36 years old (Born on December 07, 1988)
Actress, model, singer; She is famous from Violet Baudelaire in A Series of Unfortunate Events and Baby Doll in Sucker Punch..
Won the coveted role of Violet in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) after her agent gave her a pile of scripts for which to submit video auditions. She was phoned by the director of Lemony Snicket and asked to come to LA for an audition, which won her the part. Has two brothers; Nicholas (10) and Matthew (8) (as at 2005). She has her nose and belly button pierced. She has a cat named Jasper and a dog named Roxy. Took a 3 year acting break starting 2005 to finish school in Australia. She will return in the remake of A Tale Of Two Sisters (2008) with Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks and David Straitham.Emily Browning's Best Moments
Fun Facts About Emily Browning
She was scared she was going to get fired while filming Lemony Snicket, because she'd be laughing at Jim Carrey so much.
For her underwater scene in Ghost Ship (2002), she had to wear little weights so her dress wouldn't float up over her face.
Favorite subjects include English literature, philosophy, psychology, photography, and design technology.
Says she learned an American accent from watching Sesame Street as a child.
Is featured briefly (archive footage from Ghost Ship (2002)) in the film Around the Bend (2004).
Her parents' names are Shelley and Andrew.
Got her start in acting after being noticed in a school play.
She wanted to be a fashion designer when she was little, but she was "discovered" as an actress at age 8 in a school play.
At one point, Lemon Snicket’s and Uninvited star Emily Browning seemed a shoe-in for the role of Bella Swan in Twilight–author Stephenie Meyer even gave her a stamp of approval.
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the actress said. “And I’m not the type of person who can just work back-to-back. So I was just exhausted, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, but I just can’t sign on to a trilogy right now.’ “
(newmoonmovie.org)
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the actress said. “And I’m not the type of person who can just work back-to-back. So I was just exhausted, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, but I just can’t sign on to a trilogy right now.’ “
(newmoonmovie.org)
She loves peanut butter.
She needed to wear heels for her costume in Lemony Snicket because Liam Aiken was much taller than she was.