Joanne WhalleyFilmography

Flood

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalley, David Suchet

Synopsis: The citizens of London must grapple with one of the greatest environmental crises in British history, and the possible obliteration of the city itself, in Flood, a natural disaster opus from director Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano). In present day England, a colossal storm hits the North Atlantic Read More

Played

Actors: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Byrne, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Anthony LaPaglia

The Californians

Actors: Noah Wyle, Kate Mara, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: A battle between real estate moguls and environmental activists takes an unexpected turn into affairs of the heart in this satiric update of Henry James' The Bostonians. Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) is a successful real estate developer who has made a tidy fortune putting up gated communities filled Read More

Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

Actors: Anne-Marie Duff, Tom Hardy, Hans Matheson, Ian Hart, Dexter Fletcher

Synopsis: The shrewd, 44-year reign of coquettish Queen Elizabeth I is explored in vivid detail in this lavish historical drama starring Anne-Marie Duff in the title role and directed by Coky Giedroyc. Imprisoned in the Tower of London after being charged with treason and conspiracy by Queen Mary, young Read More

Before You Go

Actors: Julie Walters, Tom Wilkinson, John Hannah, Joanne Whalley

Synopsis: Also known as The Memory of Water, director Lewis Gilbert's low-key drama (based on a play by Shelagh Stephenson) centers on three sisters who return home following their mother's death, and the memories that bind them. Desperate to discover who remembers which events with the most clarity Read More

Virginia's Run

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Joanne Whalley, Lindze Letherman, Kevin Zegers, Rachel Skarsten

Synopsis: In the tradition of such timeless stories as My Friend Flicka, Black Beauty, and The Black Stallion comes this touching tale of friendship between a young girl devastated by the loss of her mother, and the young colt who gives her hope when all seems lost. Following the death of his wife in a Read More

A Texas Funeral

Actors: Robert Patrick, Joanne Whalley, Isaiah Washington, Jane Adams

Synopsis: William Blake Herron directs this baroque family drama about dark family secrets, ear-sucking, and camel herding. The film opens with the funeral of family patriarch Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). As witnessed by Little Sparta, the grieving widow Murtis (Grace Zabriskie) removes an ear from the Read More

Run the Wild Fields

Actors: Cotter Smith, Joanne Whalley, Sean Patrick Flanery, Alexa Vega

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley stars in this drama set during WWII about three people on the home front whose lives have been changed by events overseas. Ruby (Whalley) is a housewife who is trying to raise her daughter and mind the family farm on her own, as her husband has been declared Missing In Action while Read More

Breathtaking

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Cal Macaninch, Neil Dudgeon

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley stars in this slick British thriller about the usual bond between a mentally-scarred psychologist and a traumatized prostitute. Dr. Caroline Henshaw (Whalley) is a sexophobic, anorexic, workaholic shrink who puts her work ahead of her relationship with her long-suffering husband (Neil Dudgeon Read More

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: The life of one of the most famous American women of the last half of the 20th century receives yet another retelling in this made-for-TV drama. Raised by a harsh, domineering mother (Frances Fisher) and a charming but unfaithful (and alcoholic) father (Fred Ward), Jacqueline Bouvier (Joanne Read More

The Guilty

Actors: Bill Pullman, Gabrielle Anwar, Devon Sawa, Angela Featherstone, Joanne Whalley

Synopsis: Defense lawyer and all-around sleaze Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) has a nice wife (Joanne Whalley), two daughters by his wife's first marriage, and an obscenely perfect house. He also has a drinking problem and a penchant for sexual assault. The second proclivity is on ample display when Crane Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Synopsis: Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with Read More

A Good Man in Africa

Actors: Colin Friels, Joanne Whalley, Sean Connery, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Lithgow

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Boyd (who also wrote the film's screenplay), this darkly witty drama explores the political, social, and sexual gamesmanship of a group of British and African politicians. Morgan Leafy (Colin Friels) is a British diplomat who, for the past three years, has been assigned Read More

Trial by Jury

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer stars as a woman corrupted by the criminal justice system in this courtroom suspense thriller. She plays a civil servant named Valerie Alston, a single mother living in New York City, who gets placed on a jury trying the case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante). A Read More

Scarlett

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: This much-ballyhooed TV miniseries sequel to Gone with the Wind finds former Agent 007 Timothy Dalton reprising the tough-to-fill shoes of Clark Gable's Rhett Butler, and former Val Kilmer spouse Joanne Whalley-Kilmer beating out thousands of hopefuls to play what was once Vivien Leigh's Scarlett Read More

Mother's Boys

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for Read More

The Secret Rapture

Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Joanne Whalley, Penelope Wilton, Neil Pearson, Alan Howard

Synopsis: David Hare adapted his play about the tensions simmering within a British family, which erupt with the death of their patriarch. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Storyville

Actors: James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr., Charlotte Lewis, Mike Warren, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Mark Frost, the writer and director best known for his work with David Lynch on the TV series Twin Peaks, made his feature film directorial debut with this convoluted thriller. Cray Fowler (James Spader) is running for congress, partly to satisfy his own political aspirations and partly to resolve Read More

Shattered

Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen directed this intricate suspense thriller, based on the novel by Richard Neely and starring Tom Berenger as Tom Merrick, who begins to suspect the auto accident that caused his memory loss may not have been accidental. The film begins with a car crash over a seaside cliff in San Read More

Crossing the Line

Actors: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Maurice Roeves

Synopsis: Filmmaker David Leland handled the directing chores on this British drama that stars Liam Neeson as an unemployed Scotsman whose inability to find a job threatens his family's wellbeing. Against his better judgement, Neeson is coerced into a bare-knuckle boxing match. Crossing the Line's Read More

Miss Helen

Navy Seals

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: This exercise in patriotic, high-tech action centers on a select group of Navy commandos and their battles against a Middle East terrorist group. This particular squadron is led by a pair of rivals: cocky, fiery Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) and stoic, unflappable Curran (Michael Biehn). When an Read More

Kill Me Again

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Jonathan Gries, Pat Mulligan, Nick Dimitri, Michael Greene

Synopsis: In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction), weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), a seedy private detective is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), to help her fake her own death in a clever scheme to Read More

To Kill a Priest

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Scandal

Actors: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips

Synopsis: In 1963, the conservative British government was shaken to its foundations by the Profumo Scandal. The central character in this disastrous affair was John Profumo, Britain's minister of war, who had become sexually involved with call-girl Christine Keeler, whose "sponsor" was high-priced Read More

Willow

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Patricia Hayes, Jean Marsh

Synopsis: Though Willow was one of director Ron Howard's few box-office disappointments, it definitely deserves a second look. At once an epic celebration and a gentle spoof of the sword-and-sorcery genre, the film concerns the efforts by little person Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) to protect a sacred Read More

A TV Dante: Cantos I-VIII

Actors: John Gielgud, Bob Peck

Synopsis: A clear antecedent to Prospero's Books in its use of multiple-screen techniques, Peter Greenaway's take on Dante's Inferno is a fascinating journey through a well-known classical work. The close-ups of Bob Peck (as Dante) and Sir John Gielgud (as Virgil, whom Dante has asked to be his guide to Read More

The Good Father

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in The Good Father as a publishing executive whose wife Julie Walters has left him, taking their son with her. Walking around like a zombie after this blow, Hopkins is brought back to life by involving himself in the profound problems of his friend Jim Broadbent. Feeling that Read More

Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

Synopsis: Made for British television, Will You Love Me Tomorrow? was inspired by a true story. The protagonist is a 10-year-old girl who is jailed for murder. After spending eleven years behind bars, the girl escapes, seeking answers to her plight. Joanne Whalley (before she began billing herself as Whalley-Kilmer Read More

Edge of Darkness

Synopsis: The British government's nuclear policy is in for a royal drubbing in the tense BBC TV miniseries Edge of Darkness. Bob Peck stars as London police detective Ron Craven, whose political-activist daughter is murdered right before his eyes. Meticulously following the trail of clues, Craven uncovers Read More

No Surrender

Actors: Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage, J.G. Devlin, James Ellis, Tom Georgeson

Synopsis: A moribund nightclub on the fringes of Liverpool's sprawl is the primary setting for this frenetic, dark, and confusing comedy done in a heavy regional "dialect" by director Peter Smith. Set on New Year's Eve, the film chronicles the rivalry between elderly Irish Catholic and Protestant attendees Read More

The Singing Detective

Actors: Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Janet Suzman, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter

Synopsis: With the notable exception of Pennies From Heaven, The Singing Detective was the best-known TV miniseries project of the iconoclastic, darkly humored Dennis Potter. A reworking of Potter's first novel Hide and Seek, the six-part series starred Michael Gambon as crime novelist Philip E. Marlow. Read More

Dance with a Stranger

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll, Tom Chadbon

Synopsis: This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the last woman to be executed in England. Ellis, a divorcee and ex-prostitute works as a "hostess" in a tacky nightclub. There she meets and begins an obsessive love affair Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: David Warner, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-TV movie. Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money, and who regards compassion as a luxury he can't afford. On Read More

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Actors: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Inspired by Pink Floyd's album of the same name, Pink Floyd: The Wall is a dark, expressionistic musical, told from the point of view of Pink, a depressed rock musician. The film is structured around Pink's reflections on his life, all of which center on the building of "the wall." This wall is a Read More