Joanne Whalley
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
76
Gender
Female
Birthday
1961-08-25 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Acting

2025

Tornado as Not available

2023

Willow: Behind the Magic as Self - 'Sorsha'

2022

Willow as Queen Sorsha

2021

Val as Self

2021

Love is Love is Love as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")

2021

Resurrection as Claudia

2021

Hardcore Halbert as Janet

2019

Carnival Row as Leonora

2019

The Bird Game as Crow

2018

Paul, Apostle of Christ as Priscilla

2017

Tin Star as Mary James

2017

The White Princess as Margaret of York

2017

Muse as Jacqueline

2015

Marvel's Daredevil as Sister Maggie

2015

Wolf Hall as Katherine of Aragon

2015

The Ark as Emmy

2014

Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience

2013

The Challenger Disaster as Gweneth Feynman

2011

The Borgias as Vanozza Cattaneo

2011

Twixt as Denise

2011

Golf in the Kingdom as Agatha McNaughton

2009

44 Inch Chest as Liz

2009

Diverted as Marion Price

2007

Gossip Girl as Sophie Grimaldi

2007

Flood as Patricia Nash

2007

Life Line as Katy Adair

2006

The Virgin Queen as Queen Mary

2006

Played as Maggie

2005

Criminal Minds as Karen Donovan

2005

The Californians as Luna

2005

Child of Mine as Tess Palmer

2004

Justice League Unlimited as Emerald Empress (voice)

2003

40 as Jess

2002

Before You Go as Mary

2002

Virginia's Run as Jessie Eastwood

2000

The Guilty as Natalie Crane

2000

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000

Run the Wild Fields as Ruby Miller

2000

Breathtaking as Caroline Henshaw

1999

A Texas Funeral as Miranda

1994

Scarlett as Scarlett O'Hara

1994

Trial by Jury as Valerie Alston

1994

A Good Man in Africa as Celia Adekunle

1993

Mother's Boys as Colleen 'Callie' Harland

1993

The Secret Rapture as Katherine Coleridge

1992

Storyville as Natalie Tate

1991

Shattered as Jenny Scott

1990

Navy Seals as Claire Varrens

1990

The Big Man as Beth Scoular

1990

A TV Dante as Beatrice

1989

Scandal as Christine Keeler

1989

Kill Me Again as Fay Forrester

1989

Employees From Hell as Not available

1989

Bosses From Hell as Not available

1988

Willow as Sorsha

1988

To Kill a Priest as Anna

1988

Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self - 'Sorsha'

1987

Shoreleave as Myra

1986

The Singing Detective as Nurse Mills

1985

Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven

1985

Dance with a Stranger as Christine

1985

No Surrender as Cheryl

1985

The Good Father as Mary Hall

1984

A Christmas Carol as Fan

1982

Pink Floyd: The Wall as Groupie

1982

A Kind of Loving as Not available

1981

Bergerac as Christine Bolton

1980

And Mum Came Too as Evelyn

1979

Birth of The Beatles as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

1972

Crown Court as Linda Mason

NaN

Gardel as Not available