Emily Blunt Short Bio
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Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards.
Educated at Hurtwood House in Dorking, Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria (2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and the musical films Into the Woods (2014) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film A Quiet Place(2018) I & 2. For both the first, which was directed by her husband John Krasinski, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best
That same year, Blunt played the title character in Rob Marshall's musical fantasy film Mary Poppins Returns, which served as a sequel to the 1964 film, in which Poppins was played by Julie Andrews. Owen Gleiberman of Variety found Blunt to be "practically perfect in every way" and added that she "inhabits Mary Poppins' snappishly entrancing spirit, and in the musical numbers she generates her own spit-spot radiance."] She received two SAG nominations for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, winning for the former, and she also received her sixth Golden Globe nomination for the latter.
In 2020, Blunt guest starred in her husband's web series Some Good News, which began streaming on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the same year, Forbes ranked her as the sixth highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $22.5 million.Blunt will reprise her role in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II. She will also star in Jungle Cruise, a film adaptation of the eponymous attraction in Adventureland,the romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme – based on John Patrick Shanley's play Outside Mullingar – and in the BBC television series The English, a western from Hugo Blick.
Personal life
Blunt with her husband John Krasinski at the 70th Golden Globe Awards
Educated at Hurtwood House in Dorking, Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria (2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and the musical films Into the Woods (2014) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film A Quiet Place(2018) I & 2. For both the first, which was directed by her husband John Krasinski, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best
That same year, Blunt played the title character in Rob Marshall's musical fantasy film Mary Poppins Returns, which served as a sequel to the 1964 film, in which Poppins was played by Julie Andrews. Owen Gleiberman of Variety found Blunt to be "practically perfect in every way" and added that she "inhabits Mary Poppins' snappishly entrancing spirit, and in the musical numbers she generates her own spit-spot radiance."] She received two SAG nominations for her performances in A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, winning for the former, and she also received her sixth Golden Globe nomination for the latter.
In 2020, Blunt guest starred in her husband's web series Some Good News, which began streaming on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the same year, Forbes ranked her as the sixth highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $22.5 million.Blunt will reprise her role in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II. She will also star in Jungle Cruise, a film adaptation of the eponymous attraction in Adventureland,the romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme – based on John Patrick Shanley's play Outside Mullingar – and in the BBC television series The English, a western from Hugo Blick.
Personal life
Blunt with her husband John Krasinski at the 70th Golden Globe Awards