Emma Thompson
Funny, we thought she was serious By BILL NEWCOTT
MILESTONE
BIRTHDAYS
Flavor Flav
Age 50
Then: Pioneer
rapper. Now:
Reality-show
regular.
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Patrick Duffy
Age 60
Dallas’s Bobby
Ewing has had
a hit single
in Europe.
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David Hyde
Pierce
Age 50
Narrates short
toons about
Alzheimer’s at
aboutalz.org.
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Vicki
Lawrence
Age 60
Still plays
Mama on tour;
still too young
for the part!
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Jessica Lange
Age 60
For certain
roles she sometimes wishes
she were ugly.
Michael
Learned
Age 70
Waltons mom
came down
the mountain
for Driving Miss
Daisy onstage
last year.
She’s channeled Jane Austen and spouted Shakespeare, so it’s easy to
forget how funny Emma Thompson can be. Yet she ogled the world
through Coke-bottle glasses in two Harry Potter films, and terrorized children—
wart-faced and snaggletoothed—in Nanny McPhee. Of course, it’s Emma the Serious who’s won Oscars for acting and writing. And if acting is the love of her life,
actors are her life’s loves. After a fling with future House star Hugh Laurie, she
was married to frequent costar and director Kenneth Branagh for six years. In
2003 she wed Sense and Sensibility costar Greg Wise, the father of her nine-year-old daughter, and that same year the pair took in a 16-year-old Rwandan refugee.
An activist, Thompson speaks out against the international sex-trafficking trade.
But lest you think she’s going all serious on us again, the next time you’re at her
London home, look for her Oscar statuettes. You’ll find them in the loo.
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Sheena
Easton
Age 50
Works her busy
concert career
around her
kids’ schedules.
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Joyce De Witt
Age 60
Three’s
Company
star went to
Indiana’s Ball
State University with David
Letterman.
