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Kristin Scott Thomas - Tribute
JDIFF 2010 is delighted to welcome Kirstin Scott Thomas to Dublin for a three film celebration of her film work to date.
Kristin Scott Thomas has become internationally renowned for her talent, elegance and commitment to her craft. Never shying away from challenging roles and determined not to repeat herself, Scott Thomas’ body of work is an extraordinary collection of acclaimed film, television and theatre performances.
Scott Thomas was born in South West England, and in her teens enrolled in drama school at Paris’s École Nationale des Arts et Technique de Théâtre. She made her feature film debut in 1986, in Prince’s Under a Cherry Moon.Notable credits include an Oscar nominated performance in the late Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient and a BAFTA winning role in Mike Newell’s Four Weddings and a Funeral; Robert Altman’s Gosford Park; Philip Haas’ Angels and Insects; Richard Loncraine’s Richard III; Brian DePalma’s Mission Impossible; Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer; Sydney Pollack’s Random Hearts; Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon; Paul Schrader’s The Walker and Justin Chadwick’s The Other Boleyn Girl.
Fluent in French and a resident of Paris since she was 19, Scott Thomas has appeared in numerous French films, including Guillame Canet’s Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) Francis Veber’s La oublure (The Valet) and Pascal Bonitzer’s Petites coupures (Small Cuts). In 2008, she starred in Phillipe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long, for which she received a Golden Globe, a Cesar and BAFTA nomination, as well as winnning the European Best Actress award and the London Film Critics award for British Actress of the Year.
Kristin can currently be seen in Nowhere Boy, the directorial debut of artist Sam Taylor-Wood. She recently completed an additional three films: Sous ton emprise for director Lola Doillon, Une femme parfaite for director Alain Corneau and Elle s’appelait Sarah for Gilles Paquet-Brenner.
