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<\/p>\n\n\tPhyllida Law, the Scottish actress of stage and screen and the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died. She was 94.<\/p>\n
\n\tHer death was announced by her manager, Jacky Leggo, who said in a statement that she \u201cdied supremely peacefully at home, surrounded by all her family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLaw appeared with Emma in films including Peter\u2019s Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) \u2014 both directed by then-son-in-law Kenneth Branagh \u2014 and Junior (1994), and they portrayed mother and daughter in The Winter Guest (1997), directed by Alan Rickman.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe acted alongside younger daughter Sophie in Jane Austen\u2019s Emma (1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and they would work together on TV series including Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Timeshift and Doc Martin.<\/p>\n
\n\tWithout her kids, she landed in features including The Time Machine (2002), Miss Potter (2006), Albert Nobbs (2011) and A Little Chaos (2014) and recurred as the aunt of Stephen Fry\u2019s lawyer on the 2007-09 ITV series Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe received an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II for her services to drama and charitable causes in 2014.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tPhyllida Law flanked by daughters Sophie Thompson (left) and Emma Thompson at her OBE ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2014. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Stillwell-WPA Pool\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\n\tThe daughter of a newspaperman, Phyllida Ann Law was born in Glasgow on May 8, 1932. She was accepted into the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, intending to train as a stage designer before deciding that she wanted to act.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe appeared in Bristol Old Vic productions, married fellow actor Eric Thompson in 1957 and started showing up on television on programs including ITV Play of the Week, Dr. Finlay\u2019s Casebook and Dixon of Dock Green.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe joined the original 1967 production of Peter Nichols\u2019 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg when it made its way to the West End and in 1971 worked alongside Alec Guinness in John Mortimer\u2019s A Voyage Round My Father.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe later appeared in plays including Alan Bennett\u2019s Habeas Corpus, Somerset Maugham\u2019s For Services Rendered (for the National Theatre) and J.B. Priestley\u2019s When We Are Married and played Jacqueline in the musical version of La Cage Aux Folles.<\/p>\n
\n\tLaw was married to Thompson until his death from a heart attack at age 53 in 1982, when Emma was 21 and Sophie was 18.<\/p>\n