Acting credits
77
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Joanne Whalley
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 53Series: 24Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 12656
IMDb ID: nm0000695
Known for: Acting
Born: August 25, 1961
Age: 65
Place of birth: Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1972 - 2025
Years active: 54
Average TMDB rating: 6.54
Wikidata: Q164069
Also known as
Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
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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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Joanne Whalley.
Tornado
as Vienna Crawford
2025 Movie
Willow: Behind the Magic
as Self - 'Sorsha'
2023 Movie
Love Is Love Is Love
as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021 Movie
Hardcore Halbert
as Janet
2021 Movie
Val
as Self
2021 Movie
Resurrection
as Claudia
2021 Movie
The Bird Game
as Crow
2019 Movie
Paul, Apostle of Christ
as Priscilla
2018 Movie
Muse
as Jacqueline
2017 Movie
The Ark
as Emmy
2015 Movie
The Challenger Disaster
as Gweneth Feynman
2013 Movie
Twixt
as Denise
2011 Movie
Golf in the Kingdom
as Agatha McNaughton
2011 Movie
44 Inch Chest
as Liz
2009 Movie
Diverted
as Marion Price
2009 Movie
Flood
as Patricia Nash
2007 Movie
Life Line
as Katy Adair
2007 Movie
Played
as Maggie
2006 Movie
Child of Mine
as Tess Palmer
2005 Movie
The Californians
as Luna
2005 Movie
Before You Go
as Mary
2002 Movie
Virginia's Run
as Jessie Eastwood
2002 Movie
Breathtaking
as Caroline Henshaw
2000 Movie
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Joanne Whalley.
The Rumour
5 eps
2025 Series
Willow
as Queen Sorsha • 3 eps
2022 Series
Carnival Row
as Leonora • 9 eps
2019 Series
Tin Star
as Mary James • 2 eps
2017 Series
The White Princess
as Margaret of York • 8 eps
2017 Series
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
as Rheda • 12 eps
2016 Series
Marvel's Daredevil
as Sister Maggie • 9 eps
2015 Series
Wolf Hall
as Katherine of Aragon • 3 eps
2015 Series
Jamaica Inn
as Aunt Patience • 3 eps
2014 Series
The Borgias
as Vanozza Cattaneo • 25 eps
2011 Series
Gossip Girl
as Sophie Grimaldi • 7 eps
2007 Series
The Virgin Queen
as Queen Mary • 1 eps
2006 Series
Criminal Minds
as Karen Donovan • 1 eps
2005 Series
Justice League Unlimited
as Emerald Empress (voice) • 1 eps
2004 Series
40
as Jess • 3 eps
2003 Series
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis • 2 eps
2000 Series
Scarlett
as Scarlett O'Hara • 4 eps
1994 Series
The Singing Detective
as Nurse Mills • 6 eps
1986 Series
Edge of Darkness
as Emma Craven • 5 eps
1985 Series
Screen Two
as Jackie • 1 eps
1985 Series
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Ulla • 1 eps
1983 Series
A Kind of Loving
10 eps
1982 Series
Bergerac
as Christine Bolton • 1 eps
1981 Series
Crown Court
as Linda Mason • 3 eps
1972 Series