Kristin Scott Thomas

Did You Know?

• Kristin is married to Francois Oliviennes and they have three children, Hannah, Joseph and George.
• Her father was a British Royal Navy pilot who died in a flying accident in 1964.
• Kristin's mother remarried another pilot. He died six years later in a plane crash, similar to her father's death.
• Kristin has four brothers and sisters, including actress Serena Scott Thomas.
• She speaks fluent French and dubbed her movie Four Weddings And A Funeral in French.
• Kristin attended Cheltenham's Ladies College but left school at sixteen and joined a convent.
• After some time at the convent, Kristin again changed her mind and entered the Central School of Speech and Drama.
• Kristin's mother disagreed with her acting aspirations, so Kristin changed her major to drama without telling her mother. When the head of the school found out, he considered this an "act of treason" and told her she had no future in acting.
• After feeling sorry for herself for sometime, Kristin up and visited a friend in Paris and never returned to her home.
• She took a job as a Parisian au pare (nanny) and under the encouragement of that family, she joined acting classes at L'Ecole Nationale des Arts et Techniques de Theatre.

Movie Highlights

The English Patient (1996)
Kristin earned an Oscar nomination for her role in The English Patient.

Actor Credits

1. Easy Virtue (2009)
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
3. Nowhere Boy (2009)
4. I've Loved You So Long (2008)
5. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
6. The Walker (2007)
7. The Valet (2007)
8. Keeping Mum (2006)
9. Gosford Park (2001)
10. Life As A House (2001)
11. Up At The Villa (2000)
12. Random Hearts (1999)
13. The Horse Whisperer (1998)
14. The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
15. Gulliver's Travels (1996)
16. Mission: Impossible (1996)
17. The English Patient (1996)
18. The Pompatus Of Love (1995)
19. Le Confessionnal (1995)
20. Richard III (1995)
21. Angels And Insects (1995)
22. Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
23. Bitter Moon (1992)
24. Weep No More My Lady (1992)
25. The Bachelor (1991)
26. The Endless Game (1990)
27. The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming (1990)
28. Framed (1990)
29. Spymaker (1990)
30. A Handful Of Dust (1988)
31. The Tenth Man (1988)
32. Under The Cherry Moon (1986)

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