Emily Blunt

Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (b. 23 February 1983) is an English actress. She has won various awards, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. Forbes ranked her among the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020. Blunt had her first acting experience in 2001 in the stage production The Royal Family. She then appeared in the television film Boudica (2003) and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII (2003). Her first feature film role was in the drama My Summer of Love (2004). Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with leading roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada. Her first film earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, while her second film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Blunt continued to grow with her leading roles in the period film The Young Victoria (2009), romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014), as well as musicals Into the Woods (2014) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). In the crime film Sicario (2015), she portrayed a principled FBI agent, and in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), she played an alcoholic woman; these roles earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. She won the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a mother struggling to survive in husband John Krasinski's horror film A Quiet Place (2018). Since then, she has appeared in the sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Jungle Cruise (2021), the western miniseries The English (2022), Oppenheimer (2023), and Pain Hustlers (2023).