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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 25, 1961
Place of Birth
Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Also Known As
- Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
- Τζόαν Γουόλεϊ
- جوان ولی
- جوان والی
- جوآن ولی
Joanne Whalley
1.3 Popularity
Biography
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has since amassed numerous credits, primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including Dance with a Stranger (1985), Willow (1988), Scandal (1989), The Secret Rapture (1993) and Mother's Boys (1994). Following her marriage to Val Kilmer in 1988, she was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer until their divorce in 1996. Whalley was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1985 BBC serial Edge of Darkness, and was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for the 2011 series The Borgias. Her other television roles include the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective; playing the title role in the 2000 CBS TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and as Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate in the 2015 NBC series A.D. The Bible Continues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
7.0
Tornado
2025
4.1
Self - 'Sorsha'
Willow: Behind the Magic
2023
6.8
Queen Sorsha
Willow
2022
4.6
Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
Love is Love is Love
2021
0.0
Janet
Hardcore Halbert
2021
7.2
Self
Val
2021
6.7
Claudia
Resurrection
2021
🎬
0.0
Crow
The Bird Game
2019
7.7
Leonora
Carnival Row
2019
7.6
Priscilla
Paul, Apostle of Christ
2018
Credits
Tornado
2025
7.0
Willow: Behind the Magic
as Self - 'Sorsha'
2023
4.1
Willow
as Queen Sorsha
2022
6.8
Love is Love is Love
as Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021
4.6
Hardcore Halbert
as Janet
2021
0.0
Val
as Self
2021
7.2
Resurrection
as Claudia
2021
6.7
🎬
The Bird Game
as Crow
2019
0.0
Carnival Row
as Leonora
2019
7.7
Paul, Apostle of Christ
as Priscilla
2018
7.6
Muse
as Jacqueline
2017
5.9
Tin Star
as Mary James
2017
6.6
The White Princess
as Margaret of York
2017
7.8
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
as Rheda
2016
5.5
Marvel's Daredevil
as Sister Maggie
2015
8.2
The Ark
as Emmy
2015
5.7
Wolf Hall
as Katherine of Aragon
2015
7.5
Jamaica Inn
as Aunt Patience
2014
6.6
The Challenger Disaster
as Gweneth Feynman
2013
7.2
Twixt
as Denise
2011
5.1
Golf in the Kingdom
as Agatha McNaughton
2011
4.0
The Borgias
as Vanozza Cattaneo
2011
7.5
44 Inch Chest
as Liz
2009
5.5
Diverted
as Marion Price
2009
6.8
Gossip Girl
as Sophie Grimaldi
2007
8.2
Flood
as Patricia Nash
2007
5.3
Life Line
as Katy Adair
2007
3.7
Played
as Maggie
2006
3.6
The Virgin Queen
as Queen Mary
2006
6.3
Child of Mine
as Tess Palmer
2005
5.8
The Californians
as Luna
2005
4.8
Criminal Minds
as Karen Donovan
2005
8.3
🎬
Biography: Val Kilmer
as Self (archive footage)
2004
0.0
Justice League Unlimited
as Emerald Empress (voice)
2004
8.3
40
as Jess
2003
2.5
Before You Go
as Mary
2002
5.0
Virginia's Run
as Jessie Eastwood
2002
7.2
Breathtaking
as Caroline Henshaw
2000
3.0
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
0.0
The Guilty
as Natalie Crane
2000
5.7
Run the Wild Fields
as Ruby Miller
2000
4.2
A Texas Funeral
as Miranda
1999
5.0
The Man Who Knew Too Little
as Lori
1997
6.4
Scarlett
as Scarlett O'Hara
1994
6.6
Trial by Jury
as Valerie Alston
1994
5.4
A Good Man in Africa
as Celia Adekunle
1994
5.1
Mother's Boys
as Colleen 'Callie' Harland
1993
5.3
🎬
The Secret Rapture
as Katherine Coleridge
1993
3.5
Storyville
as Natalie Tate
1992
5.0
Shattered
as Jenny Scott
1991
6.1
The Big Man
as Beth Scoular
1990
5.1
Navy Seals
as Claire Varrens
1990
5.3
A TV Dante
as Beatrice
1990
6.4
Kill Me Again
as Fay Forrester
1989
6.0
Scandal
as Christine Keeler
1989
5.9
Bosses From Hell
1989
0.0
Employees From Hell
1989
0.0
To Kill a Priest
as Anna
1988
5.9
Willow
as Sorsha
1988
7.0
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
as Self - 'Sorsha'
1988
6.8
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
as Jackie
1987
1.0
Shoreleave
as Myra
1987
0.0
The Singing Detective
as Nurse Mills
1986
7.7
Edge of Darkness
as Emma Craven
1985
8.0
The Good Father
as Mary Hall
1985
5.7
No Surrender
as Cheryl
1985
6.5
Dance with a Stranger
as Christine
1985
6.0
A Christmas Carol
as Fan
1984
7.5
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Ulla
1983
7.0
Pink Floyd: The Wall
as Groupie
1982
8.0
A Kind of Loving
1982
5.0
Bergerac
as Christine Bolton
1981
6.7
And Mum Came Too
as Evelyn
1980
0.0
Birth of The Beatles
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1979
6.7
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
as Doris
1978
0.0
Crown Court
as Linda Mason
1972
5.4
🎬
Gardel
N/A
8.0