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Geraldine James, OBE is an English actress. For her role as Portia in the 1989 Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. She also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival for She's Been Away. Theatre director Peter Hall says James ranks amongst the great English classical actresses.
Born
Thursday, 06 July 1950
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Silo | Mayor Jahns | 2023 |
| Benediction | Theresa Thornycroft | 2021 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation | Betsy | 2020 |
| The Beast Must Die | Joy | 2020 |
| Downton Abbey | Queen Mary | 2019 |
| Back to Life | Caroline | 2019 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Beast | Hilary Huntington | 2018 |
| Megan Leavey | Dr. Turbeville | 2017 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Silo | Mayor Jahns | 2023 |
| Benediction | Theresa Thornycroft | 2021 |
| Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
| Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation | Betsy | 2020 |
| The Beast Must Die | Joy | 2020 |
| Downton Abbey | Queen Mary | 2019 |
| Back to Life | Caroline | 2019 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Beast | Hilary Huntington | 2018 |
| Megan Leavey | Dr. Turbeville | 2017 |
| Anne with an E | Marilla Cuthbert | 2017 |
| Daphne | Rita | 2017 |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Blue Three / Blue Squadron | 2016 |
| Alice Through the Looking Glass | Lady Ascot | 2016 |
| The Five | Julie Wells | 2016 |
| Hidden India | Narrator | 2015 |
| Black Work | CC Carolyn Jarecki | 2015 |
| 45 Years | Lena | 2015 |
| Robot Overlords | Monique | 2015 |
| Legacy | Martha | 2013 |
| Tudor Monastery Farm | Narrator | 2013 |
| Portrait Artist of the Year | Self - Sitter | 2013 |
| Diana | Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo | 2013 |
| Goodbye Granadaland | Self | 2013 |
| The Genius of Marie Curie: The Woman Who Lit Up the World | Marie Curie's Letters Read By | 2013 |
| Utopia | Milner | 2013 |
| Uncle | Jane | 2012 |
| 13 Steps Down | Gwendolen Chawcer | 2012 |
| 13 Steps Down | Gwendolen Chawcer | 2012 |
| Playhouse Presents | Liz / Lydia | 2012 |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Cecilia / Cecilia Vanger | 2011 |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Mrs. Hudson | 2011 |
| Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self | 2011 |
| Arthur | Vivienne | 2011 |
| Made in Dagenham | Connie | 2010 |
| The Michael Ball Show | Self | 2010 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lady Ascot | 2010 |
| The Many Faces of... | Marie | 2009 |
| Sherlock Holmes | Mrs. Hudson | 2009 |
| Little Britain USA | Celia | 2008 |
| Drama Trails | Self | 2008 |
| Charlotte: A Royal at War | Narrator | 2008 |
| The Last Enemy | Barbara Turney | 2008 |
| City of Vice | Nell | 2008 |
| Fairy Tales | Mrs. Brooke | 2008 |
| Heist | Joanna the Concubine | 2008 |
| Ocean Voyagers | Narrator (voice) | 2007 |
| The Time of Your Life | Eileen | 2007 |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen (voice) / The Voice of Jane Austen | 2007 |
| A Harlot's Progress | Mother Needham | 2006 |
| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Hilary Rees-Benson | 2006 |
| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Cornelia | 2006 |
| Jane Hall | Lorraine Hall | 2005 |
| Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale | Hans's Mother | 2004 |
| Hex | Lilith Hughes / Lillith Hughes | 2004 |
| The Paul O'Grady Show | Herself - Guest | 2004 |
| The Fever | Ranevskaya | 2004 |
| Calendar Girls | Marie | 2003 |
| State of Play | Yvonne Shaps | 2003 |
| Little Britain | Mrs. Pincher | 2003 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Mrs. Mortimer | 2002 |
| White Teeth | Joyce Malfen | 2002 |
| The John Thaw Story | Self | 2002 |
| An Angel for May | Susan Higgins | 2002 |
| Crime & Punishment | Pulcheria | 2002 |
| Taliesin Jones | Mum / Tal's Mum | 2002 |
| Tom & Thomas | Miss Tromp | 2002 |
| Lover's Prayer | Mother | 2001 |
| The Sins | Gloria Green | 2000 |
| The Luzhin Defence | Vera, Natalia's Mother / Vera | 2000 |
| Seesaw | Val Price | 1998 |
| The Man Who Knew Too Little | Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Miranda Bedford | 1997 |
| Rebecca | Beatrice | 1997 |
| Moll Flanders | Edna | 1996 |
| Over Here | Lady Billingham | 1996 |
| Band of Gold | Rose Garrity / Rosemary "Rose" Garrity | 1995 |
| Kavanagh QC | Eleanor Harker QC | 1995 |
| Words Upon the Window Pane | Mrs. Henderson | 1994 |
| The Healer | Dr. Mercedes Honeysett | 1994 |
| No Worries | Anne O'Dwyer | 1994 |
| A Doll's House | Kristine Linde | 1992 |
| The Bridge | Mrs. Todd | 1992 |
| Beltenebros | Rebeca Osorio | 1991 |
| Stanley and the Women | Dr. Trish Collings | 1991 |
| Performance | Kristine Linde | 1991 |
| If Looks Could Kill | Vendetta Galante | 1991 |
| Masterchef | Self | 1990 |
| The 44th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1990 |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Gertrude Brisket | 1989 |
| Screen One | Alice / Harriet Ambrose / Mrs. Dewey / Sarah Williams | 1989 |
| The Tall Guy | Carmen | 1989 |
| Poirot | Helen Abernethie | 1989 |
| Echoes | Angela O'Hara | 1988 |
| Inspector Morse | Helen Field | 1987 |
| Blott on the Landscape | Lady Maud Lynchwood / Lady Maud | 1985 |
| Aspel & Company | Self - Guest | 1984 |
| Alas Smith & Jones | Herself | 1984 |
| The Jewel in the Crown | Sarah Layton | 1984 |
| Natural World | Self - Narrator | 1983 |
| Gandhi | Mirabehn | 1982 |
| I Remember Nelson | Lady Emma Hamilton | 1982 |
| The History Man | Barbara Kirk | 1981 |
| Sweet William | Pamela | 1980 |
| Bloody Kids | Ritchie's Wife | 1980 |
| Shoestring | Mary Philips | 1979 |
| The Dumb Waiter | Sally | 1979 |
| Love Among the Artists | Mary Sutherland | 1979 |
| Who's Who | Miss Hunt | 1979 |
| Dummy | Sandra | 1977 |
| The Sweeney | Shirley Glass | 1975 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Hesther / Janine | 1974 |
| Crown Court | Julie Gilmour / Judy Gilmour | 1972 |
| Play for Today | Miss Hunt | 1970 |
| Horizon | Self - Narrator | 1964 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
