Zoe Wanamaker Biography
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Zoë Wanamaker CBE (born May 13, 1949 in New
York) is an American-born actress who lives and works in the United
Kingdom.
Holding both American and British
citizenship, she is the daughter of the late Jewish American film
actor/director Sam Wanamaker, who came to Britain after being
blacklisted during the 1950s; he led the project to rebuild the Globe
Theatre in London.
She is probably best-known by a world-wide
audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone. She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin
sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of
Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She has also appeared in a variety of films,
programmes, and plays.
Successful television series have included
Love Hurts with Adam Faith and My Family with Robert Lindsay.
Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra
was widely acclaimed.
Wanamaker voiced a CGI character named Lady
Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode The End of the World (2005), and
will reprise the role in the first episode of the 2006 series
(tentatively entitled New Earth).
Selected filmography
Cards on the Table (2005 TV Movie) (Agatha
Christie's Poirot) appearing as Ariadne Oliver
Marple: A Murder is Announced (2005 TV
series) (as Letitia Blacklock)
Britain's Best Sitcom (2004) (TV series)
(narrator)
Five Children and It (2004)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(2001)
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001)
(TV)
My Family (2000) (TV series)
Gormenghast (2000) (miniseries)
David Copperfield (1999) (TV)
Swept from the Sea (1997)
Wilde (1997)
Prime Suspect 4: Scent of Darkness (1995)
(TV) (uncredited)
Prime Suspect (1991) (TV)
Edge of Darkness (1985) (miniseries)
Inside the Third Reich (1982) (TV)
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