Biography
Zoë Wanamaker, CBE (born 13 May 1949) is an American-British actress. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company; in films, including the Harry Potter series; and in a number of television productions, including a long-time role as Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024
as Self
A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating her much-loved appearances across ...

National Theatre Live: Constellations
2021
as Marianne
A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate...

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?
2019
as Narrator (voice)
In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest moral qu...

Babs
2017
as Joan Littlewood
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold eve...

Captcha
2014
An unassuming government scientist has unknowingly been spiked with a love implant, but the spy who put it there has fallen in love for real.

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Wodehouse In Exile
2013
as Ethel Wodehouse
An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how thi...

Return to the Falklands
2012
as Narrator
To mark 30 years since the Falklands War, this documentary follows three men back to the islands. For veteran Simon Weston, the journey is an opportun...

My Week with Marilyn
2011
as Paula Strasberg
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince an...

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011
as Ranyevskaya
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate aft...

All My Sons
2011
as Kate Keller
Arthur Miller's scathing portrait of American society is revived here by director Howard Davies with an intricate, naturalistic set and detailed perfo...

It's a Wonderful Afterlife
2010
as Mrs. Goldman
Indian mother Mrs Sethi's obsession with marrying off her daughter turns murderous. With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick...
Ochberg's Orphans
2008
as Narrator
Documentary about a business tycoon who helped rescue children orphaned during the brutal aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

The Old Curiosity Shop
2007
as Mrs. Jarley
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his...

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets
2005
as Countess of Pembroke
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and ...

The Real Amityville Horror
2005
as Narrator
A haunting documentary about a normal family living in Connecticut, who, after moving into their new house, are terrorized by an evil ghost that dwell...

Shakespeare's Globe
2005
as Herself
Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. It charts a vivid journey from the rec...

Five Children and It
2004
as Martha
A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants t...

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
2004
as Self / Narrator (voice)
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
as Madam Hooch
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with ...

Swept from the Sea
1998
as Mary Foster
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. Whe...

Wilde
1997
as Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1995
as Mrs. Holroyd
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adapta...

Eilish: Life Without Katie
1995
as Narrator
Documentary about six-year-old Eilish Holton from Ireland, three years after she was surgically separated from her conjoined twin sister Katie, who sa...

The Countess Alice
1993
as Connie
A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Gr...

The Blackheath Poisonings
1992
as Charlotte Collard
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in busine...

Memento Mori
1992
as Olive Mannering
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Othello
1990
as Emilia
Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming confid...
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989
as Sarah Marriot
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families t...

The Dog It Was That Died
1989
as Bildebeck
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing...

The Raggedy Rawney
1988
as Elle
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to esca...
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Charlotte Fanner
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel ...

Piaf
1984
as Toine
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage pl...

The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
as Lady Anne
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duk...

Inside the Third Reich
1982
as Annemarie Kempf
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...

Baal
1982
as Sophie
Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A hig...

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
as Alina Pienkowska
British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

Danton's Death
1978
as Lucille
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when ...

A Christmas Carol
1977
as Belle
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...

The Story of Pantomime
1976
as Self
This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantom...

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
1974
as Pearl Craigie
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Chu...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as Eva Braun's Handmaid (uncredited)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
The Eagle Has Landed
1973
as Alice
A mission takes off for the moon. But this is a space probe with a difference. Its purpose is to stage the first-ever live variety show from the lunar...
Macbeth
N/A
as Lady Macbeth
Encouraged by a prophecy and his scheming wife, Macbeth sets out to be King of Scotland, but soon realizes the lengths he must go to keep his power in...