As a young girl she had a severe stutter and eventually overcame it by finding a different 'voice' (acting). She cites her friend Colin Firth's stutter as King George VI in The King's Speech (2010) as an accurate portrayal of how she actually spoke when she was young.
Acting and adopting new accents helped her overcome the debilitating speech impediment she had at the age of 12.
Her ex-boyfriend Michael Bublé wrote the hit single "Everything" for her. She also appears on his album "Call Me Irresponsible," on which she briefly sings at the end of the song "Me and Mrs. Jones."
She was told to lose weight for the role of Emily in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). She revealed this in a 2006 interview with Craig Ferguson. Co-star Anne Hathaway tells a similar story, reporting that she and Emily were always hungry on set because they followed strict diets to maintain the thin "super-model" look.
She is the sister-in-law of her The Devil Wears Prada (2006) co-star Stanley Tucci. He is married to her sister Felicity Blunt.
She is one of actress Anne Hathaway's best friends. The two grew very close during the filming of The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and Emily called Anne "her rock."
With her breakthrough performance in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Emily convinced David Frankel that her character should be British rather than American. Emily also improvised many of her lines and told interviewers that she built the character on people she had met but would never want to associate with.
She is one of James Corden's best friends. They starred together as husband and wife in Into the Woods (2014).
Her best friend Anne Hathaway set her up with John Krasinski, who would become her future husband, in 2008.
She admits that she and her The Devil Wears Prada (2006) co-star Stanley Tucci competed to see who could be more over the top in their scenes. Tucci admits that his young co-star won "hands down."
She made her stage debut alongside Dame Judi Dench in "The Royal Family." She had only six months of formal acting training before landing the role of Gwen, for which she was paid £350 a week.
She is one of actress Amy Adams's best friends. The two grew very close during the shooting of Sunshine Cleaning (2008).
She married her boyfriend of 20 months, John Krasinski, after an 11-month engagement.
She gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Hazel Krasinski, on 16 February 2014, at the age of 30. The child's father is her husband, John Krasinski.
Her father, Oliver Blunt, is one of the United Kingdom's leading criminal defence barristers.
She was four months pregnant with her daughter Violet when she finished filming The Girl on the Train (2016). She returned to work six months after giving birth to Violet to begin filming Sherlock Gnomes (2018).
She was initially cast as Natasha Rushman/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010) but was dropped from the cast due to a scheduling conflict with Gulliver's Travels (2010). As a result, Scarlett Johansson was cast in her place.
She was offered the role of Sister James in Doubt (2008). Because she thought the role suited Amy better, she suggested Amy Adams for it. Amy not only got the part, she was also nominated for an Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards.
She was six months pregnant with her daughter Hazel when she finished filming Into the Woods (2014). She returned to work four months after giving birth to Hazel to begin filming the crime drama Sicario (2015).
She initially planned to go to university and study languages, hoping to become a UN interpreter.
Her grandfather was Major-General Peter Blunt CB., MBE., GM., FCIT. Emily read a very beautiful piece at his funeral in 2003. MG Blunt won the George Medal for rescuing a soldier from a petrol-soaked truck after an accident in Germany.
She was named Best Female Scene Stealer by Entertainment Weekly for her performance in The Devil Wears Prada (2006).
She performed professionally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before completing her A-levels. At the age of 16, she was offered a record deal after a producer saw her in the musical "Bliss" at the Edinburgh Fringe.
She began filming Mary Poppins Returns (2018) just six months after giving birth to her daughter Violet. The film's production was delayed to accommodate Blunt's pregnancy.
She does not join social media.
During the filming of Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Blunt took Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman to karaoke one night; seeing him in a different light horrified Liman; she later competed against Anne Hathaway, her co-star from The Devil Wears Prada, in an episode of Lip Sync Battle (2015).
On 30 April 2026, she was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6930 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, in a double ceremony with Stanley Tucci.
In mid-June 2016, at the age of 33, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Violet Krasinski. The child's father is her husband, John Krasinski.
It was Tom Cruise's idea to hold three premieres for Edge of Tomorrow (2014) in one day; Blunt said it was harder for her because she needed a new dress, makeup and hairstyle for each one, while her co-star only needed a new suit, but that they were still much more fun. One of the premieres was at 5 a.m. and the weather was rainy; director Doug Liman said this was proof of Cruise's star power.
In 2015 she became an American citizen through naturalization, making her a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. However, she likes to be described as British. She took the oath on the same day as her friend Matthew McConaughey's wife, Camila Alves McConaughey.
She has a fear of wearing gloves. She says: "I don't know why but I find them repulsive. If my mother had tried to put these on me as a child I would have screamed; it must be a phobia." She also has a terrible fear of cockroaches (katsaridaphobia) and is allergic to cats and horses.
Favorite actresses: Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman.
Since 2016 she has lived in New York with her husband John Krasinski and their two daughters, Hazel and Violet.
She has a fear of heights. She says: "I'm not great with heights and it was one of those things where there's a moment before they [take you up] and lower you down for the shot and it seems to stretch out like a period of time that will last forever." She explained: "You're so high up that when you look out you're higher than the trees and you're looking down. But it was an incredible moment, you know. Very incapacitating."
Stating that she does not like "method acting," she called its practitioners "trying to justify their paychecks."
While shooting the first scene of The Devil Wears Prada (2006) together, Meryl Streep laughed and said that instead of stealing the film, Blunt should be given a carbon copy of it.
She was considered for the role of Peggy Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), but Hayley Atwell was cast instead. Although her husband John Krasinski was considered for the role of Steve Rogers/Captain America in the same film, Chris Evans was ultimately cast.
She names Jaws (1975), which she first saw when she was 10, as her favorite film of all time.
She learned of her Golden Globe nomination for Into the Woods (2014) while getting a massage in Dubai, UAE. At the time she was serving on the jury of the Dubai Film Festival.
She had a three-year relationship with singer Michael Bublé (2005-July 2008).
She was considered to replace Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight (2008), but Maggie Gyllenhaal was cast instead.
She serves as a board member of the American Institute for Stuttering and hosts a gala for the Institute to raise funds for speech therapy scholarships for children and adults.
She has appeared in three films about characters trying to change the future: The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Looper (2012) and Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Had she accepted the role of Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys (2015), that number would have been four.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was Blunt's first action film; Tom Cruise thought she was drunk because she was thrown in at the deep end. Blunt had never made a film of this scale before but felt it resonated greatly.
Blunt found working with Tom Cruise on Edge of Tomorrow (2014) fun because it was a tough shoot and the exo-suits were hard to put on every day.
During both of her first two pregnancies, Blunt was in the middle of shooting films in which she played women struggling with infertility: the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (2014) and Rachel in The Girl on the Train (2016).
After seeing My Summer of Love (2004), Susan Sarandon asked her to audition for the role of Mara in Irresistible (2006).
She has three siblings: Felicity Blunt, Sebastian Blunt and Susannah Blunt.
When she appeared on Lip Sync Battle (2015), LL Cool J called her and Anne Hathaway two of the most powerful stars on the big screen; he called it a "Devil Wears Prada reunion battle"; Blunt said she "had some swagger, was incomparable and breathtaking."
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She was offered a role in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) but had to turn it down because of her pregnancy. They had previously worked together on Sicario (2015).
She grew up in Roehampton, London, England.
She was rated as one of those with the most "Beautiful Famous Faces" by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She ranked 19th in 2010 and 34th in 2009.
She relieves pressure through daily transcendental meditation sessions.
The actor's great-niece and retired Major General Thomas Anthony 'Tony' Richardson.
At the 2002 Chichester Festival, Emily received glowing reviews for playing Juliet Capulet in a production of "Romeo and Juliet."
She and her husband John Krasinski have a red fox Labrador named Finn. She had a hamster named Tigger.
Along with James McAvoy, Noel Clarke, Michelle Ryan and Rupert Friend, she was selected as one of Screen International's "Stars of Tomorrow."
After Keira Knightley withdrew from the project, she was considered for the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, but Carey Mulligan was cast instead.
She is the niece of Crispin Blunt, a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) who also served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.
Emily's secret party trick is her ability to imitate the sound of a pigeon; she demonstrated this unusual talent in an interview with ELLE Canada.
She was nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for her role as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns (2018), but lost to Olivia Colman for The Favourite (2018).
She bought a new $2.2 million home in Vancouver, where she was then living with her boyfriend, pop singer Michael Bublé.
In a survey of 4,000 gay women, she ranked 8th on the list of 'Women We Love to Love'.
She was considered for the role of Dr. Madolyn Madden in Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006), but Vera Farmiga was cast instead.
She ranked 53rd on AskMen's 2010 list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women.
She starred alongside Martin Freeman in Wild Target (2010). Freeman appeared in the original British series The Office (2001). Her husband, John Krasinski, played the equivalent role in the American version of The Office (2005).
Emily shared the prestigious Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer with Natalie Press.
Her sister Felicity Blunt is a literary agent.
She became the new face of the Max Mara advertising campaign (2007).
She is not related to singer James Blunt.
She attended the 2008 Park City - Kari Feinstein Sundance Style Lounge.
She ranked 73rd on FHM's 2009 list of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
She ranked 58th on AskMen's 2009 list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women.
She is the daughter-in-law of Ron Krasinski and Mary Ann Krasinski.