Joanne Whalley
Born: 1961-08-25 in Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
2025
- Tornado as Vienna Crawford
- The Rumour
2023
- Willow: Behind the Magic as Self - 'Sorsha'
2022
- Willow as Queen Sorsha
2021
- Val as Self
- Resurrection as Claudia
- Love Is Love Is Love as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
- Hardcore Halbert as Janet
2019
- Carnival Row as Leonora
- The Bird Game as Crow
2018
- Paul, Apostle of Christ as Priscilla
2017
- Muse as Jacqueline
- Tin Star as Mary James
- The White Princess as Margaret of York
2016
- Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands as Rheda
2015
- Marvel's Daredevil as Sister Maggie
- The Ark as Emmy
- Wolf Hall as Katherine of Aragon
2014
- Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
2013
- The Challenger Disaster as Gweneth Feynman
2011
- The Borgias as Vanozza Cattaneo
- Twixt as Denise
- Golf in the Kingdom as Agatha McNaughton
2009
- 44 Inch Chest as Liz
- Diverted as Marion Price
2007
- Gossip Girl as Sophie Grimaldi
- Flood as Patricia Nash
- Life Line as Katy Adair
- Inundación
2006
- The Virgin Queen as Queen Mary
- Played as Maggie
2005
- Criminal Minds as Karen Donovan
- The Californians as Luna
- Child of Mine as Tess Palmer
2004
- Justice League Unlimited as Emerald Empress (voice)
- Biography: Val Kilmer as Self (archive footage)
2003
- 40 as Jess
2002
- Virginia's Run as Jessie Eastwood
- Before You Go as Mary
2000
- The Guilty as Natalie Crane
- Breathtaking as Caroline Henshaw
- Run the Wild Fields as Ruby Miller
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
1999
- A Texas Funeral as Miranda
1997
- The Man Who Knew Too Little as Lori
1994
- A Good Man in Africa as Celia Adekunle
- Trial by Jury as Valerie Alston
- Scarlett as Scarlett O'Hara
1993
- Mother's Boys as Colleen 'Callie' Harland
- The Secret Rapture as Katherine Coleridge
1992
- Storyville as Natalie Tate
1991
- Shattered as Jenny Scott
1990
- Navy Seals as Claire Varrens
- The Big Man as Beth Scoular
- A TV Dante as Beatrice
1989
- Scandal as Christine Keeler
- Kill Me Again as Fay Forrester
- Bosses From Hell
- Employees From Hell
1988
- Willow as Sorsha
- To Kill a Priest as Anna
- Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self - 'Sorsha'
1987
- Shoreleave as Myra
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow as Jackie
1986
- The Singing Detective as Nurse Mills
1985
- No Surrender as Cheryl
- Dance with a Stranger as Christine
- The Good Father as Mary Hall
- Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven
1984
- A Christmas Carol as Fan
1983
- Reilly: Ace of Spies as Ulla
1982
- Pink Floyd: The Wall as Groupie
- A Kind of Loving
1981
- Bergerac as Christine Bolton
1980
- And Mum Came Too as Evelyn
1979
- Birth of The Beatles as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1978
- The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Doris
1972
- Crown Court as Linda Mason