Emily Watson will receive the Richard Harris Award at this year’s British Independent Film Awards ( BIFAs ).

The English actress burst onto screens with an Oscar-nominated performance in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996), opposite Stellan Skarsgård. The role swiftly catapulted her to the top of director wish lists and Watson soon worked on Jim Sheridan’s The Boxer with Daniel Day-Lewis, Alan Parker’s adaptation of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and in the critically acclaimed whodunnit Gosford Park (2001).

Watson earned another Academy Award nomination for her role as the tragic cellist Jacqueline du Pré in Anand Tucker’s Hilary & Jackie, for which she also won a best actress BIFA and a slew of other nods. In 2002, she starred alongside Adam Sandler in Punch Drun

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