Portrait of Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley

Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Born: August 25, 1961

Place of Birth: Salford, Manchester, England, UK

Filmography

2025
Tornado

as Vienna Crawford

2023
Willow: Behind the Magic

as Self - 'Sorsha'

2022
Willow

as Queen Sorsha

2021
Love Is Love Is Love

as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")

2021
2021
Val

as Self

2021
Resurrection

as Claudia

2019
Carnival Row

as Leonora

2018
2017
Muse

as Jacqueline

2017
Tin Star

as Mary James

2017
The White Princess

as Margaret of York

2015
Marvel's Daredevil

as Sister Maggie

2015
The Ark

as Emmy

2015
Wolf Hall

as Katherine of Aragon

2014
Jamaica Inn

as Aunt Patience

2013
The Challenger Disaster

as Gweneth Feynman

2011
Twixt

as Denise

2011
Golf in the Kingdom

as Agatha McNaughton

2011
The Borgias

as Vanozza Cattaneo

2009
2009
Diverted

as Marion Price

2007
Gossip Girl

as Sophie Grimaldi

2007
Flood

as Patricia Nash

2007
Life Line

as Katy Adair

2006
Played

as Maggie

2006
The Virgin Queen

as Queen Mary

2005
Child of Mine

as Tess Palmer

2005
2005
Criminal Minds

as Karen Donovan

2004
Justice League Unlimited

as Emerald Empress (voice)

2003
40

as Jess

2002
2002
Virginia's Run

as Jessie Eastwood

2000
Breathtaking

as Caroline Henshaw

2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

2000
The Guilty

as Natalie Crane

2000
Run the Wild Fields

as Ruby Miller

1999
A Texas Funeral

as Miranda

1994
Scarlett

as Scarlett O'Hara

1994
Trial by Jury

as Valerie Alston

1994
A Good Man in Africa

as Celia Adekunle

1993
Mother's Boys

as Colleen 'Callie' Harland

1992
Storyville

as Natalie Tate

1991
Shattered

as Jenny Scott

1990
The Big Man

as Beth Scoular

1990
Navy Seals

as Claire Varrens

1990
A TV Dante

as Beatrice

1989
Kill Me Again

as Fay Forrester

1989
Scandal

as Christine Keeler

1988
1988
Willow

as Sorsha

1987
Shoreleave

as Myra

1986
The Singing Detective

as Nurse Mills

1985
Edge of Darkness

as Emma Craven

1985
The Good Father

as Mary Hall

1985
No Surrender

as Cheryl

1985
1982
1981
Bergerac

as Christine Bolton

1980
1979
Birth of The Beatles

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

1972
Crown Court

as Linda Mason