Emily Mortimer Net Worth

Emily Mortimer's Quotes

• This is not meant to have happened to me at all. I am a Sloane, from the Chilterns.
• To be in the hands of an auteur like [Andrei Tarkovsky], that would be just brilliant. But I don't know if those kind of films can ever be made any more. To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe . . . it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. But that's part of the problem with politics and history and everything today, that people think there's a right and a wrong, a good and a bad . . . maybe there just isn't . . . .
• I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part. It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it. But how do you think about it? There's no guidebook.
• Until Frankie [Dear Frankie (2004)], I didn't realise that feeling part of a film was about staying up late, getting drunk, smoking and all that. And I wasn't doing it, obviously; or if I did, I felt wracked with guilt about it. That was odd. It felt much more like a job of work.
• It doesn't feel like that. The big producers still want Kate Winslet and Kate Beckinsale, I suppose. - on whether she has made it into mainstream Hollywood.

Interesting Facts about Emily Mortimer

1. Studied English & Russian at Lincoln College, Oxford (1990-1994). Daughter of John Mortimer and Penny Mortimer.
2. Has one younger sister, Rosie Mortimer.
3. Gave birth to her son Samuel John Nivola, with husband Alessandro Nivola, at London's Portland Hospital, weighing in at 7lbs 10oz (26 September 2003).
4. A Mexican punk band played at her wedding to Alessandro Nivola.
5. Discovered an older half-brother, Ross Bentley, as a result of a past relationship between actress Wendy Craig and her father Sir John Mortimer. [September 2004]
6. Lives in Los Angeles, California, USA. [2004]
7. Attended St. Paul's Girls' School in London.
8. Attended Moscow Arts Theatre School.
9. The name of her mother, Penelope, was also the name of her father's first wife.
10. Fluent in Russian
11. Educated at the prestigious St Paul's Girls School in London. Was in the same class as fellow actress Rachel Weisz.
12. Was chosen to voice the young Sophie in the English language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004) because the producers felt that her voice resembled that of the young Jean Simmons, who voiced the old Sophie.
13. Has two older half-siblings from her father's first marriage, Sally Silverman and Jeremy Mortimer.
14. Gave birth to her daughter May Rose Nivola, with husband Alessandro Nivola, in New York City, via Caesarean section (15 January 2010).
15. Her younger sister Rosie Mortimer gave birth to her son John just three days after Emily gave birth to her daughter May.
16. Returned to work ten months after giving birth to her son Samuel in order to begin filming Match Point (2005).
17. Returned to work six months after giving birth to her daughter May in order to begin filming Our Idiot Brother (2011).
18. Was three months pregnant with her daughter May when she completed filming on Shutter Island (2010).
19. Has become part of Martin Scorsese's acting company, working for him on three films.
20. Lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. USA [December 2012]