Emma Thompson is the rare actress who can be both humorous and tragic, and she has only become better in recent years. She not only won over reviewers with her portrayal in the ground-breaking Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, but it also sparked an essential discussion about the sexuality of older women. The top performances by the Oscar-winning actor are listed below.
1. Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Director- Ang Lee
As a result of having to leave the most of his inheritance to his first wife’s son, Mr. Dashwood’s second wife and their three daughters, Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret, find themselves in difficult financial situations after his death. They are housed by a loving relative, but Elinor, who is pragmatic, and Marianne, who is romantic, are less likely to marry because of their lack of wealth. Edward Ferrars’ family disapproves and splits up with Elinor once she develops feelings for the affluent man. Moreover, Marianne considers the dashing and flamboyant John Willoughby to be more appealing than the honourable Colonel Brandon, despite Mrs. Jennings’ best efforts to pair them. Both relationships have been put through a lot.
2. Kare in Love, Actually (2003)
Director- Richard Curtis
Numerous shades of the all-powerful Eros interweave as Billy Mack, the season’s supreme star and renowned rocker, sprinkles the already merry and sappy London with his throaty, sensual voice and his exquisite Christmas rendition of The Troggs’ smash song, “Love Is All Around.” The stories of love-struck boys, secret admirers, philandering husbands, heartbroken authors, widowed fathers, and the Yuletide plight of a desperate, lovesick British Prime Minister intertwine to form a magnificent panorama of love and its many guises with only five full weeks left until Christmas Eve. On the other hand, love is almighty, eternal, and supreme.
3. Margaret Schlegel in Howards End (1992)
Director- James Ivory
Numerous shades of the all-powerful Eros interweave as Billy Mack, the season’s supreme star and renowned rocker, sprinkles the already merry and sappy London with his throaty, sensual voice and his exquisite Christmas rendition of The Troggs’ smash song, “Love Is All Around.” The stories of love-struck boys, secret admirers, philandering husbands, heartbroken authors, widowed fathers, and the Yuletide plight of a desperate, lovesick British Prime Minister intertwine to form a magnificent panorama of love and its many guises with only five full weeks left until Christmas Eve. On the other hand, love is almighty, eternal, and supreme.
4. P.L. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Director- John Lee Hancock
Walt Disney begins a 20-year effort to secure the movie rights to “Mary Poppins,” motivated by a promise he made to his daughters. P.L. Travers, the author, comes out as a staunch cynic who has no desire to see her cherished characters destroyed by the Hollywood studio system. Travers reluctantly decides to take Disney’s offer into consideration, but when the books stop selling, she finds herself in need of money.
5. Gareth Pierce in In The Name Of The Father (1993)
Director- Jim Sheridan
Gerry Conlon, a young unemployed Irishman, survives as a small-time robber in Belfast in the 1970s. He runs away to England and meets his friend Paul Hill there after the local IRA leaders become tired of him. The pals are expelled from their shared housing on the same night as the IRA bombs a neighbouring pub and are made to spend the night in a park. While trying to clear his identity while serving a 15-year prison sentence after being arrested as the bombing’s top suspect, he returns to Belfast.
6. Miss Kenton in The Remains Of The Day (1993)
Director- James Ivory
Due to Lord Darlington’s passing in the late 1950s, American Jack Lewis has just acquired Darlington Hall. James Stevens, the chief butler, is a member of the staff at the hall. Through his eyes, we are able to observe what transpired in the hallway over the previous 25 years, including the events leading up to World War II, Stevens’ unwavering loyalty to his employer and master, and his bond with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton.
7. Susan Stanton in Primary Colors (1998)
Director- Mike Nichols
Henry Burton, a young and talented politician, is chosen to direct Gov. Jack Stanton’s presidential campaign in this adaptation of the best-selling novel about Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential bid. Burton is drawn into the politician’s vibrant milieu and watches as Stanton spars with his aspirational wife Susan and an opinionated adviser named Richard Jemmons. Stanton has a wandering eye that could be his undoing.
8. Nanny McPhee in Nanny McPhee (2005)
Director- Kirk Jones
England in the 1860s. Cedric Brown, the widowed undertaker, regrettably has a lot on his plate. The seven rambunctious kids have managed to drive out not one but seventeen nannies with their intricate practical pranks and poor behaviour, while the frantic father strains his fingers to the bone to care for them. Then, on a stormy night, the evil government nanny extraordinaire, Nanny McPhee, enters Cedric’s home with the intention of improving the house and the children’s manners.
9. Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Director- Kenneth Branagh
The week prior to their wedding, Hero and her fiancé Claudio work together with Claudio’s commanding officer, Don Pedro, to devise a matchmaking plan. Given their mutual dislike for love and one another, their targets, the witty couple Benedick and Beatrice, are a challenge. Don John, who meddles, plans to sabotage the nuptials.
10. Katherine Newbury in Late Night (2019)
Director- Nisha Granata
On the late-night talk show circuit, Katherine Newbury is a pioneer and illustrious host. Affirmative action is one of the things she adds to her to-do list after getting accuse of being a “woman who hates women.” In Katherine’s all-male writers’ room, Molly gets employ as the lone female. But Molly might be too little, too late because the tenacious Katherine is also dealing with the fact that her show is receiving poor ratings and a network that wants to replace her. Molly is determined to assist Katherine in reviving her show and career—and perhaps bring about even greater change at the same time—in order to establish herself as more than just a diversity hire who is upsetting the brotherhood’s comfort.
