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Emily Mortimer is an English actress and filmmaker known for intelligent, warm performances across independent and studio films. She began acting on stage while at the University of Oxford, where a producer spotted her and cast her as the lead in the television adaptation The Glass Virgin (1995). Her early films included The Ghost and the Darkness and The Last of the High Kings (both 1996) and Elizabeth (1998). She won an Independent Spirit Award in 2003 for Lovely and Amazing, and went on to appear in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and its 2009 sequel, Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Hugo (2011), Cars 2 (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and Relic (2020). She voiced Sophie in the English version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004). Television fans know her as Mackenzie McHale on HBO's The Newsroom. Behind the camera she co-created and co-wrote Doll & Em, wrote and directed The Pursuit of Love (2021), earning a BAFTA nomination, and worked on Jay Kelly (2025). Mortimer brings wit, elegance and a creator's perspective.