milestones

Year
Milestone
1979 
Acted with Cambridge the University's theatrical club, the Footlights
1981 
Co-wrote, co-produced, co-directed and performed with Cambridge's first all-female revue, "Woman's Hour"
1983 
Worked with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in the sketch comedy series "Alfresco"
1984 
Wrote and performed the one woman show "Short Vehicle" at the Edinburgh Fringe
1985 
Co-starred opposite Robert Lindsay in the West End hit musical, "Me and My Girl"
1987 
Played Harriet Pringle opposite Kenneth Branagh in the BBC miniseries, "Fortunes of War"
1987 
Starred with Robbie Coltrane in the six-hour BBC miniseries, "Tutti Frutti"
1988 
Hosted and wrote own BBC-TV comedy-variety series, "Thompson"
1989 
Film debut in "The Tall Guy"
1989 
Cast opposite Kenneth Branagh in stage revival of "Look Back in Anger"; directed by Judi Dench
1989 
Acted the role of Katherine in "Henry V"; again directed by Branagh, who also co-starred
1992 
Had a memorable guest role on the NBC sitcom "Cheers" as Nanny Gee, a woman from Dr. Frasier Crane's past
1992 
Breakthrough screen role, co-starring with Anthony Hopkins in the Merchant-Ivory production, "Howards End"
1993 
Earned an Oscar nomination for her performance as a housekeeper in Merchant-Ivory's "The Remains of the Day"; again co-starred with Hopkins
1993 
Received an Oscar nomination for her role as the lawyer for the Guildford Four in Jim Sheridan's "In the Name of the Father"
1994 
Played a rare comic lead in "Junior" opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
1994 
Starred in the British TV drama "The Blue Boy"; first collaboration with mother, Phyllida Law, who played her on-screen mother
1995 
Made screenwriting debut with an adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility"; directed by Ang Lee; also co-starred; received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination
1997 
Played on-screen mother and daughter, opposite her real-life mother in "The Winter Guest"; directed by Alan Rickman
1997 
Appeared on the ABC sitcom "Ellen" as a British actress named 'Emma Thompson' who reveals she's a lesbian from Ohio
1998 
Cast as the wife of a presidential candidate (played by John Travolta) in the Mike Nichols directed "Primary Colors"
2001 
Returned to acting in Mike Nichols' TV adaption of the the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Wit" (HBO), playing a professor who develops ovarian cancer; also co-wrote the screenplay with Nichols; earned Emmy nominations for writing and acting
2003 
Starred in Richard Curtis' directorial debut "Love Actually"
2003 
Re-teamed with Nichols to play the Angel in the HBO miniseries adaption of "Angels in America"; earned SAG and Emmy nominations
2004 
Cast as Sibyl Trelawney, the ethereal and quirky professor of divination in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
2006 
Played a governess who uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in "Nanny McPhee"; also wrote screenplay
2006 
Voiced the narrator dictating Will Ferrell's life in the Marc Forster comedy, "Stranger Than Fiction"
2007 
Reprised role of Professor Sybill Trelawney in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
2008 
Co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the romantic comedy "Last Chance Harvey"
2008 
Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy ("Last Chance Harvey")
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