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HOLLYWOOD STAR AWARDS®
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KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS AWARD® HONOREE
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS'S BIOGRAPHY
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Kristin Scott Thomas has become internationally renowned for her talent, elegance and commitment to her craft. Never shying away from challenging roles and determined not to repeat herself, Scott Thomas's body of work is an extraordinary collection of acclaimed film, television and theatre performances.
This fall, Scott Thomas will star in several highly anticipated projects for the stage and screen. She made her Broadway debut in "The Seagull" in a performance for which she won the Olivier Award for "Best Actress" during the play's recent run at London's Royal Court Theatre. Scott Thomas also will soon star in Phillipe Claudel's French language film, "I've Loved You So Long," a story of redemption following a woman who has committed a terrible crime and returns to live with her young sister after being banished from her family. The film is slated for an October release from Sony Classics. Scott Thomas is part of a stellar cast, including Isla Fisher, John Goodman, Joan Cusack, and John Lithgow, for the upcoming film "Confessions of a Shopaholic," based on the novel by Sophie Kinsella. The Walt Disney Studios film is set to hit theaters in February 2009. Scott Thomas recently wrapped production on Stephan Elliot's "Easy Virtue." Based on the play by Sir Noel Coward, Scott Thomas stars opposite Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes and Colin Firth.
Scott Thomas won over audiences and critics alike with her Academy-award nominated performance in the late Anthony Minghella's "The English Patient," where she starred opposite Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. Of her performance, Kenneth Turan wrote, Scott Thomas "gives a gorgeous and magnetic performance that adds unanticipated new dimensions to an already formidable talent." For her performance she was honored by the National Board of Review, and was nominated for Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
Making her U.S. film debut in Prince's "Under a Cherry Moon," Scott Thomas went on to great acclaim in Mike Newell's "Four Weddings and a Funeral," opposite Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell, where she won a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress. Other notable credits include: Philip Haas's "Angels and Insects"; Richard Loncraine's "Richard III"; Brian DePalma's "Mission Impossible"; Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer"; Sydney Pollack's "Random Hearts"; Irwin Winkler's "Life as a House"; Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon"; Paul Schrader's "The Walker" and Justin Chadwick's recent film, "The Other Boleyn Girl," where Scott Thomas starred opposite Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
In 2001, Scott Thomas was part of the ensemble for Robert Altman's acclaimed, Oscar®-winning film, "Gosford Park." The cast, which also included Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Ryan Phillippe, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates, Emily Watson and Bob Balaban, went on to garner numerous awards and nomination including the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture and the Broadcast Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble.
Fluent in French and having been a resident of Paris since she was 19, Scott Thomas has appeared in numerous French films, including Guillame Canet's "Ne le Dis à Personne" ("Tell No One"), Francis Veber's "Le Doublure" ("The Valet") and Pascal Bonitzer's "Petites Coupures" ("Small Cuts"). In television, Kristin Scott Thomas has starred in a number of admired mini-series and made-for-TV movies including "Gulliver's Travels"; "Belle Epoque"; "Body and Soul"; "Weep No More, My Lady" and "The Secret Life of Ian Fleming."
Scott Thomas was born in Southwest England, and in her teens enrolled in drama school at Paris's École Nationale des Arts et Technique de Théâtre. For all of her success in film, Scott Thomas has maintained a deep connection to the theatre starring in celebrated revivals such as Pirandello's "As You Desire Me" and Chekhov's "Three Sisters" for London's Playhouse Theatre.
(October 2008)
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