Emma Thompson’s mother Phyllida Law passes away

LOS ANGELES: Phyllida Law, the Scottish actress and mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died at the age of 94.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, her death was announced by her manager, Jacky Leggo, who said in a statement that she “died supremely peacefully at home, surrounded by her family.”

Phyllida Law, the Scottish actress and mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died. She was 94.

Law and Emma appeared together in “Nanny McPhee,” which Thompson co-wrote, and played mother and daughter in Alan Rickman’s 1997 directorial debut, “The Winter Guest.”

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Law appeared with Emma in films including Peter’s Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) — both directed by then son-in-law Kenneth Branagh — and Junior (1994), and they portrayed mother and daughter in The Winter Guest (1997), directed by Alan Rickman.

She acted alongside younger daughter Sophie in Jane Austen’s Emma (1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and they would work together on TV series including Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Timeshift and Doc Martin.

She was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014 for her services to drama and charitable causes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Law is survived by her two daughters and her three grandchildren. (ANI)