A face shot of Emily Blunt as she looks away from the camera
Blunt at the French premiere of Edge of Tomorrow in 2014

British actress Emily Blunt began her career as a teenager at the West End theatre, appearing alongside Judi Dench in a production of The Royal Family in 2001.[1] Her first screen appearance was in the television film Boudica (2003), and she made her film debut with the lead role of a teenager exploring her homosexuality in Paweł Pawlikowski's drama My Summer of Love (2004).[2][3] For playing the title role of an emotionally troubled young woman in the BBC television film Gideon's Daughter (2006), Blunt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.[4][5] In the same year, she gained wider recognition for playing a fashion editor's assistant in the American comedy The Devil Wears Prada, earning a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[1][6]

Following this breakthrough, Blunt played lead roles in several films, including the period drama The Young Victoria (2009), the science fiction romance The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and the romance Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011).[7] In 2014, she starred as a hardened sergeant in the action film Edge of Tomorrow and as the Baker's Wife in the musical fantasy Into the Woods.[1][8] She gained praise for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015) and an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016);[9][10][11] the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[12] In 2018, she starred in the critically acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place, directed by her husband John Krasinski, and in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns, in which she played the title character.[13] The former earned her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress.[14] She has since starred in the sequel A Quiet Place Part II, the adventure film Jungle Cruise (both 2021), and the revisionist Western television miniseries The English (2022).[15][16][17] In 2023, she portrayed Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller film Oppenheimer, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and ranks as her highest-grossing release.[18][19][20]

Alongside her screen work, Blunt has provided her voice to several animated films, including Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and its sequel Sherlock Gnomes (2018), and the English dub for The Wind Rises (2013). She has also narrated the audiobook Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives in 2010, and recorded songs for the soundtrack of her films Into the Woods, My Little Pony: The Movie, and Mary Poppins Returns.

Film

A side face shot of Emily Blunt as she looks towards the camera
Blunt at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Year[a] Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2004 My Summer of Love Tamsin [21]
2006 The Devil Wears Prada Emily Charlton [22]
Irresistible Mara [23]
2007 Wind Chill Girl [24]
The Jane Austen Book Club Prudie [25]
Dan in Real Life Ruthie Draper [26]
Charlie Wilson's War Jane Liddle [27]
2008 The Great Buck Howard Valerie Brennan [28]
Sunshine Cleaning Norah Lorkowski [29]
2009 The Young Victoria Queen Victoria [30]
Curiosity Emma Short film [31]
2010 The Wolfman Gwen Conliffe [32]
Wild Target Rose [33]
Gulliver's Travels Princess Mary [34]
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet Juliet Voice [35]
The Adjustment Bureau Elise Sellas [36]
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Harriet Chetwode-Talbot [37]
Your Sister's Sister Iris [38]
The Muppets Miss Piggy's Receptionist Cameo [39][40]
2012 The Five-Year Engagement Violet Barnes [41]
Looper Sara [42]
Arthur Newman Michaela / Charlotte Fitzgerald[b] [43]
2014 The Wind Rises Naoko Satomi Voice; English dub [44]
Edge of Tomorrow Rita Vrataski [45]
Into the Woods Baker's Wife [46]
2015 Sicario Kate Macer [47]
2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War Queen Freya [48]
The Girl on the Train Rachel Watson [49]
2017 Animal Crackers Zoe Huntington Voice [50][51]
My Little Pony: The Movie Tempest Shadow / Fizzlepop Berrytwist Voice [52]
2018 A Quiet Place Evelyn Abbott [53]
Sherlock Gnomes Juliet Voice [54]
Mary Poppins Returns Mary Poppins [55]
2020 Wild Mountain Thyme Rosemary Muldoon [56]
A Quiet Place Part II Evelyn Abbott [57]
2021 Jungle Cruise Lily Houghton [58]
2023 Oppenheimer Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer [59]
Pain Hustlers Liza Drake Also executive producer [60]
2024 The Fall Guy † Jody Banks Post-production [61]
IF † Unicorn Voice; post-production [62]
Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref
2003 Boudica Isolda Television film; aka Warrior Queen [63]
2003 Foyle's War Lucy Markham Episode: "War Games" [64]
2003 Henry VIII Catherine Howard [65]
2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot Linnet Ridgeway Episode: "Death on the Nile" [66]
2005 Empire Camane [67]
2005 The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle Jean Leckie Television film [68]
2006 Gideon's Daughter Natasha Television film [69]
2009 The Simpsons Juliet Episode: "Lisa the Drama Queen"; voice [70]
2015 Lip Sync Battle Herself Episode: "Emily Blunt vs. Anne Hathaway" [71]
2016 Saturday Night Live Herself Episode: "Emily Blunt/Bruno Mars" [72]
2022 The English Cornelia Locke Also executive producer [73]

Stage

Year Production Role Theater Ref
2000 Bliss Unknown Edinburgh Fringe Festival [74]
2001–2002 The Royal Family Gwen Cavendish Theatre Royal Haymarket [75]
2002 Vincent in Brixton Eugenie Loyer Royal National Theatre [76]
2002 Romeo and Juliet Juliet Chichester Festival Theatre [77]

Radio

Year Title Role Ref
2004 Bumps and Bruises Holly [78]

Audiobook

Year Title Ref
2010 Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives [79]

Web series

Year Title Role Notes Ref
2020 Some Good News Herself Episode 2 [80]

Discography

Soundtrack/Album Year Song Label Ref
Call Me Irresponsible 2007 "Me and Mrs. Jones" Reprise Records [81]
Into the Woods 2014 "A Very Nice Prince" Walt Disney Records [82]
"It Takes Two"
"Any Moment"
"Moments in the Woods"
"Finale/Children Will Listen (Part 1)"
My Little Pony: The Movie 2017 "Open Up Your Eyes" Hasbro Studios [83]
Mary Poppins Returns 2018 "Can You Imagine That?" Walt Disney Records [84]
"The Royal Doulton Music Hall"
"Introducing Mary Poppins"
"A Cover Is Not the Book"
"The Place Where Lost Things Go"
"Turning Turtle"
"Trip a Little Light Fantastic"
"Trip a Little Light Fantastic (reprise)"

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Refers to the film's earliest release
  2. ^ She played a dual role in the film.[43]

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