Hannah Waddingham

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1974-07-28

Place of Birth

Wandsworth, London, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Hannah Waddingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2027
High in the Clouds as Gretsch (voice)
2025
The Woman in Cabin 10 as Heidi Heatherley
2025
Smurfs as Jezebeth (voice)
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Admiral Neely
2025
Lilo & Stitch as Grand Councilwoman (voice)
2024
Tiddler as Narrator (voice)
2024
The Garfield Movie as Jinx (voice)
2024
The Fall Guy as Gail Meyer
2023
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas as Self
2023
Krapopolis as Deliria (voice)
2023
Tom Jones as Lady Bellaston
2023
Willow: Behind the Magic as Self - 'Hubert'
2022
Willow as Hubert
2022
Hocus Pocus 2 as The Witch Mother
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022
Sherri as Self - Guest
2022
Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City as Self
2021
An Audience with Adele as Self
2021
Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Panellist
2020
West End Unplugged Vol.2
2020
Ted Lasso as Rebecca Welton
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK as Self - Guest Judge
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019
The Ranganation as Self
2019
The Hustle as Shiraz
2019
Sex Education as Sofia Marchetti
2018
Winter Ridge as Joanne Hill
2018
Krypton as Jax-Ur
2016
The Entire Universe as Time and Space
2016
The Gatehouse as The Agent
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015
Partners in Crime as Blonde Assassin
2015
12 Monkeys as Magdalena
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013
The Last Leg as Self
2012
Les Misérables as Factory Woman 2
2012
Bad Education as Loretta
2012
The Voice UK as Herself - Guest Mentor
2011
Game of Thrones as Septa Unella
2011
Into the Woods as Witch
2010
A League of Their Own as Themselves - Guest
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Elizabeth Maddox
2007
Benidorm as Tonya
2006
Not Going Out as Jane
2006
The Only Boy for Me as Melissa
2006
The One Show as Self
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Lola Brewster
2003
QI as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002
Footballers' Wives as Jools
2000
Coupling as Jenny Turbot
2000
My Hero as Miranda
2000
My Hero as Lula
1997
Midsomer Murders as Mimi Dagmar
1956
Eurovision Song Contest as Self - Host
Mr. Sunny Sky
Ride or Die as Judith