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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Phyllida_LawPhyllida Law - Wikipedia

    Early life. Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Meg "Mego" and William Law, a journalist. [2][3] Prior to the Second World War, her father was a newspaper journalist with the Glasgow Herald who "kept odd hours"; when the war broke out, he went into the Royal Air Force and separated from his wife, later divorcing.

  2. Phyllida Law was born on 8 May 1932 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and The Winter Guest (1997). She was previously married to Eric Thompson.

  3. Nov 21, 2023 · Phyllida Law, born in Glasgow to journalist parents Meg and William Law, experienced a disrupted childhood due to her father's wartime service. Evacuated during World War II, she attended various schools before boarding at Badminton School in Bristol.

  4. May 31, 2021 · Elisa Leonelli. Emma Thompson was interviewed numerous times by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is what she said in 1997 about her mother, actress Phyllida Law, her costar in The Winter Guest directed by Alan Rickman.

  5. [2] [3] Her mother is Scottish actress Phyllida Law, while her English father, Eric Thompson, was an actor best known as the writer of the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout. [4] [5] Her godfather was the director and writer Ronald Eyre. [6] [7] She has a younger sister, Sophie, who is also an actress. [4]

  6. Nov 27, 2023 · Her parents, Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, were also actors. Thompson went to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she joined a comedy group called the Footlights and appeared in a funny TV show called Alfresco from 1983 to 1984.

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  8. Thompson was born 20 January 1962 in London, and is the daughter of actress Phyllida Law, [1] and actor Eric Thompson. She is the younger sister of actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson. [1]