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Acting

Zoë Wanamaker

Career: Active from 1977 to 2024, busiest in 2018 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 22
top three billing

Average score: 69/100

Highest rated: Prime Suspect
89/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 48 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Zoë Wanamaker Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.2, average 4.8
Contemporary Realism
4.5, average 5.4
Violence
3.2, average 4.1
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 3
Character-Driven 2
Period Piece 2
Non-Linear Narrative 2
Family Saga 2
Political Intrigue 2
Social Commentary 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

92

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

8 titles · average score 73

Bergerac

71

TV show · as Charlie Hungerford

Criminal Record

74

TV show · as Maureen

Black Ops

66

TV show · as Celia Herrington

The Man Who Fell to Earth

74

TV show · as Watt

Shadow and Bone

76

TV show · as Baghra

Professor T

66

TV show · as Zelda Radclyffe

The Cleaner

83

TV show · as Lucille

National Theatre Live: Constellations

as Marianne

2010s

18 titles · average score 69

1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?

as Narrator (voice)

Britannia

74

TV show · as Queen Antedia

Girlfriends

73

TV show · as Gail

My Family and The Galapagos

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Killing Eve

77

TV show · as Helen Jacobson

Babs

68

as Joan Littlewood

Inside No. 9

92

TV show · as Paula

Wodehouse In Exile

72

as Ethel Wodehouse

Mr Selfridge

68

TV show · as Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

as Ranyevskaya

All My Sons

as Kate Keller

My Week with Marilyn

71

as Paula Strasberg

2000s

12 titles · average score 64

Ochberg's Orphans

as Narrator

The Old Curiosity Shop

52

as Mrs. Jarley

Johnny and the Bomb

43

TV show · as Mrs. Tachyon

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17

The Real Amityville Horror

62

as Narrator

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets

58

as Countess of Pembroke

Five Children and It

54

as Martha

Agatha Christie's Marple

75

TV show · as Letitia Blacklock

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

75

as Madam Hooch

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

TV show · as Tania Braithwaite

My Family

73

TV show · as Susan Harper

Gormenghast

70

TV show · as Clarice Groan

1990s

17 titles · average score 71

David Copperfield

73

TV show · as Miss Murdstone

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

70

TV show · as Mary Muldoon

Creatures Fantastic

TV show · as Narrator

Wilde

69

as Ada Leverson 'Sphinx'

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

as Mrs. Holroyd

The Blackheath Poisonings

TV show · as Charlotte Collard

The Countess Alice

as Connie

Love Hurts

76

TV show · as Tessa Piggott

The Blackheath Poisonings

as Charlotte Collard

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

72

TV show · as Lady Macbeth (voice)

Prime Suspect

89

TV show · as Moyra Henson

Performance

TV show · as Mrs Holroyd

1980s

19 titles · average score 69

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Ariadne Oliver

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

as Sarah Marriot

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

63

TV show · as Jean Kennerly

The Raggedy Rawney

58

as Elle

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as Emma Pickford

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Connie

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Olive Mannering

Edge of Darkness

54

TV show · as Clementine / Clemmy

Piaf

as Toine

Natural World

80

TV show · as Narrator

The Tragedy of Richard III

81

as Lady Anne

Baal

56

as Sophie

1970s

15 titles · average score 67

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Margaret Smythe

Danton's Death

as Lucille

The BBC Television Shakespeare

TV show

The Devil's Crown

TV show · as Berengaria of Navarre

A Christmas Carol

66

as Belle

The English Programme

TV show

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

74

TV show · as Pearl Craigie

Village Hall

TV show · as Shirley Chatsfield

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill

78

as Pearl Craigie

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

48

as Eva Braun's Handmaid (uncredited)

Crown Court

65

TV show · as Joan Carmichael

Spy Trap

TV show · as Muriel

1960s

3 titles · average score 61

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Lorna Green

Take Three Girls

TV show · as Jackie

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Dorinda / Lucile Desmoulins