With a career that stretches back more than 40 years, everyone has a Dame Emma Thompson role they most associate her with.

Many of us can’t see her without getting a bit choked up thanks to her tear-jerking performance in the festive rom-com Love Actually , while for others, her signature role was in period dramas like Howard’s End and Sense & Sensibility (both of which earned her Oscar wins, by the way).

Then there are younger millennials who best remember her as Nanny McPhee, while more recently, she gave a chilling turn as the steely MP Vivienne Rook in Russell T Davies’ dystopian Years And Years.

And, of course, there are thousands around the globe to whom Dame Emma will always be best remembered for her performance as the eccentric and scatty divination professor Sybill Trelawn

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