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Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is a British actress born May 19th 1967. She is the daughter of Sir Quentin Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet and The Hon. Lady Agnew-Somerville.

Somerville is the daughter of a retired financial expert and an antique dealer in County Meath, Ireland. Her mother is a daughter of John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange and sister of the late Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange. She went to dance classes from the age of six and, at eight, was sent to The Arts Educational School, a boarding school in Tring, Hertfordshire. There she was taught ballet. She left at 16, but continued her studies in London and ended up at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1989) in London. She was virtually unknown as an actress. She spent three years there, where she always seemed to play old ladies. She did some stage work and appeared on TV in episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Casualty (1993) before landing the role of Penhaligon or 'Panhandle', in Cracker with actor Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film adaptations).

Geraldine Somerville has an elder sister, Amelia, 38, who runs a restaurant with her husband in the Australian rainforest, and a younger brother, Lockett, 34, who works in Hong Kong.

Somerville married William (Bill) Osbourne-Young in December of 1995 and has a son, Caspar William (born 2002).

She has recently played Lady Stockbridge in Julian Fellowes's Gosford Park
and Harry Potter's mother Lily in all four Potter movies.

Credits

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Lily Potter)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Lily Potter)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Lily Potter)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Lily Potter)
Gosford Park
(Louisa Stockbridge)
Cracker (DS Jane Penhaligon)
''The Aristocrats
(Lady Emily Lennox)

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