Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning English actress and screenwriter. She had a series of critically acclaimed performances and films, beginning with 1992's "Howards End" (for which she received an Academy Award for "Best Actress"), "The Remains of the Day" opposite Anthony Hopkins, and "Carrington" (1995). She won her next Academy Award in 1996, for her screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility", a film in which she also played the lead role. Consequently, Thompson is the first, and so far only, person to have won Oscars for both acting and writing.