Kristin Scott Thomas - biography

“I find it difficult to explain, but I’m quite ashamed of being an actress.”

“I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.”

“Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.”

“At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me.  So I’d have make my own gang, but with everybody else’s leftovers.”

“People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.”

“I’m not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.”

“Movies make you immortal and ageless.”

“I was happy, I wasn’t beaten, and I lacked nothing.  But it wasn’t what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping.  I don’t know how my mother did it.”

“There’s something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women’s backs.”

“Buy, buy, buy, buy!  They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.”

“Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.”

“I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way.  Why be simple when you can be complicated?”

“If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different.”

“People accuse me of being Methody, but I’m not at all.  The one thing I don’t want people to see is me.  I don’t want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won’t use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.”

Kristin Scott Thomas has appeared in the following films:
Charly (1985)
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
Agent trouble (1987)
A Handful of Dust (1988)
La méridienne (1988)
Force majeure (1989)
Bille en tête (1989)
Le bal du gouverneur (1990)
Mio caro dottor Gräsler (1990)
Valentino! I Love You (1991)
Aux yeux du monde (1991)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Un été inoubliable (1994)
Plaisir d’offrir (1995)
En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît (1995)
Richard III (1995)
Les Milles (1995)
Le confessionnal (1995)
Angels and Insects (1995)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Souvenir (1996)
The Pompatus of Love (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe (1996)
Amour & confusions (1997)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
The Revengers’ Comedies (1998)
Random Hearts (1999)
Play (2000)
Up at the Villa (2000)
Life as a House (2001)
Gosford Park (2001)
Petites coupures (2003)
Arsène Lupin (2004)
Man to Man (2005)
Chromophobia (2005)
Keeping Mum (2005)
La doublure (2006)
Ne le dis à personne (2006)
The Walker (2007)
The Golden Compass (2007)
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Seuls two (2008)
Easy Virtue (2008)
Largo Winch (2008)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
Partir (2009)
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Sous ton emprise (2009)
Crime d’amour (2010)
Elle s’appelait Sarah (2010)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Bel Ami (2012)
The Galapagos Affair (2010)
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Contre toi (2011)