Kristin Scott Thomas
Known for Acting · 118 credits
- Born
- 1960-05-24 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as
- Kristin Ann Scott Thomas · کریستین اسکات تامس · Kristen Scott Thomas · Kristin Scott-Thomas · Dame Kristin Thomas
Biography
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996).
Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful of Dust (1988). Her work includes Bitter Moon (1992), Mission: Impossible (1996), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Gosford Park (2001), The Valet (2006), and Tell No One (2007). She won the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long (2008). Her other films include Leaving (2009), Love Crime (2010), Sarah's Key (2010), Nowhere Boy (2010), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), Darkest Hour (2017), and Tomb Raider (2018). On television, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest appearance in the second season of the comedy series Fleabag (2019), and has starred in the Apple TV+ spy series Slow Horses since 2022.
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. She was named a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005.
Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah (née Hurlbatt), was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa, and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm 893 Squadron, who died in a flying accident on a de Havilland Sea Vixen when Kristin was aged five. She has three siblings, including Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas (a former Black Rod), the granddaughter of William Scott Thomas (who commanded HMS Impulsive during World War II) and the great-great-niece of the polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
The childhood home of Scott Thomas was in Trent, near Sherborne, Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, Lieutenant Commander Simon Idiens (of Simon's Sircus aerobatic team flying Sea Vixens), who also died in a flying accident whilst flying a Phantom FG1 from RNAS Yeovilton off the North coast of Cornwall in January 1972. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset.
Known For
TV Shows (26)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Slow Horses
2022
as Diana Taverner
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Natural World
1983
American Playhouse
1982
as Matty Crompton
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
as Plum Berkeley
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self - Guest
Fleabag
2016
as Belinda
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - President
The Directors
1999
as Self
Mistral's Daughter
1984
as Nancy
Elle Style Awards
1997
as Self - Winner
Gulliver's Travels
1996
as Immortal Gatekeeper
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Therese
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Celia
D-Day Sacrifice
2014
as Kay Summersby (voice)
The Endless Game
1989
as Caroline
Body & Soul
1993
as Sister Gabriel / Anna
My Grandparents' War
2019
as Self
Belle Époque
1995
as Alice Avellano
Titmuss Regained
1991
as Jenny
Look At It This Way
1992
as Victoria Rolfe
Movies (92)
Mission: Impossible
1996
as Sarah Davies
In the House
2012
as Jeanne
Tomb Raider
2018
as Ana Miller
Darkest Hour
2017
as Clemmie
My Mother's Wedding
2025
as Diana
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
as Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
The Golden Compass
2007
as Stelmania (voice)
Only God Forgives
2013
as Crystal
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
as Alette Naylor
Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
as Fiona
Bel Ami
2012
as Virginie Walters
In Your Hands
2011
as Anna
The Horse Whisperer
1998
as Annie MacLean
Leaving
2009
as Suzanne
The English Patient
1996
as Katharine Clifton
2 Alone in Paris
2008
as L'antiquaire
Bitter Moon
1992
as Fiona
Arsène Lupin
2004
as Joséphine
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
2012
as Patricia Maxwell
Boucherie fine
1987
as Cashier 3
Camembert
2026
as France
The Party
2017
as Janet
Gosford Park
2001
as Sylvia McCordle
Rebecca
2020
as Mrs. Danvers
The Invisible Woman
2013
as Catherine Ternan
Tell No One
2006
as Helene Perkins
Cela s'appelle l'amour
1989
as Juliette
The Tenth Man
1988
as Therese Mangeot
Sarah's Key
2010
as Julia Jarmond
Random Hearts
1999
as Kay Chandler
Love Crime
2010
as Christine Rivière
Chromophobia
2006
as Iona Aylesbury
Suite Française
2015
as Madame Angellier
Keeping Mum
2005
as Gloria Goodfellow
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003
as Self (archive footage) (segment "Play")
Nowhere Boy
2009
as Mimi Smith
The Pompatus of Love
1996
as Caroline
Easy Virtue
2008
as Mrs. Whittaker
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008
as Ann Ferguson
My Old Lady
2014
as Chloé Girard
Life as a House
2001
as Robin Kimball
In Her Hands
2018
as The Countess
Richard III
1995
as Lady Anne
Play
2001
as 1st Woman
The Monkey Prince
2003
as Narrator
An Unforgettable Summer
1994
as Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
The Walker
2007
as Lynn Lockner
Character Building: Inside 'Life As a House'
2002
as Self
A Handful of Dust
1988
as Brenda Last
The Valet
2006
as Christine Levasseur
Souvenir
1996
as Ann
Angels and Insects
1995
as Matty Crompton
Under the Cherry Moon
1986
as Mary Sharon
The Revengers' Comedies
1998
as Imogen Staxton-Billing
The Woman in the Fifth
2011
as Margit
The Confessional
1995
as Assistant to Hitchcock
Looking for Hortense
2012
as Iva
Military Wives
2020
as Kate
I've Loved You So Long
2008
as Juliette
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Leda St Gabriel
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007
as Self
The Endless Game
1989
as Caroline
Man to Man
2005
as Elena Van Den Ende
Weep No More, My Lady
1992
as Elisabeth
In the Eyes of the World
1991
as L'institutrice
Up at the Villa
2000
as Mary Panton
Agent trouble
1987
as Julie
Before the Winter Chill
2013
as Lucie
Plaisir d'offrir
1995
as Claire
Lost and Found in Paris
as Madame Feuillate
Framed
1990
as Kate
The Governor's Party
1990
as Marie Forestier
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989
as Katia
Les Milles
1995
as Mary-Jane Cooper
Love & Confusions
1997
as Sarah
The Making of Gosford Park
2002
as Self
Final Set
2021
as Judith Edison
Valentino! I love you
1991
Small Cuts
2003
as Béatrice
Daphne du Maurier: In Rebecca's Footsteps
2017
as Self / Narrator (voice)
The Bachelor
1990
as Sabine Schleheim
Lounge Chair
1988
as Marie
Headstrong
1989
as Clara
Two Tickets to Greece
2023
as Bijou
Three Sisters
2003
as Masha
Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Mayday
1995
as Martine
Paramour
as Susanne Klatten
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
2015
as Self
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
2019
as Fiona
Charly
1985
as Marie
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
2017
as Eleanor
About Kristin Scott Thomas
Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas (born 24 May 1960) is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996). Scott Thomas made her film debut in Under the Cherry Moon (1986), and won the Evening Standard Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for A Handful… With 118 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, Kristin Scott Thomas has appeared in 92 films and 26 TV shows.
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Most Popular Kristin Scott Thomas Movies
- Mission: Impossible (1996) — as Sarah Davies
- In the House (2012) — as Jeanne
- Tomb Raider (2018) — as Ana Miller
- Darkest Hour (2017) — as Clemmie
- My Mother's Wedding (2025) — as Diana
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