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Emily Blunt is an English actress born in 1983 in London, England. Blunt has been featured in films such as LooperEdge of TomorrowThe Devil Wears PradaThe Adjustment Bureau, and The Young Victoria. Television shows she has appeared in are Foyle’s WarAgatha Christie’s PoirotEmpireThe Simpsons, and Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. She has won honors such as a Golden Globe and BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year. Blunt is married to actor John Krasinski and has one child.

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6 Oct, 2015

Became U.S. citizen ‘for tax reasons’

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In an interview with The Sunday Times Blunt says she became a U.S. citizen for practical purposes.

It’s mainly for tax reasons. I didn’t want to renounce my Queen…The thing that’s weird is I do get to keep both my British citizenship and this, but you have to renounce her. So, it’s kind of typically American — not to be rude — but I had to renounce her in the room but I don’t actually, technically renounce her. They were like, ‘Just say it. You don’t have to mean it, but just say it.’..You have to learn all about the Constitution.You can’t be a habitual drunk, you can’t be on a guerrilla squad and you can’t be a prostitute, which is a shame.

1 Jan, 2015

Woman and Home cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the January 2015 issue of Woman and Home magazine. She talks about her family.

I’m a real family person at heart.

25 Dec, 2014

Into the Woods

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Blunt plays The Baker’s Wife, a woman who longs for a child, in this musical directed by Rob Marshall from the stage musical written by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim. The Baker and The Baker’s Wife have been cursed into a childless existence by their next door neighbor, The Witch, and go on a quest she orders in order to have the curse reversed. Co-starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, and Johnny Depp.

I think it’s the best part I’ve been given. She’s really funny, and she’s desperate and frenzied and immoral. She screws up and regrets. She’s human. She has faults. She’s bored. She’s all of the above.

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18 Dec, 2014

The Edit UK cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of a December 2014 issue of The Edit UK magazine. She talks about raising her child.

There used to be one book that everyone read, now there’s How to Raise a Gluten-free Baby, How to Raise a Scientific Baby … It’s insanity! So I haven’t read anything, I’m just letting her do her own thing.

17 Dec, 2014

Backstage cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of a December 2014 issue of Backstage magazine. She talks about playing the Baker’s wife in Into the Woods.

I think it’s the best part I’ve been given. She’s really funny, and she’s desperate and frenzied and immoral. She screws up and regrets. She’s human. She has faults. She’s bored. She’s all of the above. She gets seduced by the woods maybe more than anybody. I know everyone has these incredibly profound thoughts on what they think the woods are. But I think the woods are the trials of life.

Harper’s Bazaar UK cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK magazine. She talks about being pregnant.

I loved being pregnant. Most people probably don’t like hearing that because some women have a terrible time, but I really liked it.

1 Jun, 2013

VIVA cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the June 2013 issue of VIVA magazine.

I have a very hopeful and optimistic way of looking at the world.

1 Dec, 2012

California Style cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the December 2012 issue of California Style magazine. She talks about filming an action movie and her childhood stutter.

I had a really bad stutter as a kid, and the thing that got me out of it was to imagine I was someone else—to take on a new identity via silly voice or by mimicking. It was the only way I could speak fluently. Kids found it funny, and I can understand. There’s a frankness to the way they say, ‘What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you just say it?’

1 Nov, 2012

Harper’s Bazaar Australia cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the November 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar Australia magazine. She talks about her acting career.

It’s been a wild ride.

1 Sep, 2012

Pomp cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the September/October 2012 issue of Pomp magazine. She talks about monogamy, infidelity, and the insecurities of acting.

Manhattan cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the June 2012 issue of Manhattan magazine. She talks about her childhood, her marriage, and starting a family.

We want to have children; I just don’t know when yet. I’m just not sure about the timing of all of that. We’re both from big families so I think it’s something we want

1 May, 2012

Elle UK cover

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Blunt appears on the cover of the May 2012 issue of Elle UK magazine. She talks about meeting President Obama, her stutter as a child, and her style.

I was so starstruck … we were at the White House having cocktails and this woman said, ‘Would you like to meet President Obama?’ They introduced me and then he turned to me and went, ‘Oh. Oh. You are a wonderful actress.’ And I laughed, screechingly and hysterically, I couldn’t stop. They had to usher me away. I fell apart. I don’t know what happened to me. He looked 9-feet tall. I think my eyes rolled back in my head. I gave Michelle a hug and she had skin like silk.