Kristin Scott Thomas

Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, on May 24, 1960. She is the older of two sisters, the lesser-known Serena Scott Thomas is also an actress. Her interest in acting comes from her mother, her mother Deborah studied acting before marrying Simon, an air force soldier, who died in a plane crash when she was only four years old. . Curiously, Deborah remarried an air pilot, who also died in a plane crash six years later. These facts may explain Kristin Scott’s fondness for movies with plane crashes, such as The English Patient ( Anthony Minghella , 1996), the Oscar-winning film that brought her fame, and Whims of Fate (Sydney Pollack , 1999), where she and Harrison Ford discover that their respective spouses, killed in a plane crash, were having an affair.

Undoubtedly, Kristin has a cosmopolitan background, which runs in the family, not in vain a more or less distant relative is the famous Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer of the South Pole. She was educated in her childhood and youth in England, to prepare her acting training she moved to Paris, and in France she would end up establishing her residence. There she combined her work as a babysitter with studies at the Escuela Nacional Superior de las Artes y Técnicas Teatrales, where she graduated at the age of 25. She and she met the one who has been her only husband, the gynecologist François Olivennes, with whom she had three children, and from whom she would separate in 2005.

She began acting on stage, and her film debut came in 1986 with Under the Cherry Moon , a curious musical film directed and starring Prince, which swept the Razzies, and even earned Kristin two nominations for supporting actress and new star. . The Razzies have never been so wrong about the possibilities of a great actress.

Indeed, Kristin has a different face, with her broad smile, sophisticated good looks and not overpowering beauty, traits that have helped her cast consistently compelling roles. In addition to her, her command of English and her French have allowed her to work with a wide variety of directors. In the first steps of her career, A Handful of Dust (1988), an interesting adaptation of a novel by Evelyn Waugh , a very “British” film, and Force Majeure (1989), a film whose plot is reminiscent of The Midnight Express, stand out. .

She coincided with Hugh Grant almost often in Lunas de Hiel (1992), a hard film by Roman Polanski , and the successful comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral ( Mike Newell , 1994), which gave her a Bafta for best supporting actress. Philip Haas directs her in the strange and unhealthy Angels & Insects (1995), and is involved in the Shakespearean Richard III (1995) , Richard Loncraine ‘s version that imagines a fascist UK in the 20th century.

The actress Kristin’s patience and tenacity would be rewarded with The English Patient (1996), a film that earned her only Oscar nomination to date. She was Katharine Clifton, the adulterous woman with Count Laszlo de Almásy ( Ralph Fiennes ), a romantic story that adapted a complex novel by Michael Ondaatje.

His prestige was already solidly established, so interesting roles rained down on him. He works with Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer (1998), is in W. Somerset Maugham ‘s adaptation The Village Mystery (2000), and in Robert Altman ‘s powerful ensemble film Gosford Park (2001). Thus, she can afford films of lesser interest, some perhaps out of friendship, such as High Society (Chromophobia) (2005), where she is directed by Martha Fiennes , Ralph Fiennes’ sister. Family Secrets (2005) and The Fool’s Game(2006) are all for fun, but that certainly doesn’t mean Kristin is resting on her laurels. The proof is provided by Don’t tell anyone ( Guillaume Canet , 2007), a disturbing thriller, and I’ve loved you a long time ( Philippe Claudel , 2008), the story of two sisters, one recently released from prison with a dark secret.

Small roles, big roles, it seems the actress’s motto, while taking care of her work on stage. So we see her in high school in The Boleyn Sisters (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), to later take on juicier roles such as Elvis Presley ‘s aunt in Nowhere Boy (2009), the dissatisfied woman in Parting (2009) -where she works with the Spanish Sergi López- , and that of a reporter who delves into the dark secrets of French complicity through the Vichy government in the Holocaust in Sarah’s Key (2010).

The great actress, over 50 years old, does not rest. She is currently working on Bel ami , an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant ‘s novel , and Salmon Fishing in Yemen , which is a version of Paul Torday ‘s funny book .