Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton (b. 1946) is a common name in British Theatre for which she has been nominated for the Laurence Oliver Award several times. Furthermore, she is a known name for all her work in British Television as well, most recently as a consistent part of 'Downton Abbey' on ITV.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 22.452 |
| Birthday | 1946-06-03 |
| Place of Birth | Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Penelope Alice Wilton, Penelope Winton, Пенелопа Уилтон, 페네로프 윌튼, |
2004
Shaun of the Dead
7.5/8124
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threa...
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Shaun of the Dead
2001
Iris
6.435/184
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheime...
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Iris
1986
Clockwise
6.34/178
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
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Clockwise
2006
The History Boys
6.61/187
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambrid...
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The History Boys
2003
Calendar Girls
6.6/363
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
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Calendar Girls
1987
Cry Freedom
7.1/192
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
6.439/198
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
1992
Blame It on the Bellboy
5.3/52
Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech...
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Blame It on the Bellboy
1977
Joseph Andrews
4.1/8
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph An...
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Joseph Andrews
1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass
5.1/60
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
1995
Carrington
6.221/61
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...
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Carrington
2005
Falling
6.5/1
Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures...
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Falling
2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
6.941/1288
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Mari...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
1999
Tom's Midnight Garden
5.9/21
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bart...
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Tom's Midnight Garden
1984
Laughterhouse
5/3
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
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Laughterhouse
2012
The Girl
6.071/105
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’...
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The Girl
1995
Landscape
10/1
A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblan...
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Landscape
2013
Belle
7.2/660
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Belle
2005
Match Point
7.365/3937
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris....
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Match Point
1993
The Secret Rapture
3.5/2
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmo...
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The Secret Rapture
1994
The Deep Blue Sea
1/1
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors...
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The Deep Blue Sea
1981
Country
0/0
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the famil...
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Country
2015
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
6.414/692
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expans...
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
1998
Talking Heads 2
7/1
A series of monologues.
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Talking Heads 2
2000
Rockaby
4.8/6
An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she ca...
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Rockaby
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
7/3
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2016
The BFG
6.3/3251
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle o...
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The BFG
2007
Celebration
6.3/3
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an ad...
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Celebration
2003
Lucky Jim
0/0
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British u...
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Lucky Jim
2001
The Whistle-Blower
8/4
A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the Na...
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The Whistle-Blower
2007
Half Broken Things
6.727/11
A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family
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Half Broken Things
2009
Margot
5.2/8
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Roya...
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Margot
2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
7/3
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best Brit...
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
0/0
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2018
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
7.445/1285
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when sh...
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Zoo
6.7/97
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Zoo
2020
Summerland
7.557/192
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Summerland
2020
Eternal Beauty
6.068/59
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
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Eternal Beauty
2019
Downton Abbey
7.1/1084
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...
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Downton Abbey
1981
Othello
6.1/7
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to...
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Othello
1982
King Lear
6/5
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear
2022
Operation Mincemeat
6.522/626
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain w...
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Operation Mincemeat
2005
Pride & Prejudice
8.081/7777
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbeari...
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1972
Mrs. Warren's Profession
0/0
Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its aud...
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1980
Pasmore
0/0
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
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Pasmore
1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
0/0
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government...
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.2/445
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
2023
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
6.582/92
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his...
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2017
Brexit Shorts: The End
10/1
After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.
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Brexit Shorts: The End
2001
Victoria & Albert
7.7/11
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-...
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Victoria & Albert
1993
The Borrowers
0/0
The Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in hu...
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The Borrowers
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
8/1
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look...
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Visitation
0/0
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers beco...
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Visitation
2016
All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
0/0
An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors includ...
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All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film
1975
King Lear
0/0
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear
2005
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
0/0
It's Christmas Eve, but this is to be a far from silent night - the cruel Sycorax have come to Earth to enslave mankind and, as ever, only The Doctor...
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Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
Downton Abbey 3
0/0
Plot details under wraps.
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