As we posted last month, Emma Thompson received a star on the Walk of Fame today.

Oscar-winning English actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, who received the 2,416th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, said she found its location in front of the Pig ‘n Whistle pub particularly fitting. “It’s so appropriate this is outside of a pub,’ Thompson said of her star on Hollywood Boulevard.  “It’s the last thing you step on before you get your first drink and the last thing you step on when you reel out.’

Actor Hugh Laurie, who dated Thompson when both attended England’s University of Cambridge, said her talent is enormous. “She was the most obnoxiously talented person — and still is — that I’ve ever come across,’ said Laurie, star of the Fox Broadcasting medical drama ‘House.’ Everything she did just oozed talent,’ he said. “She said talented things, she wore talented clothes, she rode a talented bicycle, she made talented spaghetti. She is a truly remarkable person, a very good friend, and I could not be prouder.’

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who stars with Thompson in Nanny McPhee Returns, which will be released Aug. 20, said “Emma is undeniably grateful and good. I’ve never seen Emma when she hasn’t given me a present and a present for my daughter,” Gyllenhaal said at the late-morning ceremony.  “She knows the name of every single person on the crew and their children and their wives’ names. She’s cooked me roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, while acting and writing and producing a huge, multimillion-dollar studio movie. This comes through in all of the things she writes and the movies she acts in.’

Thompson, 51, dedicated her star to her late father, Eric Thompson, an actor, writer and director. “He was a wonderful man and a great inspiration to me,’ Thompson said. “He inspired me to write for children without writing for children.’ Thompson recalled him taking her to the Walk of Fame when he was in Los Angeles in the 1970s to direct a production of “The Norman Conquests’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. “We looked at all the stars and I remember being really fascinated by this, thinking, `What a lovely thing to do, put people’s names in the pavement where everyone walks about all the time,’ Thompson said. “I was thrilled by that.’