Biography
Emily Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002 she appeared in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, receiving an Olivier Award nomination for the latter.
Watson received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her film debut in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for Hilary and Jackie (1998). Her other film credits include Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Red Dragon (2002), War Horse (2011), The Theory of Everything (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), God's Creatures (2022), Small Things Like These (2024) and Hamnet (2025). On television she won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for Appropriate Adult (2011) and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Chernobyl (2019). She played Valya Harkonnen in the series Dune: Prophecy (2024).
