EMILY BLUNT 'I BUZZ with gratitude'

NOMINATED FOR HER FIRST OSCAR, THE ACTRESS TAKES NOTHING FOR GRANTED

Despite initially having what she describes as a “cavalier” attitude towards her future as an actress, Emily Blunt, scored a Golden Globe almost straight out of the gate. She was recognised for her role in the TV movie Gideon’s Daughter in 2007, the same year she was also nominated for her scene-stealing part in The Devil Wears Prada. Her success started the ball rolling, with stand-out roles in films including The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Into the Woods (2014), The Girl on the Train (2016), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and A Quiet Place (2018), co-starring and directed by her husband, John Krasinski, with whom she shares daughters Hazel, 9, and Violet, 7.

Now, ahead of her 41st birthday on February 23, the British beauty has scored her first ever Academy Award nomination for her performance in Oppenheimer as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (played by fellow Oscar nominee Cillian Murphy). “It really does make me buzz with gratitude,” she tells WHO of the film’s reception and 13 Oscar nods. “I’m so moved by it. I always am so grateful for it because it’s such a vulnerable job in many ways.”

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