Emma Thompson
- Born: 15 Apr, 1959
Striking-looking, with luminous blue eyes and chiseled cheekbones, Emma Thompson began writing and performing her own comic material while a student at Cambridge, appearing with both the celebrated Footlights revue and the university's first all-female troupe, Woman's Hour. With college chums Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, she moved to the small screen with the variety series "Alfresco" (1983). Thompson won raves for her West End musical debut opposite Robert Lindsay in the 1985 revised version of "Me and My Girl", but when the production transferred to the USA, she was deemed not enough of a star to travel with the show. Instead, she turned to British TV, co-starring with Kenneth Branagh in "Fortunes of War" (BBC, 1986-87) and Robbie Coltrane in "Tutti Fru...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Eric Thompson: directed Alan Ayckbourn's early plays; died in 1982 at age 53
- mother Phyllida Law: born in Glasgow c. 1932
- sister Sophie Thompson: born c. 1962
- daughter Gaia Romilly Wise: born on December 4, 1999; father, Greg Wise
- Hugh Laurie: dated while at Cambridge
- husband Kenneth Branagh: married in 1989; announced separation in October 1995; divorced
- Greg Wise: met during filming of "Sense and Sensibility"; together since 1995
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