Kristin Scott Thomas Net Worth

Kristin Scott Thomas's Quotes

• People have always told me I was beautiful, but beauty isn't the same as attractiveness and I don't think I have ever been attractive . . . My sister Serena is beautiful and attractive, but not me.
• The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted. One of them being Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). I couldn't think of anyone better for that part than me. And the other was The English Patient (1996). Occasionally, you read scripts and, well, there you are on the page.
• I'm 47 - unlike most actresses, I don't lie about my age - but I'm liking this bit. I love it. I wouldn't swap it for a million years.
• I'm not complaining. I love the teamwork of making films, and you get to go to the most beautiful places. It's a very privileged life in that respect. And you live about eight different lives when you're making a film - 12 hours a day for 6, 8, 10 weeks just pretending to be someone else. I find that very stimulating. And then every now and then I go to a film that just blows you away, and that encourages me to want to make another.
• I've always really wanted to be onstage but movies kind of carry you along. You get swept away by them. And there's this feeling sometimes of being a bit of a pawn and of other people channeling their ambition through you. They make films, they make films, they make films. But theater - good theater - is rarer. If you see a really amazing production - there aren't many, but if you see one - it stays with you forever and ever. Films are just consumables. The experience of living theater is more powerful.

Interesting Facts about Kristin Scott Thomas

1. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#50). [1995]
2. Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
3. Older sister of Serena Scott Thomas.
4. Speaks French fluently and often stars in French films. Dubbed herself in French in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
5. She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
6. Is the eldest of five children.
7. Has three children with her ex-husband, François Olivennes: Hannah (born in 1988), Joseph (born 1991), and Georges (born 2000).
8. She was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2003 for her performance in "Three Sisters" at the Playhouse.
9. She was awarded Legion d'Honneur, France's highest civilian award, in January 2005 honors list.
10. She also dubbed herself in French for Random Hearts (1999).
11. Ex-sister-in-law of Scott J. Tepper.
12. Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 53rd Cannes International Film Festival in 2000.
13. Was told by a school teacher back in her native England that she wouldn't make it as an actress because there was no money to be made of it and that's what influenced her to move to France where she currently still resides.
14. Made her feature film debut in the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon (1986), which was directed by and starred Prince.
15. Considers herself more French than British, having lived in Paris for more years than in her homeland.
16. In the late 1990s she was scheduled to appear opposite Harrison Ford in a doomed production titled "Age of Aquarius," but the project fell through due to financing complications. Yet again when she was up for the role of Harrison Ford's leading lady in Six Days Seven Nights (1998), she lost the part to Anne Heche. She finally succeeded in appearing with Ford in Random Hearts (1999).
17. Has lived in Paris since she was 19.
18. Was approached to play Emily Tallis in Atonement (2007).
19. She won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of her performance in "Seagull" at the Playhouse.
20. Has the rare distinction of being in two movies that opened on the same day in the U.S - The Golden Compass (2007) and The Walker (2007).