Gaia Wise, daughter of legendary actress Emma Thompson and actor and producer Greg Wise, seems to share her mum’s iconic sass. The 24-year-old recently shared the most Gen Z-coded reference to her mum’s ex-husband, Kenneth Branagh, on her Instagram Stories. Clearly, Thompson’s daughter was not feeling the “Kenergy”, sharing a meme showing a still from the 1993 film Much Ado About Nothing starring Thompson and Branagh, where Thompson’s Beatrice is “everything” and Branagh’s Benedick? “He’s just Ken.
” The former couple got married in 1989 and split in 1995 after the Murder on the Orient Express (2017) actor had an affair with Helena Bonham Carter. Gaia Wise, named after the Greek goddess known as the personification of Earth, clearly inherited her mum’s sense of humour – but what else do we know about her? What does Gaia Wise do for work? Wise followed her parents into the world of entertainment and has worked as a stage, screen and voice actress. She is best known for A Walk in the Woods (2015) and Last Chance Harvey (2008), both of which also starred her mum.
She made her theatre debut in 2015 at the English National Opera with Sweeney Todd , which starred Thompson as Mrs Lovett. Recently, Wise was cast as the English-language voice actress for Héra in the upcoming anime film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim . “What I loved about Hèra is she’s fierce, she’s complex, she’s rebellious”, Wise told Entertainment Weekly abou.