Emily Mortimer - Biography

Last Editor: kragle				Emily Mortimer Biography -   Name : Emily Mortimer Birthday : December 1, 1971 Birthplace : London, England, United Kingdom Height : 5' 8 Occupation : Actress

Emily Mortimer Trivia -

She studied English & Russian at Lincoln College, Oxford (1990-94). Daughter of John Mortimer and Penelope Gollop. She has one younger sister, Rosie Mortimer. Son, Sam Nivola, was born September 26, 2003, with Alessandro Nivola. A Mexican punk band played at her wedding to Alessandro Nivola. She discovered an older half-brother, Ross Bentley, as a result of a past relationship between actress Wendy Craig and her father Sir John Mortimer. [17 September 2004] She lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. [2004] She attended St. Paul's Girls' School in London. She attended Moscow Arts Theatre School. The name of her mother, Penelope, was also the name of her father's first wife. Fluent in Russian Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as fellow actress Rachel Weisz. Was chosen to voice the young Sophie in the English language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004) because the producers felt that her voice resembled that of the young Jean Simmons, who voiced the old Sophie. She has two older half-siblings from her father's first marriage, Sally Silverman and Jeremy Mortimer.

Emily Mortimer Detailed Biography -

Emily Mortimer was born in Great Britain in 1971. Mortimer's father is author John Mortimer, best known for his series of Rumpole of the Bailey mystery novels, and she seems to have absorbed her father's literary influence -- before her career as an actress took off, Mortimer wrote a column for the London Telegraph, and she's served as screenwriter for an screen adaptation of Lorna Sage's book Bad Blood. Mortimer was a student at the prestigious St. Paul's Girls School when she first developed an interest in acting, appearing in several student productions. After graduating from St. Paul's, she moved on to Oxford, where she majored in Russian. Mortimer found time to perform in several plays while studying at Oxford, and while acting in a student production she impressed a producer who cast her in a supporting role in a television adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin in 1995. Several more television roles followed, including the British TV movie Sharpe's Sword, before she won her first film role, playing the wife of John Patterson (Val Kilmer) in 1996's The Ghost and the Darkness. Mortimer had a much showier role in the Irish coming-of-age story The Last of the High Kings, released later the same year, and in 1998, Mortimer played Miss Flynn in the TV miniseries Cider With Rosie, which was adapted for television by her father, John Mortimer. Also in 1998, Mortimer appeared as Kat Ashley in the international hit Elizabeth, and in 1999, she enjoyed three showy roles that raised her profile outside the U.K.: She was the ill-fated "Perfect Girl" dropped by Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, appeared as Esther in the American TV miniseries Noah's Ark, and was Angelina, the star of the film-within-a-film, in the upscale slasher flick Scream 3. In 2000, Mortimer was cast as Katherine in Kenneth Branagh's ill-fated musical adaptation of Love's Labour's Lost, but the experience had a happy ending for her -- she met actor Alessandro Nivola, and the two soon fell in love and have been together ever since. That same year, Mortimer took on her biggest role in an American film to date, playing opposite Bruce Willis in The Kid, and 2002 promised to be a big year for her, with major roles in two major releases -- The 51st State, starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson, and a key supporting character in John Woo's war drama Windtalkers.