Emma Thompson’s sibling: Meet Sophie Thompson
Emma is not the only child her parents had, she has a sister named Sophie Thompson.
Sophie Thompson was born on 20 January 1962, she is a British actress who has worked in film, television, and theatre. A six-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the London revival of Into the Woods. Her other nominations were for Wildest Dreams (1994), Company (1996), Clybourne Park (2011) Guys and Dolls (2016), and ‘Present Laughter’ (2019).
In 1995, Thompson married actor Richard Lumsden but the couple separated in 2015. They have two sons: Ernie James Lumsden born in 1997, and Walter Ernest Thompson, born in 2000.
Sophie Thompson has been an active charity ambassador over the years, for Dan’s Fund For Burns; she also ran the 2010 Marathon for CINI, a charity supporting vulnerable families in India, and 24th Tottenham, a London-based group for children and young adults with special needs
