Penelope Wilton

Q: Has Penelope Wilton won any major awards?

While she has not won an Oscar, Penelope Wilton has received several award nominations, including BAFTA nominations, recognizing her contributions to film and television.

Q: When did Penelope Wilton start her acting career?

Penelope Wilton began her acting career in the early 1970s, making her television debut in the series 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' in 1972.

Q: What is Penelope Wilton's estimated net worth?

Penelope Wilton's estimated net worth is around $5 million, attributed to her successful career in acting across film, television, and stage.

Q: What are some of Penelope Wilton's notable films?

In addition to 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', notable films include 'The History Boys' and 'The Last Minute'. Her filmography spans various genres, showcasing her acting versatility.

Q: Is Penelope Wilton involved in theatre?

Yes, Penelope Wilton has an extensive theatre background, performing in numerous stage productions throughout her career, including plays in the West End.

Q: What is Penelope Wilton's connection to 'Doctor Who'?

Penelope Wilton appeared in 'Doctor Who' as Harriet Jones, a character who became quite popular among fans. She featured in multiple episodes during the Tenth Doctor's era.

Q: Does Penelope Wilton have any children?

Yes, Penelope Wilton has one daughter named Alice Wilton, who is known to keep a low profile away from the public eye.

Known for

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

IMDb 7.9 / 10

2004 / Comedy, Horror / 99 min

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened...

The BFG (2016)

IMDb 6.3 / 10

2016 / Adventure, Family / 117 min

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...

Name

Penelope Wilton

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

3 April 1946, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Spouses

Ian Holm (1991–2002)

Children

1, Alice Wilton

Parents

George Wilton, Beryl Wilton

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Fing! Librarians Mr. and Mrs. Meek indulge their demanding daughter Myrtle's every wish. When she wants a Fing, they search deep...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household...	Isobel Merton	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2025	Movie Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale Stars of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey reunite at London's Savoy Hotel to share memories and behind-the-scenes tales, plus...	Self	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2024	TV Dead Hot 5 years ago, Elliot came home to find his soulmate Peter had vanished—with nothing left behind but his finger in...	Francine	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2023	TV Murder Is Easy England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the...	Miss Pinkerton	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2023	Movie The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father...	Maureen Fry	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	Movie Judi Dench: Our National Treasure A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2022	TV Remembers… What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making...	Unknown character	Not rated
2022	Movie Downton Abbey: A New Era The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager...	Isobel Merton	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2022	Movie Operation Mincemeat In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off...	Hester Leggett	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2020	Movie Eternal Beauty When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous...	Vivian	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2020	Movie Summerland A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of...	Older Alice	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Downton Abbey The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from...	Isobel Merton	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	TV After Life Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life,...	Anne	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2018	Movie Zoo Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of...	Denise Austin	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,...	Amelia Maugery	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2017	Movie Brexit Shorts: The End After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.	Helen	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2016	TV Brief Encounters In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when...	Pauline	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie The BFG An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the...	The Queen	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2016	Movie All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2015	Movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh...	Jean Ainslie	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2013	Movie National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together...	Delia	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie Belle Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to...	Lady Mary Murray	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Girl Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his...	Peggy Robertson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious...	Jean Ainslie	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	TV South Riding The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South...	Mrs Beddows	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	TV Downton Abbey A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in...	Isobel Merton	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2010	Movie Harold Pinter: A Celebration In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2009	Movie Margot At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and...	B.Q.	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2008	TV The Passion The Passion is a television drama serial that tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus.	Mary	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2007	Movie Half Broken Things A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family	Jean	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie Celebration All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective...	Julie	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2007	TV Five Days Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.	Barbara Poole	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	Movie The History Boys The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an...	Mrs. Bibby	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie Match Point Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being...	Eleanor Hewett	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2005	Movie Pride & Prejudice A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman...	Mrs. Gardiner	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2005	TV Doctor Who The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	TV Doctor Who The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...	Harriet Jones	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	Movie Falling Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a...	Daisy Langrish	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2004	Movie Shaun of the Dead Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This...	Barbara	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Calendar Girls Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.	Ruth	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2003	TV Comedy Connections Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2003	Movie Lucky Jim A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at...	Celia Welch	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Iris True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through...	Janet Stone	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2001	TV Bob & Rose Gay thirtysomething schoolteacher Robert 'Bob' Gossage finds himself attracted to a woman, Rose Cooper, exploring their unconventional relationship and the...	Monica Gossage	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2001	Movie Victoria & Albert The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King...	Princess Mary Louise Victoria	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2001	Movie The Whistle-Blower A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas...	Heather Graham	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2000	Movie Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.	Mrs. Cratchit	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Rockaby An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that...	Old Woman	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1999	TV Wives and Daughters The life of doctor's daughter Molly Gibson changes gradually after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into...	Mrs Hamley	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1999	Movie Tom's Midnight Garden When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a...	Aunt Melbourne	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1999	Movie The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina...	Delfina / Paulina	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	Movie Alice Through the Looking Glass A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice...	White Queen	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1998	Movie Talking Heads 2 A series of monologues.	Unknown character	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1995	Movie Landscape A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own...	Beth	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1995	Movie Carrington Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he...	Lady Ottoline Morrell	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1995	TV Kavanagh Q.C. John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London,...	Barbara Watkins	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1994	Movie The Deep Blue Sea Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF...	Hester Collyer	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1993	TV The Return of the Borrowers The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George...	Homily	TMDB 6.7 / 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...	Marion French	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1992	TV The Borrowers The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole...	Homily	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1992	TV Screaming An 8 episode BBC One sitcom from 1992. Written by Carla Lane, it follows three middle-aged women, former school-friends and...	Unknown character	Not rated
1992	Movie Blame It on the Bellboy Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit...	Patricia Fulford	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Beth	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Hester Collyer	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1988	TV Talking Heads Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an...	Rosemary	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1987	Movie Cry Freedom A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in...	Wendy Woods	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1986	Movie Clockwise School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech...	Pat Garden	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1985	TV C.A.T.S. Eyes C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. A spin-off of the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1984	Movie Laughterhouse A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 500 geese 100 miles...	Alice Singleton	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1984	TV Ever Decreasing Circles Martin Bryce lives in a quiet suburban close with his wife Anne. He does his best to "organise" the leisure...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1983	Movie The Tale of Beatrix Potter Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.	Beatrix Potter	Not rated
1982	TV The Tale of Beatrix Potter	Beatrix Potter	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1982	Movie King Lear An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.	Regan	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1981	Movie Country In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine...	Virginia Carlion	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1981	Movie Othello Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has...	Desdemona	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1981	Movie The French Lieutenant's Woman In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their...	Sonia	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1980	Movie Pasmore Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.	Helen	Not rated
1978	TV An Audience with... An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a...	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1977	TV The Norman Conquests The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying...	Annie	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1977	Movie Able's Will Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather...	Journalist	Not rated
1977	Movie Joseph Andrews Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on...	Mrs. Wilton	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1975	Movie King Lear King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for...	Regan	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1972	Movie Mrs. Warren's Profession Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still...	Vivie Warren	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1972	Movie The Sullens Sisters Tommy Adams has become quite the grown man. Now 19 years old, he is the man of the house, working...	Rachel Sullens	Not rated
1972	TV Country Matters An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and...	Rachel Sullens	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1970	TV Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970...	Virginia Carlion	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1965	TV BBC Play of the Month A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured...	Regan	TMDB 5.3 / 10
TBA	TV Mavis Eccleston A drama about a woman who survived a joint suicide pact with the love of her life and was subsequently...	Mavis Eccleston	Not rated
TBA	Movie Visitation 14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns...	Unknown character	Not rated

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2022 / TMDB 8.0

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