Emily Browning

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Emily Browning

Born

Emily Jane Browning
December 7, 1988 (age 19)

Awards won
Australian Film Institute Awards
Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actress 2005 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Emily Jane Browning (born December 7, 1988) is an Australian Film Institute award winning actress, probably best known for her role as Violet Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, for which she won the 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actress.

Browning has won an AFI Young Actor's Award in 2002 and was nominated for the same award in 1999 and 2003. She was also nominated for Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer and Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film, Leading Young Actress (both 2005).

1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
2 Filmography
3 Awards
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal life

Browning was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the daughter of Shelley and Andrew Browning.^[1] She says she learned her American accent from the television show Sesame Street on the ABC. She has two younger brothers, Nicholas (7 years younger) and Matthew (9 years younger). She remains based in Melbourne and was taking a break from acting to complete her education at Eltham High School, where, in November, 2006, she completed her Victorian Certificate of Education exams.^[2]

[edit] Career

Browning's acting career began at the age of 8 years old when she was noticed by a classmate's father at a school play and he recommended that she pursue acting as a profession. Shortly afterwards, she won a role alongside Judy Davis in the Hallmark Television movie, The Echo of Thunder.^[3] A successful career in Australian film and television productions soon followed, including The Man Who Sued God, in which she played the daughter of Billy Connolly's character. She later co-starred again with Connolly in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, in which she played the role of Violet Baudelaire.^[3] She was scared she was going to get fired during filming, because of laughing too frequently at co-star Jim Carrey. Browning had a recurring role as Hayley Fulton on the popular television series Blue Heelers from 2000 until 2002 and played the character Alicia in five episodes of Something In The Air (2000-2001). She also played "Katie Harwood" in the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship; the same year she won Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actress, and was nominated the following year.

In 2006, Browning appeared in the music video for Evermore's Light Surrounding You.^[4] In the making of video for the clip, the band stated, "...we suck as actors, so we decided to get Emily."^[5]

She attended the L'Oreal Fashion Festival as festival ambassador on February 1, 2007.^[6] She is now working on the film, The Uninvited, which is being filmed in Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver and will be released in 2008.^[7]^[8]

She has stated interest in doing a sequel of the movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events although if a sequel was made, she would most likely not be cast as she has grown out of the role. Emily's new upcoming film, The Uninvited (formerly known as 'A Tale of Two Sisters') is a thriller as she stars alongside Arielle Kebbel as she plays Anna which is due to hit screens in 2008.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	The Uninvited	Anna Rydell
2006	Light Surrounding You	Girl	Music video
2005	Stranded	Penny
2004	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Violet Baudelaire	Lead
2003	After the Deluge	Maddy	TV miniseries
	Ned Kelly	Grace Kelly	Movie
	Darkness Falls	Young Caitlin Greene
2002	Ghost Ship	Katie Harwood
2001	The Man Who Sued God	Rebecca Myers
	Halifax f.p: Playing God	Kristy O'Connor	TV movie
	Blonde	Fleece
1999	High Flyers
1999	Thunderstone	Clio	TV series
1998	The Echo of Thunder	Opal Ritchie	TV movie