Zoë WanamakerFilmography

Born:: May 13, 1949 in New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: As Madame Hooch in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Zoe Wanamaker teaches Harry how to fly on a broomstick. But the magic she works in that popular film is paltry compared with the magic she works on the stage performing in the works of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet...Read More

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The Old Curiosity Shop

Actors: Sophie Vavasseur, Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Adrian Rawlins, Gina McKee

Synopsis: A young girl and her doting grandfather flee from a vicious debt collector and a mysterious stranger in this made-for-BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale. Deep in the heart of London, Little Nell Trent (Sophie Vavasseur) lives with her grandfather (Sir Derek Jacobi) in his Old Read More

2007
My Family: Series 06

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2006
My Family: Series 05

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2004
5 Children & It

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard, Freddie Highmore, Tara Fitzgerald, Zoë Wanamaker

Synopsis: Five brothers and sisters find their uncle has a big surprise hidden in his estate in this comic fantasy for the whole family. Not long after World War I breaks out, five children -- Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Lamb Read More

2004
My Family: Series 04

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2003
My Family: Series 03

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2002
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris

Synopsis: The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for franchise of Read More

11/16/01
My Family: Series 02

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2001
Gormenghast

Actors: Neve McIntosh, Christopher Lee, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers

Synopsis: The Groan family has led the people for years from their castle, Gormenghast. Although a new heir, Titus Groan, has just come into the world, a scheming kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins an elaborate attempt to take control. Surprisingly Steerpike faces his stiffest competition from the usually Read More

2000
My Family: Series 01

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Zoë Wanamaker, Kris Marshall, Daniella Denby-Ashe, Gabriel Thomson, Siobhan Hayes

2000
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Actors: Randy Quaid, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Daltrey, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An American businessman rents a cottage in Ireland, only to find the cottage is also inhabited by leprechauns as well. Soon, the American finds himself embroiled in a fierce dispute between the leprechauns and their enemies, the fairies, that only he can help settle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
David Copperfield

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Ciarán McMenamin

Synopsis: A distinguished cast highlights this made-for-TV adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' best-loved novels. Young David Copperfield (Daniel Radcliffe) is loved by his mother Clara (Emilia Fox), but does not get along with his foul-tempered stepfather, Murdstone (Trevor Eve). After biting Murdstone Read More

1999
Wilde

Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis: Literary genius, legendary wit, bon vivant, and gay martyr, Oscar Wilde was a man whose legend has grown to iconic proportions since his death at the beginning of the 20th century. Establishing Wilde (Stephen Fry) as a loving family man, complete with a wife (Jennifer Ehle) and two adorable sons Read More

5/22/98
A Dance to the Music of Time

Synopsis: Author Anthony Powell's wildly popular series tomes are translated for the small screen in this sweeping miniseries starring Sir John Gielgud and James Purefoy. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Swept From The Sea

Actors: Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates). Dr. Kennedy despises Read More

1997
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

Actors: Colin Firth, Zoë Wanamaker, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life begins to change in ways she could have never Read More

1995
Prime Suspect 1

Actors: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, John Benfield, John Bowe, Zoë Wanamaker

Synopsis: Helen Mirren delivers a standout performance in this TV miniseries as Jane Tennison, a London police detective. Tennison is trying to track down a sex-crazed killer who is murdering prostitutes, while at the same time doing battle with her male colleagues for her fair share of respect and Read More

1993
Memento Mori

Actors: Stephanie Cole, Renée Ashershon, Michael Hordern, Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the British TV drama Memento Mori boasts an impressive cast of veterans, including Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack, Sir Michael Hordern, Renee Ashershon, and Maggie Smith. The story concerns an eccentric group of senior citizens who Read More

1992
The Blackheath Poisonings

Actors: Christine Kavanagh, Ian McNeice, Zoë Wanamaker, Judy Parfitt, Patrick Malahide

Synopsis: Based on the 1978 novel by Julian Symons, the two-part, four-hour British miniseries The Blackheath Poisonings was set during the Victorian era. When the head of a prominent household is poisoned, virtually everyone within a 50 mile radius falls under suspicion. As the plot thickens, more Read More

1992
Tales of the Unexpected

Synopsis: This video is made up of four mini-thrillers from a popular television anthology series. The first is "People Don't Do Such Things," about a soured marriage; "Youth from Vienna," centering on a fountain of youth that gives unexpected results; "Skeleton in the Cupboard," about a man with a terrible Read More

1991
Titmuss Regained

Synopsis: A sequel to John Mortimer's Paradise Postponed, the Thames Television miniseries Titmuss Regained detailed the further misadventures of bemused British bureaucrat Leslie Titmuss (here played by David Threlfall). As the new Conservative secretary of state for Housing, Ecology, and Planning, Titmuss Read More

1991
Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

1989
The Raggedy Rawney

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoe Nathenson, Dave Hill, Ian Dury

Synopsis: Actor Bob Hoskins made his big-screen directorial debut with the British Raggedy Rawney. The time is World War II: a band of gypsies, roaming a country that looks and sounds suspiciously like England, give shelter to Dexter Fletcher, a soldier who has deserted an army comprised of plunderers and Read More

1989
Dog It Was That Died

1988
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, James Read, Bruce Davison, Anne Francis, Tony J. Peck

Synopsis: Originally shown in two parts, this massive TV movie adaptation of C. David Heymann's biography stars Farrah Fawcett as Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. With two failed marriages to her credit, 29-year-old Barbara marries film idol Cary Grant (James Read), the first man who loves her for herself Read More

1987
Paradise Postponed

1986
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

1986
Inside the Third Reich

Actors: Blythe Danner, John Gielgud, Rutger Hauer, Ian Holm, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Inside the Third Reich was based on the extraordinary revelatory (if self-serving) autobiographical book by Albert Speer. Played herein by Rutger Hauer, Speer is a young man of privilege in pre-Hitler Germany who happens to be a brilliant architect. Becoming a member of Read More

1982
A Christmas Carol

Actors: Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn, Clive Merrison

Synopsis: In this adaptation of Dickens' classic, Scrooge and company are animated. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977