Frances de la Tour

Actor Jul 30 (age 81) Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK 1970–2021 (51 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Biography

Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Madame Olympe Maxime

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Olympe Maxime

Film

Hugo

Madame Emilie

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Aunt Imogene

Film

Enola Holmes

The Dowager

Film

Love Actually

Lesbian Lover (uncredited)

Film

The Book of Eli

Martha

Film

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Aunt Imogene

Filmography

Acting (69)

Movies (39)

Dolittle

as Dragon (voice)

Enola Holmes

as The Dowager

The Highway Rat

as The Rabbit (voice)

6.3

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Aunt Imogene

Survivor

as Sally

Mr. Holmes

as Madame Schirmer

The Lady in the Van

as Ursula Vaughan Williams

Miss You Already

as Jill

Into the Woods

as Giant

Trap for Cinderella

as Aunt Elinor

National Theatre Live: People

2013

as Dorothy Stacpoole

8.0

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

as Kay

Private Peaceful

as Grandma Wolf

Suspension of Disbelief

2012

as Nesta

4.2

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

as Self

Hugo

as Madame Emilie

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Olympe Maxime

Alice in Wonderland

as Aunt Imogene

The Book of Eli

as Martha

The Nutcracker

as The Rat Queen / Frau Eva

5.0

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

as Kay

The History Boys

as Mrs. Lintott

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

as Madame Olympe Maxime

7.8

Death on the Nile

2004

as Salome Otterbourne

Love Actually

2003

as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)

7.1

The Cherry Orchard

1999

as Charlotte Ivanovna

4.3

Genghis Cohn

1993

as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist

Bejewelled

as Beatrice

Strike It Rich

as Mrs de Vere

Murder with Mirrors

as Miss Bellaver

Skirmishes

as Jean

Rising Damp

as Miss Jones

Wombling Free

as Julia Frogmorton

To the Devil a Daughter

1976

as Salvation Army Major

5.4

Housewives' Choice

1976

as Marcia

All Good Men

1974

Right to Work March

1972

as Elizabeth I

Our Miss Fred

1972

as Miss Lockhart

5.8

Every Home Should Have One

1970

as Maud Crape

4.8

Television (30)

Professor T

as Adelaide Tempest

Professor T

as Adelaide Tempest

The Prince

as Queen Elizabeth (voice)

6.3

Vanity Fair

2018

as Lady Matilda Crawley

7.3

Man in an Orange Shirt

as Mrs. March

The Collection

as Yvette Sabine

Outlander

as Mother Hildegarde

Vicious

as Violet Crosby

Big School

as Ms Baron

Sensitive Skin

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop

7.8

New Tricks

2004

7.3

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Born and Bred

as Eugenia Maddox

What's Your Problem?

Waking the Dead

as Alice Taylor-Garnett

7.2

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Aunt Western

Cold Lazarus

as Emma Porlock

Downwardly Mobile

Every Silver Lining

Heartbeat

as Tessa

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Salome Otterbourne

Stay Lucky

A Kind of Living

as Carol Beasley

Unnatural Causes

as Marcia

The Bounder

as Celia

Flickers

as Maud Cole

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

1977

as The Woman

Rising Damp

as Ruth

Play for Today

as Maria Waite