Joanne Whalley

Q: Has Joanne Whalley won any awards?

Joanne Whalley has received several nominations throughout her career, including a BAFTA nomination for her role in 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII.' While she has not won an Oscar, her work has been recognized by various film festivals.

Q: What was Joanne Whalley's first film?

Joanne Whalley's first film was 'The Edge of the World' in 1978, where she began to make her mark in the film industry.

Q: What is Joanne Whalley's most successful film?

One of Joanne Whalley's most successful films is 'Willow,' which became a cult classic and showcased her talent alongside Val Kilmer.

Q: What can you tell me about Joanne Whalley's personal life?

Joanne Whalley was married to actor Val Kilmer from 1988 to 1996. They have two children together, and she has generally kept her personal life private since their separation.

Q: What is Joanne Whalley's estimated net worth?

Joanne Whalley's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television over the years.

Q: Has Joanne Whalley worked in television?

Yes, Joanne Whalley has had a successful television career, starring in series such as 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' and 'The Borgias,' further establishing her as a talented actress.

Q: What genre is Joanne Whalley known for?

Joanne Whalley is particularly known for her work in historical dramas and fantasy films. Her performances often highlight her ability to portray complex characters.

Known for

Willow (1988)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

1988 / Action, Adventure / 126 min

The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found...

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

1997 / Comedy, Crime / 94 min

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international...

Marvel’s Daredevil (2015)

IMDb 8.6 / 10

2015 / Action, Drama

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s...

Name

Joanne Whalley

Height

5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)

Born

25 August 1961, Birmingham, England

Spouses

Val Kilmer (1988–1996)

Children

2 (Mercedes and Jack)

Parents

Charles Whalley and Lorna Whalley

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV The Rumour A mum’s fresh start with her son takes a dark turn when a chilling rumour spreads through the town.	Unknown character	TMDB 3.2 / 10
2025	Movie Tornado When her father's puppet samurai show gets ambushed by a notorious gang, Tornado vows to seek vengeance and forge her...	Vienna Crawford	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2023	Movie Willow: Behind the Magic Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth...	Self - 'Sorsha'	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2022	TV Willow Many years after the events of the original film, legendary sorcerer Willow leads a group of misfit heroes on a...	Queen Sorsha	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2021	Movie Love Is Love Is Love Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily...	Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2021	Movie Hardcore Halbert A young man with an ailing ficus, desperate to escape his mother’s scrutiny, finds refuge in his connection with his...	Janet	Not rated
2021	Movie Val For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2021	Movie Resurrection In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they...	Claudia	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	Movie The Bird Game A cautionary tale in which a trickster crow lures a group of innocent children to their deaths.	Crow	Not rated
2019	TV Carnival Row In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of...	Leonora	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2018	Movie Paul, Apostle of Christ Luke risks his life to visit Paul in a Roman prison, where the apostle awaits execution under Nero. As Paul...	Priscilla	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie Muse Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend....	Jacqueline	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2017	TV Tin Star The story of Jim Worth, an expat British police officer starting a new life with his family as police chief...	Mary James	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	TV The White Princess The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based...	Margaret of York	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2016	TV Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall...	Rheda	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	TV Marvel's Daredevil Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on...	Sister Maggie	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2015	Movie The Ark Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a...	Emmy	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	TV Wolf Hall England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could...	Katherine of Aragon	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2014	TV Jamaica Inn Set in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited...	Aunt Patience	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie The Challenger Disaster When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American...	Gweneth Feynman	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2011	Movie Twixt A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of...	Denise	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2011	Movie Golf in the Kingdom In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off...	Agatha McNaughton	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2011	TV The Borgias Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo...	Vanozza Cattaneo	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2009	Movie 44 Inch Chest Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have...	Liz	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie Diverted On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of...	Marion Price	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2007	TV Gossip Girl An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around...	Sophie Grimaldi	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2007	Movie Flood Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal...	Patricia Nash	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2007	Movie Life Line A supernatural love story focusing on a successful entrepreneur, Peter Brisco, who encounters his true love, Katy, but then loses...	Katy Adair	TMDB 3.2 / 10
2006	Movie Played An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year...	Maggie	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2006	TV The Virgin Queen The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of...	Queen Mary	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie Child of Mine A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to...	Tess Palmer	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2005	Movie The Californians When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist...	Luna	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2005	TV Criminal Minds An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike...	Karen Donovan	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2004	TV Justice League Unlimited The galaxy's most powerful superheroes return to battle the allied villains and criminal plots that endanger the universe.	Emerald Empress (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2003	TV 40 Seven 40-year-olds are drawn together by a disturbing school reunion. Long-standing sexual tensions and emotional conflicts come to a head...	Jess	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2002	Movie Before You Go The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her...	Mary	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie Virginia's Run A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the...	Jessie Eastwood	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2000	Movie Breathtaking A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.	Caroline Henshaw	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2000	TV Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and...	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and...	Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	Not rated
2000	Movie The Guilty Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary....	Natalie Crane	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Run the Wild Fields A gentle, pacifist drifter faces a town's patriotic wrath on the World War II era home front in this original...	Ruby Miller	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1999	Movie A Texas Funeral It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta. But Sparta still has some secrets...	Miranda	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1997	Movie The Man Who Knew Too Little An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken...	Lori	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1994	TV Scarlett Scarlett is a 1994 American television miniseries loosely based on Alexandra Ripley's eponymous 1991 book of the same name, a...	Scarlett O'Hara	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1994	Movie Trial by Jury Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has...	Valerie Alston	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1994	Movie A Good Man in Africa Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes...	Celia Adekunle	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	Movie Mother's Boys Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she...	Colleen 'Callie' Harland	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1993	Movie The Secret Rapture Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and...	Katherine Coleridge	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1992	Movie Storyville While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.	Natalie Tate	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie Shattered Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who...	Jenny Scott	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie The Big Man An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.	Beth Scoular	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1990	Movie Navy Seals During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discovers that a terrorist group has access to deadly, US-built Stinger...	Claire Varrens	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1990	Movie A TV Dante A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of...	Beatrice	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1989	Movie Kill Me Again After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She...	Fay Forrester	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1989	Movie Scandal An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves...	Christine Keeler	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1989	Movie Employees From Hell John Cleese training video about employees.	Unknown character	Not rated
1989	Movie Bosses From Hell John Cleese training video about bosses.	Unknown character	Not rated
1988	Movie To Kill a Priest A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.	Anna	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1988	Movie Willow The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the...	Sorsha	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1988	Movie Willow: The Making of an Adventure A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Willow (1988). Included are interviews with cast and crew and scenes...	Self - 'Sorsha'	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1987	Movie Will You Love Me Tomorrow Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first...	Jackie	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1987	Movie Shoreleave Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his...	Myra	Not rated
1986	TV The Singing Detective Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.	Nurse Mills	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1985	TV Edge of Darkness Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads...	Emma Craven	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1985	Movie The Good Father Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of...	Mary Hall	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1985	Movie No Surrender It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a...	Cheryl	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1985	Movie Dance with a Stranger Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely,...	Christine	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1985	TV Screen Two Series of single made-for-television dramas.	Jackie	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1984	Movie A Christmas Carol Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities...	Fan	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1983	TV Reilly: Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became...	Ulla	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie Pink Floyd: The Wall A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.	Groupie	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1982	TV A Kind of Loving Following the story of Vic Brown, a West Riding miner's son. It starts in 1957 with a casual affair with...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	TV Bergerac Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing...	Christine Bolton	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1980	Movie And Mum Came Too Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists...	Evelyn	Not rated
1979	Movie Birth of the Beatles The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool...	Schoolgirl (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1978	Movie The One and Only Phyllis Dixey Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.	Doris	Not rated
1972	TV Crown Court Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972,...	Linda Mason	TMDB 5.7 / 10
TBA	Movie Gardel In 1920s Buenos Aires, Tango sensation Carlos Gardel is involved with several women, including the baroness Ms. Wakefield. He finds...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2021	Movie Val For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 7.2 / 10

Tornado

2025 / TMDB 6.1

Willow: Behind the Magic

2023 / TMDB 4.3

Love Is Love Is Love

2021 / TMDB 4.7

Hardcore Halbert

2021

Val

2021 / TMDB 7.2

Resurrection

2021 / TMDB 6.6

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How to watch Willow TV series in Australia

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What are some of Joanne Whalley's notable films?

Joanne Whalley is known for her roles in films such as 'Willow,' 'The Man Who Knew Too Little,' and 'The Secret Garden.' Her performances have showcased her range across different genres.

Has Joanne Whalley won any awards?

What was Joanne Whalley's first film?

What is Joanne Whalley's most successful film?

What can you tell me about Joanne Whalley's personal life?

What is Joanne Whalley's estimated net worth?

Has Joanne Whalley worked in television?

What genre is Joanne Whalley known for?