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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

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Emma Thompson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 15
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