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Scottish actress Phyllida Law has died aged 94 at home surrounded by her loved ones.

Phyllida is mother to actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson and starred in Jane Austen's Emma and voiced a role in Nanny McPhee.

The news was confirmed by her manager, Jacky Leggo on Tuesday, who said the star 'died supremely peacefully at home, surrounded by all of her family'.

She was born in Glasgow in 1932, and was accepted at Bristol Old Vic Theatre school – initially to be a stage designer but then changed to acting.

She met her husband Eric Thompson while starring in Bristol Old Vic productions in the 1950s, and it was there she met Eric Thompson - they married in 1957.

Emma Thompson's mother Phyllida Law has diedaged 94 'peacefully at home', (Pictured in March 2010)

Phyllida wearing her Officer of the Order of the British Empire award, with daughters Sophie Thompson and Emma Thompson (R) after the Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace on November 11, 2014

Her career began on the TV in the late 1950s, with appearances on Dr Finlay’s Casebook, Dixon of Dock Green and The Troubleshooters.

She later had a successful film career in the 1980s, appearing alongside daughter Emma in Peter’s Friends, whcih was directed by Emma's then husband Kenneth Branagh.

She also starred in Much Ado About Nothing and Jane Austen’s Emma alongside her other daughter Sophie.

Phyllida and Emma played mother and daughter in The Winter Guest.

Following news of her death, tributes flooded in. The actress' granddaughter Gaia Wise – Emma’s daughter – wrote: 'Rest well my queen'.

Phyllida pictured in a scene from the television drama Sad About Eddie in 1964