Emily Olivia Laura Blunt\u00a0(born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She has received\u00a0several accolades, including a\u00a0Golden Globe Award\u00a0and two\u00a0Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to nominations for an\u00a0Academy Award and four\u00a0British Academy Film Awards.\u00a0Forbes ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020.<\/p>\n
Blunt made her acting debut in the 2001 drama production of\u00a0The Royal Family\u00a0and portrayed\u00a0Catherine Howard\u00a0in the television miniseries\u00a0Henry VIII\u00a0(2003). She made her feature film debut in the drama\u00a0My Summer of Love\u00a0(2004). Blunt’s breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film\u00a0Gideon’s Daughter\u00a0and the comedy-drama \u00a0The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a\u00a0Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her profile continued to grow with leading roles in the period film\u00a0The Young Victoria\u00a0(2009), the romantic comedy\u00a0Salmon Fishing in the Yemen\u00a0(2011), the science fiction films\u00a0The Adjustment Bureau\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Looper(2012) and\u00a0Edge of Tomorrow\u00a0(2014), and the musical\u00a0Into the Woods\u00a0(2014).<\/p>\n
Blunt received critical acclaim for playing an idealistic FBI agent in the crime film\u00a0Sicario\u00a0(2015), an alcoholic in the psychological thriller\u00a0The Girl on the Train\u00a0(2016), and a survivalist mother in her husband\u00a0John Krasinski’s horror film\u00a0A Quiet Place\u00a0(2018), for which she won a\u00a0SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since starred in the sequels\u00a0Mary Poppins Returns\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0A Quiet Place Part II\u00a0(2021), the fantasy adventure\u00a0Jungle Cruise\u00a0(2021), and the\u00a0revisionist Western\u00a0television miniseries\u00a0The English\u00a0(2022). Her portrayal of\u00a0Katherine Oppenheimer\u00a0in\u00a0Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller film\u00a0Oppenheimer\u00a0(2023) earned her a nomination for the\u00a0Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<\/p>\n
Blunt has been working with the\u00a0American Institute for Stuttering\u00a0since 2006 to help children overcome stuttering through educational resources and raise awareness of the realities of the condition. She is on the institute’s board of directors and hosts a gala to raise funds for\u00a0speech therapy\u00a0scholarships for children and adults.<\/p>\n
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