Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt
Blunt at the Orange British Academy Film Awards in February 2007
Birth name	Emily Olivia L. Blunt
Born	February 23 1983 (1983-02-23) (age 25) London, England
Years active	2003 - present
Awards Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries 2007 Gideon's Daughter

Emily Olivia L. Blunt (born February 23, 1983) is a Golden Globe Award-winning English actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance as Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2007 Golden Globes Ceremony for the BBC TV film, Gideon's Daughter, the same year she was nominated for The Devil Wears Prada.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 2.1 Stage credits 2.2 Radio credits 3 Quotes 4 Awards 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Personal life

Blunt is from Roehampton, London, England. She is one of four children born to a barrister father and teacher mother. Her uncle is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate. At the age of 16 Blunt moved to a sixth-form college known for its performing arts programme, Hurtwood House, which is where she attracted an agent. Blunt lives in London and Vancouver. In the latter she shares a home with her boyfriend, Canadian singer Michael Bublé, whom she first met in Melbourne backstage at the Australian television Logies Awards in 2005. Bublé thought Blunt was a television producer when they met.^[1] She later provided background vocals on his cover of "Me and Mrs. Jones" on his album Call Me Irresponsible.

Career

Blunt made her professional debut in Bliss a new play commissioned by the National Theatre, at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival while she was still an A-level student. In 2003, she made her screen debut in the British television drama Boudica, about the life of the ancient British warrior-queen who fought the Romans. She also won considerable praise for her performance as the 16th-century queen Catherine Howard in the two-part British television drama Henry VIII. Blunt's breakout role was as Tamsin in the dark British movie, My Summer of Love in 2004, which depicted a story of deception and lesbian love in the English countryside. She shared an Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with co-star Nathalie Press. In 2005 she co-starred with Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson in the British TV drama Gideon's Daughter, an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, in which she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner, played by veteran British character actor Bill Nighy. More recently, she starred opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the box-office success, The Devil Wears Prada. Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable with Entertainment Weekly naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue. She appeared at the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Anne Hathaway. Blunt and Hathaway also lost weight for their roles in the film. In an interview with Us Weekly, Hathway said “I basically stuck with fruit, vegetables and fish (to slim down for the movie). I wouldn’t recommend that. Emily Blunt and I would clutch at each other and cry because we were so hungry". Blunt also spoke about the weight loss, where she claims she had to go 'painfully thin'.^[2] Blunt later co-starred with Susan Sarandon in the independent drama Irresistible. When Sarandon became attached to starring in another movie, The Girl In The Park she strongly suggested that director David Auburn should cast her. Blunt did audition for the part — she almost received the role — but lost out to Kate Bosworth. Blunt has worked on a number of upcoming movies. She is currently filming The Young Victoria in which she plays the title character, and is rumored to be starring in the English Civil War mini series The Devil's Whore.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Director
2003	Boudica	Isolda		Bill Anderson
	Henry VIII	Catherine Howard	miniseries	Pete Travis
	Foyle's War	Lucy Markham	in episode War Games	Giles Foster
2004	Poirot	Linnet Ridgeway-Doyle	in episode Death on the Nile	Andy Wilson
	My Summer of Love	Tamsin		Pawel Pawlikowski
2005	Empire	Camane	miniseries	John Gray, Kim Manners
	The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle	Jean Leckie	TV movie	Cilla Ware
	Gideon's Daughter	Natasha	TV movie	Stephen Poliakoff
2006	Irresistible	Mara		Ann Turner
	The Devil Wears Prada	Emily		David Frankel
2007	Wind Chill	Girl		Gregory Jacobs
	The Jane Austen Book Club	Prudie		Robin Swicord
	Dan in Real Life	Ruthie Draper		Peter Hedges
	Charlie Wilson's War	Jane Liddle		Mike Nichols
2008	Sunshine Cleaning	Norah Lorkowski	completed	Christine Jeffs
	The Young Victoria	Queen Victoria	post-production	Jean-Marc Vallée
	The Great Buck Howard		post-production	Sean McGinly

Stage credits

• Bliss (2000, Edinburgh Festival) as Maddy
• The Royal Family (2001, West End) as Gwen
• Romeo and Juliet (2002, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Juliet
• Vincent in Brixton (2002, RNT) as Eugenie Loyer

Radio credits

• Bumps and Bruises (2004) as Holly

Quotes

"I'd love to be exciting and say that I was the rebel at school, but sadly I wasn't".^[4]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Result	For
2007	BAFTA	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Nominated	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	BAFTA	Rising Star	Nominated
2007	MTV Movie Award	Best Comedic Performance	Nominated	The Devil Wears Prada
2006	Teen Choice Award	Choice Breakout	Nominated	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	ALFS Award	British Supporting Actress of the Year	Won	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Nominated	The Devil Wears Prada
2007	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television	Won	Gideon's Daughter

References

External links

• Emily Blunt at the Internet Movie Database
• In-depth interview about Blunt's life, career

Awards
Preceded by Sandra Oh for Grey's Anatomy	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made of Television 2007 for Gideon's Daughter	Succeeded by TBD