Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt shot to international prominence with her lead role in the multi award-winning British movie, My Summer of Love (2003) directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, for which she won the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 2004 Evening Standard Film Awards. She was also nominated in the Best Newcomer category at the 2004 British Independent Film Awards, and the film won the Best British Film award at the 2005 BAFTAs.

Emily started her career at the 2002 Chichester Festival, where she played Juliet in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” Her London debut was portraying Gwen Cavendish in a production of “The Royal Family,” opposite Dame Judi Dench.

Emily has worked extensively in British television: in 2003, she appeared in the British television drama Boudica; in the television adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile; and in the television series Foyle’s War.

In 2003 she went on to appear in Peter Travis’ Henry VIII, a two-part television drama documenting the stormy 38-year reign of the king. Emily played Henry’s fifth wife, the teenage Queen Catherine Howard. She co-starred with Ray Winstone, Helena Bonham-Carter and Michael Gambon and the series won the Best TV Movie at the 2003 International Emmy Awards.

Emily won a 2007 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Television for her performance in Gideon’s Daughter, in which Emily starred alongside Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson, directed by Stephen Poliakoff.

In 2005, Emily returned to feature film in The Devil Wears Prada as the intensely neurotic Emily Charlton, senior assistant at Runway Magazine, who is permanently on the verge of a nervous breakdown. David Frankel directed an all-star cast, including Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. Critics and audiences made The Devil Wears Prada a huge hit. Emily was nominated in the Breakthrough Female category at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards for her performance and was honored with the Breakthrough Award at the 2006 Movieline Young Hollywood Awards. She was also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs for the role.

Emily’s film career continues to be prolific; in 2005 she starred in horror film Wind Chill, directed by Greg Jacobs, with a release scheduled for summer 2007. In 2006 she filmed The Jane Austen Book Club; The Great Buck Howard, a comedy starring Tom Hanks, directed by Sean McGinly; and Dan In Real Life, with Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche and Dane Cook. Emily started shooting Sunshine Cleaning alongside Amy Adams and Alan Arkin in February 2007. She will also be seen in Mike Nicholls’s Charlie Wilson’s War with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymor Hoffman.

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