Acting
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).
Filmography
Camembert
Film · 2026
My Mother's Wedding
Film · 2025
Two Tickets to Greece
Film · 2023
Slow Horses
Series · 2022
Final Set
Film · 2021
Rebecca
Film · 2020
Military Wives
Film · 2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Series · 2020
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Film · 2019
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
Film · 2019
My Grandparents' War
Series · 2019
In Her Hands
Film · 2018
Tomb Raider
Film · 2018
Darkest Hour
Film · 2017
The Party
Film · 2017
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
Film · 2017
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Film · 2017
Fleabag
Series · 2016
Suite Française
Film · 2015
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
My Old Lady
Film · 2014
D-Day Sacrifice
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Only God Forgives
Film · 2013
The Invisible Woman
Film · 2013
Before the Winter Chill
Film · 2013
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Film · 2012
Bel Ami
Film · 2012
In the House
Film · 2012
Looking for Hortense
Film · 2012
The Woman in the Fifth
Film · 2011
In Your Hands
Film · 2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Series · 2011
Love Crime
Film · 2010
Sarah's Key
Film · 2010
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Film · 2009
Nowhere Boy
Film · 2009
Leaving
Film · 2009
I've Loved You So Long
Film · 2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
Film · 2008
2 Alone in Paris
Film · 2008
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Film · 2008
Easy Virtue
Film · 2008
The Golden Compass
Film · 2007
The Walker
Film · 2007
Tell No One: The B-Side
Film · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
Tell No One
Film · 2006
The Valet
Film · 2006
Chromophobia
Film · 2006
Man to Man
Film · 2005
Keeping Mum
Film · 2005
Arsène Lupin
Film · 2004
The Monkey Prince
Film · 2003
Small Cuts
Film · 2003
Three Sisters
Film · 2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Film · 2003
The Making of Gosford Park
Film · 2002
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
Film · 2002
Top Gear
Series · 2002
Gosford Park
Film · 2001
Life as a House
Film · 2001
Play
Film · 2001
Up at the Villa
Film · 2000
Random Hearts
Film · 1999
The Directors
Series · 1999
The Horse Whisperer
Film · 1998
The Revengers' Comedies
Film · 1998
Vivement dimanche
Series · 1998
Love & Confusions
Film · 1997
Elle Style Awards
Series · 1997
The English Patient
Film · 1996
Mission: Impossible
Film · 1996
The Pompatus of Love
Film · 1996
Souvenir
Film · 1996
Gulliver's Travels
Series · 1996
Richard III
Film · 1995
Angels and Insects
Film · 1995
The Confessional
Film · 1995
Les Milles
Film · 1995
Plaisir d'offrir
Film · 1995
Mayday
Film · 1995
Belle Époque
Series · 1995
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Film · 1994
An Unforgettable Summer
Film · 1994
Body & Soul
Series · 1993
Bitter Moon
Film · 1992
Weep No More, My Lady
Film · 1992
Absolutely Fabulous
Series · 1992
Look At It This Way
Series · 1992
In the Eyes of the World
Film · 1991
Valentino! I love you
Film · 1991
Titmuss Regained
Series · 1991
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Film · 1990
Framed
Film · 1990
The Bachelor
Film · 1990
The Governor's Party
Film · 1990
Uncontrollable Circumstances
Film · 1989
Headstrong
Film · 1989
The Endless Game
Film · 1989
Cela s'appelle l'amour
Film · 1989
The Endless Game
Series · 1989
A Handful of Dust
Film · 1988
The Tenth Man
Film · 1988
Lounge Chair
Film · 1988
Agent trouble
Film · 1987
Boucherie fine
Film · 1987
Under the Cherry Moon
Film · 1986
Charly
Film · 1985
Mistral's Daughter
Series · 1984
Natural World
Series · 1983
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
Cérémonie des César
Series · 1976
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Series · 1967
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Lost and Found in Paris
Film
Paramour
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