Trivia

  • → Acting and adopting new accents helped her to overcome a debilitating speech impediment at age 12.
  • → Favourite actresses are: Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
  • → Made her theatrical debut alongside Dame Judi Dench in The Royal Family. She had only six months of formal acting training before gaining the role of Gwen.
  • → She is the great-niece of actor and retired Major-General Thomas Anthony ‘Tony’ Richardson.
  • → Grew up in Roehampton, London.
  • → Best friends with actresses Amy Adams and Anne Hathaway. Emily refers to Anne as “her rock”.
  • → Is a strong alto singer.
  • → Is a grade 8 cellist.
  • → At 16, was offered a record deal after a producer spotted her in the musical ‘Bliss’ at the Edinburgh Festival.
  • → Had a hamster named Tigger.
  • → Niece of Crispin Blunt who is a Member of Parliament (MP) for the British Conservative Party and also holds the post of Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Justice.
  • → Her grandfather was Major General Peter Blunt CB., MBE., GM., FCIT. Emily read a piece, beautifully, at his funeral in 2003. MG Blunt won the George Medal for rescuing a soldier from a truck soaked in petrol after an accident in Germany.
  • → Has three siblings: Felicity Blunt, Sebastian Blunt and Susannah Blunt.
  • → Sister-in-law of Stanley Tucci, her co-star in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). He is married to her sister Felicity Blunt.
  • → Father Oliver Blunt is a top UK criminal defense barrister/lawyer.
  • → Counts Jaws (1975) as her all-time favorite movie which she first saw at age 10.
  • → Stuttered severely as a young girl and ultimately overcame her problem by finding a different ‘voice’ (acting). Cites friend Colin Firth’s stammering King George VI in the The King’s Speech (2010) as an accurate depiction of how she actually spoke as a youth.
  • → Daughter-in-law of Ron Krasinski and Mary Ann Krasinski.
  • → Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Hazel to begin filming Sicario (2015).
  • → When she was a guest on Lip Sync Battle (2015), LL Cool J called her and Anne Hathaway two of the most powerful stars of the big screen; he called it a “Devil Wears Prada reunion battle”; he said Blunt “had some swagger, was incomparable and breathtaking”.
  • → Blunt thought it was fun to work with Tom Cruise on Edge of Tomorrow (2014) because it was a challenging shoot and the exo-suits were arduous to wear everyday.
  • → Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her daughter Violet to begin filming Sherlock Gnomes (2018).
  • → Best friends with James Corden.
  • → During both of her first two pregnancies, Blunt was in the midst of shooting films in which she played women struggling with infertility.
  • → Became a U.S. Citizen in 2015. However she likes to be identified as British. She was sworn in on the same day as friend Matthew McConaughey’s wife Camila Alves McConaughey.
  • → Emily’s secret party trick is her ability to replicate a pigeon’s trill-she demonstrated the unusual talent in an interview with ELLE Canada in 2011.
  • → Best Friend Anne Hathaway set up Emily with John Krasinski in 2008 who went on to be her future husband.
  • → She has a fear of wearing Gloves. She says, “I don’t know why but I find them repulsive. I’d scream if my mother tried to make me wear them as a child – it must be a phobia.”.
  • → She has a phobia of heights.
  • → Had originally planned to go to university and study languages, hoping to become a U.N. translator.
  • → Has stated her dislike for “method acting”, calling it actors “trying to justify their paychecks”.
  • → Does not participate in social media.
  • → Decompresses through daily sessions of transcendental meditation.
  • → Is allergic to cats.
  • → Board member of the American Institute for Stuttering.
  • → Has a horrible fear of Cockroaches (katsaridaphobia).


Info taken from imdb.com