British born actress Emma Thompson won the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role as Margaret Schlegel in the 1992 film Howards End. She also won
an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her script for the 1995 film
Sense and Sensibility, which she also starred in. Her other film credits include 
Actually (2003) and Stranger than Fiction (2006). In 2004, she portrayed
Professor Sybill Trelawney (below) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban.