Claim: Emma Thompson was in a movie.

Nanny McPhee is a 2005 family comedy fantasy film based on Nurse Matilda by Christianna Brand . It was directed by Kirk Jones , co-produced by StudioCanal , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , Working Title Films , Three Strange Angels and Nanny McPhee Productions with music by Patrick Doyle and produced by Lindsay Doran , Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner . Set in Victorian England , the film stars Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee , along with Colin Firth , Angela Lansbury and Thomas Sangster .   The film was theatrically released on 28 October 2005 in the UK and on 27 January 2006 in the US by Universal Pictures . Thompson also scripted the film , which is adapted from Christianna Brand 's Nurse Matilda books . A sequel was released in 2010 , titled Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang . The filming location is Penn House Estate , Penn Street , Buckinghamshire , England .