Word: phyllida
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a great reader. As a child I read Peanuts and Asterix," says Sophie, who plays the woebegone Miss Bates in Emma and the difficult sister Mary Musgrove in Persuasion. While Emma studied at Cambridge, Sophie left school early, and says her favorite hobby is "gluing things." Her mother Phyllida Law, also in Emma, is now making a movie with Emma, but the three have no plans to make a film together. "I think people might get very irritated," says Sophie. "They'd think, 'Oh, that's enough of them...
Thompson was to her manners born. Her mother is actress Phyllida Law, who plays the pruney maid in Peter's Friends and Hero's attendant Ursula in Much Ado; her father was actor-director Eric Thompson; Emma's younger sister Sophie was a successful child actress. Of her parents Emma says, "The main influence is that actors are so good with children. They do not patronize them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious...