KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS (Annie MacLean) was nominated for an Academy Award(tm) as Best Actress for her performance as Katharine Clifford in the 1996 Oscar(tm)-winning Best Picture, "The English Patient."
She also made an indelible impression on audiences in two films released in 1994: Roman Polanski's "Bitter Moon," in which she played a spiteful wife, and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," in which she appeared as a supremely elegant and beautiful Englishwoman with an unrequited passion for the film's hero. "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was one of the most popular British films ever made, and earned her two of England's most important acting prizes; The Evening Standard Award and the Best Supporting Actress Award from the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA). Her performance in "Angels and Insects" won her another Evening Standard Award, that time as Best Actress.
Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Dorset and educated at the Central School of Speech and Drama as well as the École Nationale des Arts et Techniques de Theatre in Paris. She made her film debut opposite the artist formerly known as Prince in "Under the Cherry Moon," and then appeared in a series of French films and in theater pieces by such authors as Marguerite Duras and Roland Dubillard.
In 1988, Scott Thomas was cast in the leading role in Charles Sturridge's screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust," and won the Evening Standard Award as Best Newcomer. That year she also appeared on television in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of "The Tenth Man." A mix of films in French and English followed including "Force Majeure," "Titmus Regained," "Endless Game," "Aux Yeux du Monde," "Body and Soul," "Unforgettable Summer," and Ian McKellen's "Richard III." She has also co-starred opposite Tom Cruise in the blockbuster "Mission: Impossible."
Thomas will soon begin production on "Up At the Villa," starring with Sean Penn for director Philip Haas, based on the Somerset Maugham novella.
