Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971-10-06
- Works
- 1
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Film & TV
Acting · London, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Ladies First — Sunny Black2026
- Jay Kelly — Candy2025
- The Making of Jay Kelly — Self - Candy / Writer2025
- Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes — Cressida Dick2025
- Paddington in Peru — Mary Brown2024
- The New Look — Elsa Lombardi2024
- The Spirit of 1926 — Nettie2022
- Be My Guest with Ina Garten — Self - Guest2022
- With/In Volume 2 — (segment "Neighborhood Watch")2021
- The Pursuit of Love — The Bolter2021
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,765x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,170x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,212x
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Key facts
- Born
- Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer , ( 1971-10-06 ) 6 October 1971 (age 54) , London, England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom United States
- Alma mater
- Lincoln College, Oxford
- Occupations
- Actress, director, screenwriter
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Works
- Full list
- Spouse
- Alessandro Nivola ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 3 January 2003</span>"}]]}'>2003 )
- Children
- 2, including Sam Nivola
- Father
- John Mortimer
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 6 October 1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emily
- Family name
- Mortimer
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Finsbury Park
- Spouse
- Alessandro Nivola
- Child
- Sam Nivola
- Father
- John Mortimer
- Occupation
- film director
Article
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is an English 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 latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She provided the voice of Sophie in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004), and starred in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point (2005), The Pink Panther (2006), The Pink Panther 2 (2009), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Relic (2020).
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1971 births20th-century English actresses21st-century English actressesActors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and FulhamActresses from BrooklynActresses from LondonAlumni of Lincoln College, OxfordAudiobook narratorsBest Supporting Female Independent Spirit Award winnersBritish emigrants to the United StatesEnglish film actressesEnglish stage actresses