Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer

British actress (born 1971)
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Emily Mortimer Actress - An attractive and talented actress who is as comfortable in historical dramas as in modern day thrillers and comedies, Emily Mortimer was born in Great Britain in 1971. Mortimer's father is author John Mortimer, best known for his series of Rumpole of the Bailey mystery novels, and she seems to have absorbed her father's literary influence -- before her career as an actress took off, Mortimer wrote a column for the London Telegraph, and she's served as screenwriter for an screen adaptation of Lorna Sage's book Bad Blood. Mortimer was a student at the prestigious St. Paul's Girls School when she first developed an interest in acting, appearing in several student productions. After graduating from St. Paul's, she moved on to Oxford, where she majored in Russian. Mortimer found time to perform in several plays while studying at Oxford, and while acting in a student production she impressed a producer who cast her in a supporting role in a television adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin in 1995. Several more television roles followed, including the British TV movie Sharpe's Sword, before she won her first film role, playing the wife of John Patterson (Val Kilmer) in 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness. Mortimer had a much showier role in the Irish coming-of-age story The Last of the High Kings, released later the same year, and in 1998, Mortimer played Miss Flynn in the TV miniseries Cider With Rosie, which was adapted for television by her father, John Mortimer. Also in 1998, Mortimer appeared as Kat Ashley in the international hit Elizabeth, and in 1999, she enjoyed three showy roles that raised her profile outside the U.K.: She was the ill-fated "Perfect Girl" dropped by Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, appeared as Esther in the American TV miniseries Noah's Ark, and was Angelina, the star of the film-within-a-film, in the upscale slasher flick Scream 3. In 2000, Mortimer was cast as Katherine in Kenneth Branagh's ill-fated musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, but the experience had a happy ending for her -- she met actor Alessandro Nivola, and the two soon fell in love and have been together ever since. That same year, Mortimer took on her biggest role in an American film to date, playing opposite Bruce Willis in The Kid, and 2002 promised to be a big year for her, with major roles in two major releases -- The 51st State, starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson, and a key supporting character in John Woo's war drama Windtalkers.

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Emily Mortimer was born on Wednesday, 6 October 1971 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. Her full name at birth was Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer. She is best known as an actress. Mortimer's country of citizenship (nationality) is British. Emily attended high school at St. Paul`s Girls School. For university, she studied at Lincoln College, Oxford University (1990-94). Her religion is listed as Atheist. She is 5' 8" (173 cm) tall with a slim build. She has hazel eyes and dark brown hair (color). Her net worth is reported to be $6,000,000 US dollars. Emily Mortimer is 53 years old and her zodiac star sign is Libra.

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Full name at birth
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer
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Claim to fame
Lars And The Real Girl
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Date of birth
6 October 1971
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Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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Actress, screenwriter
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5' 8" (173 cm)
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  • Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
  • Hammersmith, London, England, UK
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$6,000,000 USD
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St. Paul`s Girls School
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Lincoln College, Oxford University (1990-94)
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Partner: Alessandro Nivola (Married) 2 children
May 2001-
Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer
It doesn't feel like that. The big producers still want Kate Winslet and Kate Beckinsale, I suppose. - on whether she has made it into mainstream Hollywood
  • Fluent in Russian
  • Lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. (2004)
  • Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as fellow actress Rachel Weisz.
  • Fluent in Russian.
  • The name of her mother, Penelope, was also the name of her father's first wife.

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