Celebrity Deaths

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RE: Celebrity Deaths
Stage and screen star Phyllida Law, the mother of fellow actresses Dame Emma and Sophie Thompson, has died at the age of 94. Law appeared on screen alongside her daughters several times throughout a long and varied career, including in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Law played Mrs Bates while Sophie played her daughter Miss Bates. She also acted with Dame Emma in 1992's Peter's Friends, directed by her then-son-in-law Sir Kenneth Branagh. They combined on screen again the following year in Sir Kenneth's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. And they played a mother and daughter in Alan Rickman's directorial debut, The Winter Guest, in 1997. Later in life, Law provided the voice of Mrs Partridge in Dame Emma's 2005 film Nanny McPhee, which her eldest daughter wrote and starred in.