Wanda Ventham (born 5 August 1935) is an English television actress. She appeared in the third and fourth series of BBC's Sherlock in 2014 and 2017, where she played the title character's mum, with her son, actor Benedict Cumberbatch starring in the title role of Holmes. In April 2014, People magazine featured her in its "Most Beautiful People in the World" edition.

Filmography

• Departure — Wendy
• 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie — Violet
• Father Brown — Ellen Jennings
• 2012Run For Your Wife — Woman on Bus
• Sherlock — Mrs. Holmes
• Lewis — Eleanor Mallory
• 2005Asylum — Bridie Straffen
• 2002Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War — Victoria
• Coupling — Edna
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• Verdict — Judge Beverley Conran
• Midsomer Murders — Romany Rose
• The Vanishing Man — Mrs Braithwaite
• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates — Margaret Balshaw
• Next of Kin
• Heartbeat — Fiona Weston
• Men Behaving Badly
• Capstick's Law — Madge Capstick
• 1988Out of the Shadows — Liz Bennett
• 1987Doctor Who: Time and the Rani — Faroon
• Flying Lady — Lady Manley
• Executive Stress
• Love and Marriage — Margaret
• Union Castle
• Only Fools and Horses — Pamela Parry
• 1980Invasion: UFO — Col. Virginia Lake
• Minder — Beryl
• Only When I Laugh — Fiona
• 1979You're Not Watching Me, Mummy — Susan
• All Creatures Great and Small — Mrs. Ridge
• Fallen Hero — Dorothy Hopkins
• Scottish Playbill — Nel Cree
• 1977Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl — Thea Ransome
• 1977That's Carry On! — Pretty Bidder (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Upchat Line — Gwen
• Life and Death of Penelope
• The Sweeney — Brenda
• Dial M for Murder — Margot Lamasse
• 1973Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter — Lady Durward
• The Lotus Eaters — Ann Shepherd
• 1972UFO: Take Them Alive — Colonnello Virginia Lake
• 1971UFO: Red alert... Attack on Earth! — Colonel Virginia Lake
• 1971Walt, King of the Dumper — Jasmine
• UFO — Virginia Lake
• Department S — Leila Rankin
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Julie Brent
• 1968Carry On Up the Khyber — Khasi's First Wife
• 1968The Blood Beast Terror — Clare Mallinger
• The Caesars — Ennia
• The Expert — Peggy Kirby
• 1967Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones — Jean Rock
• 1967Mister Ten Per Cent — Kathy
• The Prisoner — Computer Attendant
• The World of Wodehouse — Jane
• 1966Death Is a Woman — Priscilla Blunstone-Smythe
• Softly, Softly
• 1966The Eye — Josephine
• 1966The Spy with a Cold Nose — Mrs. Winters
• Watch the Birdies — Irene Grant
• Blackmail — Susan Bannerton
• 1965Joey Boy — Italian Girl
• Out of the Unknown — Josephine
• 1965The Big Job — Dot Franklin
• 1965The Intelligence Men — Blonde at Reception Dinner Table (uncredited)
• 1965The Knack... and How to Get It — Gym Mistress (uncredited)
• The Troubleshooters — Moira Hart
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — Jasmine
• 1964Carry On Cleo — Pretty Bidder (uncredited)
• Story Parade — Mary
• The Likely Lads — Angela
• 1963A Stitch in Time — Nurse (uncredited)
• Doctor Who — Jean Rock, Thea Ransome, Faroon
• 1963The Cracksman — Sandra
• The Human Jungle — Nurse
• 1963We Joined the Navy — Dartmouth Girl
• 1962On the Beat — Outraged Hairdressers Customer (uncredited)
• 1962Solo for Sparrow — Waitress
• The Saint — Penny, Laura Stride
• Z-Cars
• The Avengers
• The Rag Trade
• Danger Man — Penny
• No Hiding Place
• 1959The Navy Lark — Mabel
• Armchair Theatre — Milly Craddock, Julie
• 1956My Teenage Daughter — Gina

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2016UFO From Earth to the Moon — Self
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)