Emily Blunt

Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards. Forbes ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020. Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family and portrayed Catherine Howard in the television 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. Her 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 Into the Woods (2014). Blunt received critical acclaim for playing an idealistic FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015), an alcoholic in the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and a survivalist mother in her husband John Krasinski's horror film A Quiet Place (2018), for which she won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequels Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and A Quiet Place Part II (2021), the fantasy adventure Jungle Cruise (2021), the western television miniseries The English (2022), and portrayed Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer (2023). Early life Emily Olivia Laura Blunt was born in London's Wandsworth borough on 23 February 1983, the second of four children born to former actress and teacher Joanna Mackie and barrister Oliver Blunt QC. She is the paternal granddaughter of Major General Peter Blunt and paternal niece of Conservative MP Crispin Blunt. From the age of seven, Blunt began having difficulties with stuttering. She credits a school teacher for helping her manage the stutter through acting, and resolved her issue at the age of 14. She went on to sit on the board of directors for the American Institute for Stuttering. Blunt attended Ibstock Place School in Roehampton before moving on to Hurtwood House near Dorking, a private sixth form college known for its performing arts programme. There, she was discovered and signed by an agent.