Cast & creator
Frances de la Tour
Best known for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Outlander, Play for Today
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.
Also known as: Frances J. de Lautour, فرانسیس دی لا تور
39
film credits
33
television credits
72
1967–2021 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (72)
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Salome Otterbourne
1989
Outlander
Mother Hildegarde
2014
Play for Today
Marcia
1970Play for Today
Maria Waite
1970
Heartbeat
Tessa
1992
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Madame Olympe Maxime
2005
ITV Playhouse
Jean
1967
Waking the Dead
Alice Taylor-Garnett
2001
New Tricks
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
2004
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Olympe Maxime
2010
Alice in Wonderland
Aunt Imogene
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004
Professor T
Adelaide Tempest
2021
Love Actually
Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
2003
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Aunt Imogene
2016
The Book of Eli
Martha
2010
Dolittle
Dragon (voice)
2020
Enola Holmes
The Dowager
2020
Born and Bred
Eugenia Maddox
2002
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Aunt Western
1997
Into the Woods
Giant
2014
Mr. Holmes
Madame Schirmer
2015
Hugo
Madame Emilie
2011
Vanity Fair
Lady Matilda Crawley
2018
The Collection
Yvette Sabine
2016
Survivor
Sally
2015
Unnatural Causes
Marcia
1986
Rising Damp
Ruth
1974
Vicious
Violet Crosby
2013
Big School
Ms Baron
2013Leave it to Charlie
Miss Grimshaw
1978
The Prince
Queen Elizabeth (voice)
2021
The Lady in the Van
Ursula Vaughan Williams
2015
Man in an Orange Shirt
Mrs. March
2017
Sensitive Skin
Sarah Thorne
2005
Stay Lucky
1989
Cold Lazarus
Dr Emma Porlock
1996
Miss You Already
Jill
2015
The Nutcracker
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
2010
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
The Woman
1977
The Bounder
Celia
1982
The History Boys
Mrs. Lintott
2006A Kind of Living
Carol Beasley
1988
Flickers
Maud Cole
1980
The Highway Rat
The Rabbit (voice)
2018
Every Home Should Have One
Maud Crape
1970What's Your Problem?
2002
To the Devil a Daughter
Salvation Army Major
1976Cottage to Let
Elsie Pope
1977
Brotherly Love
District Nurse
1970
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Kay
2013
Rising Damp
Miss Jones
1980
Private Peaceful
Grandma Wolf
2012
Trap for Cinderella
Aunt Elinor
2013
Murder with Mirrors
Miss Bellaver
1985
Suspension of Disbelief
Nesta
2012
Bejewelled
Beatrice
1991
Downwardly Mobile
1994
Right to Work March
Elizabeth I
1972
The Cherry Orchard
Charlotte Ivanovna
1999
Housewives' Choice
Marcia
1976
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Kay
2010
Every Silver Lining
1993
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Self
2012
National Theatre Live: People
Dorothy Stacpoole
2013
Our Miss Fred
Miss Lockhart
1972
Genghis Cohn
Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
1993
Strike It Rich
Mrs de Vere
1990
All Good Men
1974
Wombling Free
Julia Frogmorton
1977Skirmishes
Jean
1982