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Joanne Whalley

1961 - Today

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Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English film and television actress. She was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer from 1988 to 1996 during her marriage to Val Kilmer. Whalley came to fame through television with appearances drama serials Edge of Darkness (BBC, 1985), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, and The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joanne Whalley has received more than 7,873,061 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Joanne Whalley is the 2,903rd most popular actor (up from 4,211th in 2019), the 2,505th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,360th in 2019) and the 349th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joanne Whalley ranks 2,903 out of 13,578. Before her are Ian Bannen, Enrique Irazoqui, Robert Urich, Hugh Bonneville, James Michael Tyler, and Paz Vega. After her are Leo Penn, Ružica Sokić, Richard Kind, Yolande Moreau, Ilse Steppat, and Elizabeth Olsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Joanne Whalley ranks 146. Before her are Maia Chiburdanidze, Kazuki Takahashi, Juan Carlos Osorio, Agneta Andersson, Timur Bekmambetov, and Katherine Kelly Lang. After her are Abhijit Banerjee, Eric Allin Cornell, Dragiša Binić, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Marc Levy, and Alexander Bard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joanne Whalley ranks 2,505 out of 8,785. Before her are Ian Bannen (1928), Andy Murray (1987), Laurence Doherty (1875), Hugh Bonneville (1963), James Douglas, Lord of Douglas (1286), and Ralph Abercromby (1734). After her are W. Ross Ashby (1903), Æthelheard of Wessex (750), Carl Cox (1962), Peter Atkins (1940), Guy Burgess (1911), and Andrew Lang (1844).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Joanne Whalley ranks 349. Before her are Chiwetel Ejiofor (1977), Belinda Lee (1935), Lindsay Duncan (1950), Norman Wisdom (1915), Ian Bannen (1928), and Hugh Bonneville (1963). After her are Matt Smith (1982), Natalie Dormer (1982), Vincent Regan (1965), Minnie Driver (1970), Jane Asher (1946), and Warwick Davis (1970).

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Television and Movie Roles

Willow
Sorsha
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
May 20o 19887 / 10
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Lori
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Nov 14o 19976.37 / 10
The Borgias
Vanozza Cattaneo
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
7.555 / 10