Meet Emily Watson, born January 14, 1967, an English actress. She got Oscar noms for her first big role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996) and as Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), snaggin’ the BIFA Award for Best Actress for that one. She also nabbed a BAFTA TV Award for playin’ Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV biopic Appropriate Adult.
