Emily Blunt
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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.
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Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Oscars
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Entertainment Tonight
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Simpsons
American Idol
The Kennedy Center Honors
Teen Choice Awards
E! Live from the Red Carpet
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
The Jonathan Ross Show
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Critics Choice Awards
Foyle's War
Screen Actors Guild Awards
The Jay Leno Show
Lip Sync Battle
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Late Show with David Letterman
Breakfast
E! News
The Muppets
IF
Dan in Real Life
My Little Pony: The Movie
Charlie Wilson's War
Into the Woods
Looper
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Gideon's Daughter
Gulliver's Travels
The Huntsman: Winter's War
The Devil Wears Prada
The Fall Guy
Gnomeo & Juliet
The Smashing Machine
The Adjustment Bureau
Edge of Tomorrow
Oppenheimer
Jungle Cruise
The Five-Year Engagement
Sherlock Gnomes
Edge of Tomorrow 2
A Quiet Place Part II
The Girl on the Train
Your Sister's Sister
Mary Poppins Returns
The Young Victoria
Pain Hustlers
Sicario
A Quiet Place
The English
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