Personal details
- Birth Date: 1971-10-06
- Height: 5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- Birth Location: Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Children: (2 children) Sam Nivola
- Parents: John Mortimer
- Professions: Actress, Writer, Producer
Emily Mortimer, honestly, has one of those classic British pedigrees that’s hard to ignore—born in Hammersmith to a writer and barrister dad, Sir John Mortimer, and his wife Penelope. You can tell creativity’s basically in her DNA. She went to St Paul's Girls' School, which is pretty posh, and that’s where the acting bug bit her. After that, she took off to Oxford, did English Lit and Russian (yeah, she’s that smart), and even squeezed in two terms at the Moscow Arts Theater Drama School. Talk about commitment, right? So there she is, just doing her thing in a student production at Oxford, and boom, a TV producer spots her. Next thing she knows, she’s in The Glass Virgin (1995). Not too shabby for a first shot. Pretty quickly, she’s on the big screen with Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)—major jump. After that, the roles kept rolling in: Elizabeth (1998), a bit of Shakespeare with Love's Labour's Lost (2000), then stuff like Match Point (2005), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Shutter Island (2010)—which, come on, was wild—and Hugo (2011). Solid mix of drama, romance, thrillers, you name it. And here’s a bit of a rom-com twist: while filming Love's Labour's Lost, she meets Alessandro Nivola, who’s now her husband. They’ve got two kids together—Sam and May. So yeah, Emily Mortimer’s career is just, like, this blend of serious acting chops, brains, family, and a little bit of that British charm that’s hard not to love.
Dude, “Fluent in Russian” is honestly one of those wild indie flicks that sneaks up on you. It’s about this totally average American guy who, out of nowhere, gets obsessed with Russian language and culture after a drunken bet. Next thing you know, he’s deep into underground Moscow clubs, trying to impress this wild, mysterious artist he meets online. The plot’s not just about language—there’s a whole thing with secret codes, mistaken identities, and, yes, some Cold War nostalgia thrown in for good measure. Everyone’s suspicious of everyone else, and you start wondering who’s actually telling the truth. It jumps between New York and Moscow, so you get this mashup of cultures and comedy of errors. The main guy keeps messing up his Russian, which leads to some truly ridiculous mix-ups. Honestly, it’s chaotic, funny, kinda heartfelt, and way smarter than it lets on. Way more than your average language-learning story, promise.
October 6, 1971
5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
Konidela Ram Charan
Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Yes, Sam Nivola
John Mortimer and Surekha
53 years old