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A superb turn as aloof Englishwoman Fiona in hit Brit rom-com Four Weddings And A Funeral finally delivered Kristin Scott Thomas the proper recognition she deserved in her native country but it was the Parisian Ecole Nationale des Arts et Techniques de Theatres which gave her the training and encouragement to pursue an acting career.
After dropping out of Londons Central School of Speech and Drama, a teenage Scott Thomas ended up working as an au pair in Paris and studying acting there. Roles on stage, television and French films followed before A Handful Of Dust (1988) and Roman Polanskis Bitter Moon in 1992 (opposite Hugh Grant) began to raise her profile outside Europe and then came the unexpected massive success of Four Weddings And A Funeral two years later. Scott Thomas has since alternated French films with British and American pictures, with an Oscar-nominated performance in The English Patient (1996) and leads in Robert Redfords The Horse Whisperer, Random Hearts and Robert Altmans Gosford Park (2001).
