Who is the daughter of Emma Thompson, the new star of one of Filmin's most popular series?

BarcelonaLooking at the photos of one and the other, it's impossible to deny their resemblance. Gaia Wise, Emma Thompson's daughter, is almost a younger version of her mother. At 25, this young actress is taking her first steps in the world of film and television and is the most notable addition to... All beasts, small and largeThe sixth season of the series premieres today on Filmin. It's a charming, slice-of-life drama that follows the lives of a group of veterinarians in England during the 1930s and 40s.

In the series, Wise plays Charlotte Beauvoir, a young woman looking for a veterinarian to treat her horse. She develops a close relationship with Tristan Farnon (Callum Woodhouse), one of the veterinarians. During filming, Wise worked with a former co-star of her mother's, Samuel West, who plays Siegfried Farnon, the head of the Darroby veterinary clinic. "Obviously, Gaia Wise is wonderful. There was a scene where I was walking next to her while they were talking, and she looked so much like her mother, Emma Thompson. I made two films with Emma in the early 90s (Return to Howards End and Carrington"So it was a bit strange. Suddenly it was like being 30 or 35 years younger. And because Gaia is really fantastic (her gestures, or something she did, or some look she gave to the ground), it made me remember. It was very strange, for sure," West explained when the latest installment premiered.

Parents actors

Gaia Wise can boast of being the latest generation of a renowned lineage of actors and directors. Her parents, Emma Thompson and Greg Wise, met while filming Sanity and feeling by Ang Lee. At the time, the popular British actress was still recovering from her traumatic divorce from Kenneth Branagh, who left her for Helena Bonham Carter, with whom he had become involved while filming Frankenstein"Work saved me, and Greg saved me. He took the pieces and put them back together," Thompson explained to the BBC. The couple has been together since 1995, and their first daughter, Gaia Wise, was born in 1999. In 2006, after trying for some time through fertility treatments, they conceived a second child. in vitroThey adopted a 17-year-old Rwandan teenager who had lost his parents in the country's civil war.

Aside from her famous parents, Gaia Wise is the daughter of Scottish actress Phyllida Law and actor and playwright Eric Thompson. Her aunt, Sophie Thompson, is also an actress and has appeared in films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral

The young actress began her acting career in 2008, when she made a brief appearance in It's never too late to fall in loveAn autumnal romantic comedy in which Emma Thompson was captivated by Dustin Hoffman. Her first substantial role was in the BBC series Silent witnesswhere she played a young college student grappling with the death of her mother, a highly controversial Secretary of Health. Wise's latest project is the film Dead of winterwhich she has been promoting this week alongside Emma Thompson, with whom she shares the screen. In fact, in the film, mother and daughter play the same character at different ages. "Professionally, seeing someone I've learned so much from do something so different was incredible and made me think, 'Okay, this is possible,'" Wise recalled about the experience of watching her mother work.

Fighting anorexia

Gaia Wise has always shown a very good relationship with her parents, and four years ago she publicly thanked them for their support in her fight against anorexia, an illness she developed when she was 16. In an interview on The Sun on Sunday She revealed that if it hadn't been for her parents' intervention, she would have died. "Anorexia makes you really good at gaslighting the people around you, making them sound like they're crazy. My parents would say to me, 'Gaia, we heard you working out at 3 a.m.' And I'd say, 'No, it was the house moving, I was,'" she said, using social media to raise awareness about the illness.

Faced with the girl's serious health problem, Emma Thompson and her husband decided to launch a family intervention to convince her to start treatment. "My whole family was there—my brother, my sister-in-law, my grandmother, my mother, my father, my best friend and her father—and they all told me what they were seeing. In that meeting, I wasn't allowed to speak, only listen," Wise explained. The actress says it was her father who made her react: "He told me, 'I don't know where my daughter is anymore,' and it was a real kick in the teeth."