Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986).
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Lost and Found in Paris
as Madame Feuillate
Camembert
as France
My Mother's Wedding
as Diana
Two Tickets to Greece
as Bijou
Slow Horses
as Diana Taverner
Final Set
as Judith Edison
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Celia
Military Wives
as Kate
My Grandparents' War
as Self
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
as Self (archive footage)
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Fiona
In Her Hands
as The Countess
Darkest Hour
as Clemmie
The Party
as Janet
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
as Eleanor
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Fleabag
as Belinda
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Suite Française
as Madame Angellier
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
as Self
My Old Lady
as Chloé Girard
D-Day Sacrifice
as Kay Summersby (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Invisible Woman
as Catherine Ternan
Before the Winter Chill
as Lucie
Only God Forgives
as Crystal
In the House
as Jeanne
Looking for Hortense
as Iva
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
as Patricia Maxwell
Bel Ami
as Virginie Walters
The Woman in the Fifth
as Margit
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self - Guest
In Your Hands
as Anna
Sarah's Key
as Julia Jarmond
Love Crime
as Christine Rivière
Nowhere Boy
as Mimi Smith
Leaving
as Suzanne
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Alette Naylor
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as Ann Ferguson
Easy Virtue
as Mrs. Whittaker
2 Alone in Paris
as L'antiquaire
I've Loved You So Long
as Juliette
The Other Boleyn Girl
as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
The Golden Compass
as Stelmania (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
The Walker
as Lynn Lockner
Tell No One
as Helene Perkins
Chromophobia
as Iona Aylesbury
The Valet
as Christine Levasseur
Keeping Mum
as Gloria Goodfellow
Man to Man
as Elena Van Den Ende
Arsène Lupin
as Joséphine
The Monkey Prince
as Narrator
Three Sisters
as Masha
Small Cuts
as Béatrice
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")
Top Gear
as Self
The Making of Gosford Park
as Self
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
as Self
Gosford Park
as Sylvia McCordle
Life as a House
as Robin Kimball
Play
as 1st Woman
Up at the Villa
as Mary Panton
Random Hearts
as Kay Chandler
The Directors
as Self
Vivement dimanche
as Self
The Revengers' Comedies
as Imogen Staxton-Billing
The Horse Whisperer
as Annie MacLean
Elle Style Awards
as Self - Winner
Love & Confusions
as Sarah
The English Patient
as Katharine Clifton
The Pompatus of Love
as Caroline
Souvenir
as Ann
Gulliver's Travels
as Immortal Gatekeeper
Richard III
as Lady Anne
The Confessional
as Assistant to Hitchcock
Angels and Insects
as Matty Crompton
Les Milles
as Mary-Jane Cooper
An Unforgettable Summer
as Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Four Weddings and a Funeral
as Fiona
Body & Soul
as Sister Gabriel / Anna
Absolutely Fabulous
as Plum Berkeley
Bitter Moon
as Fiona
Weep No More, My Lady
as Elisabeth
Titmuss Regained
as Jenny
Valentino! I love you
as Unknown
In the Eyes of the World
as L'institutrice
Framed
as Kate
The Bachelor
as Sabine Schleheim
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
as Leda St Gabriel
The Governor's Party
as Marie Forestier
The Endless Game
as Caroline
The Endless Game
as Caroline
Headstrong
as Clara
Uncontrollable Circumstances
as Katia
The Tenth Man
as Therese Mangeot
A Handful of Dust
as Brenda Last
Lounge Chair
as Marie
Agent trouble
as Julie
Boucherie fine
as Cashier 3
Under the Cherry Moon
as Mary Sharon
Charly
as Marie
Mistral's Daughter
as Nancy
Natural World
as Unknown
American Playhouse
as Matty Crompton
Cérémonie des César
as Self - President
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
as Une Coiffeuse
The Oscars
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Therese