Kristin Scott Thomas
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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).
Known for
Credits
Mission: Impossible (1996)
as Sarah Davies
Tomb Raider (2018)
as Ana Miller
The Golden Compass (2007)
as Stelmania (voice)
Darkest Hour (2017)
as Clemmie
Bitter Moon (1992)
as Fiona
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
as Fiona
The English Patient (1996)
as Katharine Clifton
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Annie MacLean
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
as Alette Naylor
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
Tell No One (2006)
as Helene Perkins
Random Hearts (1999)
as Kay Chandler
Gosford Park (2001)
as Sylvia McCordle
In the House (2012)
as Jeanne
My Mother's Wedding (2025)
as Diana
Life as a House (2001)
as Robin Kimball
Suite Française (2015)
as Madame Angellier
Keeping Mum (2005)
as Gloria Goodfellow
Easy Virtue (2008)
as Mrs. Whittaker
Only God Forgives (2013)
as Crystal
Military Wives (2020)
as Kate
Sarah's Key (2010)
as Julia Jarmond
Nowhere Boy (2009)
as Mimi Smith
Bel Ami (2012)
as Virginie Walters
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008)
as Ann Ferguson
Richard III (1995)
as Lady Anne
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
as Patricia Maxwell
Arsène Lupin (2004)
as Joséphine
Leaving (2009)
as Suzanne
2 Alone in Paris (2008)
as L'antiquaire
Rebecca (2020)
as Mrs. Danvers
The Party (2017)
as Janet
In Her Hands (2018)
as The Countess
Chromophobia (2006)
as Iona Aylesbury
My Old Lady (2014)
as Chloé Girard
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
as Margit
The Invisible Woman (2013)
as Catherine Ternan
The Valet (2006)
as Christine Levasseur
A Handful of Dust (1988)
as Brenda Last
Up at the Villa (2000)
as Mary Panton
Man to Man (2005)
as Elena Van Den Ende
Before the Winter Chill (2013)
as Lucie
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
as Mary Sharon
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)
as Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")
The Making of Gosford Park (2002)
as Self
In Your Hands (2011)
as Anna
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
as Juliette
The Walker (2007)
as Lynn Lockner
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
as Leda St Gabriel
Camembert (2026)
as France
The Tenth Man (1988)
as Therese Mangeot
Love Crime (2010)
as Christine Rivière
Two Tickets to Greece (2023)
as Bijou
Boucherie fine (1987)
as Cashier 3
The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
as Imogen Staxton-Billing
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding (2019)
as Fiona
Final Set (2021)
as Judith Edison
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2015)
as Self
The Pompatus of Love (1996)
as Caroline
Weep No More, My Lady (1992)
as Elisabeth
The Bachelor (1990)
as Sabine Schleheim
Small Cuts (2003)
as Béatrice
Angels and Insects (1995)
as Matty Crompton
Uncontrollable Circumstances (1989)
as Katia
In the Eyes of the World (1991)
as L'institutrice
Souvenir (1996)
as Ann
Agent trouble (1987)
as Julie
Les Milles (1995)
as Mary-Jane Cooper
Cela s'appelle l'amour (1989)
as Juliette
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House' (2002)
as Self
The Governor's Party (1990)
as Marie Forestier
Looking for Hortense (2012)
as Iva
An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
as Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
Lost and Found in Paris (—)
as Madame Feuillate
The Confessional (1995)
as Assistant to Hitchcock
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
The Endless Game (1989)
as Caroline
Tell No One: The B-Side (2007)
as Self
Play (2001)
as 1st Woman
Framed (1990)
as Kate
Three Sisters (2003)
as Masha
Mayday (1995)
as Martine
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps (2017)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave (2017)
as Eleanor
Headstrong (1989)
as Clara
Love & Confusions (1997)
as Sarah
The Monkey Prince (2003)
as Narrator
Valentino! I love you (1991)
Actor
Lounge Chair (1988)
as Marie
Plaisir d'offrir (1995)
as Claire
Paramour (—)
as Susanne Klatten
Charly (1985)
as Marie