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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Penelope Wilton (born June 3, 1946 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England) is a British actress.
Biography
A niece of the actor Bill Travers and the actress Linden Travers and a cousin of the actor Richard Morant, she had a successful stage career before breaking into television and her West End debut was opposite Sir Ralph Richardson.
Her television career began in 1972, playing Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren's Profession opposite Robert Powell. Despite several major TV roles, including two of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions (as Desdemona in Othello and Regan in King Lear), she did not become a household name until she appeared with Richard Briers in the 1984 situation comedy, Ever Decreasing Circles.
From 1975 to 1984, she was married to the actor, Daniel Massey, who, following their divorce, married her sister Lindy. From 1991 to 2001 she was married to Sir Ian Holm, and they appeared together as Pod and Homily in the BBC's 1993 adaptation of The Borrowers. Her film appearances include Cry Freedom (1987), Iris (2001), Calendar Girls (2003) and Shaun of the Dead (2004).
In 2005, Wilton guest-starred as Harriet Jones, MP for two episodes in the BBC's revival series of the popular science-fiction programme Doctor Who. This guest role was written especially for her by the programme's chief writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies, with whom she had previously worked on Bob and Rose (ITV, 2001). The character of Jones will return in The Christmas Invasion, the Doctor Who 2005 Christmas special.
In 2005 she also appeared in a new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Awards and recognition
She has twice won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award, in 1981 for her performance in Much Ado About Nothing, and in 1993 for The Deep Blue Sea. In 2001 she was nominated for the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in The Little Foxes at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her services to drama.
Filmography
Cinema
- Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mrs. Gardiner
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) — Barbara
- Calendar Girls (2003) — Ruth Reynoldson
- Iris (2001) — Janet Stone
- Tom's Midnight Garden (1999) — Aunt Melbourne
- Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999)
- This Could Be the Last Time (1998) — Marjorie
- Carrington (1995) — Lady Ottoline Morrell
- The Secret Rapture (1993) — Marion French
- The Borrowers (1992) — Homily
- Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) — Patricia Fulford
- Cry Freedom (1987) — Wendy Woods
- Clockwise (1986) — Pat Garden
- The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) — Sonia
- Joseph Andrews (1977) — Mrs. Wilson
Television
- Doctor Who (2005) — Harriet Jones
- Falling (2005) — Daisy Langrish
- Lucky Jim (2003) — Celia Welch
- Bob and Rose (2001) — Monica Gossage
- The Whistle-Blower (2001) — Heather Graham
- Victoria & Albert (2001) — Princess Mary Louise Victoria
- Rockaby (2000)
- Wives and Daughters (1999) — Mrs. Hamley
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) — White Queen
- Talking Heads 2 (1998) — Rosemary
- The Deep Blue Sea (1994) — Hester Collyer
- The Return of the Borrowers (1993) — Homily
- Screaming (1992) — Beatrice
- The Monocled Mutineer (1986) — Lady Angela
- Ever Decreasing Circles (1984) — Anne Bryce
- Laughterhouse (1984) — Alice Singleton
- King Lear (1982) — Regan
- The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982) — Beatrix Potter
- Country (1981) — Virginia Carlion
- Othello (1981) — Desdemona
- The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden (1978) — Annie
- The Norman Conquests: Living Together (1978) — Annie
- The Norman Conquests: Table Manners (1978) — Annie
- Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1976)
- King Lear (1975) — Regan
- The Song of Songs (1973) — Lilli Czepanek
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (1972) — Vivie
- An Affair of Honour (1972)
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