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Phyllida Law dies as tributes flood in for legendary actress with two famous daughters

Actress Phyllida Law, the mother of Dame Emma Thompson, has died as tributes flood in for the legendary actress

[Phyllida Law with her daughters Sophie Thompson and Emma Thompson]

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Phyllida Law with her daughters Sophie Thompson and Emma Thompson

Actress Phyllida Law, the mother of Dame Emma Thompson, has died aged 94.

News of her death was confirmed by her granddaughter Gaia Wise, the daughter of Dame Emma and her husband Greg Wise. Wise shared a photo of Law on Instagram and wrote: Rest well my queen.

Laws management said in a statement she died supremely peacefully at home, surrounded by all of her family on July 27. The actress was married to actor Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death from a heart attack in 1982, aged 53. Their daughters, Dame Emma and Sophie Thompson, are both actresses.

[Phyllida starred alongside her famous daughters multiple times]

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Phyllida starred alongside her famous daughters multiple times

[She appeared alongside some famous faces in her lengthy career]

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She appeared alongside some famous faces in her lengthy career(Image: Getty Images)

Law appeared on screen alongside her daughters several times, including in the 1996 adaptation of Jane Austens Emma. In the film which starred Gwyneth Paltrow Law played Mrs Bates while Sophie played her daughter Miss Bates.

She also appeared alongside Dame Emma in 1992s Peters Friends, directed by her daughters then-husband Sir Kenneth Branagh. Law also appeared in Sir Kenneths adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing the following year, also alongside Dame Emma.

In 1997 Law again appeared alongside her eldest daughter in Alan Rickmans directorial debut The Winter Guest, in which the pair played mother and daughter. More than a decade later she also had a voice role in Dame Emmas 2005 film Nanny McPhee, which she wrote and starred in.

Born in Glasgow in 1932, Law initially had aspirations to become a stage designer but ended up studying acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Throughout her career, Law appeared in television programmes including Play School, The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club, Midsomer Murders, Monarch Of The Glen, Rosemary & Thyme, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Foyles War, Doc Martin, Midsomer Murders and New Tricks.

She also featured in films including Much Ado About Nothing, Emma, Anna Karenina, The Winter Guest, Saving Grace, Nanny McPhee, and Miss Potter.

On stage Law appeared alongside Alec Guinness in John Mortimers A Voyage Round My Father at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1971 and in Alan Bennetts Habeas Corpus at the Oxford Playhouse in 1973, which then transferred to the West End.

The actress also appeared in the original London cast of La Cage Aux Folles at the London Palladium in 1986, playing the role of Jacqueline. Law was made an OBE for services to drama and charitable causes in 2014.

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