Emma Thompson's paternal grandmother went into domestic service at 16 and had a child out of wedlock after being raped by one of her employers — a story Thompson recounted as context for her working-class roots.
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Will notes that both of Emma's parents were actors, and asks what it was like to grow up inside the family business. Emma's answer goes much further back. Her father was working class, from a southern English town, largely self-taught — a 'proper leaver' of his origins who became an actor and met Emma's Scottish Presbyterian mother in the theater. [1] — Emma Thompson "Grandmother was a servant raped by employer: Emma Thompson's paternal grandmother went into domestic service at 16 and had a child out of w…" 38:50 But it is the generation before her father that truly lands: his mother, Emma's grandmother, went into domestic service at 16. One of her children was born out of wedlock because she was raped by one of her employers. Four children, a fractured family history, and a son determined to get out. Emma recounts this without sentimentality — just as context for who she is and where she comes from. The family grew up in a world without television: her father expected to do Shakespeare in the provinces and radio work. Emma didn't have a TV until she was about eight, and it was black and white.
Emma Thompson's father was a working-class boy from Guildford who escaped his circumstances to become an actor. His mother — Emma's grandmother — was a servant who was raped by an employer and had a child out of wedlock. That dramatic family history is the soil from which Thompson's career grew.
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