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British actress (born )

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Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas^[1] (born 24 May ) is a British actress.^[2] A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral () and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient ().

Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (),^[3] and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (). Her work includes Bitter Moon (), Mission: Impossible (), The Horse Whisperer (), Gosford Park (), The Valet (), and Tell No One ().

She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (). Her other films include Leaving (), Love Crime (), Sarah's Key (), Nowhere Boy (), The Woman in the Fifth (), Only God Forgives (), Darkest Hour (), and Tomb Raider ().

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the New Year Honours for services to drama.^[4][5] She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in ^[6][7]

Early life

Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall.

Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father,^[8]Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, who died in a flying accident when Kristin was aged five.^[9] She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas.

She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod),^[10] the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS&#;Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.^{[citation needed]}

The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England.

Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset.

On leaving school in ,^[11] she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama.^[12] During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused.^[13] After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,^[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT).

When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon ().

Career

Kristin Scott Thomas's acting career garnered early attention when she was cast as Mary Sharon in Under the Cherry Moon, released in , the first but widely panned film directed by and starring the already well-known musical artist, Prince.

Her breakthrough role was playing Brenda Last in an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (), winning her the Evening Standard British Film Award for the most promising newcomer. This was followed by roles opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral where she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

In , she starred in the Romanian–French film An Unforgettable Summer, in which she played Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy.

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Rather than learn Romanian for the part, she read her lines phonetically.^[14] She had all the lines translated into French, which she speaks fluently, so she knew what she was saying.^[15] In an interview for Gloucester Citizen on 22 March , she cited An Unforgettable Summer as one of the films that she is most proud of alongside The English Patient and Only God Forgives.^[16]

In the film The English Patient, her role as Katharine Clifton gained her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations as well as critical acclaim.

This was followed by a brief period working in Hollywood on films such as The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford and Random Hearts with Harrison Ford. However, growing disillusioned with Hollywood, she took a year off to give birth to her third child.

She returned to the stage in when she played the title role in a French theatre production of Racine's Bérénice, and appeared on-screen as Lady Sylvia McCordle in Robert Altman's Gosford Park.

This started a critically acclaimed second career on stage, in which she has received four nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, including one win, for her performance of Arkadina in a London West End production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.^[17] She reprised the role in New York in September ^[18] In summer , Scott Thomas returned to London's West End to star as Emma in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre.

The revival was directed by Ian Rickson. Her husband was played by Ben Miles and the love triangle was completed by Douglas Henshall. In January , she starred in another Pinter play, Old Times, again directed by Ian Rickson. In , she appeared at The Old Vic in the title role of Sophocles's Electra.

Scott Thomas has also acted in French films.

In , she played the role of Hélène, in French, in Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One), by French director Guillaume Canet. In , Scott Thomas received many accolades for her performance in Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long), including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. In she played the role of a wife who leaves her husband for another man in Leaving.

In Sarah's Key () – the story of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup – Scott Thomas starred as an American journalist in Paris who discovers that the flat her husband is renovating for them was once the home of an evicted Jewish family.

By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Kristin Scott Thomas is an Anglo-French actress who has spent more than three decades in the industry. She started her career in acting appearing in the film Under the Cherry Moon but gained the international fame after being cast in the movies Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral in She has been married once with Francois Olivennes and has three children from that marriage namely Hannah born in , Joseph and George Due to some issues, she got divorced from her husband.

Other roles include Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother of Henry VIII's second wife Anne, in The Other Boleyn Girl (), the role of a fashion magazine creator and editor in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (), and as a love interest of George Duroy (played by Robert Pattinson) in the film Bel Ami, based on the Maupassantnovel.^[19]

She was also seen in The Woman in the Fifth (), a film adaption of Douglas Kennedy's novel of the same name, Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (), Ralph Fiennes's The Invisible Woman (), Philippe Claudel's Before the Winter Chill (), and in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

In , she voiced the narration of Kay Summersby, General Eisenhower's driver, in the documentary series D-Day Sacrifice. She appeared in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady () and Suite Française, the film adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's World War II novel directed by Saul Dibb.

In she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 71st British Academy Film Awards for portraying Clementine Churchill in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.

In May , it was reported that Scott Thomas had signed on to star as BMW heiress Susanne Klatten in the thriller Paramour, directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining.^[20][21]

In , Scott Thomas played Mrs. Danvers in director Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic romance Rebecca, with Armie Hammer and Lily James.^[22] Also that year, she appeared in the BBC television remake of Alan Bennett's monologue series, Talking Heads, playing the role of Celia in the episode "Hand of God".^[23]

In April , Scott Thomas starred in the British spy thriller series Slow Horses, based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron.

She appeared as Diana Taverner, Deputy Director General of MI5. Premiering on Apple TV+, the series was renewed in January for a fifth season.

In June , Thomas began filming on her directorial debut, North Star, starring Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, and Freida Pinto.^[24][25]

Personal life

Scott Thomas brought up her children in Paris,^[2] and has said she sometimes considers herself more French than British.^[26] During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on 2 December , Scott Thomas said she was living in London.

From until , she was married to French obstetrician François Olivennes, with whom she has three children.

In September , Scott Thomas married John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, after a five-year romance.^[27]

Political views

In , Scott Thomas signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his sexual abuse case.^[28]

Filmography

Film

As director

Television

Theatre

• La Lune déclinante sur 4 ou 5 personnes qui dansent (, Festival de Semur en Auxois)
• Terre étrangère (, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers)
• Naïves Hirondelles (, Festival d'Avignon)
• Yes, peut-être (, in a field in Burgundy)
• Bérénice (, Festival de Perpignan and Festival d'Avignon + national tour)
• Three Sisters (, Playhouse Theatre, London) Masha
• As You Desire Me (–06, Playhouse Theatre, London) Elma
• The Seagull (, Royal Court Theatre, London) Arkadina
• The Seagull (, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York) Arkadina^[31]
• Harold Pinter's Betrayal (, Comedy Theatre, London) Emma^[32]
• Harold Pinter's Old Times (, Harold Pinter Theatre, London) Kate/Anna^[33]
• Sophocles' Electra (, The Old Vic, London) Electra^[34]
• Peter Morgan's The Audience (, Apollo Theatre, London) Queen Elizabeth II^[35]
• Lyonesse (, Harold Pinter Theatre, London)

Olivier Awards

Year	Category	Play	Result
	Best Actress	Three Sisters	Nominated
		The Seagull	Won
		Betrayal	Nominated
		Old Times	Nominated
		Electra	Nominated

Honours

National

Foreigns

References

External links

• Kristin Scott Thomas at IMDb
• Kristin Scott Thomas at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ryan Gilbey, "The three stages of Kristin", interview, The Guardian, 27 July
• Louise France, "I'm Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" Interview, The Guardian, 3 February
• Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre Review", The Telegraph, 17 June
• Betrayal – Review, "Comedy Theatre London", The Guardian, 17 June
• First Night: Betrayal, "Comedy Theatre London", The Independent', 17 June
• My Grandparents' War: Kristin Scott Thomas, PBS, May 17,