Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Actor (b. 1959)
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The ThumbScore for Emma Thompson (72.7%) is the average audience approval rating across 47 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Emma's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

47
Movies
72.7%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Audiences rate Emma Thompson’s films higher than 61% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Stranger Than Fiction (YouTube, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · I Am Legend (ViX) · Bridget Jones's Baby (Kanopy, Hoopla) · Howards End (Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome) · Henry V (YouTube, Roku Channel, Tubi, Hoopla) · Much Ado About Nothing (YouTube, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) and 12 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Hugh Grant (3)Colin Firth (3)Kenneth Branagh (3)Will Smith (2)Kelly Macdonald (2)

Dame Emma Thompson (born April 15, 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2018, she was made a dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama. Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career.

In 1987, she became famous for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992). In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA.

Born 1959-04-15 in Paddington, London, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Emma Thompson appears in 47 films with an average audience score of 72.7%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Emma Thompson movie, ranked by audience score

Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet
2002
👍 92%
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
👍 87%
Cruella
Cruella
2021
👍 85%
Men in Black 3
Men in Black 3
2012
👍 85%
Love Actually
Love Actually
2003
👍 84%
I Am Legend
I Am Legend
2007
👍 84%
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
2017
👍 83%
Brave
Brave
2012
👍 81%
In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father
1993
👍 81%
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
1995
👍 80%
Johnny English Strikes Again
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
👍 79%
Last Christmas
Last Christmas
2019
👍 79%
An Education
An Education
2009
👍 79%
Nanny McPhee
Nanny McPhee
2005
👍 78%
Bridget Jones's Baby
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
👍 78%
Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr. Banks
2013
👍 77%
Howards End
Howards End
1992
👍 77%
The Sheep Detectives
The Sheep Detectives
2026
👍 77%
Henry V
Henry V
1989
👍 77%
The Boat That Rocked
The Boat That Rocked
2009
👍 76%
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
👍 76%
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
2022
👍 76%
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
👍 74%
A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods
2015
👍 72%
Peter's Friends
Peter's Friends
1992
👍 72%
Men in Black: International
Men in Black: International
2019
👍 71%
Dead of Winter
Dead of Winter
2025
👍 71%
Wit
Wit
2001
👍 71%
Dolittle
Dolittle
2020
👍 70%
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
1993
👍 70%
Dead Again
Dead Again
1991
👍 70%
The Children Act
The Children Act
2018
👍 69%
Junior
Junior
1994
👍 68%
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
2022
👍 68%
Primary Colors
Primary Colors
1998
👍 68%
Alone in Berlin
Alone in Berlin
2016
👍 67%
Last Chance Harvey
Last Chance Harvey
2008
👍 66%
Men, Women & Children
Men, Women & Children
2014
👍 65%
Late Night
Late Night
2019
👍 65%
Maybe Baby
Maybe Baby
2000
👍 63%
What's Love Got to Do with It?
What's Love Got to Do with It?
2023
👍 61%
The Love Punch
The Love Punch
2014
👍 60%
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
👍 59%
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Everybody to Kenmure Street
2026
👍 59%
Effie Gray
Effie Gray
2014
👍 58%
Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures
2013
👍 57%
Missing Link
Missing Link
2019
👍 54%