From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The second daughter born in 1962  to actress Phyllida Law and actor Eric Thompson, Sophie is the younger sister of twice Academy Award-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson. Sophie Thompson has worked in film, television, theater and radio, and has narrated a number of audiobooks. She made her debut in 1978, at the age of 16, starring in A Traveler in Time.

Filmography

• 2026F**k Ups — Mrs Cheeks
• 2026Greenland 2: Migration — Mackenzie Matthews
• 2026Something Pointless — Eleri Evans
• 2025Mother Goose — Janet
• 2025Time Travel Is Dangerous! — Valerie
• Belgravia: The Next Chapter — Mrs Dunn
• We Might Regret This — Bean
• Silo — Gloria Hildebrandt
• SisterS — Sheryl
• Everything I Know About Love — Liz
• Remembers…
• 2022The Creeping — Karen Marrow
• The Flatshare — Katherine
• 2021Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After — Frieda
• Feel Good — Maggie
• Sandylands — Jeannie Swallows
• 2019A Disappearance — Dame Alvera
• Ghosts — Bunny Beg-Chetwynde
• 2019National Theatre Live: Present Laughter — Monica Reed
• 2019One Red Nose Day and a Wedding — Lydia
• Sex Education — Lily's Mum
• 2019Tales from the Lodge — Emma
• 2018The Importance of Being Earnest — Lady Bracknell
• Bounty Hunters — Fiona Walker
• 2017Ratburger — Miss Maxwell
• Jericho — Lizzie Capstick
• We the Jury — Jen 1
• 2015A Gert Lush Christmas — Sue
• 2015Professor Branestawm Returns — Aggie Whistlestop
• 2015Vintage Blood — Margaret
• Detectorists — Sheila Seymour
• Inside No. 9 — Jan
• 2014Last Gasp — Jan
• 2014Mohammed — Emily
• 2014That Day We Sang — Dorothy
• 2014The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm — Aggie Whistlestop
• The Secrets — Becca
• Lightfields — Lorna Felwood
• Love Life — Penny
• 2012National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer — Mrs. Hardcastle
• Death in Paradise — Angela Birkett
• 2011Monte Carlo — Auction Bidder 2
• The Borgias — Catherina's Servant
• 2010Eat Pray Love — Corella
• 2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Mafalda Hopkirk
• 2010Whistle and I'll Come to You — Carol
• Big Top — Helen
• May Contain Nuts
• 2009May Contain: Nuts — Sarah
• 2009Morris: A Life with Bells On — Glenda
• A Room with a View — Charlotte Bartlett
• 2008She Stoops to Conquer — Mrs Hardcastle
• 2007A Room with a View — Charlotte Bartlett
• 2006A Harlot's Progress — Jane Hogarth
• 2006Magnolia — Marjorie
• Bosom Pals — Fudge (voice)
• Doc Martin — Tasha
• 2004Fat Slags — Tracey
• 2004Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe — Isabella
• 2004Measure for Measure: Live from the Globe — Isabella
• New Tricks — Ruth Shiree
• 2003The Young Visiters — Bessie Topp
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Miss Lacreevy
• 2001Gosford Park — Dorothy
• Lee Evans: So What Now? — Heather
• Doctors — Rachel Barton
• 2000Relative Values — Dora Moxton 'Moxie'
• 2000The Railway Children — Mrs Perks
• 1998Dancing at Lughnasa — Rose 'Rosie' Mundy
• Blind Men — Caroline Holdcroft
• Jonathan Creek — Dorothy Moon
• Midsomer Murders — April Gooding
• 1996Company — Amy
• 1996Emma — Miss Bates
• 1995Mr. Bean: Torvill and Bean — Girlfriend
• 1995Persuasion — Mary Musgrove
• 1994David Macaulay: Roman City — Aiden (voice)
• 1994Four Weddings and a Funeral — Lydia the Bride - Wedding Two
• 1994Message for Posterity — Gillian Player
• Nelson's Column — Clare Priddy
• Phil Cool — Wife
• 1992The Master Blackmailer — Agatha
• Performance — Amy, Gillian Player
• 1991Twenty-One — Francesca
• Tygo Road — Sophie's Voice
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs Reynolds
• All Change — Marcia
• 1989Bomber Harris — Jillie Harris
• Thompson — Various
• 1988Tumbledown — Louise Stubbs
• 1987The Death of the Heart — Doris
• Boon — Vicky "Mouthpiece"
• Casualty — Judy Wilson
• ScreenPlay — Amy
• Sunday Premiere — Louise Stubbs
• EastEnders — Stella Crawford
• Sherlock Holmes — Agatha
• 1982The Missionary — Mission Girl
• 1981The Crucible — Mercy Lewis
• Hammer House of Horror — 1st Girl
• 1979Secret Orchards — Diana Ackerley
• A Traveller In Time — Penelope
• A Ghost Story for Christmas — Carol
• Coronation Street — Rosemary Piper

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2020The Hour — Herself
• 2014Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made — Self
• 2002The Making of Gosford Park — Self (uncredited)
• Timeshift — self
• 1990Discovering Hamlet — Herself / Ophelia
• This Morning — Self