Joanne Whalley

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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

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2025
The Rumour
TV show
2025
Tornado
Movie Vienna Crawford
2023
Willow: Behind the Magic
Movie Self - 'Sorsha'
2022
Willow
TV show Queen Sorsha
2021
Love Is Love Is Love
Movie Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021
Hardcore Halbert
Movie Janet
2021
Val
Movie Self
2021
Resurrection
Movie Claudia
2019
The Bird Game
Movie Crow
2019
Carnival Row
TV show Leonora
2018
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Movie Priscilla
2017
Muse
Movie Jacqueline
2017
Tin Star
TV show Mary James
2017
The White Princess
TV show Margaret of York
2016
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
TV show Rheda
2015
Marvel's Daredevil
TV show Sister Maggie