Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 06. Oktober 1971 |
Geburtsort | Hammersmith, London, England |
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Beschreibung | Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (geboren am 6. Oktober 1971) ist eine britisch-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Sie begann mit der Schauspielerei in Bühnenproduktionen und hat seitdem in mehreren Film- und Fernsehrollen mitgewirkt. Im Jahr 2003 gewann sie einen Independent Spirit Award für ihre Leistung in Lovely and Amazing. Bekannt ist sie auch für ihre Rolle als Mackenzie McHale in der HBO-Serie The Newsroom und als Synchronsprecherin von Sophie in der englischsprachigen Version von Howl's Moving Castle (2004). Außerdem spielte sie in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) und dessen Fortsetzung von 2009, Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) und Relic (2020) mit. Sie schuf und schrieb die Serie Doll & Em (2014-15) und schrieb und inszenierte den Film |
I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
