
Joanne Whalley
Whalley came to fame through television with appearances drama serials Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1985), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986). She has also appeared in both British and American feature films, including Willow (1988), where she met Kilmer, and Scandal (1989). On the stage, her performance in Saved earned her a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 1985.
Her subsequent career has seen her cast as a number of iconic historical and fictional figures including Scarlett O'Hara in Scarlett (CBS, 1994), Jackie Kennedy in Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (CBS, 2000), Queen Mary I in The Virgin Queen (BBC, 2005) and Catherine of Aragon in Wolf Hall (BBC, 2015).
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A Kind of Loving

Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands

Carnival Row

Edge of Darkness

Flood

Jamaica Inn

Marvel's Daredevil

Scarlett

The Borgias

The Singing Detective

The Virgin Queen

The White Princess

Tin Star

Wolf Hall
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