
Acting
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
February 23, 1983 (age 43)
Born in
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
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.

The Devil Wears Prada
Emily
2006

Oppenheimer
Kitty Oppenheimer
2023

The Fall Guy
Jody Moreno
2024

A Quiet Place
Evelyn Abbott
2018

Sicario
Kate Macer
2015

Disclosure Day
2026

A Quiet Place Part II
Evelyn Abbott
2021

The Devil Wears Prada 2
Emily Charlton
2026

Edge of Tomorrow
Rita
2014

IF
Unicorn (voice)
2024

The Smashing Machine
Dawn Staples
2025

The Huntsman: Winter's War
Freya
2016

Jungle Cruise
Dr. Lily Houghton
2021

The Adjustment Bureau
Elise Sellas
2011

Looper
Sara
2012

The Girl on the Train
Rachel Watson
2016

Gnomeo & Juliet
Juliet (voice)
2011

Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins
2018

The Wolfman
Gwen Conliffe
2010

The Muppets
Miss Piggy's Receptionist
2011