1996
Breaking the Waves
Bess McNeill
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WATSON
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From Breaking the Waves to Corpse Bride
The English actor has worked across stage, live-action drama and animation.
London, England
A career across stage and screen
Emily Watson was born in London on 14 January 1967. Her work spans theatre, film and television.
Her feature film debut came in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, in which she played Bess McNeill. The performance brought an Academy Award nomination for leading actress.
In Hilary and Jackie she portrayed cellist Jacqueline du Pré and received another Academy Award nomination. Her later films include Punch-Drunk Love and War Horse.
Watson voiced Victoria Everglot in the animated Corpse Bride. On television, she appeared in Chernobyl, a dramatization of the nuclear disaster and its aftermath.
The films below are those currently available on FLM.RED, not a complete list of her work.
Selected roles
1998
Hilary and Jackie
Jacqueline du Pré
2005
Corpse Bride
Victoria Everglot (voice)
2019
Chernobyl
Ulana Khomyuk
Performance readings are FLM.RED editorial interpretation.
Films in FLM.RED
Titles in this collection; not a complete filmography.
Sources & image notes
Portrait illustration: FLM.RED.