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Joanne Whalley
Born: 25th Aug 1961 Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 79
Film: 55 (70%)
Television: 24 (30%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Documentary, Family, Romance, Adventure, Music, War & Politics, Western, Animation
Filmography
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In 1920s Buenos Aires, Tango sensation Carlos Gardel is involved with several women, including the baroness Ms. Wakefield. He finds his way to 1930s P ... view
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Sep 2025 (first aired)
A mum’s fresh start with her son takes a dark turn when a chilling rumour spreads through the town. ... view
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Unknown/various (5 ep.)
2025
When her father's puppet samurai show gets ambushed by a notorious gang, Tornado vows to seek vengeance and forge her own destiny by stealing their il ... view
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Vienna Crawford
2023
Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the makin ... view
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Self - 'Sorsha'
Nov 2022 (first aired)
Many years after the events of the original film, legendary sorcerer Willow leads a group of misfit heroes on a dangerous rescue mission through a wor ... view
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Queen Sorsha (3 ep.)
2021
Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temp ... view
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Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021
A young man with an ailing ficus, desperate to escape his mother’s scrutiny, finds refuge in his connection with his neighbor Abby and their mutual ... view
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Janet
2021
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film ... view
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Self
2021
In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they reali ... view
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Claudia
2019
A cautionary tale in which a trickster crow lures a group of innocent children to their deaths. ... view
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Crow
Aug 2019 (first aired)
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled agai ... view
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Leonora (9 ep.)
2018
Luke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution under Nero. As Paul reflects on his past and the Christian com ... view
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Priscilla
2017
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a ... view
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Jacqueline
Sep 2017 (first aired)
The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief in Little Big Bear, an idyllic town near t ... view
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Mary James (2 ep.)
Apr 2017 (first aired)
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of ... view
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Margaret of York (8 ep.)
Jan 2016 (first aired)
Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known ... view
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Rheda (12 ep.)
Apr 2015 (first aired)
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as ... view
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Sister Maggie (9 ep.)
2015
Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful f ... view
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Emmy
Jan 2015 (first aired)
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants ... view
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Katherine of Aragon (3 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Set in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited Mary who is forced to live ... view
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Aunt Patience (3 ep.)
2013
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronau ... view
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Gweneth Feynman
2011
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly gi ... view
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Denise
2011
In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He me ... view
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Agatha McNaughton
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where h ... view
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Vanozza Cattaneo (25 ep.)
2009
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge. ... view
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Liz
2009
On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for ... view
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Marion Price
Sep 2007 (first aired)
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing a ... view
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Sophie Grimaldi (7 ep.)
2007
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which tra ... view
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Patricia Nash
2007
A supernatural love story focusing on a successful entrepreneur, Peter Brisco, who encounters his true love, Katy, but then loses her in a tragic acci ... view
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Katy Adair
2006
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sent ... view
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Maggie
Jan 2006 (first aired)
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great lo ... view
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Queen Mary (4 ep.)
2005
A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer. ... view
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Tess Palmer
2005
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, ... view
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Luna
Sep 2005 (first aired)
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavior ... view
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Karen Donovan (1 ep.)
Jul 2004 (first aired)
The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe. ... view
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Emerald Empress (voice) (1 ep.)
Apr 2003 (first aired)
Seven 40-year-olds are drawn together by a disturbing school reunion. Long-standing sexual tensions and emotional conflicts come to a head as the surr ... view
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Jess (3 ep.)
2002
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sist ... view
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Mary
2002
A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse. ... view
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Jessie Eastwood
2000
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder. ... view
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Caroline Henshaw
Nov 2000 (first aired)
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot. ... view
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (2 ep.)
2000
Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot. ... view
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the sit ... view
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Natalie Crane
2000
A gentle, pacifist drifter faces a town's patriotic wrath on the World War II era home front in this original drama. Ten-year-old Pug and her lonely m ... view
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Ruby Miller
1999
It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta. But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to im ... view
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Miranda
1997
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un ... view
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Lori
Nov 1994 (first aired)
Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a sequel to Margaret Mitch ... view
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Scarlett O'Hara (4 ep.)
1994
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done. ... view
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Valerie Alston
1994
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A ... view
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Celia Adekunle
1993
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall ... view
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Colleen 'Callie' Harland
1993
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmo ... view
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Katherine Coleridge
1992
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets. ... view
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Natalie Tate
1991
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life agai ... view
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Jenny Scott
1990
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet. ... view
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Beth Scoular
1990
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger missiles and must set out to loc ... view
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Claire Varrens
1990
A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos ... view
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Beatrice
1989
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hir ... view
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Fay Forrester
1989
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through ... view
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Christine Keeler
1988
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. ... view
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Anna
1988
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Will ... view
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Sorsha
1988
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Willow (1988). Included are interviews with cast and crew and scenes of the actual filming o ... view
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Self - 'Sorsha'
1987
Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings ... view
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Jackie
1987
Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two weeks ... view
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Myra
Nov 1986 (first aired)
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations. ... view
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Nurse Mills (6 ep.)
Nov 1985 (first aired)
Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through ... view
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Emma Craven (5 ep.)
1985
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so ... view
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Mary Hall
1985
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish ... view
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Cheryl
1985
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da ... view
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Christine
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Jackie (1 ep.)
1984
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout ... view
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Fan
Sep 1983 (first aired)
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to ... view
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Ulla (1 ep.)
1982
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. ... view
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Groupie
Apr 1982 (first aired)
Following the story of Vic Brown, a West Riding miner's son. It starts in 1957 with a casual affair with Ingrid Rotherwell, which develops into an emo ... view
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Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Oct 1981 (first aired)
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way.
While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac ... view
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Christine Bolton (1 ep.)
1980
Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists on coming too. Sandr ... view
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Evelyn
1979
The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show." ... view
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Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1978
Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper. ... view
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Doris
Oct 1972 (first aired)
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court sys ... view
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Linda Mason (3 ep.)