On August 6th, Emma Thompson is scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!! Emma plays Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films!

Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson will receive the 2,415th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Aug. 6, two weeks before the release of her latest film, “Nanny McPhee Returns.’

Born April 15, 1959 in London to a father who was a theater director and writer and a mother who was an actress, Thompson made her television debut while still in college on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s “Friday Night, Saturday Morning.’

Thompson appeared frequently on both television and the stage in England in the 1980s. She made her feature film debut in the 1989 comedy “The Tall Guy,’ which starred Jeff Goldblum. Thompson co-starred with Kenneth Branagh — her husband from 1989-95 — in four films he also directed, “Henry V,’ “Dead Again,’ “Peter’s Friends’ and “Much Ado About Nothing.’ Thompson’s other film credits include “Last Chance Harry,’ “Stranger Than Fiction,’ “Junior,’ “Carrington,’ “The Winter Guest,’ “Primary Colors,’ “Imagining Argentina,’ and “Love Actually.’

Thompson also played professor Sybill Trelawney in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,’ and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ three years later. Thompson is writing a new film version of “My Fair Lady’ and starring with Alan Rickman in a BBC production of the poem “The Song of Lunch.’

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