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My Take
Sophie Thompson strikes me as the actor's actor, the name London theatre people say with a knowing smile. One Olivier Award and six further nominations across three decades is not luck; it is a body of work built role by role, from Sondheim revivals to the soap-opera kitchens of EastEnders. I love performers who treat a musical, a television serial, and a straight play with the same seriousness, and she seems constitutionally incapable of coasting. If I could buy a ticket into any West End rehearsal room, hers is the craft I would most want to watch up close.
Overview
Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is a British actress. She has worked in film, television and theatre and she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the London revival of Into the Woods. She has been nominated for Olivier Awards six other times: for Wildest Dreams (1994), Company (1996), Clybourne Park (2011), Guys and Dolls (2016), Present Laughter (2020), and When We Are Married (2026).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sophie Thompson
- Name (Japanese)
- ソフィー・トンプソン
- Reading
- そふぃー・とんぷそん
- Born
- January 20, 1962 (age 64)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Tiger
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / stage actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | EastEnders | — | |
| Notable work | Dancing at Lughnasa | — |
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Thompson
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.