#ThomasTuesday

 This evening we had the opportunity to attend the play The Audience at the Apollo Theatre in central London. Here we were able to witness Kristin Scott Thomas act the part of Queen Elizabeth II. This play depicted Queen Elizabeth II's relationship with the "dirty dozen," better known as the 12 Prime Ministers she worked with during her reign. 

Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall. Her mother, Deborah, was brought up in Hong Kong and Africa and studied drama before marrying Kristin's father, Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas, a pilot in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm who died in a flying accident when Kristin was only five years old. 

Her breakthrough role was in a 1988 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, where she won an Evening Standard British Film Award for most promising newcomer. This was followed by roles opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings and a Funeral where she won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

Other recent roles include the role of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, mother of Henry VIII's second wife Anne, in The Other Boleyn Girl, the role of a fashion magazine creator and editor in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic, the film adaption of Douglas Kennedy's novel The Woman in the Fifth, the 2012 film Bel Ami, based on the 1885 Maupassant novel.