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Oh Emma. You're the clever and sensible elder Dashwood, the brash Beatrice, the perfect and completely appropriate head housekeeper. You're the one who always ends up in movies next to impossibly gorgeous British men. You've chewed on the lips of Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Hugh Laurie and Kenneth Branagh. If you've kissed Colin Firth at some point, you will have basically made out with every English guy I've EVER wanted to kiss. Snogging aside, I have to say that I'm even a bit jealous of Will Ferrell, that you were the narrator for his life. Screw Morgan Freeman, I kind of want you to narrate MY life, Emma Thompson.

And one of the most beautiful things about you is that you have the courage to be ugly. Not only did you throw on a fat suit for Love Actually and wear giant Coke-bottle glasses in the Potter series, but you absolutely made yourself unrecognizable in Nanny McPhee (with Colin Firth...seriously, did you make out with him? I have to know!). And I love that.

You're a stunning woman, but you prefer to let your talent stand for itself. But the piece de resistance is the fact that while you were working on Brideshead Revisited, you told the head honchos at Miramax that if they didn't stop harassing Hayley Atwell about losing weight that you'd take a walk and leave the movie. You stood up to the Disney! How many actors in Hollywood would dare do that? And the amazing thing? Disney knew that it didn't dare piss you off, so the bosses lifted the request that the young actor reduce her thighs! And that, my dear lovely lady? Is a bloody good show.

Thank you, Emma Thompson. Thank you for everything that you do, everything you are, and most importantly, thank you for willing to put your money where your mouth is.