Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Kristin Scott Thomas under Lasse Hallström’s direction in the rom-com based on Paul Torday’s novel, Salmon Fishing in Yemen (2011), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released by Lionsgate for a solid box-office return of $35 million. Blunt joined the late American director-writer Lynn Shelton as the star of the comedy-drama released by IFC Films, Your Sister’s Sister (2011), with Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass, and Mike Birbiglia, which grossed an outstanding $3.2 million gross on a $120,000 budget.

Blunt starred opposite Jason Segel in The Five-Year Engagement (2012), which Segel co-wrote with director Nicholas Stoller and Stoller co-produced with Judd Apatow, and earned an underwhelming $54 million for Universal Pictures. Blunt shifted to sci-fi for filmmaker Rian Johnson in the dazzling hit, Looper (2012), co-starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and grossing $176.5 million globally after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival; and then Blunt lent her voice to the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki now-classic animated feature, The Wind Rises (2014), with the voice cast of Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Martin Short, Werner Herzog, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Stanley Tucci, and Elijah Wood.

Emily Blunt returned to sci-fi opposite co-star Tom Cruise in the Doug Liman-directed Edge of Tomorrow (2014), based on Hiroshima Sakurazaka’s novel, All You Need is Kill, and featuring Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleason, and grossed $370.5 million worldwide for Warner Bros. Blunt (as The Baker’s Wife) joined the ensemble of Disney’s well-received ($213-million-grossing) film version of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale-inspired musical, Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall and co-starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, and Johnny Depp.

Blunt co-starred with Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin in the border thriller, Sicario (2015), directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring Jon Bernthal, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, and Raoul Trujillo, earning both three Oscar nominations and $85 million in global box office. Blunt was Queen Freya opposite Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Sam Claflin, and Liam Neeson in the fantasy-action sequel, The Huntsmen: Winter’s War (2016), directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, but which lost money for Universal Pictures.

Emily Blunt starred in Paramount Pictures’ intense, smash-hit sci-if thriller, A Quiet Place (2018), directed and co-written by John Krasinski (who also appeared on screen), with cast members Millicent Simmons and Noah Jupe, and which won for Blunt a best supporting actor award from the Screen Actors Guild, as well as a knockout box-office return of $341 million after a South by Southwest Film Festival premiere. Blunt was a superb Mary Poppins in director Rob Marshall’s well-received, Oscar-nominated musical-fantasy for Disney, Mary Poppins Returns (2018), which co-starred Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, and Meryl Streep, and grossed a lofty $350 million global return.

Blunt returned to the romantic comedy mode in writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s Wild Mountain Thyme (2020), his big-screen adaptation of his play, Outside Mullingar, co-starring Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm, and Christopher Walken, but which lost money (a poor $1.3 million) for the American, British, and Irish producers and distributor Bleecker Street and Lionsgate. Blunt continued her terrifying adventure as Evelyn and reunited with the cast from the original movie (along with new cast members Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou) for writer-director John Krasinski’s effective sequel, A Quiet Place II (2020), grossing a strong $297.4 million worldwide.

Emily Blunt joined co-star Dwayne Johnson for Disney’s disappointing Jungle Cruise (2021), with Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti under Jaume Collet-Serra’s direction, but losing a huge sum for the studio with a $221 million gross against a huge $200 million budget. Blunt played opposite Cillian Murphy as Kitty Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oscar-winner, Oppenheimer (2023), with a sprawling cast including Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, and Tom Conti, and delivering a whopping $970.5 million global gross.

Blunt co-starred with Ryan Gosling as The Fall Guy (2024), the David Leitch-directed big-screen version of the hit 1980s TV series, featuring the supporting cast of Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, and Stephanie Hsu, and which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival before a release by Universal Pictures. Blunt voiced one of the animal roles in director/writer/producer John Krasinski’s live-action/animated fantasy, IF (2024), with Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Phoebe Walter-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell, and released by Paramount Pictures.