Emma Thompson: Her Life in Pictures

The Daily Mail offers Emma Thompson: My Life in Pictures. (Above an image in 1966. Emma is the little girl on the right.) What is wonderful about them (and her comments) is that Emma, her sister Sophy, and her mother Phyllida Law, all performed in Jane Austen film adaptations. Can you tell us who played which roles in which films? (Below, the three women in 1982).


Posted by Vic, Jane Austen's World

The Connection Between Miss Bates and Mrs. Bates and Elinor Dashwood

Jane Austen's Emma boasts many memorable characters, including the amiable and chatty Miss Bates and her mother, Mrs. Bates. The real life mother and daughter team of Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson played the two women in the 1996 version of Emma, directed by Douglas McGrath.

Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson.

Both women are related to Emma Thompson, who is Sophie's older sister.

Emma played Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, 1996. Sophie also played Mary Musgrove in Persuasion, 1995. Update: Most recently, Phyllida played Cassandra Leigh Austen, Jane's mother, in Miss Austen Regrets. (See picnic photo)

More about Phyllida and her daughters:

• Daily Mail Article: Emma Thompson and Mum
  

• Phyllida Law: New York Times Biography

• Actors' Wedding Photo Donated: Bristol University
  

• Sophie Thompson Interview

• Emma Thompson Biography