Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer

1971-10-06 London, England, UK 69 Credits

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...

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Jay Kelly

Jay Kelly

2025

Acting

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

Jay Kelly

Jay Kelly

2025

Writer

Writing

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

The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20

2024

as Self

6.0
Acting

ABC takes viewers on a magical journey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of Walt Disney’s most beloved films.

Paddington in Peru

Paddington in Peru

2024

as Mary Brown

6.9
Acting

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

Don't Look Deeper

2023

as Sharon Carter

6.5
Acting

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

The Spirit of 1926

2022

as Nettie

Acting

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

With/In Volume 2

2022

7.4
Acting

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

With/In Volume 2

2021

as (segment "Neighborhood Watch")

4.0
Acting

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

I Am A Town

2020

Producer

Producing

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

Relic

2020

as Kay

6.1
Acting

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

Good Posture

Good Posture

2019

as Julia Price

5.0
Acting

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

Mary

2019

as Sarah

5.0
Acting

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

Phil

2019

as Alicia

4.8
Acting

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

Lost Holiday

2019

as NPR Commentary (voice)

4.4
Acting

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

To Dust

2019

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

Mary Poppins Returns

2018

as Jane Banks

6.5
Acting

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

Head Full of Honey

Head Full of Honey

2018

as Sarah

6.2
Acting

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

One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure

2018

as Hanka

6.2
Acting

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

Write When You Get Work

2018

as Nan Noble

3.8
Acting

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

Wig Shop

2017

as Chaya

10.0
Acting

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

The Bookshop

2017

as Florence Green

6.5
Acting

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

The Party

2017

as Jinny

6.3
Acting

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

The Sense of an Ending

2017

as Sarah Ford

6.4
Acting

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

Spectral

2016

as Fran Madison

6.5
Acting

A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

10,000 Saints

10,000 Saints

2015

as Diane Urbanski

6.0
Acting

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

Ladygrey

2015

as Olive

4.5
Acting

Estelle fights to maintain her sense of self while sleeping with Angus for money.

Rio, I Love You

Rio, I Love You

2014

as Dorothy (segment "La Fortuna")

4.9
Acting

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

Hugo

2011

as Lisette

7.2
Acting

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

Our Idiot Brother

2011

as Liz Rochlin Byng

6.2
Acting

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

Cars 2

2011

as Holley Shiftwell (voice)

6.2
Acting

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

Leonie

2010

as Leonie

5.9
Acting

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

Shutter Island

2010

as Rachel 1

8.2
Acting

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

Harry Brown

2009

as D.I. Alice Frampton

6.8
Acting

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

City Island

City Island

2009

as Molly Charlesworth

6.9
Acting

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

The Pink Panther 2

2009

as Nicole

5.7
Acting

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

Chaos Theory

2008

as Susan Allen

6.3
Acting

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

Redbelt

2008

as Laura Black

6.5
Acting

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

TransSiberian

2008

as Jessie

6.4
Acting

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

Lars and the Real Girl

2007

as Karin

7.2
Acting

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

5.8
Acting

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

Paris Je T'aime

2006

as Frances (Père-Lachaise)

6.8
Acting

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

The Pink Panther

2006

as Nicole

5.8
Acting

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

Match Point

2005

as Chloe Hewett Wilton

7.4
Acting

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

Dear Frankie

2004

as Lizzie

7.0
Acting

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

Bright Young Things

2003

as Nina Blount

6.3
Acting

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

Young Adam

2003

as Cathie Dimly

5.8
Acting

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

The Sleeping Dictionary

2003

as Cecil

6.5
Acting

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

A Foreign Affair

2003

as Angela Beck

5.4
Acting

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

Nobody Needs to Know

2003

as Emily

6.0
Acting

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

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

2002

as Lady Diana - Princess of Wales

4.8
Acting

A satirical look at the 'secret' TRUE life of Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.

Lovely & Amazing

Lovely & Amazing

2002

as Elizabebeth Marks

6.1
Acting

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

The 51st State

2001

as Dakota Parker

6.1
Acting

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

The Kid

2000

as Amy

6.7
Acting

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

The Miracle Maker

2000

as Mary of Nazareth (voice)

5.9
Acting

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

Love's Labour's Lost

2000

as Katherine

5.6
Acting

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

Scream 3

2000

as Angelina Tyler

6.0
Acting

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

Killing Joe

1999

Acting

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

Notting Hill

1999

as Perfect Girl

7.3
Acting

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

Cider with Rosie

1998

as Miss Flynn

6.1
Acting

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

Elizabeth

1998

as Kat Ashley

7.2
Acting

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

Coming Home

1998

as Judith Dunbar

5.5
Acting

Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.

The Saint

The Saint

1997

as Woman on Plane

6.1
Acting

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

The Last of the High Kings

1996

as Romy Thomas

5.7
Acting

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

The Ghost and the Darkness

1996

as Helena Patterson

6.8
Acting

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

Acting

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

A Very Open Prison

1995

as Amanda Ellis

10.0
Acting

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

Sharpe's Sword

1995

as Lass

7.2
Acting

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

Acting

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

Directing Writing Producing

A British student and a Muscovite poet fall in love in the 1990s.