British actress Emily Mortimer has an estimated net wroth of $2 million, and receives a salary of $50 thousand per episode. She earned her net worth from her work on stage, as well as her appearance in a number of film and television roles including 30 Rock, Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Hugo, Cars 2, Shutter Island, Harry Brown, Our Idiot Brother and The Newsroom.

Emily Kathleen A. Mortimer was born on December 1, 1971 in Finsbury Park, London, England. She attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School where she performed in plays. She then went on to attend Oxford University, where she studied Russian at the Lincoln College.

Mortimer began her professional career as a writer for The Daily Telegraph, as well as writing screenplays like the adaptation of Bad Blood, the Lorna Sage memoir. She then went to work in the performing arts since she was already acting while in school. She has performed in various plays at Oxford University, where she was spotted by a producer and subsequently landed the lead role on the television adaptation of The Glass Virgin.

Since then, Mortimer has appeared in multiple television productions, such as Sharpe’s Sword, Coming Home and Silent Witness. She made her film debut in The Ghost and the Darkness opposite Val Kilmer in 1996. Other notable works included Love’s Labour’s Lost, Lovely and Amazing, Dear Frankie, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Shutter Island and Hugo.