Geraldine James

Actor Jul 6 (age 75) Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK 1974–2025 (51 year career)

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Biography

Geraldine James, OBE (born 6 July 1950) is an English actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

Anne with an E

Marilla Cuthbert

Film

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Blue Three

Film

Sherlock Holmes

Mrs. Hudson

Film

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Mrs. Hudson

Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Cecilia Vanger

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Lady Ascot

Film

Gandhi

Mirabehn

Film

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Lady Ascot

Filmography

Acting (122)

Movies (74)

Tank Boy

2025

Creditors

2025

as Tekla

The Trap

2023

Eiffel Tower: Building the Impossible

2023

as Narrator

8.3

Benediction

2021

as Theresa Thornycroft

6.1

A Very Royal Christmas: Sandringham Secrets

2020

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Downton Abbey

as Queen Mary

Beast

as Hilary Huntington

Megan Leavey

as Dr. Turbeville

Daphne

as Rita

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016

as Blue Three

7.5

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Lady Ascot

Anne with an E

as Marilla Cuthbert

45 Years

as Lena

Robot Overlords

as Monique

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

2014

as Self

4.8

Diana

2013

as Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo

5.6

The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit up the World

2013

as Marie Curie's letters read by

Legacy

as Martha

Dr. Easy

as Voice of Dr. Easy

The Farmer's Wife

as The Farmer's Wife

13 Steps Down

as Gwendolen Chawcer

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2011

as Mrs. Hudson

7.1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

as Cecilia Vanger

Arthur

as Vivienne

Alice in Wonderland

as Lady Ascot

Made in Dagenham

as Connie

Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs. Hudson

Heist

as Joanna the Concubine

5.2

Caught in a Trap

2008

as Joyce Perkins

6.0

The Time of Your Life

2007

as Eileen

10.0

Northanger Abbey

2007

as Jane Austen (voice)

6.8

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Self

The Fever

as Ranevskaya

Ocean Voyagers

as Narrator (voice)

A Harlot's Progress

as Mother Needham

Calendar Girls

as Marie

Hearts of Gold

as Elizabeth Powell

An Angel for May

as Susan Higgins

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Mrs. Mortimer

Taliesin Jones

as Mum

Tom & Thomas

as Miss Tromp

White Teeth

as Joyce Malfen

All Forgotten

as Mother

The Luzhin Defence

as Vera, Natalia's Mother

6.1

The Man Who Knew Too Little

1997

as Ludmilla Kropotkin

6.3

Moll Flanders

1996

as Edna

6.1

Words Upon the Window Pane

1994

as Mrs. Henderson

The Healer

1994

as Dr. Mercedes Honeysett

No Worries

as Anne O'Dwyer

Doggin' Around

as Sarah Williams

A Doll's House

as Kristine Linde

The Bridge

as Mrs. Todd

Losing Track

as Mrs. Dewey

If Looks Could Kill

as Vendetta Galante

Prince of Shadows

as Rebeca Osorio

as Alice

The Tall Guy

1989

as Carmen

5.7

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

as Gertrude Brisket

She's Been Away

as Harriet Ambrose

Wall of Tyranny

as Krista Donner

Time and the Conways

as Madge Conway

Blott on the Landscape

1985

8.8

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

1983

as Self

Gandhi

1982

as Mirabehn

7.6

Chains

1982

as Janine

I Remember Nelson

1982

as Lady Emma Hamilton

Hesther for Example

1980

as Hesther

Sweet William

as Pamela

Bloody Kids

as Ritchie's Wife

Who's Who

as Miss Hunt

The Dumb Waiter

as Sally

Dummy

as Sandra

Now & Then

as Laura

Television (48)

Dope Girls

as Isabella Salucci

This Town

as Marie

Silo

as Mayor Ruth Jahns

Back to Life

as Caroline Matteson

Anne with an E

as Marilla Cuthbert

The Five

as Julie Wells

Black Work

as CC Carolyn Jarecki

5.9

Hidden India

2015

as Herself - Narrator

Utopia

as Milner

Playhouse Presents

as Liz / Lydia

Thirteen Steps Down

as Gwendolen Chawcer

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth

2011

as Narrator

6.0

The Michael Ball Show

2010

as Self

Drama Trails

2010

as Self

The Last Enemy

2008

as Barbara Turney

6.7

Fairy Tales

2008

as Mrs Brooke

Little Britain USA

2008

as Celia

6.8

The Time of Your Life

2007

as Eileen

7.0

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

2006

as Cornelia

7.4

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

2006

as Hilary Rees-Benson

Jane Hall

as Lorraine Hall

Hex

as Lilith Hughes

He Knew He Was Right

as Lady Rowley

Little Britain

as Harvey's Mother

State of Play

as Yvonne Shaps

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale

as Hans's Mother

An Angel For May

Sins

as Gloria Green

Seesaw

as Val Price

Midsomer Murders

as Miranda Bedford

Rebecca

as Beatrice

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Eleanor Harker Q.C.

Band of Gold

as Rose Garrity

Performance

as Kristine Linde

Stanley and the Women

1991

as Dr. Trish Collings

6.0

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Helen Abernethie

Inspector Morse

as Helen Field

Blott on the Landscape

1985

as Lady Maud Lynchwood

7.5

The Jewel in the Crown

as Sarah Layton

Natural World

as Self

I Remember Nelson

as Lady Emma Hamilton

The History Man

as Barbara Kirk

Shoestring

An Audience with...

as Self

The Sweeney

as Shirley Glass

Playhouse

as Hesther

The Cage

as Nancy Packer