Zoë Wanamaker

Actor May 13 (age 76) New York City, New York, USA 1956–2025 (69 year career)

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Biography

Zoë Wanamaker, CBE (born 13 May 1949) is an American-British actress. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Madam Hooch

Film

Shadow and Bone

Baghra

Film

My Week with Marilyn

Paula Strasberg

Film

Britannia

Queen Antedia

Film

Wilde

Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'

Film

Prime Suspect

Moyra Henson

Film

Criminal Record

Maureen

Film

Mr Selfridge

Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff

Filmography

Acting (98)

Movies (44)

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

2024

as Self

4.5

National Theatre Live: Constellations

2021

as Marianne

10.0

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

as Narrator (voice)

Babs

as Joan Littlewood

Captcha

Muse of Fire

as Self

Wodehouse In Exile

as Ethel Wodehouse

Return to the Falklands

2012

as Narrator

10.0

All My Sons

2011

as Kate Keller

My Week with Marilyn

2011

as Paula Strasberg

6.7

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

2011

as Ranyevskaya

8.5

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

2010

as Mrs. Goldman

4.8

Ochberg's Orphans

2008

as Narrator

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007

as Mrs. Jarley

5.0

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

2005

as Countess of Pembroke

4.8

The Real Amityville Horror

2005

as Narrator

5.9

Shakespeare's Globe

2005

as Herself

Cards on the Table

2005

as Ariadne Oliver

Five Children and It

2004

as Martha

5.6

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

2004

as Self / Narrator (voice)

7.0

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

as Madam Hooch

Swept from the Sea

as Mary Foster

Wilde

as Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'

6.6

Eilish: Life Without Katie

1995

as Narrator

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

1995

as Mrs. Holroyd

2.3

The Countess Alice

1993

as Connie

The Blackheath Poisonings

1992

as Charlotte Collard

Memento Mori

1992

as Olive Mannering

6.2

Macbeth

1992

as Lady Macbeth

Othello

1990

as Emilia

7.0

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

1989

as Sarah Marriot

4.4

The Dog It Was That Died

1989

as Bildebeck

The Raggedy Rawney

as Elle

Paradise Postponed

as Charlotte Fanner

Piaf

as Toine

The Tragedy of Richard III

as Lady Anne

Baal

as Sophie

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

as Alina Pienkowska

Danton's Death

1978

as Lucille

A Christmas Carol

1977

as Belle

6.6

The Story of Pantomime

1976

as Self

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Pearl Craigie

8.0

The Eagle Has Landed

1973

as Alice

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Eva Braun's Handmaid (uncredited)

6.1

Television (54)

Bergerac

2025

as Charlie Hungerford

6.0

Criminal Record

2024

as Maureen

6.9

The Man Who Fell to Earth

2022

as Watt

7.4

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Professor T

as Zelda Radclyffe

Shadow and Bone

as Baghra

Shadow and Bone

as Baghra

The Cleaner

as Lucille

Worzel Gummidge

as Lady Bloomsbury Barton

Killing Eve

as Helen Jacobson

Britannia

as Queen Antedia

My Family and The Galapagos

as Narrator (voice)

Girlfriends

as Gail

Manson: The Lost Tapes

2018

as Narrator

5.7

Handmade: By Royal Appointment

2016

as Narrator

Inside No. 9

2014

as Paula

8.1

Mr Selfridge

2013

as Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff

Playhouse Presents

as The Woman

Mary's Bottom Line

as Narrator

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

as Self

Johnny and the Bomb

as Mrs. Tachyon

Doctor Who

as Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17

7.6

ShakespeaRe-Told

2005

as Lady Pembroke

7.5

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Letitia Blacklock

7.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self

Richard & Judy

as Self

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

as Tania Braithwaite

My Family

as Susan Harper

Gormenghast

as Clarice Groan

Gormenghast

as Clarice Groan

David Copperfield

as Miss Murdstone

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

1999

as Mary Muldoon

6.9

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997

as Audrey Maclintick

4.3

All Mod Cons

1997

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Creatures Fantastic

1997

as Narrator

The Blackheath Poisonings

1993

as Charlotte Collard

6.0

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

1992

as Lady Macbeth (voice)

Love Hurts

as Tessa Piggott

Prime Suspect

as Moyra Henson

Prime Suspect

as Moyra Henson

Performance

as Mrs Holroyd

Pebble Mill

as Self

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Ariadne Oliver

8.2

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

as Jean Kennerly

Inspector Morse

as Emma Pickford

Paradise Postponed

as Charlotte 'Charlie' Titmuss, née Fanner

Screen Two

as Olive Mannering

Edge of Darkness

as Clementine

Natural World

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Annemarie Kempf

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Margaret Smythe

6.7

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Pearl Craigie

6.3

BBC Play of the Month

as Dorinda

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee