2024-01-15 17:05:03
Mirna Walid – Beirut – Today is the birthday of star Emily Watson, who grew up in London. She is the daughter of Catherine (Venables), an English teacher, and Richard Watson, an architect.
Having a self-described sheltered upbringing, Watson attended university for three years in Bristol, where she studied English literature, applied to the drama school and was rejected on her first attempt.
After three years of working clerical and waitressing jobs, she was finally accepted. In 1992, she took a position with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she met her future husband, Jack Waters. Continuing with theater work, Watson landed her first screen role as Bess MacNeil in Breaking the Waves (1996) after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out of the role. For this initial venture into movies, Watson was nominated for an Academy Award. She continued to find success in Britain in lead roles in Metroland (1997) and The Mill on the Floss (1997), but her first popular film in the United States came in 1997 when she played Daniel Day-Lewis’s long-suffering lover. In The Boxer (1997).
In the next two years she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of cellist Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary & Jackie (1998) and landed a small part in the cast of Tim Robbins in Cradle Will Rock (1999). Critical acclaim and North American success came together for Watson in 1999 with the release of Angela’s Ashes (1999), the film adaptation of Frank McCourt’s best-selling book of the same name. She achieved top billing as Angela McCourt, the hard-working mother of several children and the wife of a drunken husband in Depression-era Ireland. After lesser-known roles in 2000’s Trixie (2000) and The Luzhin Defense (2000), Watson returned to the cast in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001).
Watson’s status as a leading actress in major Hollywood productions was cemented in 2002 with her roles in Red Dragon (2002), the third installment in Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Lichter series; Future Balance (2002); Most notably in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002), where he played opposite Adam Sandler. During his return to the stage in 2002 and 2003 on both sides of the Atlantic, Watson expressed interest in working again with Anderson. Emily Watson lives in London, England, United Kingdom, with her husband, Jack Waters.
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Rasha Mohammed
Editor in the Arab and International Affairs Department at Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications – Cairo University with a general grade of very good with honors. She holds a diploma in journalistic translation from the American University.
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