Zoë Wanamaker: movies and TV shows
Zoë Wanamaker has 102 credits in the archive: 43 films and 59 TV series, from 1956 to 2025. Highest rated: Agatha Christie's Poirot (8.2/10).
Career timeline
1956 – 2025 · busiest year: 2018 (5 credits)
Advertisement
Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Bergerac | Charlie Hungerford | TV | 6.0 | 76 |
| 2024 | Criminal Record | Maureen | TV | 6.5 | 75 |
| 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration | Self | Film | 4.5 | 75 |
| 2022 | Remembers… | Self | TV | 7.0 | 73 |
| 2022 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Watt | TV | 7.4 | 73 |
| 2021 | Shadow and Bone | Baghra | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 2021 | Professor T | Zelda Radclyffe | TV | 7.3 | 72 |
| 2021 | The Cleaner | Lucille | TV | 7.0 | 72 |
| 2021 | National Theatre Live: Constellations | Marianne | Film | 10.0 | 72 |
| 2019 | Worzel Gummidge | Lady Bloomsbury Barton | TV | 6.2 | 70 |
| 2019 | 1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz? | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 70 |
| 2018 | Killing Eve | Helen Jacobson | TV | 7.9 | 69 |
| 2018 | Britannia | Queen Antedia | TV | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2018 | Girlfriends | Gail | TV | 6.2 | 69 |
| 2018 | Manson: The Lost Tapes | Narrator | TV | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2018 | My Family and The Galapagos | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2017 | Babs | Joan Littlewood | Film | 7.3 | 68 |
| 2016 | Handmade: By Royal Appointment | Narrator | TV | — | 67 |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Paula | TV | 8.1 | 65 |
| 2014 | Captcha | Film | 7.0 | 65 | |
| 2013 | Mr Selfridge | Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff | TV | 6.9 | 64 |
| 2013 | Muse of Fire | Self | Film | 6.5 | 64 |
| 2013 | Wodehouse In Exile | Ethel Wodehouse | Film | 7.2 | 64 |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | The Woman | TV | 6.0 | 63 |
| 2012 | Mary's Bottom Line | Narrator | TV | — | 63 |
| 2012 | Return to the Falklands | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Paula Strasberg | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2011 | All My Sons | Kate Keller | Film | — | 62 |
| 2011 | National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard | Ranyevskaya | Film | 8.5 | 62 |
| 2010 | It's a Wonderful Afterlife | Mrs. Goldman | Film | 4.8 | 61 |
| 2009 | Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Self | TV | 7.0 | 60 |
| 2008 | Ochberg's Orphans | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2007 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Mrs. Jarley | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 2006 | Johnny and the Bomb | Mrs. Tachyon | TV | 6.7 | 57 |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 | TV | 7.6 | 56 |
| 2005 | A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets | Countess of Pembroke | Film | 5.0 | 56 |
| 2005 | The Real Amityville Horror | Narrator | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 2005 | Shakespeare's Globe | Herself | Film | — | 56 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Letitia Blacklock | TV | 7.8 | 55 |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | TV | 7.0 | 55 |
| 2004 | Five Children and It | Martha | Film | 5.6 | 55 |
| 2004 | Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ | Self / Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Madam Hooch | Film | 7.9 | 52 |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy | Self | TV | 3.4 | 52 |
| 2001 | Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years | Tania Braithwaite | TV | 6.0 | 52 |
| 2000 | My Family | Susan Harper | TV | 7.0 | 51 |
| 2000 | Gormenghast | Clarice Groan | TV | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1999 | David Copperfield | Miss Murdstone | TV | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1999 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Mary Muldoon | TV | 6.9 | 50 |
| 1998 | Swept from the Sea | Mary Foster | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1997 | Creatures Fantastic | Narrator | TV | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1997 | Wilde | Ada Leverson 'Sphinx' | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Audrey Maclintick | TV | 5.7 | 48 |
| 1997 | All Mod Cons | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | — | 48 |
| 1995 | Eilish: Life Without Katie | Narrator | Film | — | 46 |
| 1995 | The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd | Mrs. Holroyd | Film | 3.8 | 46 |
| 1993 | The Countess Alice | Connie | Film | 10.0 | 44 |
| 1993 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Charlotte Collard | TV | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Lady Macbeth (voice) | TV | 6.4 | 43 |
| 1992 | Love Hurts | Tessa Piggott | TV | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1992 | Memento Mori | Olive Mannering | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings | Charlotte Collard | Film | — | 43 |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self | TV | 4.1 | 42 |
| 1991 | Prime Suspect | Moyra Henson | TV | 7.8 | 42 |
| 1991 | Performance | Mrs Holroyd | TV | 6.3 | 42 |
| 1990 | Othello | Emilia | Film | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Ariadne Oliver | TV | 8.2 | 40 |
| 1989 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Jean Kennerly | TV | 5.7 | 40 |
| 1989 | The Dog It Was That Died | Bildebeck | Film | 5.0 | 40 |
| 1989 | Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage | Sarah Marriot | Film | 4.9 | 40 |
| 1988 | The Raggedy Rawney | Elle | Film | 5.6 | 39 |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Emma Pickford | TV | 7.9 | 38 |
| 1986 | ScreenPlay | Connie | TV | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Charlotte 'Charlie' Titmuss, née Fanner | TV | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1986 | Paradise Postponed | Charlotte Fanner | Film | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Olive Mannering | TV | 7.1 | 36 |
| 1985 | Edge of Darkness | Clemmy | TV | 8.1 | 36 |
| 1985 | Edge of Darkness | Clementine | TV | 8.1 | 36 |
| 1984 | Piaf | Toine | Film | 4.5 | 35 |
| 1983 | Natural World | TV | 7.4 | 34 | |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator | TV | 7.4 | 34 |
| 1983 | Enemies of the State | Zdena Tomin | Film | — | 34 |
| 1983 | The Tragedy of Richard III | Lady Anne | Film | 8.0 | 34 |
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Annemarie Kempf | TV | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1982 | Baal | Sophie | Film | 4.7 | 33 |
| 1981 | Strike: The Birth of Solidarity | Alina Pienkowska | Film | — | 32 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Margaret Smythe | TV | 6.8 | 30 |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | TV | 6.0 | 29 | |
| 1978 | Danton's Death | Lucille | Film | 9.0 | 29 |
| 1977 | A Christmas Carol | Belle | Film | 6.7 | 28 |
| 1976 | The Story of Pantomime | Self | Film | — | 27 |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Pearl Craigie | Film | 8.0 | 25 |
| 1974 | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | Pearl Craigie | TV | 7.3 | 25 |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Eva Braun's Handmaid (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 24 |
| 1973 | The Eagle Has Landed | Alice | Film | — | 24 |
| 1973 | Between the Wars | Ada Abbott | TV | 9.0 | 24 |
| 1972 | Late Night Theatre | Alice | TV | — | 23 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Lorna Green | TV | 7.0 | 20 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Dorinda | TV | 5.3 | 16 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Lucile Desmoulins | TV | 5.3 | 16 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 7 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee / Performer | TV | — | 7 |