Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.

Filmography

• Professor T — Adelaide Tempest
• The Prince — Queen Elizabeth (voice)
• 2020Dolittle — Dragon (voice)
• 2020Enola Holmes — The Dowager
• 2018The Highway Rat — The Rabbit (voice)
• Vanity Fair — Lady Matilda Crawley
• Man in an Orange Shirt — Mrs. March
• 2016Alice Through the Looking Glass — Aunt Imogene
• The Collection — Yvette Sabine
• 2015Miss You Already — Jill
• 2015Mr. Holmes — Madame Schirmer
• 2015Survivor — Sally
• 2015The Lady in the Van — Ursula Vaughan Williams
• 2014Into the Woods — Giant
• Outlander — Mother Hildegarde
• Big School — Ms Baron
• 2013National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage — Kay
• 2013National Theatre Live: People — Dorothy Stacpoole
• 2013Trap for Cinderella — Aunt Elinor
• Vicious — Violet Crosby
• 2012Private Peaceful — Grandma Wolf
• 2012Suspension of Disbelief — Nesta
• 2011Hugo — Madame Emilie
• 2010Alice in Wonderland — Aunt Imogene
• 2010Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — Olympe Maxime
• 2010National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art — Kay
• 2010The Book of Eli — Martha
• 2010The Nutcracker — The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
• 2006The History Boys — Mrs. Lintott
• 2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Madame Olympe Maxime
• Sensitive Skin — Sarah Thorne
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
• New Tricks
• 2003Love Actually — Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
• Born and Bred — Eugenia Maddox
• What's Your Problem?
• Waking the Dead — Alice Taylor-Garnett
• 1999The Cherry Orchard — Charlotte Ivanovna
• The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling — Aunt Western
• Cold Lazarus — Dr Emma Porlock
• Downwardly Mobile
• Every Silver Lining
• 1993Genghis Cohn — Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
• Heartbeat — Tessa
• 1991Bejewelled — Beatrice
• 1990Strike It Rich — Mrs de Vere
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Salome Otterbourne
• Stay Lucky
• A Kind of Living — Carol Beasley
• Unnatural Causes — Marcia
• 1985Murder with Mirrors — Miss Bellaver
• 1982Skirmishes — Jean
• The Bounder — Celia
• Flickers — Maud Cole
• 1980Rising Damp — Miss Jones
• Leave it to Charlie — Miss Grimshaw
• Cottage to Let — Elsie Pope
• The Galton & Simpson Playhouse — The Woman
• 1977Wombling Free — Julia Frogmorton
• 1976Housewives' Choice — Marcia
• 1976To the Devil a Daughter — Salvation Army Major
• 1974All Good Men
• Rising Damp — Ruth
• 1972Our Miss Fred — Miss Lockhart
• 1972Right to Work March — Elizabeth I
• 1970Brotherly Love — District Nurse
• 1970Every Home Should Have One — Maud Crape
• Play for Today — Marcia, Maria Waite
• ITV Playhouse — Jean

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2012Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo' — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self