Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in both 2021 and 2022. She has also appeared in several West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West. She has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work. Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018) and the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones(2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. Beginning in 2023, Waddingham began to expand into voice acting, portraying the snarky goddess Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (2023-present) and earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination and Jinx in The Garfield Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Hannah Waddingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027High in the Clouds — Gretsch (voice)
• 2027Jason Statham Stole My Bike
• Ride or Die — Judith Burton, Executive Producer
• 2025Lilo & Stitch — Grand Councilwoman (voice)
• 2025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning — Admiral Neely
• 2025Smurfs — Jezebeth (voice)
• 2025The Woman in Cabin 10 — Heidi Heatherley
• 2024The Fall Guy — Gail Meyer
• 2024The Garfield Movie — Jinx (voice)
• 2024Tiddler — Narrator (voice)
• 2023Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas — Self, Executive Producer
• Krapopolis — Deliria (voice)
• Tom Jones — Lady Bellaston
• 2022Hocus Pocus 2 — The Witch Mother
• Willow — Hubert
• Ted Lasso — Rebecca Welton
• 2020West End Unplugged Vol.2
• 2019Great in Britain: The Movie — The PA
• Sex Education — Sofia Marchetti
• 2019The Hustle — Shiraz
• Krypton — Jax-Ur
• 2018Winter Ridge — Joanne Hill
• 2016The Entire Universe — Time and Space
• 2016The Gatehouse — The Agent
• 12 Monkeys — Magdalena
• Partners in Crime — Blonde Assassin
• Bad Education — Loretta
• 2012Les Misérables — Factory Woman 2
• Game of Thrones — Septa Unella
• 2011Into the Woods — Witch
• 2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate People — Elizabeth Maddox
• Benidorm — Tonya
• M.I. High — Allanah Sucrose
• Not Going Out — Jane
• 2006The Only Boy for Me — Melissa
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Lola Brewster
• Footballers' Wives — Jools
• Coupling — Jenny Turbot
• My Hero — Lula, Miranda
• Midsomer Murders — Mimi Dagmar
• Mr. Sunny Sky
• The Teller

Appearances as themselves (24)

• Saturday Night Live UK — Self - Host
• 2026Variety’s Power of Women London — Self
• 2023Willow: Behind the Magic — Self - 'Hubert'
• 2022Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• 2021An Audience with Adele — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self - Panellist
• RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Guest Judge
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Ranganation — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Last Leg — Self
• The Voice UK — Herself - Guest Mentor
• A League of Their Own — Self - Panellist
• The One Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• QI — Self
• The View — Self
• Olivier Awards — Self - Host
• Eurovision Song Contest — Self - Host