All about the star: Emma Thomas

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Emma Thomas is a successful Hollywood producer who has worked on such famous films as "The Prestige", "The Dark Knight", "Interstellar". She also tried herself as an actress, but she gained wide popularity precisely as a talented producer.

Biography

Emma Thomas was born in 1970 in London. After graduation, she entered University College London. It was there that she met her future husband, Christopher Nolan, whom they married in 1997. Now the couple live in Los Angeles, they have four children.

Career

In addition to producing films, in the 90s Emma Thomas worked as a script supervisor (she systematized the footage of the day before editing). In 2000, on the set of the drama "Fanatic" Emma was assistant director Stephen Frears.

Emma Thomas's production career began in 1997 when she worked on Christopher Nolan's short psychological thriller Jumping Beetle. This mini-thriller would later form the basis of The Pursuit, Nolan's first feature film. In "Pursuit" Emmadebuted as an actress in a small supporting role.

Since 1997, Emma Thomas has been regularly collaborating with her husband Christopher Nolan. Together they founded the production company Syncopy Films in 2001. Syncopy Films is a highly successful company that has released eight films with a total box office of over $4 billion. The most popular project of Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas "The Dark Knight Rises" grossed over a billion dollars at the box office.

Filmography

Emma Thomas has produced all of Christopher Nolan's films. The most successful in their joint collaboration was the trilogy "The Dark Knight", the total box office of which is almost 2.5 billion dollars.

Emma Thomas also worked on the films "The Prestige", "Remember", "Interstellar", "Inception", "Man of Steel". Emma's filmography includes fourteen films. This is not much, but the main thing is not quantity, but quality - five of them are included in the TOP-250 best films in the history of cinema.

In 2008, Emma acted as a producer of the cartoon "Batman: Knight of Gotham" by Yasohiro Yaoki. In 2014, she worked on the fantasy thriller Supremacy by Wally Pfister. Despite the stellar cast, this picture did not become a box office hit.

The latest project at the moment in Emma's filmography is the fantastic action movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice". The film was directed by Zack Snyder and starred BenAffleck and Henry Cavill. Film critics smashed the film, but the audience was much more supportive.