Zoë Wanamaker

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Zoë Wanamaker , CBE , (born May 13, 1949 in New York ) is a British actress .

Life

Zoë Wanamaker is one of three daughters of the American actor and director Sam Wanamaker and his wife Charlotte Holland . The family emigrated to the UK when they were three years old because their father was suspected of communism and blacklisted during the McCarthy era . He was later the initiator of the reconstruction of the Globe Theater in London . Zoë has two sisters.

After school, she completed various training courses, including as a secretary, as her parents were against her wish to go into the acting business. Even so, she applied to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and was accepted. She later became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and received a Tony Award in 1981 for her role in the Broadway production Piaf opposite Jane Lapotaire . She was later nominated three more times for the Tony Award; she also won the Laurence Olivier Award twice . Wanamaker works particularly closely with the Royal National Theater , where she appeared as Serafina in Tennessee Williams' The Tattooed Rose in the spring of 2007 and appeared on stage alongside Simon Russell Beale in Much Ado About Nothing .

Known in England as one of the most important actresses of her generation for a long time, she is best known in Germany for her role as " Madam Hooch " in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). However, she had been seen as an actress in British film and television since the early 1970s. In 1990 she starred as Emilia in Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Othello with Ian McKellen as Iago . Wanamaker had her real breakthrough in front of the camera in the early 1990s with the television series Love Hurts . Between 2000 and 2011 she played a leading role alongside Robert Lindsay in the television series My Family . In the crime series Agatha Christie's Poirot Wanamaker came alongside from 2007 David Suchet as a crime writer "Ariadne Oliver."

Since 1994 Wanamaker has been married to the British actor Gawn Granger , with whom she lives in London. In 2000 she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1971: ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1978: The Devil's Crown (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1985: The Plutonium Affair ( Edge of Darkness ; TV miniseries, 2 episodes)
  • 1986: Paradise Postponed (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 1988: Raggedy - A Tale of Love, Escape and Death (The Raggedy Rawney)
  • 1991: Inspector Morse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1991: Hot Suspicion (TV miniseries, 2 episodes)
  • 1992–1994: Love Hurts (TV series, 30 episodes)
  • 1995: An English Wife ( The English Wife ; TV movie)
  • 1997: Amy Foster - Swept from the Sea
  • 1997: Oscar Wilde (Wilde)
  • 1999: David Copperfield (TV two-part)
  • 1999: The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns - The legend of forbidden love ( The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns , TV miniseries)
  • 2000: Gormenghast (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2000–2011: My Family (TV series, 116 episodes)
  • 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • 2005: Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
  • 2005/2006: Doctor Who (TV series, 2 episodes: The End of the World / The New Earth )
  • 2006: Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Bomb (three-part)
  • 2005–2013: Agatha Christie's Poirot (six television films)
  • 2011: My Week with Marilyn
  • 2015: Mr Selfridge (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2017-2018: Britannia (TV series, 9 episodes)
  • 2018: Inside No. 9 (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2018: Girlfriends (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 2019: Killing Eve (TV series, 1 episode)

Theater appearances (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Wanamaker, Zoë
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY