Billie Whitelaw
Highest Rated: 100% Gumshoe (1972)
Lowest Rated: 38% Night Watch (1973)
Birthday: Jun 6, 1932
Birthplace: Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Praised by playwright Samuel Beckett-who considered her his muse-as "a perfect actress," Billie Whitelaw made an indelible mark on British arts and entertainment from the age of 11 until her death at 82, covering radio, television, film, and theatre. Her noticeable Yorkshire accent was a boon to the rise of social realism, but that did not preclude her from spreading her focus as wide as possible, doing absurdist theatre, horror thrillers, one very famous production of "Othello," and even voicing a Jim Henson puppet.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | 89% | Hot Fuzz | Joyce Cooper (Character) | $23.6M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Evelyn (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 75% | 83% | Quills | Madame LeClerc (Character) | $7.1M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Lost Son | Mrs. Spitz (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jane Eyre | Grace Poole (Character) | $5.2M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Deadly Advice | Kate Webster (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skallagrigg | Margaret (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Duel of Hearts | Dorcas (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | A Murder of Quality | Mad Janie (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cloning of Joanna May | Mavis (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 82% | 80% | The Krays | Violet Kray (Character) | $1.6M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | Lorna Doone | Sarah Ridd (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joyriders | Tammy O'Moore (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | The Dressmaker | Margo (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Picnic | Unknown (Character) | - | 1988 |
| 87% | 87% | Maurice | Mrs. Hall (Character) | $45.9K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadey | Doctor Cloud (Character) | $1.9K | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder Elite | Margaret Baker (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | The Chain | Mrs. Andreos (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Camille | Prudence Duvorney (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 9% | Slayground | Madge (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Samuel Beckett: Silence To Silence | Unknown (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tangier | Louise (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Elizabeth Leaming (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | A Tale of Two Cities | Madame Therese Defarge (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Water Babies |
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- | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Slip Slide Adventures |
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- | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leopard in the Snow | Isabel James (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 86% | 80% | The Omen | Mrs. Baylock (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 38% | 65% | Night Watch | Sarah Cooke (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 100% | 55% | Gumshoe | Ellen (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 90% | 77% | Frenzy | Hetty Porter (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eagle in a Cage | Madame Bertrand (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Leo the Last | Margaret (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 83% | 77% | Start the Revolution Without Me | Queen Marie (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adding Machine | Daisy Devore (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Twisted Nerve | Joan Harper (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Gwyn Thomas (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Charlie Bubbles | Lottie Bubbles (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Comedy Man | Judy (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 43% | No Score Yet | I Like Money | Ernestine (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakout | Rose Munro (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 59% | Make Mine Mink | Lily (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Hell Is a City | Chloe Hawkins (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Flesh and the Fiends | Mary Patterson (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bobbikins | Lydia Simmons (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Small Hotel | Caroline Mallet (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Sleeping Tiger | Receptionist at Pearce & Mann (Character) | - | 1954 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66% | 86% | Space: 1999 | Zamara (Guest Star) | 1976 |