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Emily Mortimer

Mortimer at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party

Born Emily Kathleen A. Mortimer

1 December 1971 (age 40)

Finsbury Park, London, England

Alma mater Lincoln College, Oxford

Occupation Actress

Years active 1995–present

Spouse Alessandro Nivola

(m. 2003–present)

Parents John Mortimer (deceased)

Penelope (née Gollop)

Emily Kathleen A. Mortimer[1] (born 1 December 1971) is an English actress. She began performing on stage, and has since appeared in several film and television roles, including 30 Rock, Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Hugo, Cars 2, Shutter Island, Harry Brown and The Newsroom.[2]

Early life

Mortimer was born in Finsbury Park, London,[3] England, a daughter of Sir John Mortimer, QC (a lawyer and writer who created Rumpole of the Bailey) and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop).[4] She has a younger sister, Rosie; two older half-siblings, Sally Silverman and Jeremy, by her father’s first marriage, to author Penelope Fletcher; and a half-brother, Ross Bentley, by her father’s liaison with actress Wendy Craig.[5]

Mortimer studied at St Paul’s Girls’ School in west London (she was in the year below actress Rachel Weisz),[6] where she appeared in several student productions. She then went on to Oxford University, where she read Russian at Lincoln College and performed in several plays. Before becoming an actress, Mortimer wrote a column for the Daily Telegraph, and was also screenwriter for a screen adaptation of Lorna Sage’s memoir, Bad Blood.

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