page_title: Emily Blunt
section_title: 2015–present: Dramatic expansion and recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Emily Blunt / Career / 2015–present: Dramatic expansion and recognition
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Josh Brolin et Emily Blunt au festival de CannesEnglish: Josh Brolin and Emily Blunt at the Cannes film festival
context_page_description: Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British-American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards.
  Educated at Hurtwood House in Dorking, Blunt made her acting debut in a 2001 stage production of The Royal Family. She went on to appear in the television film Boudica and portrayed Queen Catherine Howard in the miniseries Henry VIII. She made her feature film debut in the drama My Summer of Love. Blunt's breakthrough came in 2006 with her starring roles in the television film Gideon's Daughter and the highly successful comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada. The former won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
  Blunt's profile continued to grow with starring roles in the period film The Young Victoria, the romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, the science fiction films The Adjustment Bureau, Looper, and Edge of Tomorrow, and the musical films Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns.
context_section_description: In 2015, Blunt starred in the crime thriller Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve. Blunt played Kate Macer, a principled FBI agent assigned to take down the leader of a powerful Mexican drug cartel. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim. Blunt received considerable praise for her performance, with Dan Jolin of Empire magazine calling it "nuanced", and stating that "Her straight-arrow-sharp determination becomes painfully dulled," and while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian found her character implausible, he praised Blunt for "[brazening] out any possible absurdity with great acting focus and front." Blunt was nominated for her second consecutive Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie.
  In 2016, Blunt co-starred in The Huntsman: Winter's War, which serves as both a prequel and sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). The film, directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, was a box-office bomb and was mostly dismissed by critics. Blunt then headlined the mystery thriller The Girl on the Train, directed by Tate Taylor. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, written by Paula Hawkins, Blunt plays Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who becomes involved in a missing persons investigation. Though the film earned mixed reviews from critics, who felt that it failed to live up to the novel, Blunt received unanimous praise for her performance. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone remarked that "the movie gives away the game faster than the novel, but Emily Blunt digs so deep into the role of a blackout drunk and maybe murderer that she raises Girl to the level of spellbinder." For her work in The Girl on the Train, she received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and Screen Actors Guild Award (SAG) for Outstanding Female Actor.
  After providing her voice for the 2017 animated films My Little Pony: The Movie and Animal Crackers, Blunt made her return to the screen, in husband John Krasinski's 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, which centers on a family being tormented by monstrous creatures that hunt by sound. Neither Krasinski nor Blunt had any initial plans for Blunt to co-star in the film with him; upon reading the script, Blunt persuaded Krasinski to cast her. A Quiet Place served as the opening night film at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where it generated critical acclaim. Eric Kohn of IndieWire applauded the cast for contributing "credible intensity to their scenes with a degree of sophistication rare for this type of material," while Laura Prudom of IGN noted that, "Blunt, in particular, is put through the wringer in ways that would seem almost farcical, if she didn't play them with such compelling conviction".
  That same year, Blunt played the title character in Rob Marshall's musical fantasy film Mary Poppins Returns, which served as a sequel to the 1964 film, in which Poppins was played by Julie Andrews. Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman found Blunt to be "practically perfect in every way" and added that she "inhabits Mary Poppins' snappishly entrancing spirit, and in the musical numbers she generates her own spit-spot radiance". She received SAG nominations for both A Quiet Place and Mary Poppins Returns, winning for the former, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for the sixth time, for the latter.
  In 2020, Blunt guest starred in her husband's web series Some Good News, which began streaming on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. She will reprise her role in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II. She will also co-star in Jungle Cruise, a film adaptation of the eponymous attraction in Adventureland and star in the romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme, based on John Patrick Shanley's play Outside Mullingar, and in the BBC television series The English, a western from Hugo Blick.
caption: Blunt at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
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