Zoë Wanamaker

Zoë Wanamaker

1949-05-13 New York City, New York, USA 44 Credits

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

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Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration

2024

as Self

Acting

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

National Theatre Live: Constellations

2021

as Marianne

10.0
Acting

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?

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

2019

as Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

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

Babs

2017

as Joan Littlewood

7.3
Acting

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

Captcha

2014

7.0
Acting

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

Muse of Fire

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

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

Wodehouse In Exile

2013

as Ethel Wodehouse

7.2
Acting

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

Return to the Falklands

2012

as Narrator

10.0
Acting

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

My Week with Marilyn

2011

as Paula Strasberg

6.7
Acting

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

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

2011

as Ranyevskaya

10.0
Acting

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

All My Sons

2011

as Kate Keller

Acting

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

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

2010

as Mrs. Goldman

4.8
Acting

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

Acting

Documentary about a business tycoon who helped rescue children orphaned during the brutal aftermath of the Russian Revolution.

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007

as Mrs. Jarley

5.0
Acting

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

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

2005

as Countess of Pembroke

5.2
Acting

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

The Real Amityville Horror

2005

as Narrator

5.9
Acting

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

Shakespeare's Globe

2005

as Herself

Acting

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

Five Children and It

2004

as Martha

5.5
Acting

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’

Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

2004

as Self / Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001

as Madam Hooch

7.9
Acting

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

Swept from the Sea

1998

as Mary Foster

6.4
Acting

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

Wilde

1997

as Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'

6.6
Acting

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

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

1995

as Mrs. Holroyd

3.0
Acting

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

Eilish: Life Without Katie

1995

as Narrator

Acting

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

The Countess Alice

1993

as Connie

Acting

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

The Blackheath Poisonings

1992

as Charlotte Collard

Acting

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

Memento Mori

1992

as Olive Mannering

6.2
Acting

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Othello

Othello

1990

as Emilia

7.0
Acting

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

5.2
Acting

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

The Dog It Was That Died

1989

as Bildebeck

Acting

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

The Raggedy Rawney

1988

as Elle

5.8
Acting

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

7.0
Acting

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

Piaf

1984

as Toine

Acting

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

The Tragedy of Richard III

1983

as Lady Anne

6.0
Acting

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

Inside the Third Reich

1982

as Annemarie Kempf

7.2
Acting

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

Baal

1982

as Sophie

4.6
Acting

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

Strike: The Birth of Solidarity

1981

as Alina Pienkowska

Acting

British TV Movie drama/documentary detailing the birth of Poland's Solidarity union

Danton's Death

Danton's Death

1978

as Lucille

Acting

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

A Christmas Carol

1977

as Belle

6.6
Acting

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

The Story of Pantomime

1976

as Self

Acting

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

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

1974

as Pearl Craigie

8.0
Acting

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

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Eva Braun's Handmaid (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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...