Emily Blunt
Birthdate: Feb 23, 1983
Birthplace: Roehampton, London, England, UK
Emily Blunt co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas under Lasse Hallström’s direction in the rom-com based on Paul Torday’s novel, Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released by Lionsgate for a solid box-office return of $35 million. Blunt joined the late American director-writer Lynn Shelton as the star of the comedy-drama released by IFC Films, Your Sister’s Sister (2011), with Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, and Mike Birbiglia, which grossed an outstanding $3.2 million gross on a $120,000 budget.
Blunt starred opposite Jason Segel in The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which Segel co-wrote with director Nicholas Stoller and Stoller co-produced with Judd Apatow, and earned an underwhelming $54 million for Universal Pictures. Blunt shifted to sci-fi for filmmaker Rian Johnson in the dazzling hit, Looper (2012), co-starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and grossing $176.5 million globally after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival; and then Blunt lent her voice to the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki now-classic animated feature, The Wind Rises (2014), with the voice cast of Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Martin Short, Werner Herzog, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Stanley Tucci, and Elijah Wood.
Emily Blunt returned to sci-fi opposite co-star Tom Cruise in the Doug Liman-directed Edge of Tomorrow (2014), based on Hiroshima Sakurazaka’s novel, All You Need is Kill, and featuring Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleason, and grossed $370.5 million worldwide for Warner Bros. Blunt (as The Baker’s Wife) joined the ensemble of Disney’s well-received ($213-million-grossing) film version of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale-inspired musical, Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall and co-starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, and Johnny Depp.
Blunt co-starred with Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin in the border thriller, Sicario (2015), directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring Jon Bernthal, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, and Raoul Trujillo, earning both three Oscar nominations and $85 million in global box office. Blunt was Queen Freya opposite Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Sam Claflin, and Liam Neeson in the fantasy-action sequel, The Huntsmen: Winter’s War (2016), directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, but which lost money for Universal Pictures.
Emily Blunt starred in Paramount Pictures’ intense, smash-hit sci-if thriller, A Quiet Place (2018), directed and co-written by John Krasinski (who also appeared on screen), with cast members Millicent Simmons and Noah Jupe, and which won for Blunt a best supporting actor award from the Screen Actors Guild, as well as a knockout box-office return of $341 million after a South by Southwest Film Festival premiere. Blunt was a superb Mary Poppins in director Rob Marshall’s well-received, Oscar-nominated musical-fantasy for Disney, Mary Poppins Returns (2018), which co-starred Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, and Meryl Streep, and grossed a lofty $350 million global return.
Blunt returned to the romantic comedy mode in writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s Wild Mountain Thyme (2020), his big-screen adaptation of his play, Outside Mullingar, co-starring Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, and Christopher Walken, but which lost money (a poor $1.3 million) for the American, British, and Irish producers and distributor Bleecker Street and Lionsgate. Blunt continued her terrifying adventure as Evelyn and reunited with the cast from the original movie (along with new cast members Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou) for writer-director John Krasinski’s effective sequel, A Quiet Place II (2020), grossing a strong $297.4 million worldwide.
Emily Blunt joined co-star Dwayne Johnson for Disney’s disappointing Jungle Cruise (2021), with Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti under Jaume Collet-Serra’s direction, but losing a huge sum for the studio with a $221 million gross against a huge $200 million budget. Blunt played opposite Cillian Murphy as Kitty Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oscar-winner, Oppenheimer (2023), with a sprawling cast including Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, and Tom Conti, and delivering a whopping $970.5 million global gross.
Blunt co-starred with Ryan Gosling as The Fall Guy (2024), the David Leitch-directed big-screen version of the hit 1980s TV series, featuring the supporting cast of Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, and Stephanie Hsu, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a release by Universal Pictures. Blunt voiced one of the animal roles in director/writer/producer John Krasinski’s live-action/animated fantasy, IF (2024), with Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Phoebe Walter-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell, and released by Paramount Pictures.
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Personal Details
Emily Blunt was born and raised in the London, England, community of Roehampton, and was raised by parents Joanna Mackie (former actor, English teacher) and Oliver Blunt (barrister). Blunt has two sisters, Felicity and Susannah, and one brother, Sebastian. Blunt attended the (British) sixth-form boarding school, Hurtwood House, and was active in the school’s lauded performing arts curriculum. Blunt was discovered by agents when she appeared in one of the school’s productions that was staged at the Edinburgh Festival.
Blunt then immediately completed her school exams, graduated, and began auditioning for acting roles in London, debuting at age 18 in Peter Hall’s West End production of George S. Kaufman’s and Edna Ferber’s 1927 play, The Royal Family, starring Judi Dench. Blunt has been married to actor-filmmaker John Krasinski since 2010; the couple has two daughters, Violent and Hazel. Blunt is the sister-in-law of actor Stanley Tucci, who is married to Blunt’s sister, Felicity. Blunt’s height is 5’ 7”. Blunt’s estimated net worth is $80 million.
Known For
The Devil Wears Prada
(2006)
The Adjustment Bureau
(2011)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
(2011)
Filmography
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- 2024 | The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
- 2023 | Pain Hustlers
- 2023 | Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
- 2021 | Jungle Cruise
Jungle Cruise
Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.
- 2021 | A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place Part II
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.
- 2020 | Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Mountain Thyme
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
- 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns
A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
- 2018 | A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place
A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
- 2018 | Sherlock Gnomes
Sherlock Gnomes
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
- 2017 | Animal Crackers
- 2017 | My Little Pony: The Movie
My Little Pony: The Movie
After a dark force conquers Canterlot, the Mane 6 embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their homeland.
- 2016 | The Girl on the Train
The Girl on the Train
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
- 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War
- 2015 |
- 2014 | Into the Woods
Into the Woods
A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
- 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
- 2012 | Arthur Newman
- 2012 |
- 2011 | Your Sister's Sister
- 2012 | The Five-Year Engagement
The Five-Year Engagement
One year after meeting, Tom proposes to his girlfriend, Violet, but unexpected events keep tripping them up as they look to walk down the aisle together.
- 2011 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- 2011 | The Adjustment Bureau
- 2011 | Gnomeo & Juliet
- 2010 | Gulliver's Travels
- 2010 | Wild Target
- 2010 | The Wolfman
- 2009 | The Young Victoria
- 2008 | The Great Buck Howard
- 2008 | Sunshine Cleaning
- 2007 | The Jane Austen Book Club
- 2007 | Wind Chill
- 2006 | Irresistible
- 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada
- 2004 | My Summer of Love
Some Facts About Emily Blunt
Stuttering Struggles: Emily Blunt suffered from severe bouts of stuttering growing up, and found that acting and trying out various accents helped her largely overcome the condition.
American: Blunt is a naturalized US citizen, becoming a dual UK and US citizen in 2015.
AKA: Emily Blunt’s nicknames are “Em,” “Boop,” and “Snath.”
Supporter: Blunt has been a fundraiser for The Malala Fund, created by Malala Yousafzai to advocate for girls’ education. Blunt is a member of the board of directors of the American Institute for Stuttering, hosting its annual fundraising gala funding speech therapy scholarships.
