Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley
Date of Birth: 25 Aug 1961
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)
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Pink Floyd The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. (imdb)
Willow
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen. (imdb)
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet. (imdb)
Dance with a Stranger
Ruth Ellis lives with her 10-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He leaves her, something which makes her very upset... (imdb)
Shattered
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. (imdb)
Scarlett
Scarlett (1994) - TV Mini-Series
Atlanta, 1873. It's another day (Melanie's funeral, in fact), and Scarlett is determined to win back Rhett (who's spending a lot of time with Belle Watling). First, she goes to Tara and spats with Sue Ellen over Tara. Then she goes to Charleston, presenting herself to Rhett's mother and friends, to Rhett's dismay... (imdb)
Kill Me Again
Fay Forrester, an attractive young lady wants to escape from her violent and jealous boyfriend Vince. So she hires Jack Andrews, a second class private investigator to arrange her death. She wants to restart her life with a new identity and the money she robbed together with Vince. Because of Jack's financial problems he joins Fay after her fake death. Unfortunately Vince finds out that Fay's still alive. The hunt for Jack, Fay and the money begins... (imdb)
Mother\
Jude Madigan leaves her husband Robert and her three children without any explanation. Three years later, when all think that she has already died, Jude returns and asks for pardon. But her husband Robert does not forgive but instead wants the divorce. As Jude does not give up this ends in war and in the story ends in court. (imdb)
The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective (1986) - TV Mini-Series
Detective novelist Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in the title role, drifting into a surreal 1945 fantasy of spies and criminals, along with vivid memories of a childhood in the Forest of Dean... (imdb)
A Christmas Carol
Made for television version of the Charles Dickens classic of the same name. An old man who hates Christmas is taught the true meaning and spirit of Christmas by ghosts who show him his own past and present. He is also shown what the future holds for him if he doesn't change his behavior. (imdb)
Flood
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city... (imdb)
A Good Man in Africa
Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. (All Movie Guide)
A TV Dante
A TV Dante (1989) - TV Mini-Series
The first eight Cantos, interspersed with commentary and effects.
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness (1985) - TV Mini-Series
Highly acclaimed British mini-series. When Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven's daughter is murdered, he finds himself drawn into a dark conspiracy.
Scandal
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963. (imdb)
Navy Seals
While rescuing an American air crew captured by Mid-Eastern terrorists, Lieutenant Curran and his team of Navy SEALs discover evidence that the terrorists have come into possession of dangerous high-tech weapons. (imdb)
The Guilty
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems... (imdb)
Storyville
A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers. (imdb)
Played
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score. (imdb)
To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. (imdb)
The Big Man
When a union strike leaves Scottish miner Danny Scoular jobless, he worries about being able to support his family. Desperate for a solution, Danny agrees to fight a bare-knuckle match for a cash prize, not realizing he'll be the sparring slave of gang boss Matt Mason, a ruthless businessman. While he's away training, his wife takes a lover, and it seems Danny will have to fight to keep her ... but first, he'll have to fight for his life.
44 Inch Chest
After his wife, Liz (Joanne Whalley), cheats on him, gangster Colin Diamond (Ray Winstone) gets his revenge by enlisting his underworld pals to kidnap her hunky French lover (Melvil Poupaud) in the feature debut of director Malcolm Venville. Top British actors including Ian McShane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson round out the cast of the crime thriller, penned by the screenwriters of another memorable Winstone vehicle, Sexy Beast.
The Californians
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive (Ileana Douglas), launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer (Kate Mara) who's helping Olive's cause. This clever West Coast satire from writer-director Jonathan Parker is a twist on Henry James's The Bostonians.
Child of Mine
Tess and Alfie illegally adopt half-siblings Heather and Grace from Canada, whose mother was murdered. Heather' troubled behaviour worries Tess, and as she digs deeper into her past, she starts suspecting that she may have had something to do with the death of her mother.
Trial by Jury
Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done. (imdb)
Twixt
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated. (imdb)
The Good Father
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by hiw wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that Feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done. (imdb)
The Challenger
Factual drama focusing on theoretical physicist Richard Feynman and his role the investigation into the causes of space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
The Virgin Queen
The Virgin Queen (2005) - TV Mini-Series
The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her old age and her last, enigmatic relationship with her young protégé, the Earl of Essex. (imdb)
Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn (2014) - TV Mini-Series
Based on Daphne Du Maurier's novel
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
From her childhood in a privileged but broken home, to her courtship and often lonely marriage to Jack Kennedy, Jackie is revealed as a strong, intelligent and sometimes heartbroken woman, even as she captures the hearts and imaginations of an entire nation. The film follows her through the White House years, and her life after JFK's assassination. (amazon.com)
Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall (2015) - TV Mini-Series
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. (imdb)
The Borgias
The Borgias (2011) - TV Series
The saga of a crime family in 1492 Italy. (imdb)
The White Princess
The White Princess (2017) - TV Mini-Series
Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name, the story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. (imdb)
A Texas Funeral
In Texas in the late '60s, the Whit family meets for the funeral of grandfather Sparta. This, however, is no normal funeral, and the Whits are no normal family. (imdb)
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Paul goes from being the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.
Muse
A literature professor, suffers from recurring nightmares one year after the death of his girlfriend. When the nightmare becomes real, he starts to investigate the murder and seven muses.
No Surrender
Two New Year's parties for pensioners, one Orange Lodge, the other Catholic, are double-booked at a nightclub.
Run the Wild Fields
The Story of a North Carolina woman and her daughter who take in a mysterious drifter to work their farm while the woman's husband is missing in action during WWII. (imdb)
Resurrection
Jesus followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from death, they realize that hope didn't die on the cross. It lives on in them.
Willow
Willow (2022) - TV Series
An unlikely group of heroes sets off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world (imdb.com).
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Heroic legend Beowulf gallops through the epic and mythical Shieldlands, to his childhood home of Herot, hoping to set right past wrongs. (imdb)