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Acting

Penelope Wilton

Career: Active from 1972 to 2024, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 32
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: Shaun of the Dead
82/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 53 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Penelope Wilton Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.0, average 4.8
Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Scare
1.3, average 2.6
Uncanny
1.3, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Biographical Drama 4
Social Commentary 3
Period Piece 3
Family Adventure 3
British Cinema 3
Emotional Journey 3
Melancholy Tone 3
Historical Drama 3
Psychological Drama 2
Historical Setting 2
Literary Adaptation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

87

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

Mavis Eccleston

TV show · as Mavis Eccleston

2020s

9 titles · average score 68

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

76

as Isobel Merton

Dead Hot

70

TV show · as Francine

Murder Is Easy

45

TV show · as Miss Pinkerton

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

72

as Maureen Fry

Downton Abbey: A New Era

75

as Isobel Merton

Operation Mincemeat

69

as Hester Leggett

Remembers…

TV show

Summerland

70

as Older Alice

Eternal Beauty

68

as Vivian

2010s

15 titles · average score 71

After Life

73

TV show · as Anne

Zoo

77

as Denise Austin

Brexit Shorts: The End

as Helen

The BFG

64

as The Queen

Brief Encounters

72

TV show · as Pauline

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

as Narrator (voice)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

60

as Jean Ainslie

Belle

73

as Lady Mary Murray

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

70

as Jean Ainslie

The Girl

63

as Peggy Robertson

South Riding

63

TV show · as Mrs Beddows

Downton Abbey

86

TV show · as Isobel Merton

2000s

23 titles · average score 72

Margot

63

as B.Q.

The Passion

60

TV show · as Mary

Five Days

65

TV show · as Barbara Poole

Half Broken Things

69

as Jean

Match Point

75

as Eleanor Hewett

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Harriet Jones

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

82

as Harriet Jones

Falling

75

as Daisy Langrish

Shaun of the Dead

82

as Barbara

Iris

71

as Janet Stone

The Whistle-Blower

76

as Heather Graham

Rockaby

as Old Woman

1990s

14 titles · average score 63

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

as Delfina / Paulina

Wives and Daughters

77

TV show · as Mrs Hamley

Alice Through the Looking Glass

51

as White Queen

Carrington

63

as Lady Ottoline Morrell

as Beth

Kavanagh Q.C.

75

TV show · as Barbara Watkins

The Deep Blue Sea

as Hester Collyer

The Return of the Borrowers

73

TV show · as Homily

The Secret Rapture

as Marion French

The Borrowers

68

TV show · as Homily

Blame It on the Bellboy

34

as Patricia Fulford

Performance

TV show · as Beth / Hester Collyer

1980s

14 titles · average score 71

Talking Heads

76

TV show · as Rosemary

Cry Freedom

70

as Wendy Woods

Clockwise

73

as Pat Garden

C.A.T.S. Eyes

62

TV show

Ever Decreasing Circles

74

TV show

Laughterhouse

as Alice Singleton

The Tale of Beatrix Potter

as Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Beatrix Potter

TV show · as Beatrix Potter

King Lear

70

as Regan

The French Lieutenant's Woman

71

as Sonia

Country

as Virginia Carlion

Othello

69

as Desdemona

1970s

10 titles · average score 61

The Norman Conquests

TV show · as Annie

Joseph Andrews

51

as Mrs. Wilton

Able's Will

as Journalist

King Lear

as Regan

The Song of Songs

TV show · as Lilli Czepanek

The Pearcross Girls

TV show · as Anna Pearcross / Helen Charlesworth / Julia Pearcross / Lottie Merchant

Mrs. Warren's Profession

as Vivie Warren

Country Matters

TV show · as Rachel Sullens

The Sullens Sisters

as Rachel Sullens

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Virginia Carlion

1960s

1 title · average score 61

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Regan