She won a best actress Oscar playing an elegant intellectual in costume drama Howards End, set in an Edwardian country house.
Now Emma Thompson has found herself in grittier surroundings – hiding beneath an upturned kayak beside Regent’s Canal in London for her latest role as a private investigator.
The actress, 67, was pictured running along the towpath while filming the second series of Apple TV thriller Down Cemetery Road.
Wearing a long black leather coat, grey T-shirt, blue jeans and heavy boots, Dame Emma was spotted sprawled on the leaf-strewn ground as the heavy green boat rested on top of her.
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