Emily Margaret Watson is a British actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse, and was nominated for the 2003 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), winning the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress for the latter. For her role as Margaret Humphreys in Oranges and Sunshine (2010), she was also nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Watson in 2024
Watson at the British Academy Film Awards in the Royal Opera House, February 2007
Watson with Adam Sandler, Paul Thomas Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 2002 Cannes Film Festival promoting Punch-Drunk Love
Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897, and first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski.
Konstantin Stanislavski as Astrov in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1899
Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theatre (1899), Act III
Scene from Act I, Moscow Art Theatre, 1899
