Known For: English actress (born 1971)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, journalist, film producer, film actor, television director, comedian, film director
Country: United Kingdom
City: Finsbury Park
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 06 October 1971
Language English
Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer is an English actress and filmmaker. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She created and wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
| BirthPlace | Finsbury Park |
| Education | Q81153, Q4638918 |
| Awards | Q311836 |
| Spouses | Alessandro Nivola |
| Wikipedia | Emily_Mortimer |
Mortimer was born on 6 October 1971 in Hammersmith, London, to dramatist and barrister Sir John Mortimer, and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop). She has a younger sister, Rosie; two older half-siblings, Sally Silverman and Jeremy, from her father's first marriage to author Penelope Fletcher; and a half-brother, Ross Bentley, from her father's relationship with actress Wendy Craig. Mortimer studied at St Paul's Girls' School in west London where she appeared in several pupil productions. She went on to the University of Oxford, where she read Russian at Lincoln College and performed in several plays. Before becoming an actress, she wrote a column for The Daily Telegraph and was screenwriter for an adaptation of Lorna Sage's memoir Bad Blood.
