Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has since amassed numerous credits, primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including Dance with a Stranger (1985), Willow (1988), Scandal (1989), The Secret Rapture (1993) and Mother's Boys (1994). Following her marriage to Val Kilmer in 1988, she was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer until their divorce in 1996. Whalley was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1985 BBC serial Edge of Darkness, and was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for the 2011 series The Borgias. Her other television roles include the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective; playing the title role in the 2000 CBS TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and as Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate in the 2015 NBC series A.D. The Bible Continues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• The Rumour
• 2025Tornado — Vienna Crawford
• Willow — Queen Sorsha
• 2021Hardcore Halbert — Janet
• 2021Love Is Love Is Love — Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
• 2021Resurrection — Claudia
• 2021Val — Self, Thanks
• Carnival Row — Leonora
• 2019The Bird Game — Crow
• 2018Paul, Apostle of Christ — Priscilla
• 2017Muse — Jacqueline
• The White Princess — Margaret of York
• Tin Star — Mary James
• Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands — Rheda
• Marvel's Daredevil — Sister Maggie
• 2015The Ark — Emmy
• Wolf Hall — Katherine of Aragon
• Jamaica Inn — Aunt Patience
• 2013The Challenger Disaster — Gweneth Feynman
• 2011Golf in the Kingdom — Agatha McNaughton
• The Borgias — Vanozza Cattaneo
• 2011Twixt — Denise
• 200944 Inch Chest — Liz
• 2009Diverted — Marion Price
• 2007Flood — Patricia Nash
• Gossip Girl — Sophie Grimaldi
• 2007Life Line — Katy Adair
• 2006Played — Maggie
• The Virgin Queen — Queen Mary
• 2005Child of Mine — Tess Palmer
• Criminal Minds — Karen Donovan
• 2005The Californians — Luna
• Justice League Unlimited — Emerald Empress (voice)
• 40 — Jess
• 2002Before You Go — Mary
• 2002Virginia's Run — Jessie Eastwood
• 2000Breathtaking — Caroline Henshaw
• 2000Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis — Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis — Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
• 2000Run the Wild Fields — Ruby Miller
• 2000The Guilty — Natalie Crane
• 1999A Texas Funeral — Miranda
• 1997The Man Who Knew Too Little — Lori
• 1994A Good Man in Africa — Celia Adekunle
• Scarlett — Scarlett O'Hara
• 1994Trial by Jury — Valerie Alston
• 1993Mother's Boys — Colleen 'Callie' Harland
• 1993The Secret Rapture — Katherine Coleridge
• 1992Storyville — Natalie Tate
• 1991Shattered — Jenny Scott
• 1990A TV Dante — Beatrice
• 1990Navy Seals — Claire Varrens
• 1990The Big Man — Beth Scoular
• 1989Bosses From Hell
• 1989Kill Me Again — Fay Forrester
• 1989Scandal — Christine Keeler
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Anna
• 1988Willow — Sorsha
• 1987Shoreleave — Myra
• 1987Will You Love Me Tomorrow — Jackie
• The Singing Detective — Nurse Mills
• 1985Dance with a Stranger — Christine
• Edge of Darkness — Emma Craven
• 1985No Surrender — Cheryl
• Screen Two — Jackie
• 1985The Good Father — Mary Hall
• 1984A Christmas Carol — Fan
• Reilly: Ace of Spies — Ulla
• A Kind of Loving
• 1982Pink Floyd: The Wall — Groupie
• Bergerac — Christine Bolton
• Coming Home — Assistant Travel Agent
• 1980And Mum Came Too — Evelyn
• 1979Birth of the Beatles — Schoolgirl (uncredited)
• 1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey — Doris
• Crown Court — Linda Mason
• Gardel

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2023Willow: Behind the Magic — Self - 'Sorsha'
• 1988Willow: The Making of an Adventure — Self - 'Sorsha'