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Geraldine James, OBE is an English actress. For her role as Portia in the 1989 Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. She also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival for She's Been Away. Theatre director Peter Hall says James ranks amongst the great English classical actresses.
Born
Thursday, 06 July 1950
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Benediction | Theresa Thornycroft | 2021 |
| Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation | Betsy | 2020 |
| The Beast Must Die | Joy | 2020 |
| Downton Abbey | Queen Mary | 2019 |
| Back to Life | Caroline | 2019 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Beast | Hilary Huntington | 2018 |
| Megan Leavey | Dr. Turbeville | 2017 |
| Anne with an E | Marilla Cuthbert | 2017 |
| Daphne | Rita | 2017 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Benediction | Theresa Thornycroft | 2021 |
| Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation | Betsy | 2020 |
| The Beast Must Die | Joy | 2020 |
| Downton Abbey | Queen Mary | 2019 |
| Back to Life | Caroline | 2019 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Beast | Hilary Huntington | 2018 |
| Megan Leavey | Dr. Turbeville | 2017 |
| Anne with an E | Marilla Cuthbert | 2017 |
| Daphne | Rita | 2017 |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Blue Three / Blue Squadron | 2016 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Lady Ascot | 2016 |
| The Five | Julie Wells | 2016 |
| Hidden India | Narrator | 2015 |
| Black Work | CC Carolyn Jarecki | 2015 |
| 45 Years | Lena | 2015 |
| Robot Overlords | Monique | 2015 |
| Legacy | Martha | 2013 |
| Tudor Monastery Farm | Narrator | 2013 |
| Portrait Artist of the Year | Self - Sitter | 2013 |
| Diana | Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo / Oonagh Toffolo | 2013 |
| The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World | Marie Curie's Letters Read By | 2013 |
| Utopia | Milner | 2013 |
| Uncle | Jane | 2012 |
| Playhouse Presents | Liz / Lydia | 2012 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Cecilia / Cecilia Vanger | 2011 |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Mrs. Hudson | 2011 |
| Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self | 2011 |
| Arthur | Vivienne | 2011 |
| The Many Faces of... | Marie | 2010 |
| Made in Dagenham | Connie | 2010 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lady Ascot | 2010 |
| Sherlock Holmes | Mrs. Hudson | 2009 |
| Little Britain USA | Celia | 2008 |
| Charlotte: A Royal at War | Narrator | 2008 |
| The Last Enemy | Barbara Turney | 2008 |
| Phoo Action | Dr. Evelyne Conan-Bell | 2008 |
| City of Vice | Nell | 2008 |
| Fairy Tales | Mrs. Brooke | 2008 |
| Heist | Joanna the Concubine | 2008 |
| Ocean Voyagers | Narrator (voice) | 2007 |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen (voice) / The Voice of Jane Austen | 2007 |
| A Harlot's Progress | Mother Needham | 2006 |
| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Hilary Rees-Benson | 2006 |
| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Cornelia | 2006 |
| Jane Hall | Lorraine Hall | 2005 |
| Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale | Hans's Mother | 2004 |
| Hex | Lilith Hughes, Lillith Hughes | 2004 |
| The Paul O'Grady Show | Herself - Guest | 2004 |
| The Fever | Ranevskaya | 2004 |
| Calendar Girls | Marie | 2003 |
| State of Play | Yvonne Shaps | 2003 |
| Little Britain | Mrs. Pincher | 2003 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Mrs. Mortimer | 2002 |
| An Angel for May | Susan Higgins | 2002 |
| Crime & Punishment | Pulcheria | 2002 |
| Taliesin Jones | Mum / Tal's Mum | 2002 |
| Tom & Thomas | Miss Tromp | 2002 |
| Lover's Prayer | Mother | 2001 |
| The Sins | Gloria Green | 2000 |
| The Luzhin Defence | Vera, Natalia's Mother / Vera | 2000 |
| Seesaw | Val Price | 1998 |
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Miranda Bedford | 1997 |
| Rebecca | Beatrice | 1997 |
| Moll Flanders | Edna | 1996 |
| Over Here | Lady Billingham | 1996 |
| Band of Gold | Rose Garrity | 1995 |
| Kavanagh QC | Eleanor Harker QC | 1995 |
| The Healer | Dr. Mercedes Honeysett | 1994 |
| No Worries | Anne O'Dwyer | 1994 |
| The Bridge | Mrs. Todd | 1992 |
| Beltenebros | Rebeca Osorio | 1991 |
| Stanley and the Women | Dr. Trish Collings | 1991 |
| If Looks Could Kill | Vendetta Galante | 1991 |
| Performance | Kristine Linde | 1991 |
| The 44th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1990 |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Gertrude Brisket | 1989 |
| Screen One | Alice, Harriet Ambrose, Mrs. Dewey, Sarah Williams | 1989 |
| The Tall Guy | Carmen | 1989 |
| Poirot | Helen Abernethie | 1989 |
| Inspector Morse | Helen Field | 1987 |
| Alas Smith & Jones | Herself | 1984 |
| The Jewel in the Crown | Sarah Layton | 1984 |
| Natural World | Self - Narrator | 1983 |
| Gandhi | Mirabehn | 1982 |
| Sweet William | Pamela | 1980 |
| Shoestring | Mary Philips | 1979 |
| The Dumb Waiter | Sally | 1979 |
| The Sweeney | Shirley Glass | 1975 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Hesther, Janine | 1974 |
| Crown Court | Julie Gilmour | 1972 |
| Play for Today | Miss Hunt | 1970 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator | 1964 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
