奥斯卡最佳女演员

Emma Thompson was born in London on April 15, 1959, into a family of actors—her father was Eric Thompson, who has passed away; and her mother, Phyllida Law, has co-starred with Thompson in several films; her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. She attended Cambridge University, studying English Literature, and was part of the university's Footlights Group.

爱玛汤普森于1959年4月15日出生于伦敦的一个演艺世家。她的父亲是艾里克汤普森（已故）,母亲是费莉达洛，曾与爱玛共同主演过数部影片。她的妹妹苏菲汤普森也是一个演员。她进入剑桥大学的时候，学习的是英国文学，并且是学校戏剧小组的一员。

Thompson graduated in 1980 and embarked on her career in entertainment, beginning with stints on BBC radio and touring with comedy shows. She soon got her first major break in television on the comedy skit program “Alfresco”（1983). She also worked on other TV comedy review programs in the mid-1980s, occasionally with some of her fellow Footlights alums, and often with actor Robbie Coltrane.

爱玛在1980年毕业后便开始了她 的舞台生涯。起初，她在BBC广播节目中做定额演出，跟着一些喜剧节目组到处跑。很快她就在电视剧上有了重要突破，1983年她编写并出演了讽刺剧《在户外》。1980年代中期，她还为其他电视评论节目工作。

Thompson found herself collaborating again with Fry in 1985, this time in his stage adaptation of the play “Me and My Girl” in London's West End, in which she had a leading role，playing Sally Smith. The show was a success and she received favorable reviews, and the strength of her performance led to her casting as the lead in the BBC television miniseries “Fortunes of War” (1987), in which Thompson and her co-star, Kenneth Branagh, play an English ex-patriate couple living in Eastern Europe as the Second World War erupts. Thompson won a BAFTA award for her work on the program.

1985年，汤普森与斯蒂芬佛莱再次合作，出演他的舞台改编剧《我和我的姑娘》，演出地点在伦敦西区。她出演主角萨莉史密斯。这出舞台剧大获成功，爱玛的表演也受到了好评。凭借这次成功，爱玛获得了主演BBC电视剧《战争财》(1987)的机会。在《战争财》中，爱玛和肯尼思布莱纳格共同主演了一对二战爆发时移居东欧的英国夫妇。爱玛凭借此片贏得了英国电影和电视艺术学校奖。

In the late 80s and early 90s, she starred in a string of well-received and successful television and film productions, most notably her lead role in the Merchant-Ivory production of Howards End (1992)，which confirmed her ability to carry a movie on both sides of the Atlantic and appropriately showered her with trans-Atlantic honors both an Oscar and a BAFTA award.

20世纪80年代末90年代初，她出演了一系列大受欢迎的电视和电影。她在莫吉安特一伊沃里制片公司的电影《霍华德庄园》（1992)里的角色尤为突出。这个角色确立了她在大西洋两岸的影响力，并为她贏得了盛誉——奥斯卡和英国电影和电视艺术学院双料影后。

Since then, Thompson has continued to move effortlessly between the art film world and mainstream Hollywood，though even her Hollywood roles tend to be in more up-market productions. She continues to work on television as well, but is generally very selective about which roles she takes. She writes for the screen as well, such as the screenplay for Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)，in which she also starred as Elinor Dashwood, and the teleplay adaptation of Margaret Edson's acclaimed play Wit (2001)，in which she also starred.

此后，不管是出演文艺片，还是好莱坞主流片，爱玛都游刃有余，虽然她的好莱坞角色更为商业化。她仍会出演电视剧，只不过对角色总是精挑细选。她也写剧本，比如1995年的《理智与情感》（李安导演），同时她出演了片中埃莉诺达什伍德一角。还有一部改编自玛格丽特埃德森广受好评的同名舞台剧的电视剧《深知我心》（2001）， 也是由她撰写的剧本，在剧中她同样担当主演。