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Zoë Wanamaker is an American-born British actress who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. A nine-time Olivier Award nominee, she won for Once in a Lifetime (1979) and Electra (1998). She has also received four Tony Award nominations for her work on Broadway; for Piaf (1981), Loot (1986), Electra (1999), and Awake and Sing! (2006).
Born
Friday, 13 May 1949
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Criminal Record | Maureen | 2024 |
| Black Ops | Celia Herrington | 2023 |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Watt | 2022 |
| The Cleaner | Lucille | 2021 |
| Shadow and Bone | Baghra | 2021 |
| Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime | Self | 2021 |
| Worzel Gummidge | Lady Bloomsbury Barton | 2019 |
| Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
| Manson: The Lost Tapes | Narrator | 2018 |
| My Family and the Galapagos | Self - Narrator | 2018 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Criminal Record | Maureen | 2024 |
| Black Ops | Celia Herrington | 2023 |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Watt | 2022 |
| The Cleaner | Lucille | 2021 |
| Shadow and Bone | Baghra | 2021 |
| Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime | Self | 2021 |
| Worzel Gummidge | Lady Bloomsbury Barton | 2019 |
| Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
| Manson: The Lost Tapes | Narrator | 2018 |
| My Family and the Galapagos | Self - Narrator | 2018 |
| Killing Eve | Helen Jacobson | 2018 |
| Girlfriends | Gail | 2018 |
| Britannia | Queen Antedia | 2017 |
| Babs | Joan Littlewood | 2017 |
| Inside No. 9 | Paula | 2014 |
| Muse of Fire | Self | 2013 |
| Wodehouse in Exile | Ethel Wodehouse | 2013 |
| Mr Selfridge | Princess Marie / Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff | 2013 |
| Pensioners Behind Bars | Narrator | 2012 |
| Let's Do Christmas with Gino & Mel | Self | 2012 |
| The Women of Doctor Who | Lady Cassandra | 2012 |
| Playhouse Presents | The Woman | 2012 |
| Clinton | Self - Narrator (UK version) | 2012 |
| My Week with Marilyn | Paula Strasberg | 2011 |
| It's a Wonderful Afterlife | Mrs. Goldman | 2010 |
| Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Cassandra / Self | 2009 |
| The Old Curiosity Shop | Mrs. Jarley | 2007 |
| The One Show | Susan Harper / Self - Guest | 2006 |
| The 60th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2006 |
| Johnny and the Bomb | Mrs. Tachyon | 2006 |
| A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | Countess of Pembroke | 2005 |
| The Real Amityville Horror | Narator / Narrator | 2005 |
| Doctor Who | Cassandra | 2005 |
| Doctor Who Confidential | Cassandra | 2005 |
| Marple | Letitia Blacklock | 2004 |
| Five Children and It | Martha | 2004 |
| Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2004 |
| Imagine | Self | 2003 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Madame Hooch | 2001 |
| The Kumars at No. 42 | Self | 2001 |
| Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | Tania Braithwaite | 2001 |
| My Family | Susan Harper | 2000 |
| Gormenghast | Clarice Groan | 2000 |
| David Copperfield | Miss Murdstone | 1999 |
| The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Mary Muldoon | 1999 |
| Swept from the Sea | Mary Foster | 1998 |
| Wilde | Ada Leverson 'Sphinx' | 1997 |
| A Dance to the Music of Time | Audrey Maclintick | 1997 |
| The English Wife | Caroline Griveau | 1996 |
| Network First | Self / Self - Narrator | 1994 |
| The Blackheath Poisonings | Charlotte Collard | 1992 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Lady Macbeth | 1992 |
| Love Hurts | Tessa Piggott / Tessa Carver | 1992 |
| Performance | Mrs. Holroyd | 1991 |
| Prime Suspect | Moyra Henson | 1991 |
| Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage | Sarah Marriot | 1989 |
| Poirot | Ariadne Oliver | 1989 |
| The Dog It Was That Died | Bildebeck | 1989 |
| Once in a Life Time | May Daniels | 1988 |
| The Raggedy Rawney | Elle | 1988 |
| Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jean Kennerly | 1987 |
| Dispatches | Self | 1987 |
| Inspector Morse | Emma Pickford | 1987 |
| The 40th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1986 |
| Edge of Darkness | Clemmy / Clementine | 1985 |
| Screen Two | Olive Mannering | 1985 |
| All the World's a Stage | Extract from Le Cid / Extracts from The Versailles Impromptu; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe | 1984 |
| Natural World | Self - Narrator | 1983 |
| Enemies of the State | Zdena Tomin | 1983 |
| Richard III | Lady Anne | 1983 |
| Inside the Third Reich | Annemarie Kempf | 1982 |
| Baal | Sophie | 1982 |
| Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Alina Pienkowska | 1981 |
| The 35th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1981 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Margaret Smythe | 1979 |
| The Devil's Crown | Berengaria of Navarre | 1978 |
| A Christmas Carol | Belle | 1977 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self - Actor | 1976 |
| Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Pearl Craigie | 1974 |
| Village Hall | Shirley Chatsfield | 1974 |
| Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Eva Braun's handmaid | 1973 |
| Crown Court | Joan Carmichael | 1972 |
| Spy Trap | Muriel | 1972 |
| Great Performances | Prologue / Self | 1971 |
| ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Lorna Green | 1969 |
| BBC Play of the Month | Dorinda / Lucille | 1965 |
