Emily Blunt

41, from Wandsworth, London, England, UK

Artwork for OppenheimerImage of Emily Blunt

Biography

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards.

Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII (2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Blunt's profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria (2009), the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and the musical films Into the Woods (2014) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). She received critical acclaim for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and a survivalist mother in the horror film A Quiet Place (2018), for which she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Timeline

2026Future projects

  • Poster for The Dish

    (Unknown)

2024Aged 41

  • Poster for The Fall Guy

    Jody Moreno

  • Poster for IF

    Unicorn (voice)

  • Poster for The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20

    Self

2023Aged 40

  • Poster for Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

    Self - Kitty Oppenheimer

  • Poster for Oppenheimer

    Kitty Oppenheimer

  • Poster for Pain Hustlers

    Liza Drake

2021Aged 38

  • Poster for Prince Consorts: In the Shadow of the Crown

    Queen Victoria (archive footage)

  • Poster for A Quiet Place Part II

    Evelyn Abbott

  • Poster for Jungle Cruise

    Dr. Lily Houghton

2020Aged 37

  • Poster for David Blaine: The Magic Way

    Self

  • Poster for Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music

    Self

  • Poster for Wild Mountain Thyme

    Rosemary

2018Aged 35

  • Poster for Sherlock Gnomes

    Juliet (voice)

  • Poster for A Quiet Place

    Evelyn Abbott

  • Poster for Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic

    Self

  • Poster for Mary Poppins Returns

    Mary Poppins

2017Aged 34

  • Poster for Animal Crackers

    Zoe Huntington (voice)

  • Poster for My Little Pony: The Movie

    Tempest Shadow / Fizzlepop Berrytwist (voice)

2016Aged 33

  • Poster for The Huntsman: Winter's War

    Freya

  • Poster for The Girl on the Train

    Rachel Watson

2015Aged 32

  • Poster for Sicario

    Kate Macer

2014Aged 31

  • Poster for Edge of Tomorrow

    Sgt. Rita Vrataski

  • Poster for Into the Woods

    Baker's Wife

2013Aged 30

  • Poster for Mistaken for Strangers

    Self (uncredited)

  • Poster for Don Jon

    Thanks

2012Aged 29

  • Poster for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

    Harriet Chetwode-Talbot

  • Poster for The Five-Year Engagement

    Violet Barnes

  • Poster for Arthur Newman

    Mike Fitzgerald

  • Poster for Looper

    Sara

2011Aged 28

  • Poster for Gnomeo & Juliet

    Juliet (voice)

  • Poster for The Adjustment Bureau

    Elise Sellas

  • Poster for Your Sister's Sister

    Iris

  • Poster for The Muppets

    Miss Piggy's Receptionist

2010Aged 27

  • Poster for The Wolfman

    Gwen Conliffe

  • Poster for Wild Target

    Rose

  • Poster for Gulliver's Travels

    Princess Mary

2009Aged 26

  • Poster for The Young Victoria

    Queen Victoria

  • Poster for Curiosity

    Emma

2008Aged 25

  • Poster for Sunshine Cleaning

    Norah Lorkowski

  • Poster for The Great Buck Howard

    Valerie Brennan

2007Aged 24

  • Poster for Wind Chill

    Girl

  • Poster for The Jane Austen Book Club

    Prudie

  • Poster for Dan in Real Life

    Ruthie Draper

  • Poster for Charlie Wilson's War

    Jane Liddle

2006Aged 23

  • Poster for Irresistible

    Mara

  • Poster for The Devil Wears Prada

    Emily

2005Aged 22

  • Poster for My Summer of Love

    Tamsin

  • Poster for The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

    Jean Leckie

  • Poster for Gideon's Daughter

    Natasha

2003Aged 20

  • Poster for Boudica

    Isolda

Year unknown