Cast & creator
Joanne Whalley
Best known for Criminal Minds, Gossip Girl, Crown Court
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has since amassed numerous credits, primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including Dance with a Stranger (1985), Willow (1988), Scandal (1989), The Secret Rapture (1993) and Mother's Boys (1994). Following her marriage to Val Kilmer in 1988, she was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer until their divorce in 1996. Whalley was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1985 BBC serial Edge of Darkness, and was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for the 2011 series The Borgias. Her other television roles include the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective; playing the title role in the 2000 CBS TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and as Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate in the 2015 NBC series A.D. The Bible Continues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Also known as: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
55
film credits
25
television credits
79
1972–2025 · acting roles
6.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (80)
Showing 80 of 80 credits
Criminal Minds
Karen Donovan
2005
Gossip Girl
Sophie Grimaldi
2007
Crown Court
Linda Mason
1972
Marvel's Daredevil
Sister Maggie
2015
Screen Two
Jackie
1985
Bergerac
Christine Bolton
1981
Justice League Unlimited
Emerald Empress (voice)
2004
The Borgias
Vanozza Cattaneo
2011
The Singing Detective
Nurse Mills
1986
Carnival Row
Leonora
2019
Wolf Hall
Katherine of Aragon
2015
Tin Star
Mary James
2017
Willow
Queen Sorsha
2022
The White Princess
Margaret of York
2017
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Ulla
1983
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Rheda
2016
Scarlett
Scarlett O'Hara
1994
Willow
Sorsha
1988
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Priscilla
2018Coming Home
Assistant Travel Agent
1981
Edge of Darkness
Emma Craven
1985
Tornado
Vienna Crawford
2025
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Groupie
1982
The Virgin Queen
Queen Mary
2006
Jamaica Inn
Aunt Patience
2014
Val
Self
2021Val
Thanks
2021
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Lori
1997
Shattered
Jenny Scott
1991
Navy Seals
Claire Varrens
1990
Willow: Behind the Magic
Self - 'Sorsha'
2023
Flood
Patricia Nash
2007
The Rumour
2025
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
A Christmas Carol
Fan
1984
Twixt
Denise
2011
The Guilty
Natalie Crane
2000
A Good Man in Africa
Celia Adekunle
1994
Scandal
Christine Keeler
1989
Mother's Boys
Colleen 'Callie' Harland
1993
Trial by Jury
Valerie Alston
1994
Kill Me Again
Fay Forrester
1989
To Kill a Priest
Anna
1988
Love Is Love Is Love
Lainie / Joanne (segments "Two for Dinner" and "Late Lunch")
2021
The Ark
Emmy
2015
Dance with a Stranger
Christine
198540
Jess
2003
The Big Man
Beth Scoular
1990
44 Inch Chest
Liz
2009
Muse
Jacqueline
2017
A Kind of Loving
1982
The Challenger Disaster
Gweneth Feynman
2013
Golf in the Kingdom
Agatha McNaughton
2011
The Californians
Luna
2005
Played
Maggie
2006
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
2000
Birth of the Beatles
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
1979
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
Self - 'Sorsha'
1988
Storyville
Natalie Tate
1992
Life Line
Katy Adair
2007
Resurrection
Claudia
2021
The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Doris
1978
The Good Father
Mary Hall
1985
Bosses From Hell
1989
Hardcore Halbert
Janet
2021
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Jackie
1987
A Texas Funeral
Miranda
1999
Breathtaking
Caroline Henshaw
2000Gardel
Run the Wild Fields
Ruby Miller
2000
Diverted
Marion Price
2009
And Mum Came Too
Evelyn
1980
Child of Mine
Tess Palmer
2005
A TV Dante
Beatrice
1990
No Surrender
Cheryl
1985
Before You Go
Mary
2002
Virginia's Run
Jessie Eastwood
2002
The Secret Rapture
Katherine Coleridge
1993
Shoreleave
Myra
1987
The Bird Game
Crow
2019