English actress Emily Blunt began her career as a teenager at the West End theatre, appearing alongside Judi Dench in a production of The Royal Family in 2001. Her first screen appearance was in the television film Boudica (2003), and she made her film debut with the lead role of a teenager exploring her homosexuality in Paweł Pawlikowski's drama My Summer of Love (2004). For playing the title role of an emotionally troubled young woman in the BBC television film Gideon's Daughter (2006), Blunt won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. In the same year, she gained wider recognition for playing a fashion editor's assistant in the American comedy The Devil Wears Prada, earning a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Following this breakthrough, Blunt played lead roles in several films, including the period drama The Young Victoria (2009), the science fiction romance The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and the romance Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). In 2014, she starred as a hardened sergeant in the action film Edge of Tomorrow and as the Baker's Wife in the musical fantasy Into the Woods. She gained praise for playing a principled FBI agent in the crime film Sicario (2015) and an alcoholic in the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016); the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2018, she starred in the critically acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place, directed by her husband John Krasinski, and in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns, in which she played the title character. The former earned her the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequel A Quiet Place Part II, the adventure film Jungle Cruise (both 2021), and the revisionist Western television miniseries The English (2022). In 2023, she portrayed Katherine Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller film Oppenheimer, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and ranks as her highest-grossing release.
Alongside her screen work, Blunt has provided her voice to several animated films, including Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and its sequel Sherlock Gnomes (2018), and the English dub for The Wind Rises (2013). She has also narrated the audiobook Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives in 2010, and recorded songs for the soundtrack of her films Into the Woods, My Little Pony: The Movie, and Mary Poppins Returns.
Film
Year Title Role Notes 2004 My Summer of Love Tamsin 2006 Emily Charlton Irresistible Mara 2007 Wind Chill Girl Prudie Drummond Dan in Real Life Charlie Wilson's War 2008 Sunshine Cleaning Norah Lorkowski 2009 Queen Victoria Curiosity Emma Short film 2010 Wild Target Rose Gulliver's Travels Princess Mary 2011 Gnomeo & Juliet Juliet Voice Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Your Sister's Sister Iris Miss Piggy's Receptionist Cameo 2012 Looper Sara Arthur Newman 2014 The Wind Rises Voice; English dub Edge of Tomorrow Rita Vrataski Into the Woods Baker's Wife 2015 Sicario 2016 Queen Freya Rachel Watson 2017 Animal Crackers Zoe Huntington Voice My Little Pony: The Movie Tempest Shadow / Fizzlepop Berrytwist Voice 2018 Sherlock Gnomes Juliet Voice Mary Poppins Returns 2020 Wild Mountain Thyme Rosemary Muldoon 2021 Jungle Cruise 2023 Oppenheimer Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer Pain Hustlers Liza Drake Also executive producer 2024 The Fall Guy Jody Moreno IF Uni Voice 2025 The Smashing Machine Dawn Staples 2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 Emily Charlton Disclosure Day Margaret Fairchild 2027 Evelyn Abbott Filming TBA Margaret Flusk Post-production; Also producer
Television Year Title Role Notes 2003 Boudica Isolda Television film; aka Warrior Queen Foyle's War Episode: "War Games" Henry VIII 2004 Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode: "Death on the Nile" 2005 Empire Camane Television film 2006 Gideon's Daughter Natasha 2009 Juliet Hobbes Episode: "Lisa the Drama Queen"; voice 2015 Lip Sync Battle Herself Episode: "Emily Blunt vs. Anne Hathaway" 2016 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Emily Blunt/Bruno Mars" 2022 Also executive producer 2024 Saturday Night Live Herself Episode: "Ryan Gosling/Chris Stapleton"
Stage Year Production Role Theater 2000 Bliss Unknown Edinburgh Fringe Festival2001–2002 Theatre Royal Haymarket2002 Vincent in Brixton Eugenie Loyer Royal National Theatre Romeo and Juliet Juliet Capulet Chichester Festival Theatre
Radio Year Title Role 2004Bumps and BruisesHolly
Audiobook Year Title 2010Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Web series +YearTitleRoleNotes 2020Some Good News Herself Episode 2Episode 7
Discography Soundtrack/Album Year Song Label Call Me Irresponsible2007 "Me and Mrs. Jones" Reprise Records Into the Woods2014 Walt Disney Records "It Takes Two" "Any Moment" "Moments in the Woods" "Finale/Children Will Listen (Part 1)" My Little Pony: The Movie2017 "Open Up Your Eyes" Hasbro Studios Mary Poppins Returns2018 "Can You Imagine That?" Walt Disney Records "Introducing Mary Poppins" "Turning Turtle" "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" "Trip a Little Light Fantastic (reprise)"
See also List of awards and nominations received by Emily Blunt
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