Emily Blunt is a British actress who has impressed audiences and critics with her versatile and powerful performances.
She has starred in a variety of film genres, from comedy to horror, and has won numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She is also known for her marriage to actor and director John Krasinski, with whom she worked on the critically acclaimed horror film A Quiet Place and its sequels.
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- Full name: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt
- Date of Birth: February 23, 1983
- Age: 41
- Gender: Female
- Birthplace: Wandsworth, London, England
- Nationality: British
- Occupation: Actor
- Height: 5 feet 7 inches (1.71 meters)
- Parents: Joanna Mackie and Oliver Blunt
- Siblings: Felicity Blunt, Sebastian Blunt and Susanna Blunt
- Spouse: John Krasinski
- Children: Hazel Krasinski and Violet Krasinski
- Marital status: Married
- Net worth: $80 million
Early life and education
Emily Blunt, 41, was born in Wandsworth, London, England, on February 23, 1983. She is the second of four children of Joanna McKee, a former actress and teacher, and Oliver Blunt, a lawyer.
She has an upper-class British background – her grandfather was a major-general and one of her uncles was a Conservative MP – and she is also close to actress Felicity Kendal, who is her distant cousin.
Blunt suffered from a stutter as a child, which she overcame with the help of a teacher who encouraged her to perform in different voices.
She attended Ibstock Square School and Hurtwood High School, a private high school known for its performing arts program.
She was discovered and signed by an agent while still in high school, and made her professional acting debut in 2001 in the West End play The Royal Family, starring opposite Judi Dench.
Personal life
Emily Blunt met American actor John Krasinski through a mutual friend in 2008. The two began dating soon after and became engaged in 2009.
The couple married in Como, Italy on July 10, 2010. They have two daughters, Hazel, born in 2014, and Violet, born in 2016.
Blunt became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2015, but retains her British citizenship. She and Krasinski currently live in Brooklyn, New York.
Profession
Emily Blunt began her career on stage, starring alongside Judi Dench in The Royal Family in 2001. She won the Evening Standard Best Newcomer Award for her performance.
In 2004, she made her film debut in My Summer of Love, which won her critical acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
In 2006, she rose to fame for her role as Miranda Priestley’s assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a British Academy Film Award.
In the same year, she also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her outstanding performance in the TV movie “Gideon’s Daughter”.
She has since starred in many genre films such as The Young Victoria, Edge of Tomorrow, Sicario, The Girl on the Train, A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, and Jungle Cruise.
She has received an Academy Award nomination, four Golden Globe Award nominations, four BAFTA Award nominations, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
She has also appeared on television shows such as Gideon’s Daughter, The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live and The Brits.
She has also provided voice acting for several animated films, such as Gnomeo and Juliet, The Wind Rises, and My Little Pony: The Movie.
She also scored the audiobook Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives and recorded songs for the soundtracks of her own films Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns.
Awards
Some of the awards Emily Blunt has received during her career include:
- Won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (TV Series, Miniseries or Television Film) for Gideon’s Daughter (2007).
- Won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Quiet Place (2019).
- Won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Action Movie Actress for Edge of Tomorrow (2015).
- Won the Empire Award for Best Actress for The Girl on the Train (2017).
- Won the Saturn Award for Best Actress for A Quiet Place (2019).
net worth
Emily Blunt’s net worth is estimated at $80 million, which is the combined net worth of her and her husband John Krasinski. Their combined wealth is almost evenly split, with John’s share being slightly higher.
However, in recent years, Emily has become one of the highest-paid actresses in the world. For example, between 2019 and 2020, she earned about $22 million from various acting activities.
dispute
Emily Blunt has been involved in several controversies, such as:
- Her comments about becoming a U.S. citizen, she later clarified that it was just a joke and apologized.
- She plays Mary Poppins, which some fans of the original film criticized as unnecessary and disrespectful to Julie Andrews.
- She criticized superhero movies as not being to her taste and turned down roles in Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger.
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Filmography
- My Summer Love
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Young Victoria
- Destiny Planning Bureau
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Sicario
- Girl on the Train
- A Quiet Place
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Jungle Cruise
- Oppenheimer
