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| Birth Name(s) : Kristin Scott Thomas |
Date of Birth: May 24, 1960 |
| Status:
Married
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Partner:
Dr. François Olivennes |
| Profession:
Actor |
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Full Kristin Scott Thomas Biography
Kristin Scott Thomas was born on 24th May 1960 in Redruth, Cornwall, England. Her father was a pilot for the Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964, when Kristin was only five years old. Her mother re-married another pilot six years later and he was also killed under similar circumstances. The eldest of five, she has two brothers and two sisters, she was brought up in rural Dorset and went to a village school and then the local convent. She states that she was shy and unsure of herself although her sisters complained that she was a bully and always bossing them around. From an early age Kristin was interested in acting and spent a year at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, much against her mother's wishes as she had intended Kristin to go to University and get a degree. Her year at drama school was disastrous as she didn't have the guts to go through with it and could never imagine becoming an actress, so she enrolled in a teaching course but the desire and determination to go into a career of acting was so strong that she gave up the idea of any other profession.
At the age of 19 she left England to go and stay with a girlfriend in Paris and managed to get herself a job as an au pair working for a family who were in the world of opera and they encouraged her desire to act. She re-enrolled in drama school, going to the École Nationale des Arts et Technique de Theâtre in Paris. It was her drama teacher who helped her find her first job in theatre.
In 1998 she appeared in The Horse Whisperer playing Annie MacLean and starring with Robert Redford. This was follwed by Random Hearts (1999) in which she plays Kay Chandler; and Up at the Villa (2000) playing Mary Panton, a beautiful English widow visiting friends in Florence. She is intrigued by a newly arrived American visitor, played by Sean Penn, and in a moment of uncharacteristic impulsiveness she sets in motion a series of events that will result in a terrible scandal. The film was shot on location in Tuscany and is a stylish evocation of expatriate life in pre-war Florence.
Kristin is married to François Oliviennes, a French obstetrician and they have one daughter, Hannah, and a son Joseph. They live in a 19th century country house on Paris' Left Bank.
Kristin returned to British television screens in 2001 when she appeared in a BBC-backed feature film alongside Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman. Play was part of the Channel 4 season of Samuel Beckett films. In the play only the heads of the actors are visible as they sit in funerary urns. Both Juliet and Kristin had to have their urns specially adapted because they were both pregnant at the time of filming.
In 2001 Kristin returned to film when she played the part of Lady Sylvia McCordle in the award winning film Gosford Park. Written by actor Julian Fellowes (Monarch of the Glen) the film starred many great actors and actresses including Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance, Jeremy Northam and James Wilby. Two new films for 2003 are the French movie Petites coupures and The Door in the Floor with Jeff Bridges. |
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Additional Kristin Scott Thomas Biography
Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her father was a pilot for the Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964, and she is the older sister of the actress Serena Scott Thomas. She is the niece of Admiral Sir Richard Thomas, who was Black Rod in the House of Lords, and a more distant grand niece of Capt. Robert F. Scott, who was the ill fated explorer who lost the race to the South Pole. Her last name is an amalgam of the last names of those two families.
Scott Thomas's childhood home was Dorset, England. Her mother remarried another Royal Navy pilot, who also died in a flying accident six years after the death of her father. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St Antony's Leweston School for Girls, in Dorset, and on graduation attended drama college. But on being told she would never be a good enough actor, she left at the age of 19 to work as an au pair in Paris.
Speaking French fluently, she studied acting at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Paris, and on graduation was cast opposite pop star Prince as the French girl in the film Under the Cherry Moon.
Kristin Scott Thomas was given an OBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours list, and was also awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government in 2005. She has also played in many TV movies, and as an actress in the theatre.
Scott Thomas starred in the 2003 Book Clubbin episode of Absolutely Fabulous; her character was called Plum Berkeley.
In the British motoring programme Top Gear, she was used as a standard of reference for "good taste." During the "Cool Wall" segment of the programme, presenter Jeremy Clarkson would rate a car's coolness based mostly on what he thinks Kristin Scott Thomas's level of distaste for it would be.
She made her long-awaited appearance as the "Star In A Reasonably Priced Car" on the episode broadcast on 25/02/2007. On this episode, amid excessive kow-towing from Clarkson and joking from Richard Hammond and James May because Clarkson has shown much affection for Kristin in the past, she proceeded to rubbish most of the decisions Clarkson had made over the past years of the Cool Wall. She also ridiculed the car that Jeremy Clarkson had just ordered, a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. As a result, the yard stick was changed to Fiona Bruce on the first episode of season six.
She completed her lap in a time of 1.54, placing her just above Phillip Glenister although still near the bottom of the leaderboard.
She is married but separated from French gynaecologist Dr François Olivennes, and has three children: Hannah (1988), Joseph (1991), and George (2000). She continues to live in Paris in a 19th century country house with her two youngest children.
Living in Paris, she counts Charlotte Rampling, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin and Juliette Binoche among her social circle. |
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| Of course I'm horrible. I am b**chy about people behind their backs and I can be callous, insensitive and brutal. I try to be good, but I am very wicked. |
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