Frances de la Tour
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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Acting History
2021
The Prince as Queen Elizabeth (voice)
2021Professor T as Adelaide Tempest
2020Enola Holmes as The Dowager
2020Dolittle as Dragon (voice)
2018The Highway Rat as The Rabbit (voice)
2018Vanity Fair as Lady Matilda Crawley
2017Man in an Orange Shirt as Mrs. March
2016The Collection as Yvette Sabine
2016Alice Through the Looking Glass as Aunt Imogene
2015The Lady in the Van as Ursula Vaughan Williams
2015Miss You Already as Jill
2015Mr. Holmes as Madame Schirmer
2015Survivor as Sally
2014Into the Woods as Giant
2014Outlander as Mother Hildegarde
2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage as Kay
2013Big School as Ms Baron
2013Trap for Cinderella as Aunt Elinor
2013Vicious as Violet Crosby
2013National Theatre Live: People as Dorothy Stacpoole
2012Suspension of Disbelief as Nesta
2012Private Peaceful as Grandma Wolf
2012Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' as Self
2011Hugo as Madame Emilie
2010The Nutcracker as The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Olympe Maxime
2010National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art as Kay
2010Alice in Wonderland as Aunt Imogene
2010The Book of Eli as Martha
2006The History Boys as Mrs. Lintott
2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Madame Olympe Maxime
2005Sensitive Skin
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
2004Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004New Tricks
2003Love Actually as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
2002What's Your Problem?
2002Born and Bred as Eugenia Maddox
2001Waking the Dead as Alice Taylor-Garnett
1999The Cherry Orchard as Charlotte Ivanovna
1997The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Aunt Western
1996Cold Lazarus as Emma Porlock
1994Downwardly Mobile
1993Genghis Cohn as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
1993Genghis Cohn as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger
1993Every Silver Lining
1992Heartbeat as Tessa
1991Bejewelled as Beatrice
1990Strike It Rich as Mrs de Vere
1989Stay Lucky
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Salome Otterbourne
1988A Kind of Living
1986Unnatural Causes as Marcia
1985Murder with Mirrors as Miss Bellaver
1982Skirmishes as Jean
1982The Bounder as Celia
1980Flickers as Maud Cole
1980Rising Damp as Miss Jones
1977Wombling Free as Julia Frogmorton
1977The Galton & Simpson Playhouse as The Woman
1976Housewives' Choice as Marcia
1976To the Devil a Daughter as Salvation Army Major
1974Rising Damp as Ruth
1974All Good Men
1972Our Miss Fred as Miss Lockhart
1972Right to Work March as Elizabeth I
1970Play for Today as Marcia
1970Play for Today as Maria Waite
1970Every Home Should Have One as Maud Crape