
Joanne Whalley
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.
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Acting History
2025
The Rumour
2025Tornado as Vienna Crawford
2023Willow: Behind the Magic as Self - 'Sorsha'
2022Willow as Queen Sorsha
2021Love Is Love Is Love as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021Hardcore Halbert as Janet
2021Val as Self
2021Resurrection as Claudia
2019The Bird Game as Crow
2019Carnival Row as Leonora
2018Paul, Apostle of Christ as Priscilla
2017Muse as Jacqueline
2017Tin Star as Mary James
2017The White Princess as Margaret of York
2016Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands as Rheda
2015Marvel's Daredevil as Sister Maggie
2015The Ark as Emmy
2015Wolf Hall as Katherine of Aragon
2014Jamaica Inn as Aunt Patience
2013The Challenger Disaster as Gweneth Feynman
2011Twixt as Denise
2011Golf in the Kingdom as Agatha McNaughton
2011The Borgias as Vanozza Cattaneo
200944 Inch Chest as Liz
2009Diverted as Marion Price
2007Gossip Girl as Sophie Grimaldi
2007Flood as Patricia Nash
2007Life Line as Katy Adair
2007Inundación
2006Played as Maggie
2006The Virgin Queen as Queen Mary
2005Child of Mine as Tess Palmer
2005The Californians as Luna
2005Criminal Minds as Karen Donovan
2004Biography: Val Kilmer as Self (archive footage)
2004Justice League Unlimited as Emerald Empress (voice)
200340 as Jess
2002Before You Go as Mary
2002Virginia's Run as Jessie Eastwood
2000Breathtaking as Caroline Henshaw
2000Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000The Guilty as Natalie Crane
2000Run the Wild Fields as Ruby Miller
1999A Texas Funeral as Miranda
1997The Man Who Knew Too Little as Lori
1994Scarlett as Scarlett O'Hara
1994Trial by Jury as Valerie Alston
1994A Good Man in Africa as Celia Adekunle
1993Mother's Boys as Colleen 'Callie' Harland
1993The Secret Rapture as Katherine Coleridge
1992Storyville as Natalie Tate
1991Shattered as Jenny Scott
1990The Big Man as Beth Scoular
1990Navy Seals as Claire Varrens
1990A TV Dante as Beatrice
1989Kill Me Again as Fay Forrester
1989Scandal as Christine Keeler
1989Employees From Hell
1989Bosses From Hell
1988To Kill a Priest as Anna
1988Willow as Sorsha
1988Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self - 'Sorsha'
1987Will You Love Me Tomorrow as Jackie
1987Shoreleave as Myra
1986The Singing Detective as Nurse Mills
1985Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven
1985The Good Father as Mary Hall
1985No Surrender as Cheryl
1985Dance with a Stranger as Christine
1984A Christmas Carol as Fan
1983Reilly: Ace of Spies as Ulla
1982Pink Floyd: The Wall as Groupie
1982A Kind of Loving
1981Bergerac as Christine Bolton
1980And Mum Came Too as Evelyn
1979Birth of The Beatles as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Doris
1972Crown Court as Linda Mason
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