- Born
- Birth nameEmily Jane Browning
- Nickname
- Em
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Australian actress Emily Browning was born in 1988 in Melbourne, Australia, to Shelley and Andrew Browning. She has two younger brothers. Her start in acting came after a classmate's father, involved in the acting business, noticed her "acting all ditsy" in a school play. Emily found an agent and was soon filming on location for the Hallmark TV-movie, The Echo of Thunder (1998). She received more roles from there, including parts in The Man Who Sued God (2001), opposite Billy Connolly, and Ned Kelly (2003), opposite Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom. In that film, she had to hug Heath Ledger, and she said that all of her friends, who went to see the film, at the same time sent her a barrage of text messages about how lucky she was! Emily says she tries to avoid "cheesy" movies, and her big break came when she was on a press tour in LA for Ghost Ship (2002), that was filmed in Australia and released in America. In the same year, she won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actress, and was nominated for the same award, the next year. Emily received some scripts when she was in LA and sent in a video audition for A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). She received a call and was asked to come to LA for a proper audition, which won her the part. She spent months in LA filming, for the second time acting opposite Billy Connolly. Emily said she enjoyed the experience of making a big budget film in America, and says that although she's not sure what is coming next, she's hoping to do some more Australian work.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lucas (Australia)
- Emily Browning is an Australian actress and singer. She made her film debut in the Australian television film The Echo of Thunder (1998) (1998).
Browning is also known for her roles in the horror film The Uninvited (2009) (2009), the action film Sucker Punch (2011) (2011), the independent drama Sleeping Beauty (2011) (2011), The Host (2013) (2013), Pompeii (2014) (2014) and Legend (2015) (2015).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges
- SpouseEddie O'Keefe(2023 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsAndrew BrowningShelley Browning
- RelativesNicholas Browning(Sibling)Matthew Browning(Sibling)
- Rosy cheeks
- Full, voluptuous lips
- Porcelain skin
- Per Stephenie Meyer's request, Browning was offered the part of "Bella" in Twilight (2008). She turned it down because she didn't want to be involved in a film franchise as it would distract her from her studies.
- She was scared she was going to get fired while filming A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), because she'd be laughing at Jim Carrey so much.
- Says she learned an American accent from watching Sesame Street (1969) as a child.
- Was cast as "Babydoll" in Sucker Punch (2011), after Amanda Seyfried was forced to drop out due to scheduling problems.
- She had been considering quitting acting but says that working with Zack Snyder on ''Sucker Punch (2011)'' made her decide to continue.
- I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.
- After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
- My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.
- [on a scene that was cut in Sucker Punch (2011)] I had a very tame and mild love scene with Jon Hamm. It was like heavy breathing and making out. It was hardly a sex scene... I think that it's great for this young girl to actually take control of her own sexuality. Well, the MPAA doesn't like that. They don't think a girl should ever be in control of her own sexuality because they're from the Stone Age. I don't know what the fuck is going on and I will openly criticize it, happily. So essentially, they got [director Zack Snyder] to edit the scene and make it look less like she's into it. And Zack said he edited it down to the point where it looked like he was taking advantage of her. That's the only way he could get a PG-13 (rating) and he said, "I don't want to send that message". So they cut the scene!
- The whole point of our job is to be able to realistically portray a human being and if you don't experience life, if all you experience is acting and being on set, how on Earth are you going to be able to connect to real people and portray these characters? I realized if I want to do this, I have to have a life.
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