Emily Watson Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Emily Watson filmography covers 50 movie titles and 12 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Emily Watson movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Breaking the Waves (1996) as Bess McNeill
• Metroland (1997) as Marion
• The Boxer (1997) as Maggie Hamill
• Hilary and Jackie (1998) as Jackie du Pré
• Angela's Ashes (1999) as Angela McCourt
• Cradle Will Rock (1999) as Olive Stanton
• The Luzhin Defence (2000) as Natalia Katkov
• Trixie (2000) as Trixie Zurbo
• Gosford Park (2001) as Elsie
• Equilibrium (2002) as Mary O'Brien
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002) as Lena Leonard
• Red Dragon (2002) as Reba McClane
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) as Anne Sellers
• Corpse Bride (2005) as Victoria Everglot (voice)
• Separate Lies (2005) as Anne Manning
• The Proposition (2005) as Martha Stanley
• Wah-Wah (2005) as Ruby Compton
• Crusade in Jeans (2006) as Mary Vega
• Miss Potter (2006) as Millie Warne
• The Water Horse (2007) as Anne MacMorrow
• Fireflies in the Garden (2008) as Jane Lawrence
• Synecdoche, New York (2008) as Tammy
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008) as Caroline Gil
• Cold Souls (2009) as Claire
• Cemetery Junction (2010) as Mrs. Kendrick
• Oranges and Sunshine (2010) as Margaret Humphreys
• War Horse (2011) as Rose Narracott
• Anna Karenina (2012) as Countess Lydia Ivanova
• Belle (2013) as Lady Mansfield
• Some Girl(s) (2013) as Lindsay
• The Book Thief (2013) as Rosa Hubermann
• The Theory of Everything (2014) as Beryl Wilde
• A Royal Night Out (2015) as Queen Elizabeth
• Everest (2015) as Helen Wilton
• Little Boy (2015) as Emma Busbee
• Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015) as Miss Trinklebury
• Testament of Youth (2015) as Mrs. Brittain
• The Dresser (2015) as Her Ladyship
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) as Chief of Staff Fox
• Monster Family (2017) as Emma Wishbone (voice)
• King Lear (2018) as Regan
• On Chesil Beach (2018) as Violet Ponting
• The Happy Prince (2018) as Constance Wilde
• Monster Family 2 (2021) as Emma Wishbone (voice)
• God's Creatures (2022) as Aileen O'Hara
• Midas Man (2024) as Queenie Epstein
• Small Things Like These (2024) as Sister Mary
• Hamnet (2025) as Mary
• Steve (2025) as Jenny
• The Legend of Ochi (2025) as Dasha

Emily Watson television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Emily Watson; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Apple Tree Yard as Yvonne Carmichael
• Appropriate Adult as Janet Leach
• Chernobyl as Ulana Khomyuk
• Dune: Prophecy as Mother Superior Valya Harkonnen
• Fired on Mars as Sheila (voice)
• Genius as Elsa Einstein
• Little Women as Marmee March
• The Oscars as Self
• The Politician's Husband as Freya Gardner
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe as Grace McKee
• The Third Day as Mrs. Martin
• Too Close as Dr. Emma Robinson

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Emily Watson's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.