Dame Emma Thompson can’t wipe the smile off her face as she makes her way to a TV appearance in NY

Dame Emma Thompson was seen beaming as she made her way to a television appearance in New York on Wednesday.

The 63-year-old actress couldn’t wipe the smile off her face as she made her way to the studio ahead of an appearance on Live with Kelly and Ryan.

The Love Actually star, who has been busy in recent weeks promoting her new musical Matilda, cut a casual figure in a dark jean jacket and baggy pants.

Stepping out: Dame Emma Thompson, 63, couldn’t wipe the smile off her face on Wednesday as she headed to a television appearance in New York dressed in a black jean jacket and baggy pants.

It looked casually cool pairing the look with a pair of silver sneakers.

Emma showed off her short, freshly dried locks and makeup, including a dewy foundation and soft pink lip.

She appeared in high spirits before the TV appearance, smiling and waving at the fans as she entered.

Casual and cool: She looked casually cool pairing the look with a pair of silver sneakers.

Doing her thing: She appeared in high spirits ahead of the TV appearance, smiling and waving at fans as she walked inside

Emma revealed on The Tonight Show this week that she doesn’t watch her movie Love Actually during the holiday season, unlike her many fans.

‘No, that was 20 years ago,’ he said, as Fallon suggested, ‘it might be fun to go, ‘Oh, I remember where we were when we were doing that.’

‘Not really. No, you just think… I was being… I don’t think they paid me very well for that. That was the terrible trailer with the stinking bathroom…those are the things you remember, not the good ones,’ she explained.

Confessions: Emma revealed on The Tonight Show this week that she doesn’t watch her movie Love Actually during the holiday season, unlike her many fans.

When asked how many fans have given her Joni Mitchell CDs, the gift she gets from her on-screen husband Harry (Alan Rickman), she quipped: “I have a separate house for those.”

Emma will put her singing and dancing skills to the test in Matilda The Musical, where she plays Miss Trunchbull, who the kids in the musical were supposed to ‘fear’, though that didn’t exactly happen.

‘They were supposed to be afraid of me, yes, but I walk on set and it’s, ‘Oh Nanny McPhee!’ Thompson said.

The actress said she was trying to make them fear her, but the kids kept laughing and the director said, ‘Could you stop hogging the kids, because I love them so much?’

New job: Emma will put her singing and dancing skills to the test in Matilda The Musical, where she plays Miss Trunchbull (pictured)