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Emily Mortimer
Mortimer at a film premiere in September 2007
Born	1 December 1971 (1971-12-01) (age 38) Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse(s)	Alessandro Nivola (2003 – present), 1 child

Emily Mortimer (born 1 December 1971) is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including Scream 3 (2000) and Match Point (2005).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Mortimer was born in Finsbury Park, London,¹ England, the daughter of Sir John Mortimer QC (lawyer and dramatist famous for Rumpole of the Bailey) and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop).² She has a younger sister, Rosie; two older siblings, Sally Silverman and Jeremy, by her father's first marriage, to author Penelope Fletcher; and a half brother, Ross Bentley, by her father's liaision with actress Wendy Craig.³ Her maternal grandfather was a pig farmer.⁴

Mortimer studied at St Paul's Girls' School, where she appeared in several student productions. After St. Paul's, she moved on to Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read Russian, and performed in several plays. Before becoming an actress, Mortimer wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph, and was also screenwriter for a screen adaptation of Lorna Sage's memoir, Bad Blood.

Career

Mortimer performed in several plays while studying at Oxford University, and while acting in a student production she was spotted by a producer who later cast her in a supporting role in a television adaptation of Dame Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin (1995). Subsequent television roles included Sharpe's Sword and Coming Home. Her first film role was opposite Val Kilmer in 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness. Mortimer was then in the Irish coming-of-age story The Last of the High Kings, released later the same year. In 1998 she appeared as Kat Ashley in Elizabeth, and played Miss Flynn in the TV mini-series Cider with Rosie, which was adapted for television by her father.

In 1999, she played three roles that raised her profile outside the UK: She was the ill-fated "Perfect Girl" dropped by Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, appeared as Esther in the American TV mini-series 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 musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, where she met actor and future husband Alessandro Nivola. She took on her biggest role in an American film to date, playing opposite Bruce Willis in Disney's The Kid. In 2002, she had a major role in The 51st State (also known as Formula 51), starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle, and was a supporting character in John Woo's war drama Windtalkers.

In 2003, Mortimer appeared in Stephen Fry's film Bright Young Things. In 2004, Mortimer appeared in the movie Dear Frankie. In 2005, she played a major role as the oblivious spouse of an adulterous Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Woody Allen's Match Point, as well as voicing young Sophie in the English-dubbed version of Howl's Moving Castle. In 2007 she played a supporting role in Lars and the Real Girl as the supportive sister-in-law of Ryan Gosling's title character. She also appeared in The Pink Panther in 2006 and in its 2009 sequel, as the love interest of Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin). In the last three episodes of 30 Rock's first season, she played Phoebe, a love interest of Alec Baldwin's character Jack Donaghy.

Mortimer will play one of the lead characters in Martin Scorsese's 2010 film Shutter Island. She will play Leonie Gilmour in the upcoming film Leonie scheduled for release in the fall.

Personal life

In 2000, Mortimer met American actor Alessandro Nivola, while both were starring in Love's Labour's Lost. The couple married in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, on 3 January 2003. A Mexican punk band performed at their wedding. Mortimer gave birth to their son, Samuel John, in Westminster, London,⁵ on 23 September 2003. At age 38, she gave birth to her second child. Daughter, May was born on 15 January 2010.⁶

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1995	Sharpe's Sword	Lass	TV
	The Glass Virgin	Annabella Lagrange	TV miniseries
1996	The Ghost and the Darkness	Helana Patterson
	Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift	Catherine Lacey
	The Last of the High Kings	Romy Thomas
	Silent Witness	Fran	Episodes "Long Days, Short Nights" parts 1 and 2
1998	Coming Home	Judith Dunbar	TV
	Cider with Rosie	Miss Flynn	TV
	Elizabeth	Kat Ashley
	Killing Joe
1999	Notting Hill	Perfect Girl
2000	Scream 3	Angelina Tyler
	Love's Labour's Lost	Katherine
	Disney's The Kid	Amy
2001	Lovely and Amazing	Elizabeth Marks
	The 51st State aka Formula 51	Dakota Parker
2002	Jeffrey Archer: The Truth	Diana, Princess of Wales	TV
2003	A Foreign Affair	Angela Beck
	Nobody Needs to Know	Emily
	The Sleeping Dictionary	Cecil
	Bright Young Things	Nina Blount
	Young Adam	Cathie Dimly
2004	Dear Frankie	Lizzie
	Howl's Moving Castle	Young Sophie	Voice
2005	Match Point	Chloe Hewett Wilton
2006	Paris, je t'aime	Frances	Segmant Père-Lachaise
	The Pink Panther	Nicole Durant
2007	30 Rock	Phoebe	Episodes "Corporate Crush", "Cleveland" and "Hiatus"
	Lars and the Real Girl	Karin
	Chaos Theory	Susan Allen
2008	Transsiberian	Jessie
	Redbelt	Laura Black
2009	The Pink Panther 2	Nicole Durant
	Harry Brown	Frampton
	City Island	Molly Charlesworth
2010	Shutter Island	Rachel Solando
	Leonie	Leonie Gilmour

References

External links

• Emily Mortimer at the Internet Movie Database
• Emily Mortimer at Rotten Tomatoes
• Interview for Match Point
• Emily Mortimer at TV.com

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NAME	Mortimer, Emily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	British actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1971-12-01
PLACE OF BIRTH	London, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH