CINEMA / EMMA THOMPSON / CINE

Hi again my dear friends, I'm back from my Chinese travel, I have some adjectives to define it:  great, spectacular, exciting, surprising, marvellous, amazing, astonishing, and very very beautiful!
To start again, here you are a text about the actress Emma Thompson.  She is, in my personal opinion, a very good actress and she has made a lot of good films.  Surely you have seen some of her films!

Hola otra vez mis queridos amigos, de vuelta de mi viaje por China, tengo algunos adjetivos para definirlo: genial, espectacular, emocionante, sorprendente, maravilloso, fantástico, asombroso y muy muy bonito.
Para empezar de nuevo, aquí tenéis un texto sobre la actriz Emma Thompson.  Es, en mi opinión personal, una actriz muy buena y ha hecho muchas películas. Seguramente que habéis visto algunas de ellas.

EMMA THOMPSON   /  SCREEN AND STAGE.
EMMA THOMPSON  /   PANTALLA Y ESCENARIO.


**Emma Thompson was born on April 15th 1959 in a family of actors.
**Her father is well known for writing and narrating a children's TV series called "THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT" (La isla mágica).
**Her mother has appeared with her daughter in films like "Peter's Friends" (1992) and "Much Ado(sin más) About Nothing" (1993) a screen version of the  Shakespeare's play.

**Emma has lived most of her life in London but she has visited her mother's homeland in Scotland many times so she says that she feels Scottish.

**Thompson has attended (asistir) a State-run   comprehensive school (instituto público) for girls and then she was accepted to the University of Cambridge in which she studied English.  Afterwards, she entered an amateur theatre club "The Footlights Dramatic Club" that was established in 1883 and  which is still run (dirigido) by the university.   Many of Thompson's fellow student actors leapt from (saltaron de) the boards (tablas) to TV or to cinema, including Hugh Laurie (Dr. House).

**As an amateur actress, Thompson impressed theatrical agent Richard Armitage who signed her up two years before she graduated.

**Thompson's career has been very prolific and she has performed many diverse roles.  Some of her films:
*The Tall Guy (1989)
*Henry V
*Dead Again
*Sense and Sensibility
*Harry Potter
*Howards End
*The Reminds of the Day
            
**She married the also actor Kenneth Branagh but they divorced in 1994.
**Thompson is now married to actor Greg Wise.

**She won an Oscar for her adaptation of Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility.

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