Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas DBE is an English actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best actress for The English Patient.
About Kristin Scott Thomas in brief
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas DBE is an English actress. She also holds French citizenship. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best actress for The English Patient. Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon, and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust. Her work includes Bitter Moon, Mission: Impossible, The Horse Whisperer, Gosford Park, The Valet, and Tell No One. She won the European Film Award for Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long. Her other films include Leaving, Love Crime, Sarah’s Key, Nowhere Boy, Only God Forgives, Darkest Hour, and Tomb Raider.
Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah, was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama. Kristin’s father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm, died in a flying accident when Kristin was aged five. She is the elder sister of Serena Scott Thomas and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott,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.
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