Emily Blunt

Emily Olivia Laura Blunt is a British actress known for her work across stage, television, and film. She made her professional acting debut in 2001 and has received accolades including a Golden Globe Award and two Actor Awards, alongside nominations for an Academy Award and four British Academy Film Awards. In 2020, Forbes listed her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world. Outside of her acting career, she serves on the board of directors for the American Institute for Stuttering, an organization she has supported since 2006 by hosting fundraising galas for speech therapy scholarships.

Blunt was born on 23 February 1983 in London, the second of four children born to barrister Oliver Blunt KC and former actress and English teacher Joanna Mackie. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, she experienced severe stuttering. Encouraged by a school teacher to perform in class plays, she discovered that using distinct voices allowed her to speak fluently and overcome her speech difficulties. She attended Ibstock Place School in Roehampton and Hurtwood House in Surrey, where she was discovered by an agent after performing in a school play at the Edinburgh Festival.

Blunt made her professional acting debut in a 2001 West End production of The Royal Family, receiving the Evening Standard award for Best Newcomer. She made her screen debut in the 2003 television drama Boudica, followed by a role as Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII. She made her feature film debut in the 2004 independent drama My Summer of Love. Her international breakthrough came in 2006 with starring roles in the television drama Gideon's Daughter, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, and the comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada, which earned her nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award.

Her profile continued to rise with appearances in films such as Wind Chill, The Jane Austen Book Club, Dan in Real Life, Charlie Wilson's War, Sunshine Cleaning, and The Great Buck Howard. In 2009, she portrayed Queen Victoria in The Young Victoria, earning nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, as well as receiving the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. She subsequently appeared in The Wolfman, The Adjustment Bureau, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Five-Year Engagement, Looper, and Arthur Newman.

Blunt took on prominent action and musical roles, starring as Rita Vrataski in the science fiction film Edge of Tomorrow (2014), which won her a Critics' Choice Movie Award, and as the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (2014). She gained further acclaim playing an FBI agent in Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in The Girl on the Train (2016), and a survivalist mother in A Quiet Place (2018), winning an Actor Award for the latter.

Her subsequent project work includes Mary Poppins Returns (2018), A Quiet Place Part II (2021), and the television miniseries The English (2022). For her portrayal of Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023), Blunt earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her listed upcoming projects include the science fiction film Disclosure Day and the sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.