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Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne to Robert and Pamela Woof. Emily was educated at Heaton Comprehensive School and St Catherine's College, Oxford where she obtained a degree in English. She started writing and performing her own work while at university and took a year out to train in physical theatre with Philippe Gaulier and Monika Pagneux in Paris. She also trained in trapeze in Bristol FoolTime and London's Circus Space. She created a series of solo shows "Sex II", "Sex III" and "Revolver" which combined music, dance, and theatre, working with her partner Hamish McColl. Her work was concerned with the meeting point between the body and philosophy, and won Fringe Firsts, and Perrier Pick of the Fringe awards at Edinburgh. She began her career on the big screen after she was spotted by casting director Susie Figgis playing Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" directed by Neil Bartlett. She was offered the lead role opposite Rufus Sewell in "The Woodlanders". This began her life in film and television (see credits). She continued to write her own work, and published two novels "The Whole Wide Beauty" and "The Lightning Tree" with Faber. She has recently returned to creating work for the stage, performing "Blizzard" at the Soho Theatre, and writing plays.

Her late father, Robert Woof, was director of the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, which displayed posters for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0210217/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Pandaemonium (2000)</a> despite the film&#39;s uncomplimentary portrayal of Wordsworth.

Apart from appearances on screen, she also writes for film, radio, television and theatre.

She made her film debut in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0120532/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Woodlanders (1997)</a> which was followed by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0119893/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Photographing Fairies (1997)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0119164/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Full Monty (1997)</a>.

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