Emily Olivia Leah Blunt , best known under the name of Emily Blunt, is an actress British. Emily Blunt was born on 23 February 1983 in London. His father, Oliver Blunt, is a lawyer for more views to the UK and his mother, Joanna Mackie, a professor. His paternal uncle is Crispin Blunt, MP for the Conservative Party in UK. At eight, the girl suffers from stuttering. Her mother took her to relaxation training, which did nothing. And it was not until the age of twelve, when a teacher asked her skillfully playing a character with a different voice saying: " I really believe in you "and taking a northern accent, that his stutter disappears.
Emily Blunt said to be part of the American Institute for Stuttering. Daughter of a teacher and a lawyer, Emily Blunt grew up in a family of four children. At age 8, she suffers from stuttering. His mother took him to relaxation classes that do not change. Then, at age 12, one of his teachers asked him to play a character by changing his voice and added " I trust you". The young English woman chooses to play in taking a northern accent and his stutter disappears. From 1999 to 2001, the teenager studying at Hurtwood House and is very gifted in sports and singing. She also takes acting classes.
In 2000, Emily Blunt is chosen to perform at the Edinburgh Festival and was spotted by an agent. The young actress will then play in different rooms and appear in TV dramas. At eighteen years, the actress starred on stage Gwen Cavendish in "The Royal Family", opposite Dame Judi Dench at the Haymarket Theater. This role earned him win the Evening Standard Award for most promising. On television, the actress stands out in Boudica with Alex Kingston. And the following year, Blunt is critically acclaimed for his portrayal of a young girl and well-educated cynic who falls in love with a girl ( Nathalie Press ), a popular medium in the drama My Summer of Love.
In 2005, Susan Sarandon , who has seen My Summer of Love, request that the young actress auditioned for the role of Mara, a young woman destructive, in the Australian film Irresistible. Emily Blunt there is a remarkable performance. Then, the actress won a Golden Globe for her role as Natasha, the daughter of troubled Bill Nighy in the British TV movie Gideon's Daughter. In 2006, Blunt was the assistant unpleasant and deserted of Meryl Streep in the comedy of David Frankel, The Devil Wears Prada. Streep says she is about him the most talented young actresses with whom she has worked. His role in this adaptation of Emily hit the bestseller by Lauren Weisberger, established his international reputation.
The following year, the actress turns the horror thriller Wind Chill, the romantic drama Jane Austen Book Club with Amy Brenneman and Hugh Dancy, and appears in the romantic comedy Maid in Rhode Island with Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche. Emily Blunt is also star of Charlie Wilson's War, as Amy Adams, she found in 2008 in the independent film Sunshine Cleaning. The two actresses portray two sisters amount a business cleaning crime scenes. Psychological drama with Irresistible, in which she co-starred with Sam Neill and Susan Sarandon. Emily Blunt continues to rub the cream of Hollywood by showing the following year in the biopic The Charlie Wilson's War, alongside Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Amy Adams.
She found it in 2009 showing the dramatic comedy Sunshine Cleaning after appearing briefly in Maid in Rhode Island. The actress continues to vary the styles and tastes, in the guise of Queen Victoria and alongside Benicio Del Toro in Wolfman, a remake of the horror classic. If it is now part of American cinematic landscape, Emily Blunt does not mean forgetting its roots and divides the poster of the British action comedy Wild Target English with Bill Nighy serial killer whom she played the seductive victim. It multiplies the roles in films for young audiences, playing the Lilliputian princess in the new version of Gulliver's Travels and lending his voice to the heroine of clay Gnomeo and Juliet.
The same year, she tried the sci-fi and played opposite a Matt Damon facing the Agency. The following year was again very busy for the actress who returns to the romance of salmon in the desert, became engaged during five years discussion with Jason Segel, whom she had played opposite in Gulliver's Travels and The Muppets, return and try again the sci-fi with Looper. Emily Blunt in November 2011 is the new face of Yves Saint Laurent and his cult fragrance Opium embodies in a very glamorous the clip featuring a leopard.
After living with singer Michael Bublé from 2005 to 2008, Emily Blunt has married the actor John Krasinski (Jim Halpert in The Office ), on 10 July 2010 during a private ceremony in Como , in Italy. She was engaged to Krasinski, met after being introduced to each other by Anne Hathaway, after a year of cohabitation. She is also a close friend of actress Amy Adams, her partner of Sunshine Cleaning and Anne Hathaway, his partner of Devil Wears Prada.