Kristin Scott Thomas

At 63 years old, Kristin Scott Thomas has this physical status:

Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is an English-French actress.

She has been nominated for five times by the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull in 2008.

She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The English Patient in 1996. Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and received the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988).

She has worked in French cinema, including in The Valiant (2006), Tell No One (2007), Sarah's Key (2010), and the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008).

Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Only God Forgives (2013), and Tomb Raider (2018).

Early life

Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Deborah (née Hurlbatt), a mother of Kristin's family, was raised in Hong Kong and Africa and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm who died in a flying crash while Kristin was five years old. Serena Scott Thomas, the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II), and the great-grand niece of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott are among the relatives.

Scott Thomas' childhood home was in Trent, Dorset, England. Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who died in a flying crash, married a Phantom FG1 off the coast of North Cornwall six years after her father's death six years ago. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset, both independent schools.

She moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store after leaving school in 1978. She began studying to become a drama coach at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling in a B.A. in Speech and Drama. She wanted to change degree programs to acting during her time at the university, but was refused. She spent a year in Central but learned French fluently enough to study acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre in Paris. She appeared in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986), when she was 25 years old.

Personal life

Scott Thomas is a Francophile. Hannah (1988), Joseph (1991) and George (2000). She married and divorced François Olivennes, a French gynecologist with whom she has three children. Scott Thomas has lived in France since she was 19, brought up her three children in Paris, and has often described herself as more French than British.

After Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in connection with his 1977 sexual harassment lawsuit, Scott Thomas signed a petition in favor of film director Roman Polanski's release.

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Career

Kristin Scott Thomas' acting career gained traction early in 1986, the first but widely panned film starring the already well-known musical artist Prince. Brenda Last was her breakthrough role in an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1988), winning her the Evening Standard British Film Award for the most promising newcomer. Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings was followed by a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress.

She appeared in the Romanian-French film An Unfortible Summer, in which she played Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy. She read her lines phonetically rather than learning Romanian for the role. She had all the lines translated into French, which she spoke fluently, so she knew what she was saying. She cited An Unfortible Summer as one of the films she is most proud of alongside The English Patient and Only God Forgives in a BBC interview on March 22nd, 2015.

Katharine Clifton's The English Patient, 1996, saw her first appearance as Katharine Clifton, earning her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations as well as critical praise. This was followed by a brief period in Hollywood on films including The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford and Harrison Ford's Random Hearts. However, she was disillusioned with Hollywood and took a year off to give birth to her third child.

She appeared onscreen as Lady Sylvia McCordle in Robert Altman's Gosford Park in 2003, when she appeared in a French theatre revival of Racine's Bérénice. This was her second appearance on stage, in which she has received four nominations for her role as Arkadina in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull's second season on stage, with one win. In September 2008, she reprised her role in New York. Scott Thomas appeared in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre in summer 2014. Ian Rickson produced the revival. Ben Miles played her husband, and Douglas Henshall completed the love triangle. Old Times, her second Pinter play, was directed by Ian Rickson in January 2013. She appeared in the title role of Sophocles' Electra at The Old Vic in 2014.

Scott Thomas has appeared in French films before. In 2006, she appeared in Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), directed by French director Guillaume Canet. Scott Thomas received numerous awards for her work in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You Forever) in 2008, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In 2009, she played the part of a wife who leaves her husband for another man before separating.

Scott Thomas starred in Sarah's Key (2010), the story of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Scott Thomas played as an American journalist in Paris who finds that their husband's apartment was once the home of an evicted Jewish family. Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother of Henry VIII's second wife Anne in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), as a love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson) in the 2012 film Bel Ami, based on the 1885 Maupassant novel.

She appeared in The Woman in the Fifth (2011), a film adaptation of Douglas Kennedy's book of the same name, Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Ralph Fiennes' Before the Winter Chill (2013), and Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she was also present in Man in the Fifth (2011), a film adaptation of Douglas Kennedy's Before the Firefighters. In the documentary film D-Day Sacrifice, she narrated the story of Kay Summersby, GM's chauffeur, in 2014. She appeared in My Old Lady (2014) and Suite Française, Israel Horovitz' 2015 film adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's World War II novel starring Saul Dibb.

In 2017, she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 71st British Academy Film Awards for portraying Clementine Churchill in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour. Scott Thomas had signed on to star as BMW heiress Susanne Klatten in the thriller Paramour, directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining in May 2017.

Scott Thomas appeared as Mrs. Danvers in Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, starring Armie Hammer and Lily James. She appeared in Alan Bennett's monologue series Talking Heads, playing Celia in the episode "Hand of God."

Thomas began filming My Mother's Wedding in June 2022, starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, and Freida Pinto.

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