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Zoe Wanamaker Biography (1949-)

Born May 13, 1949, in New York, NY; raised in London, England; daughter of Sam (an actor and director) and Charlotte (an actress; maiden name, Holland) Wanamaker; married Gawn Grainger (an actor and writer), 1994. Addresses:Contact: Conway Van Gelder Ltd., 18-21 Jermyn St., London SW1Y 6HP, England.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress

Birth Details

May 13, 1949

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Appearances
• The Devil's Disciple, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1976
• Wild Oats; or, The Strolling Gentleman, Royal Shakespeare Company,1976
• Ivanov, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1976
• The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978
• Captain Swing, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978
• Piaf, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1978
• Mary Daniels, Once in a Lifetime, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1979
• (Broadway debut) Toine, Piaf, Plymouth Theatre, 1981
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Royal National Theatre, London, England, 1982
• The Time of Your Life, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983
• Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983
• Comedy of Errors, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983
• Mother Courage, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1984
• Wrecked Eggs, Royal National Theatre, 1986
• The Bay at Nice, Royal National Theatre, 1986
• Fay, Loot, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, then Music Box Theatre,both New York City, 1986
• Mrs. Klein, Royal National Theatre, London, 1988, then Apollo Theatre, London, 1989
• Othello, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1989
• The Crucible, Royal National Theatre, 1990
• The Last Yankee, Young Vic Theatre, London, then New York City production, 1993
• Dead Funny, New York City, 1994
• The Glass Menagerie, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London, then ComedyTheatre, London, 1995
• Sylvia, Apollo Theatre, 1996
• The Old Neighborhood, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1997
• Title role, Electra, Donmar Warehouse Theatre, 1997, then McCarterTheatre, Princeton, NJ, then Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1998-1999
• Also appeared in Henry V, Globe Theatre; and Made in Bangkok, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles.
• Film Appearances
• Narrator, Machines for the Suppression of Time, 1980
• Elle, The Raggedy Rawney, Island, 1988
• Mary Foster, Swept from the Sea (also known as Balaye par la mer), TriStar, 1997
• Ada Leverson, Wilde (also known as Oscar Wilde), Sony Pictures Classics, 1997
• Madam Hooch, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (also known asHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone), Warner Bros., 2001
• Also appeared in The Hunger.
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Tessa Piggott, Love Hurts, BBC (England), 1992-1994
• Miss Murdstone, David Copperfield, BBC, 1999, then PBS, 2000
• Susan Harper, My Family, BBC, 2000
• Miniseries
• Pearl Graigie, Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, 1975
• Annemarie Kempf, Inside the Third Reich, ABC, 1982
• Clementine "Clemmy," Edge of Darkness, syndicated, 1986
• Charlotte "Charlie" Fanner Titmuss, Paradise Postponed, PBS, 1986
• Jean Kennerly, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, NBC, 1987
• Voice, "Macbeth," Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, 1992
• Audrey Maclintick, A Dance to the Music of Time, 1997
• Mary Muldoon, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (also known asLeprechauns and Kampf der Kobolde), NBC, 1999
• Clarice, Gormenghast, BBC America, 2000
• Tania Braithwaite, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, BBC, 2001
• Specials
• Toine, Piaf, The Entertainment Channel, 1982
• Lady Anne, The Tragedy of Richard the Third (also known as TheComplete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Richard the Third and Richard III), BBC (England), 1983
• May Daniels, Once in a Lifetime, PBS, 1988
• Olive Mannering, Memento Mori, PBS, 1992
• Moyra Henson, Prime Suspect (also known as Prime Suspect 1), PBS, 1992
• Emma Pickford, Fat Chance, PBS, 1993
• Voice of Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, HBO, 1993
• Charlotte Collard, The Blackheath Poisonings, PBS, 1993
• Host and Connie, "The Countess Alice," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1993
• Herself, Comic Relief: The Invasion of the Comic Tomatoes, 1993
• Narrator of prologue, Henry V at Shakespeare's Globe, 1997
• Narrator, Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle, 1998
• Movies
• Strike, 1981
• Enemies of the State, 1982
• Bildebeck, The Dog It Was That Died, 1988
• Sarah Marriot, Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage, 1989
• Mrs. Holroyd, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, 1995
• Caroline Griveau, The English Wife, 1995
• Episodic
• Margaret Smythe, "Skeleton in the Cupboard," Tales of the Unexpected, syndicated, 1979
• Emma Pickford, "Fat Chance," Inspector Morse, CTV (England), 1991
• Narrator, Creatures Fantastic, 1997
• Richard and Judy, Channel 4 (England), 2001
• Other
• Belle, A Christmas Carol, 1977
• Sophie, Baal, 1982

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1999, pp. F1, F8