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. Emily Bruni(1975년생, Exeter, Devon, England, UK) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 더티 엔젤스, Unauthorised Absence, Remember Me?가 있으며, 그 외에도 '슬로 호시스' - Slow Horses, 캐주얼티, Lewis, Relic Hunter, 핍쇼, Dalziel and Pascoe, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Goodnight Sweetheart, Dates, 소울 메이트, Believe Nothing, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Unauthorised Absence에서 Mum 역을 맡았다. 2024년 더티 엔젤스에서 Shooter 역을 맡았다. 2022년 '슬로 호시스' - Slow Horses에서 Rebecca Mitchell 역을 맡았다.