
Biography
Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She has received several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and four British Academy Film Awards. Forbes ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020. Blunt made her acting debut in the 2001 drama production of The Royal Family and portrayed Catherine Howard in the television 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 The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her 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 Into the Woods (2014). Blunt received critical acclaim for playing an idealistic FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and a survivalist mother in her husband John Krasinski's horror film A Quiet Place (2018), for which she won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequels Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021), the fantasy adventure Jungle Cruise (2021), and the revisionist Western television miniseries The English (2022). Her portrayal of Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller film Oppenheimer (2023) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Blunt has been working with the American Institute for Stuttering since 2006 to help children overcome stuttering through educational resources and raise awareness of the realities of the condition. She is on the institute's board of directors and hosts a gala to raise funds for speech therapy scholarships for children and adults. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emily Blunt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 2026
- Saturn Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2024
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role · 2024
- Screen Actors Guild Award — Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role · 2019
- Critics' Choice Awards · 2015
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- Satellite Awards · 2015
- Gotham Awards · 2012
- Saturn Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2012
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film · 2007
- Max Mara Face of the Future Award · 2007
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 2024 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Oppenheimer

The Simpsons

Foyle's War

Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Edge of Tomorrow

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

A Quiet Place Part II

A Quiet Place

Sicario

The Devil Wears Prada

The English

Jungle Cruise

My Little Pony: The Movie

Lorne

Mistaken for Strangers

Conan

The Young Victoria

The Graham Norton Show

Hot Ones

IF

The Fall Guy

Looper

Saturday Night Live

Disclosure Day

The Adjustment Bureau

Pain Hustlers

The Muppets

Sunshine Cleaning

Dan in Real Life

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

Mary Poppins Returns

Your Sister's Sister

Charlie Wilson's War

The Jane Austen Book Club

The Smashing Machine

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Girl on the Train

Lip Sync Battle

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Wild Target

Animal Crackers

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

My Summer of Love

The Great Buck Howard

The Five-Year Engagement

Gnomeo & Juliet

The Wolfman