Emma Thompson News

Torture victims often lose their voice twice: first during the torture itself and then when no one listens to their ordeal, Actress Emma Thompson says.

Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry in "Cambridge Footlights" sketch from the early eighties.

Environmental group the Green Thing launches a fleet of paper aeroplanes carrying green messages from celebrities including Emma Thompson and Dinos Chapman.

Thompson removed her name from the pro-Polanski petition after a young woman from Exeter University persuaded her to do so earlier this month.

Emma Thompson stands outside of 'Journey,' a temporary art installation near Washington Square Park that tells the story of a women forced into sexual slavery.

Swinging London might not have been quite as swinging as most of us thought. As the new film "Pirate Radio" informs us, 1966 was at the center of the greatest era of British rock 'n' roll.

British comedy is a funny thing. It's famous for being smart, sharp and nuanceda 'unlike Yank humour, which is supposed to be dumb, crude and obvious.A Or at least that's the cliche.

Tom Sturridge, background left, who plays Carl, the anchor character of "Pirate Radio," watches Rhys Ifans as disc jockey Gavin in the film.

Inspired by story of Moldovan woman forced into sex work in U.K. 5:54 PM ET CBC News British actor Emma Thompson, shown Oct.

ACTRESS EMMA THOMPSON stunned students at a university town by saying: "Nick Griffin would feel very comfortable here." The Oscar-winner hit out after claiming her Rwanda-born adoptive son suffered racist abuse while studying at Exeter.

On Friday, newcomers Tom Sturridge and Talulah Riley appear on-screen in the kooky ensemble film "Pirate Radio," a comedy about a colorful band of DJs who blasted out rock 'n' roll to the music-starved masses of Sixties England.

Emma Thompson teams up with Michael Bloomberg to shine the spotlight on human trafficking.

Many people know Emma Thompson as Nanny McPhee or Professor Sybil Trelawney from the Harry Potter films.

While Labour scarcely has a surfeit of celebrity supporters these days Sir Michael Caine's defection to the Tories was the last thing that the party needed Ben Bradshaw has just seen fit to give Emma Thompson a sound thrashing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, and Emma Thompson indulge in some tame debauchery.

Nov. 10 - Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson unveils an art exhibition in New York that highlights human trafficking.

"I'm a big fan of my stuff, I have to say," Sebastian Silva says with a self-aware, wincing smile.

CULTURE Secretary Ben Bradshaw has criticised actress Emma Thompson as "insulting" over her claim that Exeter and its university are racist.

Richard Curtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.

ACTRESS Emma Thompson stunned students by telling them BNP leader Nick Griffin would love their university as she hit out over racism.