Emily Blunt

She’s not the sexiest girl on the planet. She’s not the prettiest either. Not the most popular. Her characters are not usually the most likeable. So what is she? Her work is exceptional. No, but something else is missing. To Emily’s acting attributes we must add a magnetism that makes it impossible to pay attention to anything other than her when she is on screen. Her presence is hypnotic.

Emily Blunt was born on February 23, 1983 in Roehampton (London). The second of four siblings, her parents – a teacher and a lawyer – were concerned about giving their little ones the best possible education. But Emily was unable to meet the intended goals. When she was 8 years old, she began to stutter and her mother decided to take her out of school to see if she would go away. Years passed and Emily continued to stutter, until at the age of 12 an acting teacher forced her to get into the skin of different characters with different accents. After this therapy, Emily’s stuttering disappeared. The memory that she keeps from then connects with her later acting career: “She couldn’t speak when she was a child because she stuttered all the time, so she just watched. I loved human behavior. People constantly surprised me. And now I love the possibility of becoming different characters.”

Stuttering didn’t stop Emily from continuing to study. When she had overcome her problem, she began to receive singing, cello, horse riding and acting classes. Her magnetism was soon visible to connoisseurs in the field, so in 2001 she made her theater debut alongside the great Judi Dench in “The Royal Family”, a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber . Shortly after, she made her film and television debut with The Queen of War and the miniseries Henry VIII ., both in 2003. Two titles and characters without much significance. But she soon put the “dots on the i’s” to make it clear that she is a girl who knows how to choose her roles very well, as well as the titles in which she participates. Her work as a problematic daughter in Gideon’s Daughter (2005) helped her win the Golden Globe. She repeated it as a disturbed young woman several times in titles such as Irresistible (2006), with Susan Sarandon . Curiously, Emily herself confesses that although she would like to say that she was a rebellious and crazy girl, the truth is that her childhood and adolescence were very calm. But the fact is that the good girl immediately knew how to dazzle the viewer by playing a very varied assortment of disturbing girls.

Something very brave on the part of someone who is starting a career and who risks being disliked by the public, with the label that this entails. But neither short nor lazy, she continued in the line of her characters, let’s say unsympathetic, and she did not hesitate when playing Emily in The Devil Wears Prada , the title that gave her the popularity she enjoys. Anne Hathaway ‘s nasty little co-worker outfit had every chance of being outshone by a brilliant cast with Meryl Streepto the head. But it was not like that, and despite the fact that Emily was secondary, she is one of the main attractions of the film. And it is that, indeed, the girl knows how to choose titles and characters. However, she is human and to avoid quasi-divine connotations it is important to say that not all have been good choices, like the horror film Chills , a minor title of the genre. Where she was right was in Meeting Jane Austen (2007) and Sunshine Cleaning (2008).

The small productions have given him as much joy as the projects of the big studios. His secondary characters have also given the stature as well as the main ones. What can you expect from someone who composes a fabulous Emily in The Devil… and then stars wonderfully in the historical period film Queen Victoria (2009). And she, by the way, is a monarch who has served to make it very clear that she knows how to do much more than problematic and/or hysterical young people. So she can only look forward to the premiere of The Wolf Man , where she shares the bill with the giants Anthony Hopkins and Benicio del Toro .

On a personal level, the magnetic Blunt had a 3-year relationship with singer Michael Bublé . She is currently engaged to fellow actor John Krasinski , with whom she began her relationship in 2008. Life smiles at Emily Blunt, that young woman who stopped stuttering to become a stupendous actress, who dazzles with the terrific performance of she.