Global InformationList of Emily Blunt performances information
British actress Emily Blunt began her career as a teenager at the West End theatre, appearing alongside Judi Dench in a production of The Royal Family in 2001.[1] Her first screen appearance was in the television film Boudica (2003), and she made her film debut with the lead role of a teenager exploring her homosexuality in Paweł Pawlikowski's drama My Summer of Love (2004).[2][3] For playing the title role of an emotionally troubled young woman in the BBC television film Gideon's Daughter (2006), Blunt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.[4][5] In the same year, she gained wider recognition for playing a fashion editor's assistant in the American comedy The Devil Wears Prada, earning a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[1][6]
Following this breakthrough, Blunt played lead roles in several films, including the period drama The Young Victoria (2009), the science fiction romance The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and the romance Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).[7] In 2014, she starred as a hardened sergeant in the action film Edge of Tomorrow and as the Baker's Wife in the musical fantasy Into the Woods.[1][8] She gained praise for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015) and an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016);[9][10][11] the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[12] In 2018, she starred in the critically acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place, directed by her husband John Krasinski, and in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns, in which she played the title character.[13] The former earned her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.[14] She has since starred in the sequel A Quiet Place Part II, the adventure film Jungle Cruise (both 2021), and the revisionist Western television miniseries The English (2022).[15][16][17] In 2023, she portrayed Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller film Oppenheimer, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and ranks as her highest-grossing release.[18][19][20]
Alongside her screen work, Blunt has provided her voice to several animated films, including Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and its sequel Sherlock Gnomes (2018), and the English dub for The Wind Rises (2013). She has also narrated the audiobook Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives in 2010, and recorded songs for the soundtrack of her films Into the Woods, My Little Pony: The Movie, and Mary Poppins Returns.
- ^ a b c Miller, Julie (2 January 2018). "Emily Blunt: World, Meet Your New Mary Poppins". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Busch, Jenna (27 November 2018). "Boudica, Queen of the Iceni who almost beat the Romans". Syfy. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Smith, Neil (16 October 2004). "My Summer Of Love (2004)". BBC. Archived from the original on 17 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ "Gideon's Daughter". BBC. 5 January 2006. Archived from the original on 9 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ "Gideon's Daughter wins two Golden Globes". BBC. 16 January 2007. Archived from the original on 27 October 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ King, Susan (13 January 2007). "Bafta nominations take on a royal hue". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ de Bertodano, Helena (25 May 2014). "Emily Blunt interview: on Tom Cruise, her new baby and acting mean". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Quinn, Karl (21 September 2016). "How The Girl on the Train's Emily Blunt almost became Britain's Britney Spears". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Stacey Wilson, Hunt (21 September 2016). "Emily Blunt on Shaping Her Sicario Role, Remaining Normal, and Avoiding Social Media". Vulture. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Berman, Eliza (1 September 2016). "Emily Blunt's Life is Nothing Like You Think It Is—and She Likes It That Way". Time. Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ "The Girl on the Train (2016)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Shoard, Catherine (10 January 2017). "Bafta nominations 2017: La La Land dances on but Arrival and Nocturnal Animals hot on its heels". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Feinberg, Scott (23 October 2018). "Paramount's 'A Quiet Place' Reverses Plans, Entire Cast to Compete as Supporting". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
- ^ Schwartz, Dana (27 January 2019). "Emily Blunt wins Best Supporting Actress at SAG Awards for A Quiet Place". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "A Quiet Place Part II review – Emily Blunt horror is something to scream about". the Guardian. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (29 July 2021). "'Jungle Cruise' Review: Amazon Subprime". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "The English review – Emily Blunt's sweeping western is a rare, sensational masterpiece". the Guardian. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ Jolin, Dan (19 July 2023). "Oppenheimer Review". Empire. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Emily Blunt". The Numbers. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "Oscar nominations 2024: The full List of nominees". BBC. 23 January 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.