Highest Grossing Movies
- UK: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) - £74,328,182
- US: Beauty and the Beast (2017) - $504,014,165
- World: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) - $1,342,321,665
Combined grosses
- UK - £618.1 Million
- US - $3 Billion
- Global - $8.2 Billion
Highest Rated Movie - Much Ado About Nothing (1993) - 100%
Lowest rated movie - What's Love Got to Do With It? (2023) - 20%

Acting credits By Year of release

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Year

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Director(s):

Michael Morris

Starring:

Renée Zellweger • Emma Thompson • Hugh Grant • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Leo Woodall

2025

What's Love Got to Do With It?

(Emma Thompson plays Cath Stevenson)

Director(s):

Shekhar Kapur

Starring:

Lily James • Shazad Latif • Shabana Azmi • Emma Thompson • Mim Shaikh

2023

Matilda: The Musical

(Emma Thompson plays Miss Trunchbull)

Director(s):

Matthew Warchus

Starring:

Alisha Weir • Emma Thompson • Lashana Lynch • Stephen Graham • Andrea Riseborough

2022

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

(Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes)

Director(s):

Sophie Hyde

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Daryl McCormack • Les Mabaleka • Lennie Beare • Carina Lopes

2022

Cruella

(Emma Thompson plays The Baroness)

Director(s):

Craig Gillespie

Starring:

Emma Stone • Emma Thompson • Joel Fry • Paul Walter Hauser • John McCrea

2021

Dolittle

(Emma Thompson plays Poly)

Director(s):

Stephen Gaghan

Starring:

Robert Downey Jr. • Antonio Banderas • Michael Sheen • Jim Broadbent • Jessie Buckley

2020

How to Build a Girl

(Emma Thompson plays Amanda Watson)

Director(s):

Coky Giedroyc

Starring:

Beanie Feldstein • Paddy Considine • Sarah Solemani • Alfie Allen • Chris O'Dowd

2019

Last Christmas

(Emma Thompson plays Petra)

Director(s):

Paul Feig

Starring:

Emilia Clarke • Henry Golding • Michelle Yeoh • Emma Thompson • Maxim Baldry

2019

Men In Black: International

(Emma Thompson plays Agent O)

Director(s):

F. Gary Gray

Starring:

Chris Hemsworth • Tessa Thompson • Kumail Nanjiani • Rebecca Ferguson • Rafe Spall

2019

Late Night

(Emma Thompson plays Katherine Newbury)

Director(s):

Nisha Ganatra

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Mindy Kaling • John Lithgow • Hugh Dancy • Reid Scott

2019

Missing Link

(Emma Thompson plays The Elder)

Director(s):

Chris Butler

Starring:

Hugh Jackman • David Walliams • Stephen Fry • Matt Lucas • Zach Galifianakis

2019

Johnny English Strikes Again

(Emma Thompson plays Prime Minister)

Director(s):

David Kerr

Starring:

Kevin Eldon • Emma Thompson • Adam James • Rowan Atkinson • Noah Spiers

2018

The Children Act

(Emma Thompson plays Fiona Maye)

Director(s):

Richard Eyre

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Stanley Tucci • Reena Lalbihari • Dominic Carter • Paul Kemble

2018

King Lear

(Emma Thompson plays Goneril)

Director(s):

Richard Eyre

Starring:

Anthony Hopkins • Emma Thompson • Emily Watson • Florence Pugh • Jim Broadbent

2018

The Meyerowitz Stories: New and Selected

(Emma Thompson plays Maureen)

Director(s):

Noah Baumbach

Starring:

Adam Sandler • Ben Stiller • Dustin Hoffman • Emma Thompson • Grace Van Patten

2017

Alone In Berlin

Director(s):

Vincent Perez

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Daniel Brühl • Brendan Gleeson • Mikael Persbrandt • Katharina Sch�ttler

2017

Beauty and the Beast

(Emma Thompson plays Mrs. Potts)

Director(s):

Bill Condon

Starring:

Emma Watson • Dan Stevens • Luke Evans • Josh Gad • Kevin Kline

2017

Bridget Jones's Baby

Director(s):

Sharon Maguire

Starring:

Renée Zellweger • Colin Firth • Patrick Dempsey • Gemma Jones • Jim Broadbent

2016

Burnt

(Emma Thompson plays Dr Rosshilde)

Director(s):

John Wells

Starring:

Bradley Cooper • Sienna Miller • Daniel Brühl • Riccardo Scamarcio • Omar Sy

2015

A Walk In the Woods

Director(s):

Ken Kwapis

Starring:

Robert Redford • Nick Nolte • Emma Thompson • Mary Steenburgen • Nick Offerman

2015

The Legend of Barney Thomson

Director(s):

Robert Carlyle

Starring:

Robert Carlyle • Emma Thompson • Ray Winstone • James Cosmo • Ashley Jensen

2015

Men Women and Children

(Emma Thompson plays Narrator)

Director(s):

Jason Reitman

Starring:

Adam Sandler • Jennifer Garner • Rosemarie DeWitt • Judy Greer • Dean Norris

2014

Effie Gray

Director(s):

Richard Laxton

Starring:

Dakota Fanning • Polly Dartford • Greg Wise • Tom Sturridge • Tom Herriott

2014

The Love Punch

Director(s):

Joel Hopkins

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Pierce Brosnan • Tuppence Middleton • Timothy Spall • Celia Imrie

2014

Saving Mr. Banks

Director(s):

John Lee Hancock

Starring:

Tom Hanks • Emma Thompson • Colin Farrell • Paul Giamatti • Ruth Wilson

2013

Beautiful Creatures

Director(s):

Richard LaGravenese

Starring:

Alden Ehrenreich • Alice Englert • Jeremy Irons • Viola Davis • Emmy Rossum

2013

Brave

Director(s):

Mark Andrews • Brenda Chapman

Starring:

Kelly Macdonald • Billy Connolly • Emma Thompson • Julie Walters • Robbie Coltrane

2012

Men In Black 3

(Emma Thompson plays Agent O)

Director(s):

Barry Sonnenfeld

Starring:

Will Smith • Tommy Lee Jones • Josh Brolin • Jemaine Clement • Emma Thompson

2012

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

(Emma Thompson plays Professor Sybil Trelawney)

Director(s):

David Yates

Starring:

Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Ralph Fiennes • Michael Gambon

2011

Nanny Mcphee and the Big Bang

Director(s):

Susanna White

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Rhys Ifans • Maggie Smith • Oscar Steer

2010

An Education

Director(s):

Lone Scherfig

Starring:

Carey Mulligan • Olivia Williams • Alfred Molina • Cara Seymour • William Melling

2009

Last Chance Harvey

Director(s):

Joel Hopkins

Starring:

Dustin Hoffman • Emma Thompson • Eileen Atkins • Kathy Bake • Liane Balaban

2009

The Boat That Rocked

(Emma Thompson plays Charlotte)

Director(s):

Richard Curtis

Starring:

Philip Seymour Hoffman • Bill Nighy • Rhys Ifans • Nick Frost • Kenneth Branagh

2009

Brideshead Revisited

Director(s):

Julian Jarrold

Starring:

Matthew Goode • Ben Whishaw • Hayley Atwell • Emma Thompson • Michael Gambon

2008

I Am Legend

Director(s):

Francis Lawrence

Starring:

Will Smith • Alice Braga • Charlie Tahan • Salli Richardson • Willow Smith

2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(Emma Thompson plays Sybil Trelawney)

Director(s):

David Yates

Starring:

Daniel Radcliffe • Harry Melling • Jason Boyd • Richard Macklin • Kathryn Hunter

2007

Stranger Than Fiction

Director(s):

Marc Forster

Starring:

Will Ferrell • William Dick • Guy Massey • Martha Espinoza • T.J. Jagodowski

2006

Nanny Mcphee

Director(s):

Kirk Jones

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Colin Firth • Kelly Macdonald • Thomas Brodie-Sangster • Eliza Bennett

2005

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

(Emma Thompson plays Professor Sybil Trelawney)

Director(s):

Alfonso Cuarón

Starring:

Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Richard Griffiths • Pam Ferris

2004

LoveActually

(Emma Thompson plays Karen)

Director(s):

Richard Curtis

Starring:

Hugh Grant • Liam Neeson • Colin Firth • Laura Linney • Emma Thompson

2003

Treasure Planet

Director(s):

Ron Clements • John Musker

Starring:

Roscoe Lee Browne • Corey Burton • Dane A. Davis • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Tony Jay

2003

Imagining Argentina

Director(s):

Christopher Hampton

Starring:

Irene Escolar • Fernando Tielve • Hector Bordoni • Antonio Banderas • Emma Thompson

2003

Wit

(Emma Thompson plays Vivian Bearing)

Director(s):

Mike Nichols

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Christopher Lloyd • Eileen Atkins • Audra McDonald • Jonathan M. Woodward

2001

Maybe Baby

Director(s):

Ben Elton • Hugh Laurie

Starring:

Joely Richardson • Matthew Macfadyen • Hugh Laurie • Adrian Lester • Yasmin Bannerman

2000

Primary Colors

Director(s):

Mike Nichols

Starring:

John Travolta • Emma Thompson • Billy Bob Thornton • Kathy Bates • Adrian Lester

1998

Judas Kiss

Director(s):

Sebastian Gutierrez

Starring:

Carla Gugino • Simon Denny • Emma Thompson • Alan Rickman • Philip Baker Hall

1998

The Winter Guest

(Emma Thompson plays Frances)

Director(s):

Alan Rickman

Starring:

Phyllida Law • Emma Thompson • Sheila Reid • Sandra Voe • Arlene Cockburn

1997

Hospital

(Emma Thompson plays Elephant Woman)

Director(s):

John Henderson

Starring:

Greg Wise • Bob Peck • Hywel Bennett • Mark Heap • Haydn Gwynne

1997

Sense and Sensibility

Director(s):

Ang Lee

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Alan Rickman • Kate Winslet • Hugh Grant • James Fleet

1996

Carrington

Director(s):

Christopher Hampton

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Jonathan Pryce • Steven Waddington • Samuel West • Rufus Sewell

1995

Junior

(Emma Thompson plays Dr. Diana Reddin)

Director(s):

Ivan Reitman

Starring:

Arnold Schwarzenegger • Danny DeVito • Emma Thompson • Frank Langella • Pamela Reed

1994

My Father the Hero

(Emma Thompson plays Isabel)

Director(s):

Steve Miner

Starring:

Gérard Depardieu • Katherine Heigl • Dalton James • Lauren Hutton • Faith Prince

1994

In the Name of the Father

(Emma Thompson plays Gareth Peirce)

Director(s):

Jim Sheridan

Starring:

Daniel Day-Lewis • Emma Thompson • Pete Postlethwaite • Alison Crosbie • Philip King

1994

The Remains of the Day

(Emma Thompson plays Miss Kenton)

Director(s):

James Ivory

Starring:

John Haycraft • Christopher Reeve • Anthony Hopkins • Emma Thompson • Caroline Hunt

1993

Much Ado About Nothing

(Emma Thompson plays Beatrice)

Director(s):

Kenneth Branagh

Starring:

Richard Briers • Kate Beckinsale • Imelda Staunton • Jimmy Yuill • Brian Blessed

1993

Peters Friends

Director(s):

Kenneth Branagh

Starring:

Kenneth Branagh • Stephen Fry • Hugh Laurie • Rita Rudner • Tony Slattery

1992

Howards End

(Emma Thompson plays Margaret Schlegel)

Director(s):

James Ivory

Starring:

Anthony Hopkins • Vanessa Redgrave • Helena Bonham Carter • Emma Thompson • Joseph Bennett

1992

Dead Again

(Emma Thompson plays Grace / Margaret Strauss)

Director(s):

Kenneth Branagh

Starring:

Kenneth Branagh • Andy Garcia • Emma Thompson • Lois Hall • Richard Easton

1991

Impromptu

(Emma Thompson plays Duchess D'Antan)

Director(s):

James Lapine

Starring:

Judy Davis • Hugh Grant • Mandy Patinkin • Bernadette Peters • Julian Sands

1991

Look Back In Anger

(Emma Thompson plays Alison Porter)

Director(s):

Judi Dench

Starring:

Kenneth Branagh • Emma Thompson • Gerard Horan • Siobhan Redmond • Edward Jewesbury

1989

Henry V

(Emma Thompson plays Princess Katherine de Valois)

Director(s):

Kenneth Branagh

Starring:

Derek Jacobi • Kenneth Branagh • Simon Shepherd • James Larkin • Brian Blessed

1989

The Tall Guy

(Emma Thompson plays Kate)

Director(s):

Mel Smith

Starring:

Jeff Goldblum • Emma Thompson • Rowan Atkinson • Geraldine James • Emil Wolk

1989