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Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton

English actress
June 3, 1946 (77 years old)
G.-B. 2023. Drama by Hettie MacDonald with Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Linda Bassett. Moved by a letter from a female old friend suffering from cancer, a married pensioner walks across England to hand-deliver his letter of reply.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 2021. War drama by John Madden with Colin Firth, Matthew MacFadyen, Kelly Macdonald. During World War II, two British intelligence officers recruit the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
Runtime: 128 min
G.-B. 2020. Drama by Jessica Swale with Gemma Arterton, Lucas Bond, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. During World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to a young evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 2019. Drama by Michael Engler with Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Robert James-Collier. In 1927, the announcement of the forthcoming visit of the King and Queen of England caused a stir in the household of a Yorkshire earl.
Runtime: 122 min.
G.-B. 2019. Psychological drama by Craig Roberts with Sally Hawkins, Billie Piper, Morfydd Clark. The highs and lows of a schizophrenic Welsh woman who has pinned all her hopes for love on an aspiring musician who also suffers from mental illness.
Runtime: 95 min.
Irl. 2017. Dramatic comedy by Colin McIvor with Art Parkinson, Toby Jones, Penelope Wilton. In 1941, while Northern Ireland is being bombed by the Germans, a boy rallies his friends to help him save the life of a baby elephant in the Belfast Zoo.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2016. Fantasy comedy by Steven Spielberg with Ruby Barnhill, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton. Kidnapped by a gentle giant dream catcher, but hunted by his bloodthirsty fellow creatures, an orphan girl asks the Queen of England for help.
Runtime: 117 min.
G.-B. 2013. Biography by Amma Asante with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid. In the eighteenth century in England, which was benefiting from slavery, a young person of mixed race raised in the home of the country's highest magistrate strives to secure a good marriage.
Runtime: 104 min.
G.-B. 2012. Dramatic comedy by John Madden with Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith. The adventures in India of seven English pensioners who stay in a dilapidated palace that was advertised to them as an enchanting hotel.
Runtime: 124 min.
G.-B. 2012. Biography by Julian Jarrold with Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton. The obsessive relationship of filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock with actress Tippi Hedren, star of his films ""The Birds"" and ""No Springtime for Marnie"".
Runtime: 91 min.
G.-B. 2011. Drama by Diarmuid Lawrence with Anna Maxwell Martin, David Morrissey, Penelope Wilton. In a small English community during the Depression, the newly emancipated headmistress of an all-girls school finds herself attracted to a morose landowner.
G.-B. 2007. Drama by Tim Fywell with Penelope Wilton, Daniel Mays, Sinead Matthews. A housekeeper forced into retirement forms an unexpected family with a thief and a pregnant woman whom she takes in at her bosses' home.
G.-B. 2006. Drama by Tristram Powell with Penelope Wilton, Michael Kitchen, Philip McGinley. A fifty-year-old gardener subtly eases himself into the life of a divorced novelist who has just moved to the country.
G.-B. 2005. Mores drama by Woody Allen with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer. A tennis instructor of modest origins, married to the daughter of a wealthy London businessman, becomes involved in a passionate love affair with an American woman.
Runtime: 125 min.
G.-B. 2004. Horror comedy by Edgar Wright with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield. While trying to win back his girlfriend, a young London salesman must fight off a sudden invasion of the undead.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2001. Mores comedy by Robin Sheppard with Stephen Tompkinson, Robert Hardy, Penelope Wilton. A young, enthusiastic professor finds himself in a personality clash with the dean of his university.
Runtime: 104 min.
G.-B. 1999. Fantasy comedy by John Henderson with Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Greg Wise. A young woman finds herself transported into a magical world after passing through a mirror.
Runtime: 85 min.
G.-B. 1998. Dramatic comedy by Gavin Millar with Joan Plowright, Jonathan Burteaux, Penelope Wilton. An elderly English lady runs away to Paris, where she befriends a kid who has stolen money from drug dealers.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 1993. Psychological drama by Howard Davies with Juliet Stevenson, Joanne Whalley, Penelope Wilton. The arrival of a grieving young mother-in-law has unfortunate consequences on a couple's marital and professional lives.
Runtime: 96 min.

Laughterhouse

V.O.: Singleton's Pluck
G.-B. 1989. Comedy by Richard Eyre with Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Bill Owen. A farmer in conflict with his workers decides to take his flock of geese to the London market alone and on foot.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1987. Social drama by Richard Attenborough with Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton. The editor of a liberal daily newspaper in South Africa befriends a Black leader, which leads to scrutinity by the authorites.
Runtime: 158 min.

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