Emerald Fennell
Emerald Lilly Fennell (born 1 October 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). She gained prominence for her starring role in the BBC One drama series Call the Midwife (2013–2017) and for her portrayal of Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2019–2020), the latter of which garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC spy thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She made her feature film directorial debut with the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Fennell also wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cinderella (2021) and directed her second film, the psychological thriller Saltburn (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Emerald Fennell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known for | Directing |
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| Born | 1 Oct 1985 |
| Place of birth | Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
Favorite films
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I cry the whole way through that film, it’s so beautiful.
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There was a time when making a movie, it was expected that it would be a visual spectacle, that it would be expressive. … Nobody could dream of making something like that now. Because they wouldn’t let you.
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Catherine Breillat’s work is explosive. For better or worse. … There’s a coldness that is so disconcerting. … There’s always a tension between disgust and arousal. And that’s where I like to live.
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My favorite film of all time is Jurassic Park, so I would love to get in on the dinosaurs. Well, first and foremost, it’s very erotic. I think humans and dinosaurs have gotten to that stage in their time together where things are starting to get quite thrilling. So, there’s a marriage between a man and a velociraptor and it’s basically a domestic drama.
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Ursula the Sea Witch is my inspiration and my muse. I’ve always loved her. I’ve always felt she deserves her own prequel where she’s misunderstood. She’s just going to the clubs, in that iconic outfit, stuffing souls into little bottles and then harvesting them.
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I’ve got to say Barbie is pretty spectacular. Walking into Barbie Land and seeing my whole childhood built with such diligence and care was so moving and amazing.
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The thing that I was obsessed with was Cape Fear. … because the scene where Robert De Niro comes to the high school to seduce … Juliette Lewis, the daughter. It's one of the sexiest things I've ever seen.
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… another very troublingly sexy film.
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To make the seduction. The thing that is so terrifying is you have to make it completely conceivable that you would fall to. It’s so brilliant. It is so brilliant, that film.
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I think it’s a really good, what’s the word, shibboleth. … it’s the funniest film I’ve ever seen.
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It’s such a great example of an adaptation which is an emotional response to the book as much as a literal one. … There’s a kind of wet heat in there that you can feel.
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That film is in my DNA. It came out at a similar time to when I read Wuthering Heights. It gave me the same feeling; there are works of art that define your life and are part of you forever. … You can only make the thing it made you feel.
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It’s always thrilling to me when a man comes into a space and thinks he’s going to have the best time of his life and then he finds out he’s in a nightmare. … I love the softness with which she pads these razor blades.
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We are looking at a time when these leading men were dangerous, were scary. When they had a sexual charisma, and an almost subtextual threat. … You cannot escape the time in which you make something.
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It’s in my core. It’s so interesting that the Bluebeard story is a touch point for so many women. … It’s not a safe story for any woman inside it.
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