Biography
Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
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Complete Filmography

Enola Holmes
2020
as The Dowager
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

Dolittle
2020
as Dragon (voice)
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself...

The Highway Rat
2018
as The Rabbit (voice)
The tale of a ravenous rat who craves buns, biscuits and all sweet things. Tearing along the highway, he searches for sugary treats to steal, until hi...

Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Aunt Imogene
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

The Lady in the Van
2015
as Ursula Vaughan Williams
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van ...

Miss You Already
2015
as Jill
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

Mr. Holmes
2015
as Madame Schirmer
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he re...

Survivor
2015
as Sally
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for cri...

Into the Woods
2014
as Giant
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013
as Kay
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...

Trap for Cinderella
2013
as Aunt Elinor
A young girl, suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

National Theatre Live: People
2013
as Dorothy Stacpoole
People spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one’s house. But with the park a jungle and a ba...

Suspension of Disbelief
2012
as Nesta
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happe...

Private Peaceful
2012
as Grandma Wolf
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feud...

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
2012
as Self
The cast and crew of "Hugo" discuss the process of adapting the book to screen, the work of director Martin Scorsese, the story's themes, the origins ...

Hugo
2011
as Madame Emilie
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

The Nutcracker
2010
as The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
as Olympe Maxime
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010
as Kay
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour...

Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Aunt Imogene
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

The Book of Eli
2010
as Martha
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankin...

The History Boys
2006
as Mrs. Lintott
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Madame Olympe Maxime
When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Love Actually
2003
as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in Londo...

The Cherry Orchard
1999
as Charlotte Ivanovna
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...

Genghis Cohn
1993
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co...

Genghis Cohn
1993
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co...

Bejewelled
1991
as Beatrice
An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and recov...

Strike It Rich
1990
as Mrs de Vere
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Murder with Mirrors
1985
as Miss Bellaver
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea ...
Skirmishes
1982
as Jean
Two sisters sit at the bedside of their dying mother. One has dedicated herself to looking after her mother, whilst the other has dedicated herself to...

Rising Damp
1980
as Miss Jones
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must ...

Wombling Free
1977
as Julia Frogmorton
The adventures of The Wombles, strange creatures who live on Wimbledon Common and pick up the litter left by the humans. There's always time for a nic...

Housewives' Choice
1976
as Marcia
Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, kindly, respectable lady.

To the Devil a Daughter
1976
as Salvation Army Major
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her...

All Good Men
1974
On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration tha...

Our Miss Fred
1972
as Miss Lockhart
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France...

Right to Work March
1972
as Elizabeth I
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

Every Home Should Have One
1970
as Maud Crape
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that ma...