Known for movies

Short Info

Net Worth$2 million
Date Of BirthDecember 1, 1971
SpouseAlessandro Nivola
Markhigh meek voice
FactEducated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as fellow actress Rachel Weisz.


Emily Mortimer is an English actress. She was born in Hammersmith, London, on 1 December 1971, to writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer and his second wife, Penelope Gollop (née Wilton). She has a younger sister, Rosie, and two half-brothers, Hugo and Alexander, from her father’s first marriage. Her grandfather was the barrister and author Raymond Mortimer.

Mortimer was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English. She later trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

Mortimer’s film debut was in Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, in which she played the Princess of France. She has since appeared in a number of films, including Scream 3 (2000), Lovely & Amazing (2001), Notting Hill (1999), Shutter Island (2010), Hugo (2011) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

Mortimer has also appeared on television, in series such as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992), Cold Feet (1997–98), Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000–01), The Book Group (2002), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Dr. Alice Tyler in Boston Legal (2004–05) and as Julia Flynt in NewsRadio (1995–96). She starred as Kay Mellor in the BBC One series The Syndicate (2012–13) and as Mary Beard in the Sky Atlantic series A History of Britain (2017).

Mortimer has been married to actor Alessandro Nivola since 2003. They have two children.

Mortimer’s net worth is estimated to be $8 million (£6 million).

General Info

Full NameEmily Mortimer
Net Worth$2 million
Date Of BirthDecember 1, 1971
Height1.73 m
ProfessionScreenwriter, Voice Actor
EducationUniversity of Oxford, Lincoln College, Oxford, St Paul's Girls' School

Family

SpouseAlessandro Nivola
ChildrenSamuel John Nivola, May Rose Nivola
ParentsJohn Mortimer, Penelope Gollop
SiblingsRosie Mortimer, Jeremy Mortimer, Ross Bentley, Sally Silverman

Accomplishments

AwardsIndependent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
NominationsSatellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical, European Film Audience Award for Best Actress, Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
MoviesShutter Island, Match Point, Hugo, Cars 2, Lars and the Real Girl, Our Idiot Brother, Lovely and Amazing, Young Adam, Transsiberian, The Pink Panther, The Pink Panther 2, Harry Brown, Dear Frankie, The 51st State, Spectral, Disney's The Kid, The Sleeping Dictionary, Redbelt, Howl's Moving Castle, No...
TV ShowsDoll & Em, The Newsroom, The Glass Virgin, No Bananas

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Marks

#Marks / Signs
1high meek voice

Quotes

#Quote
1[on Martin Scorsese] He gives you license to find the lights and darks in a character.
2But, yes, no matter how in character actresses are in a film, the moment they take off their clothes, you start wondering about them as a person. You start checking them out, in a way. It's a self-conscious moment for both the audience and for the actor and always, I think, slightly embarrassing.
3The preparation for a film is so ephemeral and hard -- you're lucky if you get a day of rehearsal or a chat with the director or actors on set. You really don't know what to do. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
4I wasn't prepared for the inexplicable, overwhelming feeling of love and protection, or how hard it would be to have to leave this little thing in the morning. The good thing about movies is that while you work hard for three or four months, you can have three months or so off afterward. Hopefully, it all works out. I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong. . . . Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die? [on having her son]
5...you can imagine, or think you can imagine, how to play almost anything - a drug addict, a bank robber, a killer - but the imagination doesn't prepare you for being a mother and those particular feelings.
6...acting was something I pretended I didn't want to do as I was growing up.
7I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, go buy a postage stamp in London, I'll go and do it.
8It doesn't feel like that. The big producers still want Kate Winslet and Kate Beckinsale, I suppose. - on whether she has made it into mainstream Hollywood.
9Until Frankie [Dear Frankie (2004)], I didn't realise that feeling part of a film was about staying up late, getting drunk, smoking and all that. And I wasn't doing it, obviously; or if I did, I felt wracked with guilt about it. That was odd. It felt much more like a job of work.
10I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it. But how do you think about it? There's no guidebook.
11To be in the hands of an auteur like [Andrei Tarkovsky], that would be just brilliant. But I don't know if those kind of films can ever be made any more. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe . . . it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. But that's part of the problem with politics and history and everything today, that people think there's a right and a wrong, a good and a bad . . . maybe there just isn't . . . .
12This is not meant to have happened to me at all. I am a Sloane, from the Chilterns.

Facts

#Fact
1Auditioned for The Black Dahlia (2006).
2Lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. USA [December 2012]
3Has become part of Martin Scorsese's acting company, working for him on three films.
4Was three months pregnant with her daughter May when she completed filming on Shutter Island (2010).
5Returned to work six months after giving birth to her daughter May in order to begin filming Our Idiot Brother (2011).
6Returned to work ten months after giving birth to her son Samuel in order to begin filming Match Point (2005).
7Her younger sister Rosie Mortimer gave birth to her son John just three days after Emily gave birth to her daughter May.
8Gave birth to her daughter May Rose Nivola, with husband Alessandro Nivola, in New York City, via Caesarean section (15 January 2010).
9Has two older half-siblings from her father's first marriage, Sally Silverman and Jeremy Mortimer.
10Was chosen to voice the young Sophie in the English language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004) because the producers felt that her voice resembled that of the young Jean Simmons, who voiced the old Sophie.
11Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as fellow actress Rachel Weisz.
12Fluent in Russian
13The name of her mother, Penelope, was also the name of her father's first wife.
14Attended Moscow Arts Theatre School.
15Attended St. Paul's Girls' School in London.
16Lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. [2004]
17Discovered an older half-brother, Ross Bentley, as a result of a past relationship between actress Wendy Craig and her father Sir John Mortimer. [September 2004]
18A Mexican punk band played at her wedding to Alessandro Nivola.
19Gave birth to her son Samuel John Nivola, with husband Alessandro Nivola, at London's Portland Hospital, weighing in at 7lbs 10oz (26 September 2003).
20Has one younger sister, Rosie Mortimer.
21Studied English & Russian at Lincoln College, Oxford (1990-1994). Daughter of John Mortimer and Penelope Gollop Mortimer.

Pictures

Movies

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Coming Home1998TV SeriesJudith
A Dance to the Music of Time1997TV Mini-SeriesPolly Duport
The Saint1997Woman on Plane
Midsomer Murders1997TV SeriesKatherine Lacey
The Last of the High Kings1996Romy Thomas
The Ghost and the Darkness1996Helena Patterson
No Bananas1996TV Mini-SeriesUna
Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives1996TV SeriesTilly
Lord of Misrule1996TV MovieEmma
Silent Witness1996TV SeriesFran
Ruth Rendell Mysteries1996TV SeriesElvira Crossland
Sharpe's Sword1995TV MovieLass
Screen Two1995TV SeriesAmanda Ellis
The Glass Virgin1995TV Mini-SeriesAnnabella Lagrange
Blue Heelers1994TV SeriesKelly
Under the Hammer1994TV SeriesAngela
Mary Poppins Returns2018pre-productionJane Banks
The Party2017post-production
The Bookshop2017post-productionFlorence Green
The Philosophy of Phil2016post-productionAlicia
The Sense of an Ending2017
Spectral2016Fran Madison
Wig Shop2016ShortChaya
Disney Infinity 3.02015Video GameHolley Shiftwell (voice)
Doll & Em2013-2015TV SeriesEmily
Ladygrey2015Olive
10,000 Saints2015Diane
The Newsroom2012-2014TV SeriesMacKenzie McHale
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes2014Video GameHolley Shiftwell (voice)
Rio, I Love You2014Dorothy (segment "La Fortuna")
Disney Infinity2013Video GameHolley Shiftwell (voice)
Kinect Fun Labs: Kinect Rush - A Disney Pixar Adventures: Snapshot2012Video GameHolley Shiftwheel (English version, voice)
Hugo2011Lisette
Cars 2: The Video Game2011Video GameHolley Shiftwell (voice)
Cars 22011Holley Shiftwell (voice)
Our Idiot Brother2011Liz
Leonie2010Leonie
Shutter Island2010Rachel 1
Harry Brown2009D.I. Alice Frampton
City Island2009Molly
The Pink Panther 22009Nicole
Chaos Theory2008Susan
Redbelt2008Laura Black
Transsiberian2008Jessie
Lars and the Real Girl2007Karin
30 Rock2007TV SeriesPhoebe
Paris, je t'aime2006Frances (segment "Pere-Lachaise")
The Pink Panther2006Nicole
Match Point2005Chloe Hewett Wilton
Howl's Moving Castle2004Young Sophie (English version, voice)
Dear Frankie2004Lizzie
Bright Young Things2003Nina
Young Adam2003Cathie Dimly
The Sleeping Dictionary2003Cecil
Nobody Needs to Know2003Emily
A Foreign Affair2003Angela Beck
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth2002TV MovieLady Diana - Princess of Wales
Formula 512001Dakota Parker
Lovely & Amazing2001Elizabeth Marks
The Kid2000Amy
The Miracle Maker2000Mary of Nazareth (voice)
Love's Labour's Lost2000Katherine
Scream 32000Angelina Tyler
Killing Joe1999Short
Notting Hill1999Perfect Girl
Noah's Ark1999TV Mini-SeriesEsther
Cider with Rosie1998TV MovieMiss Flynn
Elizabeth1998Kat Ashley

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Doll & EmTV Series story by - 6 episodes, 2015 written and created by - 6 episodes, 2015 creator - 6 episodes, 2013 written by - 6 episodes, 2013

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Wig Shop2016Short producer
Doll & Em2013TV Series associate producer - 1 episode

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Love's Labour's Lost2000performer: "I Won't Dance", "No Strings I'm Fancy Free", "Let's Face The Music And Dance", "They Can't Take That Away From Me"

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Today2016TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Larry King Now2015TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Meredith Vieira Show2015TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Conan2011-2015TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Late Late Show with James Corden2015TV SeriesHerself - Guest
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jane Fonda2014TV MovieHerself
Last Call with Carson Daly2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Talk2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Chelsea Lately2011-2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005-2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Jonathan Ross Show2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
This Morning2014TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Newsroom: Season 2 - Invitation to the Set2013TV Movie documentaryHerself
The 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards2013TV SpecialHerself - Presenter
The Daily Show2013TV SeriesHerself - Guest
SAG Foundation Conversations2012TV SeriesHerself
Good Morning America2012TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon2012TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Charlie Rose2012TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Newsroom: Season 1 - Invitation to the Set2012TV Movie documentaryHerself
Janela Indiscreta2012TV SeriesHerself
Made in Hollywood2011TV SeriesHerself
Up Close with Carrie Keagan2008-2011TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Daybreak2011TV SeriesHerself
Pixar: 25 Magic Moments2011TV Movie documentaryHerself
Shutter Island: Behind the Shutters2010Video documentary shortHerself
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2009TV SeriesHerself - Guest
The Orange British Academy Film Awards2009TV SpecialHerself - Presenter
John Mortimer: A Life in Words2009TV Movie documentaryHerself
Cinema 32008TV SeriesHerself - Interviewee
Días de cine2008TV SeriesHerself - Interviewee
Cartelera2008TV SeriesHerself - Interviewee
Èxit2008TV SeriesHerself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien2005-2008TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Breakfast2008TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Secret's Out2008TV SeriesHerself
Lars and the Real Girl: A Real Leading Lady2008Video shortHerself
Lars and the Real Girl: The Real Story of...2008Video shortHerself
Shootout2008TV SeriesHerself
Rabbit Fever2006Herself
Corazón de...2005TV SeriesHerself
Richard & Judy2005TV SeriesHerself - Guest
Steve Martin: An American Cinematheque Tribute2005TV SpecialHerself
From the Bottom Up2004Documentary shortHerself (uncredited)
The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards2004TV Movie documentaryHerself - Presenter: Best First Feature
Once Upon a Time in Utah, Sundance2003TV Movie documentaryHerself
Stephen Fry: Director Documentary2003Video documentary shortHerself / Nina
HBO First Look2002TV Series documentaryHerself
E! True Hollywood Story2001TV Series documentaryHerself
Who the Hell Is Stel Pavlou?2001Video shortHerself
A Kid Becomes the Kid2000TV ShortHerself
Conversations with Jon Turteltaub2000Video documentaryHerself
Rosamunde Pilcher1997TV Movie documentaryHerself / Judith Dunbar (uncredited)

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Chelsea Lately2013TV SeriesMacKenzie McHale
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story2010DocumentaryDakota Parker
Sky News: Sunrise2009TV SeriesHerself
Corazón de...2005TV SeriesChloe Wilton
Celebrity Naked Ambition2003TV Movie documentary

Awards

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2006OFTA Film AwardOnline Film & Television AssociationBest Voice-Over PerformanceHauru no ugoku shiro (2004)
2003COFCA AwardCentral Ohio Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressLovely & Amazing (2001)
2003Chlotrudis AwardChlotrudis AwardsBest Supporting ActressLovely & Amazing (2001)
2003Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest Supporting FemaleLovely & Amazing (2001)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2009Saturn AwardAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USABest ActressTranssiberian (2008)
2007EDA AwardAlliance of Women Film JournalistsBest Supporting ActressLars and the Real Girl (2007)
2007DFCS AwardDetroit Film Critic Society, USBest Supporting ActressLars and the Real Girl (2007)
2007Satellite AwardSatellite AwardsBest Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or MusicalLars and the Real Girl (2007)
2005Audience AwardEuropean Film AwardsBest European ActressDear Frankie (2004)
2005ALFS AwardLondon Critics Circle Film AwardsBritish Actress of the YearDear Frankie (2004)
2004Empire AwardEmpire Awards, UKBest British ActressYoung Adam (2003)
2004ALFS AwardLondon Critics Circle Film AwardsBritish Supporting Actress of the YearYoung Adam (2003)
2003CFCA AwardChicago Film Critics Association AwardsBest Supporting ActressLovely & Amazing (2001)
2003DVDX AwardDVD Exclusive AwardsBest Supporting Actress in a DVD Premiere MovieThe Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
2003Golden Satellite AwardSatellite AwardsBest Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or MusicalLovely & Amazing (2001)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2008COFCA AwardCentral Ohio Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressLars and the Real Girl (2007)

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia

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