Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born May 24, 1960) is an English actress, born in Redruth, Cornwall. She was nominated for "Worst New Star" in the 1986 Golden Raspberry Awards (and lost). She subsequently recovered to obtain a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for The English Patient (1996). She speaks French fluently, as she has studied acting at the École Nationale des Arts et Technique de Théâtre, in Paris. She is married to a French doctor, Dr. François Olivennes and has 3 children: Hannah (1988), Joseph (1991) and George (2000); Thomas lives with her husband and children in France. Both her father and step-father were pilots in the Royal Navy and both died in flying accidents. She is the older sister of the actress Serena Scott Thomas. Kristin Scott Thomas was given an OBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours list and was also awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government in 2005. She has also played in many TV movies and as an actress in the theatre.

In the British motoring program Top Gear she is used as a point of reference of "good taste". During the Cool Wall segment of the program, presenter Jeremy Clarkson rates a car's coolness based mostly on what he thinks Kristin Scott Thomas's level of distaste for it would be.

Selected filmography

• Under The Cherry Moon (1986) .... Mary Sharon
• Bitter Moon (1992)
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) .... Fiona
• Richard III (1995) .... Lady Anne
• Angels & Insects (1995) .... Matty Crompton
• Microcosmos .... Narrator
• Impossible (movie) (1996) .... Sarah Davies
• The English Patient (1996) .... Katharine Clifton
• Love & Confusions (Amour et confusions) (1997) .... Sarah
• The Horse Whisperer (1998).... Annie MacLean
• Random Hearts (1999) .... Kay Chandler (romance)
• ''Play (2000) .... First Woman
• Up at the Villa (2000) .... Mary Panton
• Life as a House (2001) .... Robin Monroe
• Gosford Park (2001).... Sylvia McCordle
• Small Cuts (Petites coupures) (2003) .... Béatrice
• Arsène Lupin (2004) .... Joséphine, comtesse de Cagliostro
• Man to Man (2005) .... Elena Van Den Ende
• Keeping Mum (2005) .... Gloria Goodfellow
• The Walker (2007)

External links

• An Appreciation of Kristin Scott Thomas

1960 births | Best Actress Academy Award nominees | British actors | British stage actors | English stage actors | English actors | British film actors | English film actors | Légion d'honneur recipients | Natives of Cornwall | Officers of the Order of the British Empire | Roman Catholic entertainers | British television actors | English television actors | Worst Supporting Actress Razzie nominees | Living people

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