---
name: "Emma Kennedy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emma-kennedy"
fi1m_id: "emma-kennedy"
imdb_id: "nm0448021"
tmdb_id: 37050
wikidata_id: "Q5372872"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 May 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T02:58:56.099590+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emma Kennedy

## Identity

Emma Kennedy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emma-kennedy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emma-kennedy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0448021
- **TMDB ID:** 37050
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5372872
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372872, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448021/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37050

Writer. Born 28 May 1967 in Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 May 1967, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2004–2015
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 63 (1), 2010s 60 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372872, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448021/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37050

## Biography

Emma Kennedy is an English actress, writer, comedian and television presenter. She was born Elizabeth Emma Williams on 28 May 1967 in Corby, Northamptonshire, and was educated at Hitchin Girls' School and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

She has appeared in television comedies including *Jonathan Creek* (1997), *The Smoking Room* (2004–2005), *Notes on a Scandal* (2006) and *Not Going Out* (2019), and voiced a character in *Arthur Christmas* (2011). Kennedy created and wrote the BBC sitcom *The Kennedys* (2015), adapted from her memoir *The Tent, The Bucket and Me*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bbc.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Smoking Room* (2004), Fi1m 63, Actor — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-smoking-room.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Kennedys* (2015), Fi1m 60, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-kennedys.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lloyd of the Flies* (2022), series, Writer
- *The League of Legend Keepers: Shadows* (2019), as Shannon
- *The Kennedys* (2015), series, Creator — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-kennedys.md)
- *Danger Mouse* (2015), series, Writer
- *Strange Hill High* (2013), series, as Becky Butters (voice) · Writer
- *Arthur Christmas* (2011), as Elf (voice)
- *A Very British Cult* (2009), as Claire
- *Notes on a Scandal* (2006), as Linda
- *Not Going Out* (2006), series, as Reverend Jenkins
- *Rabbit Fever* (2006), as Dr Emily Reed
- *Suburban Shootout* (2006), series, Actor
- *The Comic Side of 7 Days* (2005), series, Actor
- *The Smoking Room* (2004), series, Actor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-smoking-room.md)
- *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor
- *Rescue Me* (2002), series, as Deborah
- *People Like Us* (1999), series, as WPC Jane Thaw, Elaine Richards
- *This Morning with Richard Not Judy* (1998), series, Actor
- *Goodness Gracious Me* (1998), series, Actor
- *Jonathan Creek* (1997), series, as Christine — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/jonathan-creek.md)
- *Planet Mirth* (1987), series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![The Last 'A.i.O.t.m', Leicester Square Theatre, Emma Kennedy (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/484476/gallery-abce8dd37634.jpg) The Last 'A.i.O.t.m', Leicester Square Theatre, Emma Kennedy (2011) — Loz Pycock from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Emma_Kennedy%2C_As_It_Occurs_To_Me%2C_Leicester_Square_Theatre_20_Jun_2011.jpg/1280px-Emma_Kennedy%2C_As_It_Occurs_To_Me%2C_Leicester_Square_Theatre_20_Jun_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emma Kennedy](https://film.one/media/person/484476/gallery-1f9745e7b7a9.jpg) Emma Kennedy — Loz Pycock from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Emma_Kennedy%2C_As_It_Occurs_To_Me%2C_Leicester_Square_Theatre_20_Jun_2011_crop.jpg/1280px-Emma_Kennedy%2C_As_It_Occurs_To_Me%2C_Leicester_Square_Theatre_20_Jun_2011_crop.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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