Kristin Scott Thomas

Biography

Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset. On leaving school in 1978, she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She began training to become a drama teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama, enrolling on a BEd in Speech and Drama. During her time at the school, she requested to switch degree courses to acting but was refused. After a year at Central, speaking French fluently, she decided to move to Paris to work as an au pair,[2] and studied acting at the École Nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT). When she was 25, she was cast as Mary Sharon in the film Under the Cherry Moon (1986). ... Source: Article "Kristin Scott Thomas" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For

Katharine Clifton

The English Patient

Sarah Davies

Mission: Impossible

Annie MacLean

The Horse Whisperer

Imogen Staxton-Billing

The Revengers' Comedies

Fiona

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Stelmania (voice)

The Golden Compass

Julie

Agent Trouble

Elena Van Den Ende

Man to Man

Fiona

Bitter Moon

Hélène Perkins, Anne's companion

Ne le dis à personne

Alette Naylor

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Sylvia McCordle

Gosford Park

Christine Levasseur

La Doublure

Joséphine

Arsène Lupin

Robin Kimball

Life as a House

Lady Anne

Richard III

Matty Crompton

Angels and Insects

Juliette

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime

Lady Elizabeth Boleyn

The Other Boleyn Girl

Mimi Smith

Nowhere Boy

Kay Chandler

Random Hearts

Mary Sharon

Under the Cherry Moon

Lynn Lockner

The Walker

Gloria Goodfellow

Keeping Mum

L'antiquaire

Seuls Two

Ann Ferguson

Largo Winch

Madame Feuillate

Lost and Found in Paris

Narrator

The Monkey Prince

Suzanne

Partir

Brenda Last

A Handful of Dust

Mrs. Whittaker

Easy Virtue

Iona Aylesbury

Chromophobia

Béatrice

Petites coupures

Mary Panton

Up at the Villa

Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy

Un été inoubliable

Patricia Maxwell

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Margit

La femme du Vème

Christine Rivière

Crime d'amour

Julia Jarmond

Elle s'appelait Sarah

Anna

Contre toi

Caroline

The Pompatus of Love

L'institutrice

Aux yeux du monde

Virginie Walters

Bel Ami

Crystal

Only God Forgives

Assistant to Hitchcock

Le Confessionnal

Jeanne

Dans la maison

Therese Mangeot

The Tenth Man

Leda St Gabriel

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

Catherine Ternan

The Invisible Woman

1st Woman

Play

Iva

Cherchez Hortense

Bijou

Les Cyclades

Kate

Framed

Mary-Jane Cooper

Les Milles

Katia

Force majeure

Marie

Charly

Sabine Schleheim

Mio caro dottor Gräsler

Marie Forestier

Le bal du gouverneur

Clara

Bille en tête

Marie

La Méridienne

Valentino! I love you

Claire

Plaisir d'offrir

Martine

En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît

Ann

Souvenir

Sarah

Amour & confusions

Elisabeth

Weep No More, My Lady

Lucie

Avant l'hiver

Diana

My Mother's Wedding

Madame Angellier

Suite Française

Chloé Girard

My Old Lady

Masha

Three Sisters

Self

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

Demain, je tombe amoureux

Clemmie

Darkest Hour

Janet

The Party

Caroline

The Endless Game

Self / Narrator (voice)

Daphné du Maurier: sur les traces de Rebecca

Susanne Klatten

Paramour

The Countess

Au bout des doigts

Ana Miller

Tomb Raider

Juliette

Cela s'appelle l'amour

Cashier 3

Boucherie fine

Fiona

One Red Nose Day and a Wedding

Mrs. Danvers

Rebecca

Kate

Military Wives

Self

Ne le dis à personne: La face B

Judith Edison

5ème Set

Self

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

Eleanor

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave

Self (archive footage)

Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre