Wanda Ventham
Born: 1935-08-05 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English television actress. She appeared in the third and fourth series of BBC's Sherlock in 2014 and 2017, where she played the title character's mum, with her son, actor Benedict Cumberbatch starring in the title role of Holmes. In April 2014, People magazine featured her in its "Most Beautiful People in the World" edition.
Filmography
2019
- Departure as Wendy
2016
- Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie as Violet
- UFO From Earth to the Moon as Self
2013
- Father Brown as Ellen Jennings
2012
- Run For Your Wife as Woman on Bus
2010
- Sherlock as Mrs. Holmes
2005
- Asylum as Bridie Straffen
2003
- Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War as Victoria
2000
- Coupling as Edna
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Romany Rose
- The Vanishing Man as Mrs Braithwaite
1996
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Margaret Balshaw
1995
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Heartbeat as Fiona Weston
- Men Behaving Badly
1989
- Capstick's Law as Madge Capstick
1988
- Out of the Shadows as Liz Bennett
1987
- Flying Lady as Lady Manley
- Doctor Who: Time and the Rani as Faroon
1986
1984
- Love and Marriage as Margaret
1982
1981
- Only Fools and Horses as Pamela Parry
1980
- The Gentle Touch
- Invasion: UFO as Col. Virginia Lake
1979
- Minder as Beryl
- Only When I Laugh as Fiona
- You're Not Watching Me, Mummy as Susan
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small as Mrs. Ridge
- Fallen Hero as Dorothy Hopkins
1977
- The Upchat Line as Gwen
- That's Carry On! as Pretty Bidder (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl as Thea Ransome
1975
- The Sweeney as Brenda
1974
- Dial M for Murder as Margot Lamasse
1973
- Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter as Lady Durward
1972
- The Lotus Eaters as Ann Shepherd
- UFO: Take them Alive as Colonnello Virginia Lake
1971
- UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth! as Coronel Virginia Lake
- Walt, King of the Dumper as Jasmine
1970
- UFO as Virginia Lake
1969
- Department S as Leila Rankin
1968
- The Expert as Peggy Kirby
- The Caesars as Ennia
- The Blood Beast Terror as Clare Mallinger
- Carry On Up the Khyber as Khasi's First Wife
1967
- The Prisoner as Computer Attendant
- The World of Wodehouse as Jane
- Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones as Jean Rock
- Mister Ten Per Cent as Kathy
1966
- Softly, Softly
- The Spy with a Cold Nose as Mrs. Winters
- Death Is a Woman as Priscilla Blunstone-Smythe
- The Eye as Josephine
1965
- Out of the Unknown as Josephine
- The Troubleshooters as Moira Hart
- The Knack... and How to Get It as Gym Mistress (uncredited)
- The Big Job as Dot Franklin
- The Intelligence Men as Blonde at Reception Dinner Table (uncredited)
- Joey Boy as Italian Girl
1964
- The Likely Lads as Angela
- Story Parade as Mary
- Carry On Cleo as Pretty Bidder (uncredited)
1963
- Doctor Who as Jean Rock
- The Human Jungle as Nurse
- We Joined the Navy as Dartmouth Girl
- The Cracksman as Sandra
- A Stitch in Time as Nurse (uncredited)
1962
- The Saint as Penny
- Z-Cars
- On the Beat as Outraged Hairdressers Customer (uncredited)
- Solo for Sparrow as Waitress
1960
- Danger Man as Penny
1959
- No Hiding Place
- The Navy Lark as Mabel
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Milly Craddock
- My Teenage Daughter as Gina