Editing Emma Thompson (section)

==Personal life==
Thompson has stated that she feels Scottish, saying: "not only because I am half Scottish but also because I've spent half my life [in Scotland]".<ref name="DR">{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/IT%27S+NANNY+McME%3b+Thespian+beauty+Emma+Thompson+was+gutted+when+it...-a0137436678 |title=It's Nanny McMe; Thespian beauty Emma Thompson was gutted when it took make-up artists only an hour to turn her into grotesque old granny Nanny McPhee for her latest movie. |work=Glasgow Daily Record |last=Fulton |first=Rick |date=12 October 2005 |access-date=27 June 2021 |via=thefreelibrary.com }}</ref><ref name="herald">{{cite web |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12504779.artists-driven-away-scots-suck-joy-life/ |title=Artists driven away because Scots 'suck the joy' out of life |work=The Herald |date=25 July 2009 |access-date=27 June 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=9 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409095749/https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12504779.artists-driven-away-scots-suck-joy-life/}}</ref> She frequently returns to Scotland and visits [[Dunoon]] in [[Argyll and Bute]]. She owns a home nearby, on the shore of [[Loch Eck]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/emma-thompson-interview|title=Emma Thompson On 'Cruella', Life After 60, & Her Many Decades Of Activism|first=Giles|last=Hattersley|work=British Vogue|date=7 May 2021|access-date=8 May 2021|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508225844/https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/emma-thompson-interview|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Relationships===
Thompson's first husband was actor and director [[Kenneth Branagh]], whom she met in 1987 while filming the television series ''[[Fortunes of War (TV series)|Fortunes of War]]''.<ref name="pooped">{{cite news |title=One Pooped Pair |url=https://people.com/archive/one-pooped-pair-vol-44-no-16/ |first=Lydia |last=Denworth |date=16 October 1995 |newspaper=People |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508112319/https://people.com/archive/one-pooped-pair-vol-44-no-16/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They married in 1989 and appeared in several films together, with Branagh often casting her in his productions.<ref>{{cite news |title=Arise Sir Ken: Kenneth Branagh profiled |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18438930 |date=16 June 2012 |work=BBC News |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=5 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305010033/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18438930 |url-status=live }}</ref> Dubbed a "golden couple" by the British press, their relationship received substantial media coverage.<ref name="pooped"/><ref name="family"/> The pair attempted to keep the relationship private, refusing to be interviewed or photographed together.<ref name="ew">{{cite news |title=Kenneth Branagh Emma Thompson |url=https://ew.com/article/1993/06/25/kenneth-branagh-emma-thompson/ |first=Lisa |last=Schwarzbaum |date=25 June 1993 |newspaper=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=8 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808003938/http://www.ew.com/article/1993/06/25/kenneth-branagh-emma-thompson |url-status=live }}</ref> Thompson and Branagh announced their separation in September 1995. They cited their work schedules as the reason, but it later emerged that he was having an affair with actress [[Helena Bonham Carter]].<ref name="affair">{{cite news |title=Emma Thompson Talks Kenneth Branagh's Alleged Affair With Helena Bonham Carter |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/emma-thompson-kenneth-branagh-affair_n_4261680.html |access-date=4 December 2015 |work=HuffPost |date=12 November 2013 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208152958/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/emma-thompson-kenneth-branagh-affair_n_4261680.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Greg Wise.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Thompson's husband, [[Greg Wise]], whom she met on the set of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'']]
Thompson was living alone as her relationship with Branagh deteriorated and she became depressed.<ref name="voices"/> While filming ''Sense and Sensibility'' in 1995, she began a relationship with her co-star [[Greg Wise]]. On how she was able to overcome her depression, she stated, "Work saved me and Greg saved me. He picked up the pieces and put them together again."<ref name="voices"/> The couple have a daughter, Gaia, who was conceived via [[in vitro fertilisation]] when Thompson was 39.<ref name="family"/>

Thompson and Wise married in Dunoon in 2003.<ref name="scot">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/9459517/Scottish-independence-Emma-Thompson-attacks-separation.html |title=Scottish independence: Emma Thompson attacks separation |first=Simon |last=Johnson |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=7 August 2012 |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=1 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001044420/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/9459517/Scottish-independence-Emma-Thompson-attacks-separation.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The family's permanent residence is in West Hampstead, London, on the same road as her childhood home.<ref name="family"/> Also in 2003, Thompson and Wise informally adopted a Rwandan orphan and former [[child soldier]] named Tindyebwa Agaba. They met at a [[Refugee Council]] event when he was sixteen, and she invited him to spend Christmas at their home.<ref name="family"/> "Slowly," Thompson has commented, "he became a sort of permanent fixture, came on holiday to Scotland with us, became part of the family."<ref name="adopt">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2200167/Emma-Thompson-and-her-adopted-son-meet-Nelson-Mandela.html |title=Emma Thompson and her 'adopted' son meet Nelson Mandela |first=Anita |last=Singh |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=26 June 2008 |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-date=1 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001045926/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2200167/Emma-Thompson-and-her-adopted-son-meet-Nelson-Mandela.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Agaba became a British citizen in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.readersdigest.co.za/interview%20with%20emma%20thompson |title=Interview with Emma Thompson |newspaper=Reader's Digest |date=18 December 2009 |access-date=21 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926095914/http://www.readersdigest.co.za/interview%20with%20emma%20thompson |archive-date=26 September 2013 }}</ref>

On 28 February 2020, Thompson and Wise were sworn in as honorary citizens of [[Venice]] and became legal [[Domicile (law)|residents]] of Italy. The couple had previously purchased a house in the city and indicated their intention to relocate to Italy permanently.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/01/emma-thompson-left-new-home-venice-self-isolate-mums-house-scotland/ |title=Emma Thompson left new home in Venice to self-isolate at 'mum's house in Scotland' |last1=Simpson |first1=Craig |last2=Gardner |first2=Bill |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=1 May 2020 |access-date=3 May 2020 |archive-date=2 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502183251/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/01/emma-thompson-left-new-home-venice-self-isolate-mums-house-scotland/ |url-status=live}}</ref> They retain a home in West Hampstead.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/29/emma-thompson-husband-move-venice-brexit-good-12324705/ |title=Emma Thompson and her husband move to Venice after Brexit and good on them |work=Metro |last=Karasin |first=Ekin |date=29 February 2020 |access-date=27 June 2021 }}</ref>

===Views and activism===
Thompson has said of her religious views:<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/acting-on-outspoken-beliefs/story-e6frg8n6-1111117752031 |title=Acting on outspoken beliefs |date=15 October 2008 |work=[[The Australian]] |access-date=23 February 2011 |first=Jane |last=Cornwell |archive-date=24 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131124131340/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/acting-on-outspoken-beliefs/story-e6frg8n6-1111117752031 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{blockquote|I'm an [[atheist]] [...] I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the [[Bible]] and the [[Qur'an]] and I refute them.}}

She is [[Social liberalism|politically liberal]] and a supporter of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]; she told the BBC's ''[[Andrew Marr]] Show'' in 2010 that she had been a member of the party "all my life".<ref name="Andrew Marr Show interview">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8590095.stm |title=Emma Thompson on surviving fame |access-date=30 March 2010 |work=BBC News |date=28 March 2010 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508225838/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8590095.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Thompson endorsed [[2015 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign|Jeremy Corbyn's campaign]] in both the [[2015 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|2015]] and [[2016 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|2016 Labour Party leadership elections]].<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news |last=McCrum |first=Robert |author-link=Robert McCrum |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/21/emma-thompson-flower-of-scotland-thorn-in-the-side |title=Emma Thompson: English rose. Flower of Scotland. And all-round thorn in the side |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=21 September 2016 |access-date=15 November 2016 |archive-date=16 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116023002/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/21/emma-thompson-flower-of-scotland-thorn-in-the-side |url-status=live }}</ref> She has also expressed support for the now-defunct [[Women's Equality Party]].<ref name="G_Letters">{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Emma |title=Letters: Emma Thompson 'I do not want to die before closing the pay gap' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/02/emma-thompson-i-do-not-want-to-die-before-closing-the-pay-gap |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=2 May 2016 |access-date=4 May 2016 |archive-date=3 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503112845/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/02/emma-thompson-i-do-not-want-to-die-before-closing-the-pay-gap |url-status=live }}</ref>

Thompson has been a campaigner since her youth.<ref name="protest"/> Since becoming a public figure she has regularly voiced her views and been involved in many issues, prompting criticism that she is overly outspoken.<ref name="protest"/> She has justified her assertiveness by saying, "[W]hat I feel is that we all need to speak up and a woman who has got a louder voice needs to shout very loudly indeed."<ref name="protest">{{cite news |first=Joann |last=Moorhead |title=Emma Thompson: Doth the lady protest too much? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/emma-thompson-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much-1418926.html |access-date=3 December 2015 |work=The Independent |date=18 January 2009 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412012102/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/emma-thompson-doth-the-lady-protest-too-much-1418926.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Emma Thompson at climate march.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|left|Thompson at the 2014 Climate March in London]]

She is particularly active in [[human rights]] work.<ref name="kellaway"/> She is chair of the [[Helen Bamber#Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture|Helen Bamber Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Saner |first=Emine |title=Emma Thompson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/mar/08/emma-thompson-100-women |access-date=3 December 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=8 March 2011 |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404040948/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/mar/08/emma-thompson-100-women |url-status=live }}</ref> a patron of the [[Refugee Council]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Patrons |url=http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/about_refugee_council/patrons |access-date=3 December 2015 |website=Refugee Council |archive-date=5 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205152939/http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/about_refugee_council/patrons |url-status=live }}</ref> and has a therapy room in her office for traumatised refugees.<ref name="kellaway"/> In 2017, she marched in support of [[Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe]], an Iranian-British charity worker who was held captive in Iran.<ref>{{cite news |title=Emma Thompson braves pneumonia to join march in support of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/25/emma-thompson-braves-pneumonia-join-march-support-nazanin-zaghari/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=The Telegraph |last=Turner |first=Camilla |date=25 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-date=4 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304015309/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/25/emma-thompson-braves-pneumonia-join-march-support-nazanin-zaghari/}}</ref> Thompson is a patron of the [[Elton John AIDS Foundation]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ejaf.com/about/our-patrons/ |title=Our Patrons |work=Elton John AIDS Foundation |access-date=27 March 2014 |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012055947/http://ejaf.com/about/our-patrons/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named her a "European Hero" in 2009 in recognition of "her work to highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers in Africa".<ref name="protest"/>

She is an active [[environmentalist]] and a supporter of [[Greenpeace]]; in January 2009, as part of her campaign against [[climate change]], she and three other members of the organisation bought land near the village of [[Sipson]] to deter the building of a [[Expansion of Heathrow Airport|third runway for Heathrow Airport]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7825169.stm |title=Protesters buy up Heathrow land |work=BBC News |location=London |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=18 January 2009 |archive-date=14 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114190054/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7825169.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In August 2014, Thompson and her daughter Gaia went on a Greenpeace "[[Save the Arctic]]" expedition to raise awareness of the dangers of [[Petroleum exploration in the Arctic|drilling for oil]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/13/emma-thompson-different-patch-life-50s |title=Emma Thompson: 'It's a different patch of life, your 50s' |work=The Guardian |date=13 September 2014 |first=Emma |last=Brockes |access-date=26 September 2014 |archive-date=17 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917015325/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/13/emma-thompson-different-patch-life-50s |url-status=live }}</ref> She narrated [[The Real News Network]]'s ''[[The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science]]'', a documentary short about [[Koch Industries]] and its efforts to discredit climate research,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2930 |title=The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science |website=The Real News Network |access-date=2 November 2016 |archive-date=4 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104012614/http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2930 |url-status=dead}}</ref> which was released on 31&nbsp;October 2016. She supported the London [[Extinction Rebellion]] rally against climate change in 2019, although she received some criticism for having flown {{Convert|5400|mi|km|abbr=}} to attend it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/ |title=Emma Thompson flew 5,400 miles to join climate change protest |last=Middleton |first=Lucy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505173408/https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/ |archive-date=5 May 2019 |work=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] |date=19 April 2019 |access-date=5 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gössling |first1=Stefan |date=19 October 2019 |title=Celebrities, air travel, and social norms |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336666551 |access-date=1 January 2021 |journal=Annals of Tourism Research |volume=79 |page=102775 |doi=10.1016/j.annals.2019.102775 |s2cid=211419517 |quote=This also became an issue when actor Emma Thompson flew from Los Angeles to London to join a protest of the Extinction Rebellion movement (Mirror 2019). |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508225908/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336666551_Celebrities_air_travel_and_social_norms |url-status=live }}</ref> She is also an ambassador for the [[Galapagos Conservation Trust]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://galapagosconservation.org.uk/ambassadors/ |newspaper=Galapagos Conservation Trust |title=Ambassadors |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-date=24 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224175044/https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/ambassadors/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2010, Thompson criticised people who use "sloppy language". Speaking with the ''[[Radio Times]]'', she said: "I went to give a talk at my old school and the girls were all doing their 'likes' and 'innits?' and 'it ain'ts', which drives me insane. I told them 'Just don't do it. Because it makes you sound stupid and you're not stupid.' There is the necessity to have two languages – one that you use with your mates and the other that you need in any official capacity."<ref>{{Cite news|date=28 September 2010|title=Actress Emma Thompson attacks use of sloppy language|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11420737|access-date=10 February 2022|url-status=live |archive-date=11 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411163850/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11420737}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Thompson's war on sloppy speech|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/thompsons-war-on-sloppy-speech/26684741.html|access-date=10 February 2022|website=Irish Independent|date=28 September 2010|url-status=live |archive-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101155022/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/thompsons-war-on-sloppy-speech/26684741.html}}</ref>

On February 24, 2024, Thompson supported [[Ukraine]] by appearing in a video with 29 other world stars to support Ukraine against [[Russia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 24, 2024|via=[[YouTube]] |title=#StandWithUkraine - UNITED24 : 30 world stars support Ukraine against Russia (2024)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZXwAWqMwE|access-date=April 9, 2025}}</ref>