Phyllida Law, Actress and Mother of Sophie and Emma Thompson, Dies at 94

Phyllida Law, the Scottish actress of stage and screen and the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died. She was accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, intending to train as a stage designer before deciding that she wanted to act.

Finlay’s Casebook and Dixon of Dock Green. She later appeared in plays including Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered (for the National Theatre) and J.B.

What Happened

Priestley’s When We Are Married and played Jacqueline in the musical version of La Cage Aux Folles. Survivors also include her grandchildren, actress Gaia Wise, Tindyebwa Wise, Ernie Lumsden and Walter Lumsden.

• She acted alongside younger daughter Sophie in Jane Austen’s Emma (1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and they would work together on TV series including Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Timeshift and Doc Martin.

• Without her kids, she landed in features including The Time Machine (2002), Miss Potter (2006), Albert Nobbs (2011) and A Little Chaos (2014) and recurred as the aunt of Stephen Fry’s lawyer on the.

• She received an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for her services to drama and charitable causes in 2014.

Key Details

The daughter of a newspaperman, Phyllida Ann Law was born in Glasgow on May 8, 1932.

• She appeared in Bristol Old Vic productions, married fellow actor Eric Thompson in 1957 and started showing up on television on programs including ITV Play of the Week, Dr.

• She joined the original 1967 production of Peter Nichols’ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg when it made its way to the West End and in 1971 worked alongside Alec Guinness in.

• Law was married to Thompson until his death from a heart attack at age 53 in 1982, when Emma was 21 and Sophie was 18.

What Reports Say

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