Emily Margaret Watson was born on the 14th January 1967, in Islington, London, England, and is an actress, probably best recognized for starring in the role of Bess McNeil in the film “Breaking The Waves” (1996), playing Elsie in the film “Gosford Park” (2001), and as Janet Leach in the TV mini-series “Appropriate Adult” (2011). Her career has been active since 1994.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Emily Watson is, as of mid-2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Emily’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated through her successful involvement in the entertainment industry as a professional actress.
Emily Watson Net Worth $10 Million
Emily Watson spent her childhood in an Anglican family in her hometown, where she was raised by her mother, Katharine Watson, an English teacher, and her father Richard Watson, who was an architect. She went to St James Independent Schools, after which she enrolled at the University of Bristol, graduating with a BA degree in English in 1988. Afterwards, Emily attended the Drama Studio London; she was granted an honorary MA degree in 2003 from Bristol University.
Thus, Emily’s professional acting career began in 1994, when she made her debut appearance in the guest-starring role of Rosalie in the TV series “Performance”, which marked the beginning of her net worth. Two years later, she appeared in the role of Bess McNeill in the film entitled “Breaking The Waves”, for which she won a number of nominations and awards, including National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s New Generation Award, European Film Award for Best Actress, among many others. This role was followed by starring as Maggie Tulliver in the TV film “The Mill On The Floss” and as Maggie in Jim Sheridan’s film “The Boxer”, both in 1997. In the following year, Emily was chosen to portray Jackie Du Pré in the film “Hilary And Jackie”, which earned her a British Independent Film Award for Best Actress and London Film Critics’ Award for Best British Actress of the Year, which she also won for her portrayal of Angela McCourt in the film “Angela’s Ashes”, directed by Alan Parker in 1999.
In 2001, she starred in the role of Elsie in the film entitled “Gosford Park”, winning joint recognitions as Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cast, Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture, and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast, after which she portrayed Lena Leonard in the 2002 film “Punch-Drunk Love”, and was cast as Reba McClane in the film “Red Dragon” in the same year, all of which added a considerable amount to her net worth. She then had several significant roles in such film titles as “Separate Lies” starring in the role of Anne Manning, “Wah-Wah” playing Ruby Compton, and she also did a voice over in Tim Burton’s film “Corpse Bride”. By the end of the decade, Emily was also cast as Anne MacMorrow in the film “The Water Horse” (2007), directed by Jay Russell, portrayed Jane in the 2008 film “Fireflies In The Garden”, alongside Willem Dafoe and Ryan Reynolds, and she appeared in the role of Tammy in Charlie Kaufman’s film “Synecdoche, New York” (2008), for which she won Independent Spirit Award’s Robert Altman Award as well as Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast.
Her next major role came in 2011, when she was cast as Janet Leach in the TV mini-series “Appropriate Adult”, which earned her a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. In the following year, she starred in the role of Countess Lydia Ivanova in the film “Anna Karenina”, alongside Keira Knightley. Furthermore, Emily also made appearances in other film titles, including “The Book Thief” (2013) portraying Rosa Hubermann, “Testament Of Youth” (2014) playing Mrs. Brittain, and “Little Boy” (2015) as Emma Busbee. Most recently, she was cast in the role of Yvonne Carmichael in the TV mini-series “Apple Tree Yard”, based on the book of the same title, and in the role of Elsa Einstein in the TV series “Genius”, both in 2017. Currently, she is filming another TV mini-series entitled “Little Women”, which will certainly increase her net worth.
Speaking about her personal life, Emily Watson has been married to actor Jack Waters since 1995; the couple has two children together. Their current residence is in Greenwich, London.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, European Film Award for Best Actress, The British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in...
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Ou...
Movies
The Book Thief, Breaking the Waves, War Horse, Corpse Bride, Everest, Punch-Drunk Love, Little Boy, The Theory of Everything, Hilary and Jackie, A Royal Night Out, Red Dragon, Gosford Park, Equilibrium, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Oranges and Sunshine, The Proposition, The Boxer, Angela's A...
TV Shows
Apple Tree Yard, The Politician's Husband, Appropriate Adult, Genius, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
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As I got older and more experienced, I could look back and appreciate being able to work with someone who has the most integrity you can possibly have in this job. Daniel has integrity coming out of every pore. I remember asking at the very end, "Why do you work like that?". And he said - it was very sweet - "Well, I don't think I'm a good enough actor to be able to not do it this way."
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[on co-starring with Daniel Day-Lewis in 'The Boxer'] I found it very demanding because of the way that he works. Our characters had been estranged, hadn't seen each other for fourteen years. It was very tense between them. So Daniel and I didn't speak - we agreed not to. I found it quite lonely and isolated and a bit scary. He has sort of an electric force about him and it's intimidating - but amazing to watch. It really was as it was in the story. It's a spare, brutal world where people don't express themselves.
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(on 'War Horse) We all have stories about the men who left for the war. My grandmother's older brother, whom she worshipped, was killed at Ypres. She never talked about it until she was eighty, and then she sobbed and sobbed as she told us she'd slept every day of her life with his letter from the trenches by her bed... They nailed it so beautifully: the officer class, the young untutored teenagers going off as cannon fodder. It's very moving and very beautiful.
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I love my job, but to say why I do is quite hard. I can go a certain distance without doing it, and then I have to go back to work. It's like a hunger, or an appetite that you have to feed.
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[on Breaking the Waves (1996)] It was my very first film. It was a very, very strong experience for me as an actor - but also as a person. There was a tsunami of attention that really affected my life. It opened a lot of doors, and I had a lot of great things come from it, but it also changed things. It's kind of a blessing and a curse to do something as full of notoriety as that.
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[on Lars von Trier's expressed sympathy for Adolf Hitler] What an idiot! I think he's sort of developed a habit of shooting his mouth off, just to make people laugh and for effect, and here he shot his mouth off in a way that was totally inappropriate.
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[on controversy about her being willing to appear unclothed on screen] Screw it. Everyone in that room had probably seen me naked anyway. I don't care. It's not like I'm a great sex symbol. I'm just a normal woman.. I've fallen into situations which have required guts of me, and I've just gone, 'Okay, I'll be gutsy. I'll go for it because I don't know what else to do. I'd like to say I have a great master plan of courage, but I don't. I'm sort of following my nose through a maze, really.
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On journalists constantly asking her if she'd like children, especially as she had been married for 10 years: "'Yeah, I was asked that every single time, and it did feel quite personal. Especially if you say that yes, you do want children. You have to say if you're actually trying for them. And you don't always especially want to tell the whole world how that's going.'"
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The challenge in playing Bess [in Breaking the Waves] is that, in physical, psychological, intellectual, moral, ethical and political terms, she's a disaster - part saint, part clown. But she has an infinite capacity to love and believe. I tried to make the logic of that transcend those judgements.
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On being at the Cannes Film Festival opening of "Breaking the Waves" without the film's director, Lars von Trier: "It was a bit of a baptism of fire, because I had never done any press before. I had never done a single interview in my life. I had never made a film before, I just knew nothing. And I arrived in this maelstrom of publicity with this extraordinary film, and of course Lars von Trier didn't come to Cannes so we - just the actors - were left to explain what on earth he meant by this extraordinary film. The first experience of Cannes, the first time I was here, is like seared in my brain like a firebrand. It was very intense. I remember as the light went down, someone leaned over and said, "Emily your life is about to change forever." You know the official music? Whenever I hear that music that they play when the film starts, my stomach starts to churn. But being with this film is more than great, because it's more about show business. There are ten of us here, and nobody is really carrying the film in that way."
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On Hollywood's perception of women as beauty objects: "I'm lucky I don't do the kind of work where the main thing is that you're the girl and you look gorgeous. I don't look like that. I'm a funny-looking bugger. I don't feel that I can compete, and I wouldn't want to. Life's too short to spend seven hours a day in the gym and starving yourself."
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On her childhood preparing her for an acting career: "I was taught the value of imagination at an early age. I didn't have a television. I read a lot of books and developed a good sense of storytelling. I was happy as well, and I think that helped. The more secure you feel, the more unbalanced you can let yourself become."
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I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
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"I wasn't prepared for the way people responded to 'Breaking the Waves.' Suddenly, I was being interviewed and being asked all sorts of questions. All my life, I've loved movies, but I didn't foresee the glamour of the Academy Awards. In England, the awards are reported as straight news. In America, they're considered the height of glamour." - On her two 1999 roles, "Angela's Ashes" and "Cradle Will Rock", which had Oscar-potential.
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"The first Oscarcast, I was definitely functioning in a surreal mode. It was like I was watching myself watch the ceremony. Yet I had a good time. Hey, wearing a beautiful dress and being surrounded by beautiful people is not a terrible way to spend an evening. And I had a great time at all the parties. The second Oscarcast, I just went and planned on enjoying myself. People think of me as such a serious actress, but I find myself behaving like a gadabout." - On her sudden success and America's award shows.
She was considered for the part of Mrs. Moravcová in Anthropoid (2016), eventually played by Alena Mihulová.
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She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama. She is an actress in London SE10, England.
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Performing "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" in New York off Broadway. [January 2003]
Second child, a boy named Dylan Waters, was born in 2009.
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One of only a few performers to get an Oscar-nomination for their debut performance.
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Was approached to play Emily Tallis in Atonement (2007).
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Her performance as Bess McNeill is ranked #18 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
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Daughter, Juliet, born November 2005.
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Graduated from Bristol University with a degree in English
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She was nominated for 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2002 for her performance in Uncle Vanya performed at the Donmar Warehouse.
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She was Jean-Pierre Jeunet's first choice to play the title role in Amélie (2001), but dropped out for personal reasons. She did manage to leave her mark on the film however; Amelie is named after her.
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Her mother has a PhD in English, and is an English teacher.
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Spent two years at the British Shakespeare School of Acting saying "News from town, my Lord." When Breaking the Waves (1996) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996, someone grabbed Emily's shoulders and said to her, "Your life is about to change forever." And indeed it has.
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She graduated from high school, went to University for three years, got a 2.1 ranking [in the English education system], then she applied to drama school but was refused. So she started waitressing and doing secretarial stuff along with some fringe theater. Then she applied to drama school again and was accepted, and did a one-year course. Her first professional job was in the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1992.
Was spotted by Lars von Trier during a representation of Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour", in which she played a young student who falsely accuses her teacher of lesbianism.
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