Favorite Emma Thompson Role/Performance

[Antonio]

1. Dora Carrington in CARRINGTON
2. Vivian Bearing in WIT
3. Miss Kenton in THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
4. Margaret Schlegel in HOWARD'S END
5. Grace/Margaret Strauss in DEAD AGAIN
6. Karen in LOVE ACTUALLY
7. Frances in THE WINTER GUEST
8. Susan Stanton in PRIMARY COLORS
9. Elinor Dashwood in SENSE & SENSIBILITY
10. Gareth Peirce in IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

What a list! Very hard to choose the #1 role, as this is probably the best top ten list (quality-wise) I've done in a while. Great actress who gives it 110% every time. Guess I have to see NANNY McPHEE now.

[Lazy Boy]

A great actress and a superlative wit on and off the screen. My favorite performance? Definitely Wit. While having the constructs and limits of its play origins, Thompson really shines with dry humor in a role that could've been too baity if interpreted otherwise. It's a shame that she didn't qualify for a Best Actress Oscar nomination that year, since she blew away the five women that were considered.

[Buck Turgidson]

^ Agreed. That was a spectacular, ballsy performance that didn't rely on cheap histrionics or false sentimentality. It was brutally, bitterly real.

What about Miss Money Sterling on The Young Ones? :D

[Hannibal21]

Man, I have definitely got to see Wit in its entirety now. Caught bits and pieces of it on TV and really liked what I saw, and all this praise from fellow schmoes is making me eager to check it out.

1. Margaret Schlegel - Howards End
2. Miss Kenton - The Remains of the Day
3. Elinor Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
4. Grace/Margaret Strauss - Dead Again
5. Gareth Peirce - In the Name of the Father
6. Karen - Love Actually
7. Susan Stanton - Primary Colors

Superb actress, obviously, but I really need to check out more of her films.

[Monotreme]

Emma Thompson is so vastly and unfairly underrated. She is one of my favourite actresses, and has certainly played in many colourful and brilliant roles, but I must single out these as her best:

1. Margaret Schlegel - Howards End
2. Gareth Peirce - In the Name of the Father
3. Elinor Dashwood - Sense and Sensibility
4. Miss Kenton - The Remains of the Day
5. Susan Stanton - Primary Colors

Also, her screenplay for Sense and Sensibility was just brilliant. As was Ang's direction. What a wonderful movie.

[Buck Turgidson]

The Schlegels are one of my favorite families in all of British literature and Emma and HBC brought them to brillaint life.

[ilovemovies]

I must confess that I haven't seen much of her but I've loved what I've seen of her.

LOVED her in Junior, Love Actually and Primary Colors.