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Name: Penelope Wilton  
   
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Date of Birth: 3rd June 1946
   
Place of Birth: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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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

  1. Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mrs. Gardiner
  2. Shaun of the Dead (2004) — Barbara
  3. Calendar Girls (2003) — Ruth Reynoldson
  4. Iris (2001) — Janet Stone
  5. Tom's Midnight Garden (1999) — Aunt Melbourne
  6. Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999)
  7. This Could Be the Last Time (1998) — Marjorie
  8. Carrington (1995) — Lady Ottoline Morrell
  9. The Secret Rapture (1993) — Marion French
  10. The Borrowers (1992) — Homily
  11. Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) — Patricia Fulford
  12. Cry Freedom (1987) — Wendy Woods
  13. Clockwise (1986) — Pat Garden
  14. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) — Sonia
  15. Joseph Andrews (1977) — Mrs. Wilson

Television

  1. Doctor Who (2005) — Harriet Jones
  2. Falling (2005) — Daisy Langrish
  3. Lucky Jim (2003) — Celia Welch
  4. Bob and Rose (2001) — Monica Gossage
  5. The Whistle-Blower (2001) — Heather Graham
  6. Victoria & Albert (2001) — Princess Mary Louise Victoria
  7. Rockaby (2000)
  8. Wives and Daughters (1999) — Mrs. Hamley
  9. Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) — White Queen
  10. Talking Heads 2 (1998) — Rosemary
  11. The Deep Blue Sea (1994) — Hester Collyer
  12. The Return of the Borrowers (1993) — Homily
  13. Screaming (1992) — Beatrice
  14. The Monocled Mutineer (1986) — Lady Angela
  15. Ever Decreasing Circles (1984) — Anne Bryce
  16. Laughterhouse (1984) — Alice Singleton
  17. King Lear (1982) — Regan
  18. The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982) — Beatrix Potter
  19. Country (1981) — Virginia Carlion
  20. Othello (1981) — Desdemona
  21. The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden (1978) — Annie
  22. The Norman Conquests: Living Together (1978) — Annie
  23. The Norman Conquests: Table Manners (1978) — Annie
  24. Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1976)
  25. King Lear (1975) — Regan
  26. The Song of Songs (1973) — Lilli Czepanek
  27. Mrs. Warren's Profession (1972) — Vivie
  28. An Affair of Honour (1972)

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