Emily Mortimer

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: London, 01 December 1971

Emily cast in Scorsese film? - Feb 28 2008
British actress Emily Mortimer has reportedly been cast opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in a new film by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese.

The 36-year-old Match Point star is due to play an escaped inmate from a hospital for the criminally insane in Shutter Island, which also stars fellow British thespian Sir Ben Kingsley, the Daily Express reports.

An insider was quoted as saying: "To be cast by someone like Scorsese is a massive boost in terms of a Hollywood career. It could take her career to another level."

Emily is best known for her role as Inspector Clouseau's secretary in The Pink Panther, and is due to appear in the sequel which is out next year.

The source said she was due for a big break.

"Emily hasn't had overnight success since she moved back to America a few years back, but has steadily built up her reputation with a number of impressive performances."

Emily ’told to flaunt assets’ - Nov 5 2007
Emily Mortimer has apparently been urged to change her image if she wants to land bigger roles in Hollywood.

The Match Point actress, 35, has admitted that her management team in America are encouraging her to flash more flesh when she goes for all-important auditions, reports the Daily Express.

Emily is quoted as saying: "I’m constantly being told I’m not sexy enough and I should show my boobs more. I’m told that I’ve got good breasts and I should make them more apparent when I go to meetings. But I don’t suit that sort of thing and I can’t carry it off."

And it seems the daughter of Rumpole writer John Mortimer has been told to show off more than just her assets.

She added: "I’ve also been told to dye my hair and get my teeth whitened. This is a weird, weird job!"

Emily is currently filming Pink Panther 2, which is due to be released in 2009.

October 3 2003
Notting Hill’s Emily Mortimer missed the premiere of her new film Bright Young Things, as she was busy with a previous engagement - having her first child.

While her fellow co-stars were partying it up at the premiere of the new Stephen Fry film, Emily gave birth to her first child, a son - who weighed 7lb 10oz!

The actress married fellow screen star Alessandro Nivola in Januray earlier this year.

November 27 2002
Emily Mortimer has signed a deal to play the female lead in "Bright Young Things," the directorial debut of Brit thesp Stephen Fry.

Biography

Emily Mortimer was born on 1 December 1971 in London, her father is John Mortimer, best known for his Rumpole of the Bailey series.

Whilst attending St Paul’s Girls’ School, in London, she appeared in several student productions and it was whilst performing in a student production at an Oxford University that she was spotted by a producer who later cast her Catherine Cookson’s ‘The Glass Virgin’ in 1995.

However, before she took her first steps into the world of the silver screen, Emily was a successful writer with a regular column for the Daily Telegraph, as well as a screen adaptation of Lorna Sage’s novel, Bad Blood.

Her film roles include, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Last of the High Kings, Elizabeth, Notting Hill and Scream 3. Big Hollywood films continued when she played opposite Bruce Willis in The Kid, whilst in the 51st State she took to the screen with Samuel L. Jackson and fellow Brit Robert Carlyle.

Most recently she has been seen in Woody Allens Match Point, and as the love interest of Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther (2006).

She met husband and fellow actor Alessandro Nivola during Kenneth Branagh’s musical adaptation of Loves Labour Lost.

On television she most famously played Miss Flynn in the TV mini-series Cider with Rosie, which was adapted for television by her father.