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Emily Mortimer
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Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She provided Sophie's voice in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004). She starred in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point(2005), The Pink Panther (2006), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo(2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Relic(2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Mortimer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She provided Sophie's voice in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004). She starred in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point(2005), The Pink Panther (2006), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo(2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Relic(2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Mortimer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Graham Norton Show
Midsomer Murders
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
30 Rock
Silent Witness
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Miracle Maker
Notting Hill
Howl's Moving Castle
Elizabeth
The Saint
Scream 3
Noah's Ark
The Party
Shutter Island
Hugo
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
No Bananas
The Ghost and the Darkness
The New Look
The Pursuit of Love
The Sleeping Dictionary
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
Mary Poppins Returns
Our Idiot Brother
Cars 2
The Kid
Paddington in Peru
Match Point
Spectral
Lars and the Real Girl
The Newsroom
Harry Brown
Bright Young Things
Mary
Relic
The Bookshop
Doll & Em
Production Credits
The Pursuit of Love
Doll & Em
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