Emerald Fennell
Emerald Lilly Fennell (born October 1, 1985) is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first gained attention for her roles in period drama films, such as Albert Nobbs (2011), Anna Karenina (2012), The Danish Girl (2015), and Vita and Virginia (2018). She went on to receive wider recognition for her starring roles in the BBC One period drama series Call the Midwife (2013–17) and for her portrayal of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in the Netflix period drama series The Crown (2019–20). As a writer-director, Fennell is known as the showrunner for season two of the BBC thriller series Killing Eve (2019), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2020, Fennell 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, becoming one of only seven women, and the first British woman, to be nominated for the latter.
| Known for | Writing |
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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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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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