Emily Blunt

Date of birth: February 23, 1983
Astrological Zodiac sign: Pisces
Age: 30

Emily Olivia L. Blunt is a Golden Globe Award-winning English actress known for her work in the film My Summer of Love and her appearance as Emily Charlton in The Devil Wears Prada. At the 2007 Golden Globes Ceremony, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for the BBC TV film, Gideon's Daughter, and was also nominated for The Devil Wears Prada.

Blunt is from Roehampton, London, England. She is one of four children born to a barrister father and teacher mother. Her uncle is Crispin Blunt, Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate. At the age of 16 Blunt moved to a sixth-form college known for its performing arts programme, Hurtwood House, which is where she attracted an agent.

Blunt lives in London and Vancouver. In the latter she shares a home with her boyfriend, Canadian singer Michael Bublé, whom she first met in Melbourne backstage at the Australian television Logies Awards in 2005. Bublé thought Blunt was a television producer when they met. She later provided background vocals on his cover of "Me and Mrs. Jones" on his album Call Me Irresponsible.

Blunt made her professional debut in Bliss a new play commissioned by the National Theatre, at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival while she was still an A-level student. In 2003, she made her screen debut in the British television drama Boudica, about the life of the ancient British warrior-queen who fought the Romans. She also won considerable praise for her performance as the 16th-century queen Catherine Howard in the two-part British television drama Henry VIII.

Blunt's breakout role was as Tamsin in the dark British movie, My Summer of Love in 2004, which depicted a story of deception and lesbian love in the English countryside. She shared an Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with co-star Nathalie Press.

In 2005 she co-starred with Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson in the British TV drama Gideon's Daughter, an original screenplay written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, in which she played the troubled only child of New Labour spin doctor Gideon Warner, played by veteran British character actor Bill Nighy.

More recently, she starred opposite Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the box-office success, The Devil Wears Prada. Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable with Entertainment Weekly naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue. She appeared at the 79th Academy Awards where she co-presented the award for best costume design with her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Anne Hathaway.

Blunt and Hathaway also lost weight for their roles in the film. In an interview with Us Weekly, Hathaway said "I basically stuck with fruit, vegetables and fish (to slim down for the movie). I wouldn’t recommend that. Emily Blunt and I would clutch at each other and cry because we were so hungry". Blunt also spoke about the weight loss, where she claims she had to go 'painfully thin'.

Blunt later co-starred with Susan Sarandon in the independent drama Irresistible. When Sarandon became attached to starring in another movie, The Girl In The Park she strongly suggested that director David Auburn should cast her. Blunt did audition for the part — she almost received the role — but lost out to Kate Bosworth.

Blunt has worked on a number of upcoming movies. She is currently filming The Young Victoria in which she plays the title character, and is rumored to be starring in the English Civil War mini series The Devil's Whore.

See also:  Actress,  Golden Globe Winner,  British,  Golden Globe Nominee,  The Devil Wears Prada