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Aliases: Kristin Ann Scott Thomas , کریستین اسکات تامس , Kristen Scott Thomas , Kristin Scott-Thomas , Dame Kristin Thomas

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 70

TV Involvements: 11


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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.

Most Famous Work

Mission: Impossible
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7

Mission: Impossible

(1996) Sarah Davies
Tomb Raider
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6

Tomb Raider

(2018) Ana Miller
The Horse Whisperer
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7

The Horse Whisperer

(1998) Annie MacLean
The Oscars
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7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
My Mother's Wedding
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8

My Mother's Wedding

(2025) Diana
Gulliver's Travels
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7

Gulliver's Travels

(1996) Immortal Gatekeeper
The Golden Compass
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6

The Golden Compass

(2007) Stelmania (voice)
Darkest Hour
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7

Darkest Hour

(2017) Clemmie

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 Diana
2023 Bijou
2022 Diana Taverner
2021 Judith Edison
2020 Mrs. Danvers
Celia
Kate
2019 Self
Self (archive footage)
Fiona
2018 The Countess
Ana Miller
2017 Clemmie
Janet
Eleanor
Self / Narrator (voice)
2016 Belinda
2015 Self
Madame Angellier
Self
2014 Chloé Girard
Kay Summersby (voice)
Self
2013 Catherine Ternan
Lucie
Crystal
2012 Jeanne
Iva
Patricia Maxwell
Virginie Walters
2011 Margit
Anna
2010 Julia Jarmond
Christine Rivière
2009 Mimi Smith
Suzanne
Alette Naylor
2008 Ann Ferguson
Mrs. Whittaker
L'antiquaire
Juliette
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
2007 Stelmania (voice)
Self
Self
Lynn Lockner
2006 Hélène Perkins, Anne's companion
Iona Aylesbury
Christine Levasseur
2005 Gloria Goodfellow
Elena Van Den Ende
2004 Joséphine
2003 Narrator
Masha
Béatrice
2002 Self
Self
2001 Sylvia McCordle
Robin Kimball
1st Woman
2000 Mary Panton
1999 Kay Chandler
Self
1998 Self
Imogen Staxton-Billing
Annie MacLean
1997 Sarah
1996 Katharine Clifton
Caroline
Ann
Sarah Davies
Immortal Gatekeeper
1995 Lady Anne
Assistant to Hitchcock
Matty Crompton
Mary-Jane Cooper
Claire
Martine
Alice Avellano
1994 Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Fiona
1993 Sister Gabriel / Anna
1992 Plum Berkeley
Fiona
Elisabeth
1991 Jenny
N/A
L'institutrice
1990 Kate
Sabine Schleheim
Leda St Gabriel
Marie Forestier
1989 Juliette
Caroline
Clara
Katia
1988 Therese Mangeot
Brenda Last
Marie
1987 Julie
Cashier 3
1986 Mary Sharon
1985 Marie
1984 Nancy
1983 N/A
1976 Self - President
1953 Self
1951 Therese
Susanne Klatten
N/A
Madame Feuillate
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2025 Director
Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2025 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2025 Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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