Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimeris an Anglo-American actress and screenwriter. She began acting in stage productions, and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing roles in Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Chaos Theory, Harry Brown, Shutter Island, Hugo, and the HBO series The Newsroom, among others...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 December 1971
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The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.
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It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.
I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
great miss time unfamiliar york
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
attention misery enough
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.
growing-up thinking people
I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
drinking school technology
I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
fire lines brilliant
You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.
exercise people denial
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
dad spring home
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
acting want
I want to discover more things about acting.
cynical citizens inheritance
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
children husband eight
I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
optimistic up-early wake-up
I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.