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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 25, 1961
Place of Birth:
Salford, Manchester, England, UK
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Joanne Whalley
Biography
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has since amassed numerous credits, primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including Dance with a Stranger (1985), Willow (1988), Scandal (1989), The Secret Rapture (1993) and Mother's Boys (1994). Following her marriage to Val Kilmer in 1988, she was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer until their divorce in 1996.
Whalley was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1985 BBC serial Edge of Darkness, and was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for the 2011 series The Borgias. Her other television roles include the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective; playing the title role in the 2000 CBS TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and as Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate in the 2015 NBC series A.D. The Bible Continues.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tornado | |
| 2023 | Willow: Behind the Magic | Self - 'Sorsha' |
| 2021 | Love is Love is Love | Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch") |
| 2021 | Resurrection | Claudia |
| 2021 | Hardcore Halbert | Janet |
| 2021 | Val | Self |
| 2019 | The Bird Game | Crow |
| 2018 | Paul, Apostle of Christ | Priscilla |
| 2017 | Muse | Jacqueline |
| 2015 | The Ark | Emmy |
| 2013 | The Challenger Disaster | Gweneth Feynman |
| 2011 | Twixt | Denise |
| 2011 | Golf in the Kingdom | Agatha McNaughton |
| 2009 | 44 Inch Chest | Liz |
| 2009 | Diverted | Marion Price |
| 2007 | Flood | Patricia Nash |
| 2007 | Life Line | Katy Adair |
| 2006 | Played | Maggie |
| 2005 | The Californians | Luna |
| 2005 | Child of Mine | Tess Palmer |
| 2004 | Biography: Val Kilmer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Virginia's Run | Jessie Eastwood |
| 2002 | Before You Go | Mary |
| 2000 | The Guilty | Natalie Crane |
| 2000 | Run the Wild Fields | Ruby Miller |
| 2000 | Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
| 2000 | Breathtaking | Caroline Henshaw |
| 1999 | A Texas Funeral | Miranda |
| 1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little | Lori |
| 1994 | Trial by Jury | Valerie Alston |
| 1994 | A Good Man in Africa | Celia Adekunle |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys | Colleen 'Callie' Harland |
| 1993 | The Secret Rapture | Katherine Coleridge |
| 1992 | Storyville | Natalie Tate |
| 1991 | Shattered | Jenny Scott |
| 1990 | The Big Man | Beth Scoular |
| 1990 | A TV Dante | Beatrice |
| 1990 | Navy Seals | Claire Varrens |
| 1989 | Kill Me Again | Fay Forrester |
| 1989 | Scandal | Christine Keeler |
| 1989 | Bosses From Hell | |
| 1989 | Employees From Hell | |
| 1988 | Willow | Sorsha |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Anna |
| 1988 | Willow: The Making of an Adventure | Self - 'Sorsha' |
| 1987 | Will You Love Me Tomorrow | Jackie |
| 1987 | Shoreleave | Myra |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger | Christine |
| 1985 | The Good Father | Mary Hall |
| 1985 | No Surrender | Cheryl |
| 1984 | A Christmas Carol | Fan |
| 1982 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | Groupie |
| 1980 | And Mum Came Too | Evelyn |
| 1979 | Birth of The Beatles | Schoolgirl (uncredited) |
| 1978 | The One and Only Phyllis Dixey | Doris |
| Gardel |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Willow | Queen Sorsha |
| 2019 | Carnival Row | Leonora |
| 2017 | Tin Star | Mary James |
| 2017 | The White Princess | Margaret of York |
| 2016 | Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands | Rheda |
| 2015 | Marvel's Daredevil | Sister Maggie |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Katherine of Aragon |
| 2014 | Jamaica Inn | Aunt Patience |
| 2011 | The Borgias | Vanozza Cattaneo |
| 2007 | Gossip Girl | Sophie Grimaldi |
| 2006 | The Virgin Queen | Queen Mary |
| 2005 | Criminal Minds | Karen Donovan |
| 2004 | Justice League Unlimited | Emerald Empress (voice) |
| 2003 | 40 | Jess |
| 1994 | Scarlett | Scarlett O'Hara |
| 1986 | The Singing Detective | Nurse Mills |
| 1985 | Edge of Darkness | Emma Craven |
| 1983 | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Ulla |
| 1982 | A Kind of Loving | |
| 1981 | Bergerac | Christine Bolton |
| 1972 | Crown Court | Linda Mason |