withheld emotion." The Remains of the Day was a critical and commercial success, winning eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and a second Best Actress nomination for Thompson.

Thompson was also nominated for two Oscar awards in the same year, making her the eighth performer to be nominated for two Oscar awards in the same year. In the Name of the Father (1993), a drama about the Guildford Four starring Daniel Day-Lewis, she received it for her role as the advocate Gareth Peirce. The film was her second hit of the year, earning $65 million and critical praise, and was nominated for Best Picture alongside The Remains of the Day.

Thompson debuted in 1994 as a goofy doctor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the blockbuster Junior. Although most commentators and box office struggled, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle praised the lead trio. She returned to independent cinema for a lead role in Carrington, which investigated artist Dora Carrington's platonic friendship with writer Lytton Strachey (played by Jonathan Pryce). Thompson had "developed a special interest in unbridled passion," Roger Ebert, and the TV Guide Film & Video Companion said that her "neurasthenic demeanors, which normally drive us batty," are appropriate here.

Thompson's Academy continued with Sense and Sensibility (1995), which is widely considered to be the most popular and authentic of Jane Austen's numerous film adaptations of her novels in the 1990s. Thompson, a lifelong admirer of Austen's works, was hired to write the script based on the period sketches in her series Thompson. Despite being 35 years old and older than the literary figure, she spent five years developing the screenplay and playing Elinor Dashwood, the spinster sister. Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee and co-starring Kate Winslet, has received widespread critical acclaim and ranked among Thompson's highest-grossing films of his career. Shelly Frome remarked that she had a "great respect for Jane Austen's style and wit," and that Sight and Sound's Graham Fuller identified her as the film's auteur. Thompson received her third nomination for Best Actress and Screenplay, making her the only woman in history to win both acting and screenwriting. In addition, she received a second BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

Thompson was out of televisions in 1996, but he returned the following year with Alan Rickman's debut, The Winter Guest. Thompson and her mother (Phyllida Law) were able to play mother and daughter on film for one day in a Scottish seaside village. She then returned to America to appear in an episode of Ellen, and she was given the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

Thompson co-starred John Travolta in Mike Nichols' Primary Colors (1998), playing a couple based on Bill and Hillary Clinton in her second Hollywood role. Susan Thompson's portrayal of her husband's infidelity is described as that of a "ambitious, longsuffering wife" who must deal with her husband's infidelity. The film was critically acclaimed, but at the box office, the film lost money. Americans were "blown away" by her appearance and accent, according to Kevin O'Sullivan of the Daily Mirror, and top Hollywood producers became increasingly interested in casting her. Thompson rebutted several of the bids, expressing skepticism about being in Los Angeles behind bodyguards and saying, "LA is beautiful as long as you know you can leave." She also confessed to being ill and jaded with the industry at this time, which inspired her decision to leave film for a year. In the poorly received thriller Judas Kiss (1998), Thompson portrayed Primary Colors as an FBI agent opposite Rickman.

Thompson made a conscious decision to minimize her hours when she became a mother in 1999, and she continued to appear in supporting roles. She wasn't seen on screen again until 2000, with just a small part in the British comedy Maybe Baby, which she appeared in as a favour to its producer, Ben Elton.

Thompson did play the lead role in "one of America's finest scripts" in the HBO television film Wit (2001). It's based on Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a self-sufficient Harvard University professor who finds her values challenged when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Thompson was instrumental in getting Mike Nichols to direct the project, and the pair spent months in rehearsal to get the complex character right. She was immediately drawn to the "daredevil" role, for which she had no reservations about shaving her head. Roger Ebert was moved by "the way she fights with every ounce of her humanity to keep her self-respect," and he praised it as Thompson's best work in 2008. "We seem to be peering into a soul as troubled as its body," Caryn James of The New York Times described it as "one of her most brilliant performances" earlier this year. The film received awards from the Golden Globes, Emmys, and Screen Actor Guild for its role in the Golden Globes, Emmys, and Screen Actor Guild Awards.

Thompson's only credit of 2002 was a voice role in Disney's Treasure Planet, a spin off of Treasure Island, in which she played Captain Amelia. The animation cost much less than its considerable budget and was dubbed a "box office disaster." Richard Curtis' romantic comedy Love Actually, one of Thompson's biggest commercial triumphs, came back the following year. Liam Neeson, Keira Knightley, and Colin Firth performed a middle-class wife who suspects her husband (played by Alan Rickman) of infidelity. One critic called the scene in which her stalwart character dies down, "the best screaming on film ever," and Thompson said she is praised for this role more than any other. "I've had so much blood in a bedroom, then having to go out and be cheerful," she said, "collecting up the pieces of my heart and throwing them in a drawer." Best Supporting Actress was given a BAFTA Award by her performance.

Thompson continued to play supporting roles in Imagining Argentina, in which she appeared as a dissident-journalist abducted by the country's 1970s draconian government. In a film that most reviewers disapproved, Antonio Banderas played the husband who is trying to locate her. When it was screened at the Venice Film Festival and was included in The Guardian's scathing article, it was booed and jeered. Thompson had a great deal that year when she appeared with HBO for the second time in America's most popular miniseries Angels (2004). The show, which also stars Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, portrays the Reagan-era America's AIDS epidemic. Thompson was nominated for an Emmy Award in three roles: a nurse, a homeless woman, and the title role of The Angel of America. In the third Harry Potter film, Prisoner of Azkaban, she played eccentric Divination professor Sybill Trelawney. She reprised her role in Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), and has described her time on the popular franchise as "great fun."

Thompson had been planning on a project for nine years, and it was published in 2005. Thompson wrote the screenplay for the children's film Nanny McPhee, which is based on a mystical, unsightly nanny who must discipline a group of children. In addition, she took the lead role, alongside Colin Firth and Angela Lansbury, in what was also a personal venture. The film was a hit, with the UK box office top the charts and grossing $122 million worldwide. Claudia Puig, a film critic, wrote about Thompson's screenplay, said that "well-worn storybook features are weaved seamlessly into an attractive tale of youthful liberation." Thompson starred in the sensational American comedy Stranger than Fiction in the following year, portraying a novelist whose newest character (played by Will Ferrell) is a real person who hears her narration in his head. The film's reviews were generally favorable.

Thompson played the devoutly Catholic Lady Marchmain in a 2008 film version of Brideshead Revisited after a brief, uncredited role in the post-apocalyptic blockbuster I Am Legend (2006). Critics were unimpressed by the film, but some picked Thompson out as the film's highlight. "Emma Thompson is to a degree becoming the new Judi Dench, as the person who comes in for 15 minutes and is hilarious, but the remainder of the film has a real problem living up to the wattage of her presence."

Thompson was given further recognition for her role in Last Chance Harvey (2008), where she and Dustin Hoffman played a lonely, middle-aged couple who cautiously started a new life together. Critics lauded the chemistry between the two leads, who received Golden Globe awards for their performances. Thompson's two 2009 films were both set in 1960s England, and she made cameo appearances in both An Education and as a "tippling mother" in Richard Curtis' book "The Boat That Rocked.

Thompson recalled the role of Nanny McPhee in 2010's Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, five years after the fact. During World War II, her screenplay brought the story to Britain. It was another UK box office number one, and the sequel was widely regarded as an improvement, based on the first film's success. Thompson and Alan Rickman reunited for the BBC television film The Song of Lunch, which focused on two unidentified characters who dined at a restaurant 15 years after breaking their relationship. Thompson's appearance earned her her her her third Emmy Award nomination.

In 2012, Thompson made her first appearance in a big-budget Hollywood film as she played the head Agent in Men, a spin on the sci-fi comedy franchise starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin. MIB3 has the highest-grossing debut outside of the Harry Potter films, with a worldwide gross of $624 million. With the Pixar film Brave, in which Thompson played Elinor, the Scottish queen was devastated by her daughter's rebellion against tradition. It was her second straight blockbuster movie, and critics were generally sympathetic to the film. Thompson appeared in Queen Elizabeth II in another episode of Playhouse Presents in 1982, when an emigrant broke into the Queen's bedroom. Beautiful Creatures, her first film of the year, in which she played an evil mother, was her first film of 2013. The film was intended to capitalize on the success of The Twilight Saga, but it was poorly reviewed and resulted in a box office disappointment. Peter Travers, a film critic, was critical of Thompson's appearance and "outrageously bad Southern accent" and was concerned about "the harm this crock could do to [her] image."

Saving Mr. Banks, which portrayed Mary Poppins' birth, starred Thompson in a leading role as P. L. Travers, the curmudgeonly author of the source book, alongside Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. "Emma Thompson is back, firing on all cylinders," she said in reaction to her widely panned appearance in Beautiful Creatures. She found it to be the best script she had read in years and was ecstatic to be given the opportunity. She regarded it as the most challenging of her career because she had "never really played anyone so inconsistent or difficult before," but she nevertheless found the "unique and complicated personality" to embody "a glorious pleasure to embody." Thompson's role earned critical praise, as the film was well-received, grossed $112 million globally. "She's playing Travers is so deft that we instantly warm to her and forgive her her snobbery," according to Total Film's reviewer, Thompson brought depth to the "predictable" film with "her best work in years." Thompson was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTA, SAGs, and Golden Globes, and the National Board of Review has given him the Lead Actress award. Meryl St. Banks, Thompson's co-star in Angels in America, confessed to being "shocked" that she was not to receive an Oscar nomination for Saving Mr. Banks.

Thompson appeared in The Love Punch (2013), her second consecutive leading role, in which she appeared in half of a divorced couple who reunited to steal the man's ex-boss's diamond. In a Lincoln Center production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, she made her first stage appearance in 24 years – as well as her New York debut. Mrs Lovett appeared on stage for five nights and was lauded for her "playful" appearance; critic Kayla Epstein said she "not only held her own against more experienced vocalists but ended up running away with the performance. For her televised appearance, she received her sixth Primetime Emmy Award nomination, specifically for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Thompson narrated Jason Reitman's comedy-drama film, Men, Women & Children, in 2014.

Effie Gray, a period drama based on John Ruskin's tragic marriage, was written by Thompson but before being approved for cinemas, she was dealing with a copyright lawsuit. Gregory Murphy, a playwright, said Thompson's screenplay was a infringement on his play and screenplay The Countess, which he said he had brought to Thompson in a failed film of his play, as well as Thompson's husband Greg Wise, who said he had approached Thompson through a casting director to investigate the role of John Ruskin in the play's 2005 West End production. Thompson and Wise "had written a script together about John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, which we would make into a film" in 2008. Murphy was given a screenwriting fee and co-screenwriting credit with Thompson following his meeting with Thompson and his developers, Potboiler Productions. Thompson, Greg Wise and his partner Donald Rosenfeld were forced to end production of the film and bring an independent entity Effie Film, LLC, spearheaded by Rosenfeld, to litigate it. Judge Thomas P. Griesa of District Court decided in March 2013 that although there were similarities, Thompson's second revised screenplay, which Murphy claimed "some of the most troubling stuff" had been deleted, was rejected. Judge Griesa dismissed Thompson's decision that the completed film Effie Gray would not comply with Thompson's second revised screenplay "only to the extent that it does not significantly differ from the second revised screenplay," Murphy's lawyer said. Effie Gray's Cannes Film Festival premiere was postponed in May 2013. According to producer Rosenfeld, the film was pulled from the Mill Valley Film Festival in California in October 2013 due to "unforeseen circumstances." Thompson said of the still unidentified Effie Gray that its "time has certainly come," comparing it to another project of hers that "didn't happen either." Effie Gray was introduced in October 2014 to a modest reception. Elizabeth Eastlake plays Elizabeth Eastlake and John Ruskin plays John Ruskin. Both of them declined to advertise the film. "Nothing fits together," Camilla Long, a Sunday Times columnist, wrote, "no one seems to know why they made this film." Where is Thompson's passion and dedication, or any hint of what she hoped to achieve?" Manohla Dargis' essay in The New York Times. "Effie Gray, the film equivalent of a Brazilian wax, omits a lot of the story's most interesting information to produce something that hasn't been naturally denatured."

A Walk in the Woods, Thompson's first film of the year, was a comedy based on Bill Bryson's book in which she co-starred Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. She then appeared in The Legend of Barney Thomson. The mother of the title character, a 77-year-old foul-mouthed chain-smoking Glaswegian former prostitute, was the mother of the story. Both films were critical, though the former received some good feedback and Empire magazine said Thomson was "unfortable." She appeared in the restaurant-based film Burnt later this year. She appeared in the World War II-Drama Alone in Berlin in 2016, based on Otto and Elise Hampel's tale. She also co-wrote the screenplay for Bridget Jones' Baby and appeared in the film as a doctor.

Thompson appeared in a supporting role in Disney's live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson in the leading role of Belle alongside Dan Stevens as the Beast. Positive reviews and grossed $1.2 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing live-action film of all time, the second highest-grossing film of 2017, and the 17th highest-grossing film of all time. She appeared as a hippy in the Noah Baumbach-directed dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. She continued her role in the film The Children Act, a drama about a family's right to refuse cancer treatment for their son based on religious convictions. In the 2017 Christmas special of the BBC sitcom Upstart Crow, she appeared as Queen Elizabeth I. She starred in 2018 in Greenpeace's palm-oil awareness campaign, which Iceland (supermarket) chose to advertise as their 2018 Christmas commercial. The commercial was turned down by advertising firm Clearcast due to Greenpeace's suspected involvement in politics, in violation of their code of conduct. In the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to drama, she was also named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

Thompson appeared in the comedy-drama Late Night (2019), which was written by Mindy Kaling (who also appeared in the film) and starred her as a leading television host who wants to keep the show from being changed. Thompson was singled out for praise, while Variety's Owen Gleiberman said that "Thompson really does seem to be a born talk-show host." Even though she's just riffing, she bases Late Night in something real." She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In the same year, she appeared as Agent O in the stop-motion animated film Missing Link, and she co-produced and co-starred with Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding in the festive romantic comedy Last Christmas, which was based on George Michael's song of the same name and was written by Thompson, her husband Greg Wise, and Bryony Kimmings.

Thompson starred in Cruella, a Disney live-action spin-off/reboot of One Hundred and One Dalmatians directed by Craig Gillespie, which opened to rave reviews and grossed $233 million worldwide against its $100 million budget. "Thompson sinking every last tooth into a position that's half Miranda Priestly and half Reynolds Woodcock" has received praise from critics for the role of the Baroness, according to Alonso Duralde of The Wrap.

Thompson starred opposite Daryl McCormack in the sex comedy-drama Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, written by Katy Brand and directed by Sophie Hyde in 2022.

In the film version of Matilda the Musical, Thompson would play Miss Trunchbull, which in turn is based on Roald Dahl's book of the same name. Matthew Warchus will direct it, with a script written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin's songs. In the romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It? she will also be appearing alongside Lily James and Sajal Aly.

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