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Joanne Whalley

Born 1961-08-25
📍 Salford, Manchester, England, UK

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