Emily Watson

Emily Margaret Watson, OBE is an English actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Triers Breaking the Waves and for her role as Jacqueline du Pr in Hilary and Jackie . She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 2011 ITV drama Appropriate Adult.

Watson was born in Islington, London. Her father, Richard Watson, was an architect and her mother, Katharine , was an English teacher at St Davids Girls School, West London. She was brought up as an Anglican. Watson has described her childhood self as a Nice middle class English girl ... Id love to say I was a rebellious teenager but I wasnt.

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