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Acting

Francesca Annis

Career: Active from 1959 to 2025, busiest in 1964 and 1983 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 39
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: Lillie
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 43 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Francesca Annis Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Physical Comedy
1.2, average 2.4
Uncanny
1.6, average 2.5
Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 7
Character-Driven 5
Political Intrigue 3
Literary Adaptation 3
Melancholic Tone 3
Biographical Drama 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Slow-Burn Suspense 2
Domestic Thriller 2
Nostalgic Atmosphere 2
Witty Dialogue 2
Family Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

91

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

4 titles · average score 62

The Forsytes

50

TV show · as Ann Forsyte

Hamlet

66

as Ghost

Showtrial

71

TV show · as Dame Harriet Kenny

Flesh and Blood

63

TV show · as Vivien

2010s

5 titles · average score 55

King of Thieves

45

as Lyn Reader

Bancroft

40

TV show · as Carol Bancroft

Home Fires

84

TV show · as Joyce Cameron

Loving Miss Hatto

51

as Joyce Hatto

The Little House

TV show · as Elizabeth

2000s

9 titles · average score 64

Shifty

79

as Valerie

Cranford

72

TV show · as Lady Ludlow

Jane Eyre

77

TV show · as Lady Ingram

Revolver

40

as Lily Walker

Jericho

49

TV show · as Lady Clare Wellesley

The Libertine

50

as Countess

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Lady Selina Hazy

Copenhagen

74

as Margrethe Bohr

TV show · as Ellen Richmond

1990s

17 titles · average score 68

Wives and Daughters

77

TV show · as Mrs Hyacinth Gibson (née Kirkpatrick)

The Debt Collector

68

as Val Dryden

Milk

as Harriet

Reckless: The Sequel

72

as Anna Fairley

Reckless

71

TV show · as Anna Fairley

TV show · as Sally Hall

Doomsday Gun

58

as Sophie

Weep No More, My Lady

as Leila

Parnell & the Englishwoman

TV show · as Katharine O'Shea

Absolute Hell

as Elizabeth Collier

The Gravy Train Goes East

TV show · as Katya Princip

Romeo.Juliet

72

as Juliet (voice)

1980s

14 titles · average score 63

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Sharon Bannister

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

69

as Jacqueline Kennedy

I'll Take Manhattan

66

TV show · as Lily Amberville

El río de oro

as Dubarry

TV show · as Paula Croxley

Under the Cherry Moon

40

as Mrs. Wellington

Dune

50

as Lady Jessica

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

70

TV show · as Tuppence Beresford (née Cowley)

Krull

49

as Widow of the Web

The Secret Adversary

70

as Tuppence

Coming Out of the Ice

71

as Galina

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

68

as Lady Frances Derwent

1970s

13 titles · average score 69

Lillie

81

TV show · as Emilie 'Lillie' Le Breton

Stronger Than the Sun

as Kate Crowley

The Comedy of Errors

as Luciana

Madame Bovary

TV show · as Emma Bovary (née Rouault)

Sign It Death

73

as Tracy Conway

The Wood Demon

as Helen

Penny Gold

56

as Delphi / Diane

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

72

TV show · as Nicole Zachary

Short Cut to Haifa

as Sister Clare

Peer Gynt

as Solveig

Macbeth

75

as Lady Macbeth

The Walking Stick

57

as Arabella Dainton

1960s

26 titles · average score 64

Run with the Wind

as Jean Parker

The Pleasure Girls

56

as Sally

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Helen / Manuela von Meinhardis

The Eyes of Annie Jones

61

as Annie Jones

Flipper's New Adventure

63

as Gwen

Crooks in Cloisters

49

as June

Saturday Night Out

as Jean

The Young Jacobites

TV show · as Jean

Cleopatra

64

as Eiras

The Saint

74

TV show · as Maria

The Young Jacobites

as Jean

Danger Man

76

TV show · as Judy

1950s

3 titles · average score 65

The Cat Gang

as Sylvia

Carry On Teacher

63

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Amy Racey