Biography
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She co-created and co-wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latt...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Jay Kelly
2025
Two middle-aged friends rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic weekend reunion, facing hilarious mishaps and heartfelt moments that force t...

Jay Kelly
2025
Writer
Two middle-aged friends rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic weekend reunion, facing hilarious mishaps and heartfelt moments that force t...

The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20
2024
as Self
ABC takes viewers on a magical journey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of Walt Disney’s most beloved films.

Paddington in Peru
2024
as Mary Brown
Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling ad...

Don't Look Deeper
2023
as Sharon Carter
In near-future California, high school senior Aisha learns a dark secret about herself. She goes from dreams of graduation and college...to suddenly r...

The Spirit of 1926
2022
as Nettie
In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

With/In Volume 2
2022
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

With/In Volume 2
2021
as (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

I Am A Town
2020
Producer
At the end of a remote peninsula, protected by a school of great white sharks, lies the remarkably diverse and free-spirited community of Provincetown...

Relic
2020
as Kay
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered ...

Good Posture
2019
as Julia Price
After breaking up with her boyfriend, Lillian moves in with married couple Julia and Don only to overhear them arguing in the night. The front door sl...

Mary
2019
as Sarah
A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolate...

Phil
2019
as Alicia
A depressed dentist in mid-life crisis tries to learn why one of his happiest patients suddenly commits suicide, and a dark comedic adventure ensues.

Lost Holiday
2019
as NPR Commentary (voice)
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a ...

To Dust
2019
Producer
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obse...

Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Jane Banks
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

Head Full of Honey
2018
as Sarah
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkabl...

One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure
2018
as Hanka
In 1981, a Czechoslovakian woman sends a letter requesting that a Cambodian family leave their wartorn country and live with her in Fargo, North Dakot...

Write When You Get Work
2018
as Nan Noble
Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teena...

Wig Shop
2017
as Chaya
Chaya goes to Tippy's Wig Shop with the intentions of finding the woman who has been having an affair with her husband and meets Tippy, the owner of t...

The Bookshop
2017
as Florence Green
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a pol...

The Party
2017
as Jinny
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws thei...

The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Sarah Ford
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Spectral
2016
as Fran Madison
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

10,000 Saints
2015
as Diane Urbanski
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hard...

Ladygrey
2015
as Olive
Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

Rio, I Love You
2014
as Dorothy (segment "La Fortuna")
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story...

Hugo
2011
as Lisette
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

Our Idiot Brother
2011
as Liz Rochlin Byng
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda an...

Cars 2
2011
as Holley Shiftwell (voice)
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...

Leonie
2010
as Leonie
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed co...

Shutter Island
2010
as Rachel 1
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...

Harry Brown
2009
as D.I. Alice Frampton
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

City Island
2009
as Molly Charlesworth
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arriv...

The Pink Panther 2
2009
as Nicole
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is forced to assign I...

Chaos Theory
2008
as Susan Allen
Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets...

Redbelt
2008
as Laura Black
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, w...

TransSiberian
2008
as Jessie
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious p...

Lars and the Real Girl
2007
as Karin
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a...
Rabbit Fever
2006
as Herself
The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the Ra...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Frances (Père-Lachaise)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

The Pink Panther
2006
as Nicole
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the di...

Match Point
2005
as Chloe Hewett Wilton
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. ...

Dear Frankie
2004
as Lizzie
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish to...

Bright Young Things
2003
as Nina Blount
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...

Young Adam
2003
as Cathie Dimly
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river ...

The Sleeping Dictionary
2003
as Cecil
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and fin...

A Foreign Affair
2003
as Angela Beck
Two brothers need household help after their Ma passes away. They decide to join a romance tour to Russia to find and bring home a traditionally minde...

Nobody Needs to Know
2003
as Emily
Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-sc...

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth
2002
as Lady Diana - Princess of Wales
A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.

Lovely & Amazing
2002
as Elizabebeth Marks
An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their ...

The 51st State
2001
as Dakota Parker
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of decei...

The Kid
2000
as Amy
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-ol...

The Miracle Maker
2000
as Mary of Nazareth (voice)
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...

Love's Labour's Lost
2000
as Katherine
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...

Scream 3
2000
as Angelina Tyler
While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises...

Killing Joe
1999
Killing Joe is a 1999 short film directed by Mehdi Norowzian. In 1963, teenager Joe is fascinated by John F. Kennedy, whose initials he shares. The fi...

Notting Hill
1999
as Perfect Girl
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romanc...

Cider with Rosie
1998
as Miss Flynn
This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World W...

Elizabeth
1998
as Kat Ashley
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the C...

Coming Home
1998
as Judith Dunbar
Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

The Saint
1997
as Woman on Plane
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...

The Last of the High Kings
1996
as Romy Thomas
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood...

The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
as Helena Patterson
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects resu...
Lord of Misrule
1996
as Emma
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. Th...

A Very Open Prison
1995
as Amanda Ellis
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murd...

Sharpe's Sword
1995
as Lass
Sharpe is tasked to protect the most important spy in Lord Wellington's network, but domestic issues, a traumatized young girl, and possible French sp...
Ladies First
N/A
An unrepentant womanizer finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart makes things even more complicated.
Dennis
N/A
Director, Writer, Producer
A British student and a Muscovite poet fall in love in the 1990s.