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Emily Watson

Emily Watson

9 films · 629 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19962022

Born 14 January 1967 · Islington, London, England, UK

Emily Margaret Watson is an English actress. She began her career on stage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1992. In 2002, she starred in productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya at the Donmar Warehouse. She was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress for the latter.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 629 frames · top-billed in 6 · 19962022

  • British Academy Television Award for Best Actress2011
  • Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance2024
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  • Donostia Award2015
  • Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role1997
  • European Film Award for Best Actress1996

How their films are shot

Measured across 629 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Emily takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 9 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 44% natural — the look of the work Emily takes.

Time of day

Day49%
Night33%
Interior9%
Dusk5%

Lighting

Natural44%
Low key37%
High key11%
Silhouette7%

Shot size

Medium41%
Closeup25%
Wide23%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level88%
High angle8%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral62%
Lonely18%
Tense13%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 629 frames from Emily Watson's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.