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Penelope Wilton OBE (born June 3, 1946 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England) is a British actress.

Biography

A niece of the actor Bill Travers and the actress Linden Travers and a cousin of the actor Richard Morant, she had a successful stage career before breaking into television and her West End debut was opposite Sir Ralph Richardson.

Her television career began in 1972, playing Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren's Profession opposite Robert Powell. Despite several major TV roles, including two of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions (as Desdemona in Othello and Regan in King Lear), she did not become a household name until she appeared with Richard Briers in the 1984 situation comedy, Ever Decreasing Circles.

From 1975 to 1984, she was married to the actor, Daniel Massey, who, following their divorce, married her sister Lindy. From 1991 to 2001 she was married to Sir Ian Holm, and they appeared together as Pod and Homily in the BBC's 1993 adaptation of The Borrowers. Her film appearances include Cry Freedom
(1987), Iris (2001), Calendar Girls
(2003) and Shaun of the Dead
(2004).

In 2005, Wilton guest-starred as Harriet Jones, MP for two episodes in the BBC's revival series of the popular science-fiction programme Doctor Who. This guest role was written especially for her by the programme's chief writer and executive producer Russell T. Davies, with whom she had previously worked on Bob and Rose (ITV, 2001). The character of Jones returned in The Christmas Invasion, the Doctor Who 2005 Christmas special.

In 2005 she also appeared in a new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and in Woody Allen's film Match Point
.

Awards and recognition

She has twice won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award, in 1981 for her performance in Much Ado About Nothing, and in 1993 for The Deep Blue Sea. In 2001 she was nominated for the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in The Little Foxes
at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2004 she was given the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama.

Filmography

Cinema

Joseph Andrews (1977) — Mrs. Wilson
The French Lieutenant's Woman
(1981) — Sonia
Clockwise (1986) — Pat Garden
Cry Freedom
(1987) — Wendy Woods
Blame It on the Bellboy (1992) — Patricia Fulford
The Secret Rapture (1993) — Marion French
Carrington (1995) — Lady Ottoline Morrell
This Could Be the Last Time (1998) — Marjorie
Gooseberries Don't Dance (1999)
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999) — Aunt Melbourne
Iris
(2001) — Janet Stone
Calendar Girls
(2003) — Ruth Reynoldson
Shaun of the Dead
(2004) — Barbara
Pride and Prejudice (2005) — Mrs. Gardiner
Match Point (2005) — Eleanor Hewett

Television

An Affair of Honour (1972)
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1972) — Vivie
The Song of Songs (1973) — Lilli Czepanek
King Lear (1975) — Regan
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1976)
The Norman Conquests: Table Manners (1978) — Annie
The Norman Conquests: Living Together (1978) — Annie
The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden (1978) — Annie
Othello (1981) — Desdemona
Country (1981) — Virginia Carlion
The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1982) — Beatrix Potter
King Lear (1982) — Regan
Laughterhouse (1984) — Alice Singleton
Ever Decreasing Circles (1984) — Anne Bryce
The Monocled Mutineer (1986) — Lady Angela
Screaming (1992) — Beatrice
The Borrowers (1992) — Homily
The Return of the Borrowers (1993) — Homily
The Deep Blue Sea (1994) — Hester Collyer
Talking Heads 2 (1998) — Rosemary
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) — White Queen
Wives and Daughters (1999) — Mrs. Hamley
Rockaby (2000)
Victoria & Albert (2001) — Princess Mary Louise Victoria
The Whistle-Blower (2001) — Heather Graham
Bob and Rose (2001) — Monica Gossage
Lucky Jim
(2003) — Celia Welch
Falling (2005) — Daisy Langrish
Doctor Who (2005) — Harriet Jones

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