ABOUT EMMA THOMPSON
Longtime actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Margaret Schlegel in the 1992 film Howards End . She also won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her script for the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility , which she also starred in. Her other film credits include Dead Again, Much Ado about Nothing , Nanny McPhee , Love Actually and Stranger than Fiction .
She was the first female member of the Newnham College sketch comedy troupe Footlights and went on to become the group's vice president, co-directing the first all-female revue put on by the troupe, Women's Hour.
In 2004, she portrayed Professor Sybill Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . She was cast as Mrs. Potts in the 2017 feature Beauty and the Beast . She also played Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda: The Musical .
She was married to Much Ado About Nothing co-star Kenneth Branagh from 1989 to 1995, then married Greg Wise in 2003. She has a son named Tindyebwa and a daughter named Gaia.
She co-starred with Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet in the Ang Lee film Sense and Sensibility.
