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Penelope Wilton

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Biography

Penelope Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire in 1946. A niece of the actor Bill Travers and the actress Linden Travers…more

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6/3/1946, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

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Role
- Downton Abbey
  Isobel Crawley
  - S 2: Ep 9 Episode 9 (Christmas Special)
    12/25/11
  - S 2: Ep 8 Episode 8
    11/6/11
  - S 2: Ep 7 Episode 7
    10/30/11
  - S 2: Ep 6 Episode 6
    10/23/11
  - S 2: Ep 5 Episode 5
    10/16/11
  - + 10 More Credits
- South Riding
  Alderman Mrs Beddows
- Five Days
  Barbara Poole
  - S 1: Ep 5 Day Seventy Nine
    2/1/07
  - S 1: Ep 4 Day Thirty Three
    1/26/07
  - S 1: Ep 3 Day Twenty Eight
    1/25/07
  - S 1: Ep 2 Day Three
    1/24/07
  - S 1: Ep 1 Day One
    1/23/07
- Bob and Rose
  Monica Gossage
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode 6
    10/15/01
  - S 1: Ep 5 Episode 5
    10/8/01
  - S 1: Ep 4 Episode 4
    10/1/01
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode 3
    9/24/01
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode 2
    9/17/01
  - + 1 More Credits
- Ever Decreasing Circles
  Ann Bryce
  - S 4: Ep 8 Moving On (80 min)
    12/24/89
  - S 4: Ep 7 Half an Office
    12/6/87
  - S 4: Ep 6 Jumping to Conclusions
    11/29/87
  - S 4: Ep 5 The Footpath
    11/22/87
  - S 4: Ep 4 Neighbourhood Watch
    11/15/87
  - + 22 More Credits
- The Monocled Mutineer
  Lady Angela Forbes
- The Norman Conquests
  Annie
  - S 1: Ep 3 Round and Round the Garden
    10/19/77
  - S 1: Ep 2 Living Together
    10/12/77
  - S 1: Ep 1 Table Manners
    10/5/77
Guest Star (16)

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- The Andrew Marr Show
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 37 29th May, 2011
    5/29/11
- My Family
  Rosemary
  - S 10: Ep 1 Wheelie Ben
    7/9/10
- Agatha Christie's Marple
  Carrie Louise Serrocold
  - S 4: Ep 3 They Do It With Mirrors
    1/1/10
- Doctor Who (2005)
  Harriet Jones
  - S 4: Ep 12 The Stolen Earth (1)
    6/28/08
  - — The Christmas Invasion
    12/25/05
  - S 1: Ep 5 World War Three (2)
    4/23/05
  - S 1: Ep 4 Aliens of London (1)
    4/16/05
- Loose Women
  Herself
  - S 12: Ep 106 Wednesday 13th February
    2/13/08
- Masterpiece Theatre
  Mrs. Hamley
  - S 30: Ep 16 Wives and Daughters (1)
    4/1/01
- Funny Turns
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 2 Richard Briers: A Good Life
    4/16/00
- Kavanagh Q.C.
  Barbara Watkins
  - S 5: Ep 3 Time of Need
    3/22/99
- Talking Heads 2
  Rosemary
  - S 1: Ep 5 Nights in the Gardens of Spain
    11/3/98
- Comic Relief
  Celebrity call taker
  - S 1: Ep 1 RND 1988 - A Night of Comic Relief
    2/5/88
- C.A.T.S. Eyes
  Angela Lane
  - S 2: Ep 4 Good as New
    4/26/86
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Regan
  - S 1: Ep 22 King Lear
    9/19/82
- Play for Today
  Guest Star
  - S 12: Ep 1 Country
    10/20/81
  - S 11: Ep 1 Pasmore
    10/21/80
- BBC Television Shakespeare
  Desdemona
  - S 1: Ep 19 Othello
    10/4/81
- Play of the Month
  Regan
  - S 10: Ep 7 King Lear
    3/23/75
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 7: Ep 20 An Affair of Honour
    1/31/72

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Anna Maxwell Martin Takes Us South Riding

By Ruth Margolis, Feb 18, 2011

TV.com reviews South Riding's ahead of its BBC debut, on Sunday February 20th at 9pm. read more

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- Penelope Wilton's début in the theatre was in a performance of The Philanthropist at the Royal Court.
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- Penelope Wilton has one surviving child, a daughter Alice, named after her mother.
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- Penelope Wilton found her role of Livia in Women Beware Women to be one of the most challenging of her career.
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- Penelope Wilton: (About ex-husband Ian Holm) I first saw him when I was 17 and had just learnt to drive, so I drove myself to Stratford to see him in Henry VI Parts I and II. I remember thinking he was absolutely wonderful.
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- Penelope Wilton: (About being educated in Convent schools) I loved the nuns. Miss Barafatty. Mother St Joseph, and I loved all the drama and incense, but never really learned anything. They were the sorts of places that majored in needlework.
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- Penelope Wilton: When you get older, people are dying to stereotype you. You play the mummy or the auntie figure or you have to be batty. And actually, all of that's bollocks. People are who they are, but they're just a bit older. I think any woman encounters that stereotyping.
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