Polly Walker
Acting
Born May 19, 1966, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
Polly Alexandra Walker was born on May 19, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. She graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but an injury at age 18 forced her to change direction. She started at London's Drama Centre to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she portrayed small parts before graduating to small roles on television. Polly landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone (1990) before making her feature debut in Journey of Honor (1991) ("Shogun Mayeda"). She first gained attention as an English woman in an Irish terrorist brigade in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games (1992)
Filmography
- 2025A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Room in the Tower — Mrs Clinton
- Bookish — Trottie Book
- Dune: Prophecy — Sonia Harkonnen
- Bridgerton — Lady Portia Featherington
- Cursed — Lady Lunette
- Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler — Peggy Sykes
- Age Before Beauty — Isabel Finch
- Mr Selfridge — Delphine Day
- 2012John Carter — Sarkoja
- Line of Duty — Gill Biggeloe
- Prisoners' Wives — Francesca
- Caprica — Sister Clarice Willow
- 2010Clash of the Titans — Cassiopeia
- Warehouse 13 — Charlotte Dupres
- Sanctuary — Ranna Seneschal
- The Mentalist — Alexa Shultz
- Cane — Ellis Samuels
- Psych — Randa
- 2006Scenes of a Sexual Nature — Esther
- Numb3rs — Dr. Lorna Ludlow
- Rome — Atia of the Julii
- Agatha Christie's Marple — Bess Sedgwick
- 2004Control — Barbara Copeland
- State of Play — Anne Collins
- The Mayor of Casterbridge — Lucetta Templeman
- 2002D-Tox — Jenny
- 2002Jeffrey Archer: The Truth — Mrs. Archer
- 2002Savage Messiah — Paula Jackson
- Waking the Dead — Catherine Braithwaite
- 2000After Alice
- 19998 ½ Women — Palmira
- 1999Dark Harbor — Alexis Chandler Weinberg
- 1998Curtain Call — Julia
- 1998Talk of Angels — Mary Lavelle
- 1998The Woodlanders — Mrs. Charmond
- 1997Brute — Mara
- 1997Robinson Crusoe — Mary
- 1997Roseanna's Grave — Cecilia
- 1997The Gambler — Polina
- 1996Emma — Jane Fairfax
- 1995Restoration — Celia Clemence
- 1993Sliver — Vida Warren
- 1993The Trial — Leni
- 1992A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia — Mme. Dumont
- 1992Patriot Games — Annette
- 1991Enchanted April — Caroline Dester
- 1991Journey of Honor — Cecilia
- 1991Walking a Tightrope — Hélène Lagache
- 1990Kremlin Farewell — Nadja
- 1990Lorna Doone — Lorna Doone
- Agatha Christie's Poirot — Magdala 'Nick' Buckley
- Screen Two — Leni, Nadja
- A Ghost Story for Christmas
- Charmer