Emily Bruni
Actor · Born April 5, 1975 (51) · Exeter, Devon, England, UK
Emily Bruni is an English actress. Bruni has worked extensively in theatre, TV and film playing leading roles across all genres. Bruni’s recent credits include playing the sniper Shooter in Martin Campbell’s action picture Dirty Angels, Slow Horses for Apple, and the one-woman play Psychodrama. Born to an English mother and Italian father Bruni was raised in the UK but spent part of her childhood living in Italy. She is bilingual. Bruni lives in London and is married to the British playwright and director Matt Wilkinson. They have one son. Bruni is a long term meditator and yoga practitioner and has taught both practices under the moniker Emily Valente. Her other passions include food, dance and travel. Bruni attended St Peter's High School, Exeter, Exeter Sixth Form College, National Youth Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In theatre, Bruni spent three years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, at which roles included Esmeralda in Camino Real, directed by Steven Pimlott. Bruni starred as Jean Rhys in The Shared Experience production After Mrs Rochester, which opened the New Sydney Theatre. She played Lady India in Ring Round The Moon (Playhouse Theatre), choreographed by Wayne McGregor.In 2013 she played Claire in Yes, Prime Minister (Trafalgar Studios) written and directed by Jonathan Lynn. In 2015, Bruni appeared in Donkey Heart and the one-woman play Before You Were Born, both by Moses Raine and both directed by Nina Raine at the Trafalgar Studios. In 2016, she starred in the Steven Berkoff double bill Lunch and The Bow of Ulysses (Trafalgar Studios), directed by Nigel Harman. in 2016 Bruni played Goneril in King Lear (Globe) directed by Nancy Meckler. Bruni played the iconic role of Debbie / Deborah in Laurence Boswell's production of the Donald Margulies play The Model Apartment at the Bath Ustinov theatre. In 2021 Bruni played Actress in Psychodrama, a one-woman play about an actress under investigation for the murder of an auteur theatre director, while rehearsing a production of Hitchcock's Psycho. Staged in a found space in London, it transferred in 2022 to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. The play was written and directed by Matt Wilkinson and produced by Pádraig Cusack. Bruni was nominated for an Offie award for Best Actress. On film, Bruni played Tanya in the ITV drama Metropolis by Peter Morgan. She starred alongside Rik Mayall in the sitcom Believe Nothing as Dr. Hannah Awkward (a professor of pedantics). The series was written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks. In 2002 she appeared alongside Bill Nighy in the return of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. In 2004 she played Alice in Passer By by Tony Marchant, directed by David Morrissey. Bruni portrayed the Empress Catherine the Great in the 2005 television drama Catherine the Great. From 2009 to 2012 she played Gail, the girlfriend of Jeremy's love interest, in Series 6, 7 and 8 of Channel 4's hit comedy Peep Show.
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Biography from TMDB.
- April 5, 1975 (51)
- Exeter, Devon, England, UK
- Actor
- 13 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
What are Emily Bruni's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 0 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 2 · Charged 0 · Intense 1
Steady 0 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 2
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 1
Casual 2 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 1
A split, not a type: Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Allyas Shooter in Dirty Angels (2024)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Emily Bruni's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on BritBox (5).
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Emily Bruni's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
28 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.
Dirty Angels(2024)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
Slow Horses(2022)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Soulmates(2020)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all shows
King Lear: Live at Shakespeare's Globe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Dates (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Shallow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
London's Burning (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Tamara Drewe(2010)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Personal Affairs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Inspector Lewis(2006)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Catherine the Great (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Catherine the Great (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Passer By (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Peep Show(2003)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Serious & Organised (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Believe Nothing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Intimate Affairs(2001)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all filmsMetropolis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Being Considered(2000)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Relic Hunter(1999)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
The Winter's Tale (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Remember Me?(1997)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Dalziel and Pascoe(1996)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Goodnight Sweetheart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Casualty(1986)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all shows
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)
Career shape
Star power in the 76th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 27 titles from 1983 to 2024; peak year 2024.
Film career
Peak 2024 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1983Screen debut· Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
- 2002First film· Intimate Affairs
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Emily Bruni's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 17th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 19th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th5
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 13 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed6
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.