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Zoë Wanamaker
Highest Rated: 83% My Week With Marilyn (2011)
Lowest Rated: 28% Swept From the Sea (1997)
Birthday: May 13, 1949
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
American-born character player Zoe Wanamaker, daughter of actor-director Sam Wanamaker, moved at the age of three to England, where her father championed the rebuilding of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Not blessed with the cute nose or sensual mouth of the ingenue, she put her "interesting" looks to good service in repertory of the highest possible standard, performing extensively at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, in roles ranging from classical (Viola in "Twelfth Night") to musical comedy (Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls"). American audiences cheered her as Toine in "Piaf" (1981) and as Fay in "Loot" (1986), both performances earning her Tony nominations as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Muse of Fire | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poirot: Dead Man's Folly | Ariadne Oliver (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 83% |
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My Week With Marilyn | Paula Strasberg (Character) | $85.3K | 2011 |
| 29% |
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife | Mrs. Goldman (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poirot: Third Girl | Ariadne Oliver (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Mrs. Jarley (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
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Johnny and the Bomb | Mrs. Tachyon (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marple: A Murder Is Announced | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet |
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A Waste of Shame | Countess of Pembroke (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 63% |
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Five Children and It | Martha (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 81% |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Madame Hooch (Character) | $317.9M | 2001 |
| 72% |
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Wilde | Ada Leverson (Character) | $2.1M | 1997 |
| 28% |
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Swept From the Sea | Mary Foster (Character) | $283.1K | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The English Wife | Caroline Griveau (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Memento Mori | Olive Mannering (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Countess Alice | Connie (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fat Chance | Emma Pickford (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Raggedy Rawney | Elle (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet |
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Poor Little Rich Girl | Jean Kennerly (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enemy of the State | Unknown (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Christmas Carol | Belle (Character) | - | 1977 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90% | 62% | Criminal Record | Maureen (Character) | 2024 |
| 92% | 78% | Britannia | Queen Antedia (Character) | 2020 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Family and the Galapagos | Narrator | 2018 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Worzel Gummidge | Lady Bloomsbury Barton (Character) | 2019 |
| 86% | No Score Yet | Girlfriends | Gail (Character) | 2018 |
| 100% | 91% | Inside No. 9 | Paula (Character) | 2018 |
| 69% | 80% | Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece | Princess Marie (Character) | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Mystery! |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2009-2011 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Family | Susan Harper (Character) | 2000-2004 2006-2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Do You Think You Are? | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 90% | 64% | Doctor Who |
Cassandra (Guest Voice), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2005-2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | David Copperfield | Miss Murdstone (Character) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love on the Rocks | Tessa Piggott (Character) | 1993-1994 |
| 100% | 63% | Prime Suspect | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Margaret Smythe (Character) | 1987 |