
Hannah Waddingham
Biography
Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in both 2021 and 2022.
She has also appeared in several West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West. She has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work.
Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018) and the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones(2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. Beginning in 2023, Waddingham began to expand into voice acting, portraying the snarky goddess Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (2023-present) and earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination and Jinx in The Garfield Movie.
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Acting History
2027
High in the Clouds as Gretsch (voice)
2025The Woman in Cabin 10 as Heidi Heatherley
2025Smurfs as Jezebeth (voice)
2025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Admiral Neely
2025Lilo & Stitch as Grand Councilwoman (voice)
2024Tiddler as Narrator (voice)
2024The Garfield Movie as Jinx (voice)
2024The Fall Guy as Gail Meyer
2023Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas as Self
2023Krapopolis as Deliria (voice)
2023Tom Jones as Lady Bellaston
2023Willow: Behind the Magic as Self - 'Hubert'
2022Willow as Hubert
2022Hocus Pocus 2 as The Witch Mother
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022Sherri as Self - Guest
2022Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City as Self
2021An Audience with Adele as Self
2021Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
2020West End Unplugged Vol.2
2020Ted Lasso as Rebecca Welton
2019RuPaul's Drag Race UK as Self - Guest Judge
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019The Ranganation as Self
2019The Hustle as Shiraz
2019Sex Education as Sofia Marchetti
2018Winter Ridge as Joanne Hill
2018Krypton as Jax-Ur
2016The Entire Universe as Time and Space
2016The Gatehouse as The Agent
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Partners in Crime as Blonde Assassin
201512 Monkeys as Magdalena
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013The Last Leg as Self
2012Les Misérables as Factory Woman 2
2012Bad Education as Loretta
2012The Voice UK as Herself - Guest Mentor
2011Game of Thrones as Septa Unella
2011Into the Woods as Witch
2010A League of Their Own as Themselves - Guest
2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Elizabeth Maddox
2007Benidorm as Tonya
2006Not Going Out as Jane
2006The Only Boy for Me as Melissa
2006The One Show as Self
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Lola Brewster
2003QI as Self
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Footballers' Wives as Jools
2000Coupling as Jenny Turbot
2000My Hero as Miranda
2000My Hero as Lula
1997Midsomer Murders as Mimi Dagmar
1956Eurovision Song Contest as Self - Host
—Mr. Sunny Sky
—Ride or Die as Judith








