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Hannah Waddingham

Hannah Waddingham

Acting
Born: Jul 28, 1974
From: Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles

Biography

Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in both 2021 and 2022. She has also appeared in several West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West. She has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work. Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018) and the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones(2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. Beginning in 2023, Waddingham began to expand into voice acting, portraying the snarky goddess Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (2023-present) and earning a Primetime Emmy Award …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
High in the Clouds Gretsch (voice) 2027
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning Admiral Neely 2025 7.162
Smurfs Jezebeth (voice) 2025 5.819
Lilo & Stitch Grand Councilwoman (voice) 2025 7.2
The Woman in Cabin 10 Heidi Heatherley 2025 6.193
The Garfield Movie Jinx (voice) 2024 6.996
The Fall Guy Gail Meyer 2024 6.958
Tiddler Narrator (voice) 2024 6.6
Willow: Behind the Magic Self - 'Hubert' 2023 4.313
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas Self 2023 6.147
Krapopolis TV Deliria (voice) 2023 7.3
Hocus Pocus 2 The Witch Mother 2022 7.153
Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City Self 2022 9.0
An Audience with Adele Self 2021 8.4
West End Unplugged Vol.2 2020
The Hustle Shiraz 2019 6.191
The Ranganation TV Self 2019 6.8
Winter Ridge Joanne Hill 2018 5.1
The Entire Universe Time and Space 2016 3.5
The Gatehouse The Agent 2016 6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV 2015 6.144
Les Misérables Factory Woman 2 2012 7.307
Into the Woods Witch 2011 8.8
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People Elizabeth Maddox 2008 6.008
The Only Boy for Me Melissa 2006 4.0
Agatha Christie's Marple TV Lola Brewster 2004 7.798
Coupling TV Jenny Turbot 2000 7.937
Midsomer Murders TV Mimi Dagmar 1997 7.5
Eurovision Song Contest TV Self - Host 1956 7.2
Mr. Sunny Sky
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1974
FromWandsworth, London, England, …