Actress Emily Blunt Receives BAFTA Prize

British actress Emily Blunt will be honored at the 2009 BAFTA/LA Brittania Awards by being named as the British Star of the Year.

According to an article on HollywoodReporter.com, "Blunt began her career at the 2002 Chichester Festival, where she played Juliet in a production of 'Romeo and Juliet' and made her West End debut opposite Judi Dench in 'The Royal Family.' Her TV credits include 'Gideon's Daughter,' for which she won a Golden Globe as best supporting actress in 2007." The festivities will be on Nov. 5 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Blunt's 2004 breakout role in My Summer of Love catapulted her to star with such Hollywood heavyweights as Meryl Streep in 2006's The Devil Wears Prada as well as Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in 2007's Charlie Wilson's War.

Blunt has been nominated and won a host of industry accolades such as the Most Promising Newcomer award at the 2004 Evening Standard Film Awards for her role in My Summer of Love. She was also nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2004 British Independent Film Awards. Her role in Prada earned Blunt a Golden Globe nomination as well as a BAFTA for Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Blunt's other film credits include 2007's Dan in Real Life, which also starred Steve Carrell, and 2007's The Jane Austen Book Club, which had an all-star cast made up of Maria Bello, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy and Jimmy Smits.

Her upcoming projects include The Young Victoria, which was released in March in the U.K., The Wolfman, where she will be co-starring with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro, and Gulliver's Travels, which has Blunt playing opposite Jack Black and Amanda Peet.