Emma Thomas is a successful Hollywood producer who has worked on such famous films as "Prestige", "The Dark Knight", "Interstellar". She tried herself as an actress, but became widely known precisely as a talented producer.
Biography
Emma Thomas was born in 1970 in London. After graduation, she entered University College London. It was there that she met her future husband Christopher Nolan, whom they married in 1997. Now the couple live in Los Angeles, they have four children.
Career
In addition to producing films, Emma Thomas worked as a script supervisor in the 90s (she systematized the material she had filmed during the day before the start of editing). In 2000, on the set of the drama Fanatic, Emma was an assistant director, Stephen Frears.
Emma Thomas' production career began in 1997 when she worked on Christopher Nolan's short-length psychological thriller "Beetle Rider". Subsequently, this mini-thriller formed the basis of "Chase", the first full-length film of Nolan. In “Chase,” Emma made her debut as an actress, playing a small supporting role.
Since 1997, Emma Thomas has regularly collaborated with her husband Christopher Nolan. Together they founded the production company Syncopy Films in 2001. Syncopy Films is a highly successful company, it has released eight films with a total box office of more than $ 4 billion. The most popular project of Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas “The Dark Knight: Revival of a Legend” has collected more than a billion dollars at the box office.
Filmography
Emma Thomas has produced all the films of Christopher Nolan. The most successful in their collaboration was the Dark Knight trilogy, with a combined box office of nearly $ 2.5 billion.
Emma Thomas also worked on the films Prestige, Remember, Interstellar, The Beginning, The Man of Steel. Emma's filmography has fourteen films. This is a little, but the main thing is not quantity, but quality - five of them are in the TOP-250 of the best films in the history of cinema.
In 2008, Emma acted as producer for the cartoon Batman: The Gotham Knight, Yasohiro Yoki. In 2014, she worked on the fantastic thriller "Excellence" by Wally Pfister. Despite the stellar cast, this picture did not become a box office hit.
The latest project in Emma's filmography is the fantastic action movie Batman vs. Superman: At the Dawn of Justice. The director of the picture was Zack Snyder, the main roles were played by Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill. Film critics defeated the film, but the audience was much more supportive of it.