Award-winning actress Emma Thompson writes her first novel for kids, Nanny McPhee Returns. Nanny McPhee, played by actress and screen writer Emma Thompson, made her way into the hearts of moviegoers in 2005 in Nanny McPhee. Now, moviegoers and book lovers will get to fall in love with the magical, marvelous nanny all over again with Ms. Thompson’s novel Nanny McPhee Returns; the movie of the same name will be in theaters starting August 20th.