Biography
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress, most known recently for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck. She also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000) and the upcoming film adaptation, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joely Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contri...
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Complete Filmography

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of soc...

Little Bone Lodge
2023
as Ma
During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident f...

Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022
as Mrs. Bolton
Unhappily married aristocrat Lady Chatterley begins a torrid affair — and falls deeply in love — with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.

The Lost Girls
2022
as Jane
Inspired by the classic tale of Peter Pan, The Lost Girls chronicles four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adve...

My Dad's Christmas Date
2020
as Sarah
It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16 and her Dad, David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and...
Hot Pink Horror: The Making of Color Out of Space
2020
Second unit director Jonas Govaerts interviews Stanley, principle cast, and the producers about the making of the film. Wonderfully structured, “Hot P...

Color Out of Space
2020
as Theresa Gardner
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life...

The Turning
2020
as Darla Mandell
A young woman quits her teaching job to become a private tutor and governess for two wealthy young kids, but soon starts to suspect there’s more to th...
Breach
2020
as Bonnie
With the new craze for stolen-on-demand requests at its height, Bonny turns her professional eye to a stakeout for the latest batch being delivered. B...

The Aspern Papers
2019
as Miss Tina
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

The Aspern Papers
2019
Executive Producer
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
2018
as Lyla
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chao...

In Darkness
2018
as Alex
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld...

Red Sparrow
2018
as Nina Egorova
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School...

The Hatton Garden Job
2017
as Erzebet Zslondos
In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly m...

The Time of Their Lives
2017
as Lucy
Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Île de Ré, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home...

Fallen
2016
as Ms Sophia Bliss
Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to who...

Snowden
2016
as Janine Gibson
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Papa Hemingway in Cuba
2015
as Mary Hemingway
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while th...

The Messenger
2015
as Psychiatrist
The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embro...

Maggie
2015
as Caroline
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter M...

Pandas: The Journey Home
2014
Filmmakers of "Pandas: The Journey Home" were granted unprecedented access to the Wolong Panda Center in China. Meet all of the pandas at the center a...

Endless Love
2014
as Anne Butterfield
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Vampire Academy
2014
as Queen Tatiana Ivashkov
Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run ...

El violinista del diablo
2013
as Ethel Langham

Thanks for Sharing
2013
as Katie
A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle to...

The Devil's Violinist
2013
as Ethel Langham
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
2012
as Self
Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the medium, and gender dynamics in Sweden.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
2012
as Self
Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting.

Red Lights
2012
as Monica Handsen
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phe...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Anita Vanger
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...

Anonymous
2011
as Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac...

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
2007
as Susan McDowell
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempere...

The Last Mimzy
2007
as Jo Wilder
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a...

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
2006
as Dr. Iris Varnack
An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.

The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
as Self
The Making of Event Horizon, a five-part documentary: Into the Jaws of Darkness, The Body of the Beast, Liberate Tutume Ex Infernis, The Scale to Hell...

Wallis & Edward
2005
as Wallis Simpson
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t...

Lies My Mother Told Me
2005
as Laren Sims
Inspired by actual events, about a young girl and her mother, Laren Sims, a con-artist and master of disguises who steals the identities of other wome...

The Fever
2004
as Woman at 30
Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
as Self
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...

Shoreditch
2003
as Butterfly
London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Rich...

Fallen Angel
2003
as Katherine Wentworth
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet...

The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Marie-Antoinette
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grac...

The Patriot
2000
as Charlotte Selton
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the s...

Maybe Baby
2000
as Lucy Bell
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life. T...

Return to Me
2000
as Elizabeth Rueland
It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten i...

Toy Boys
1999
as Camilla
Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

Under Heaven
1998
as Eleanor Dunston
Two young lovers try to con a wealthy woman out of her inheritance by pretending to be brother and sister.

The Tribe
1998
as Emily
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre ...

Wrestling with Alligators
1998
as Claire
All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simplest things are difficult to find...Maddy, a street-...

Event Horizon
1997
as Starck
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its...

101 Dalmatians
1996
as Anita
An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

Loch Ness
1996
as Laura
Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, i...

Hollow Reed
1996
as Hannah Wyatt
Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah an...

Sister My Sister
1994
as Christine
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a ne...

I'll Do Anything
1994
as Cathy Breslow
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter h...

Rebecca's Daughters
1992
as Rhiannon
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitma...

Shining Through
1992
as Margrete Von Eberstein
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...

King Ralph
1991
as Princess Anna
As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Heading Home
1991
as Janetta Wheatland
The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.

Available Light
1990
as Gussy
A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing painting...
A proposito di quella strana ragazza
1989
as Giovanna

Drowning by Numbers
1988
as Cissie Colpitts 3
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

Body Contact
1987
as Dominique
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her v...

Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers (Young)
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its resid...

The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
as Waitress
Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events chang...