Zoë Wanamaker

Madam Hooch

Full name: Zoë Wanamaker
DOB: 13 May 1949
Birth place: New York, USA
Short biography: Zoë Wanamaker CBE is an American-born British actress who lives and works in the United Kingdom. Holding both American and British citizenship, she is the daughter of the late Jewish American film actor/director/producer Sam Wanamaker, who left the United States for Great Britain after being blacklisted during the 1950s; he led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London. She is probably best known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and her role in My Family. She played Clarice, one of the dim-witted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She has also appeared in a variety of films, programs, and plays. Successful television series have included "Love Hurts" with Adam Faith and My Family with Robert Lindsay. Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra, for which she won an Olivier Award, was widely acclaimed. Wanamaker voiced a CGI character named Lady Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World" (2005), and reprised the role (also appearing in the flesh this time) in New Earth, the first episode of the 2006 series.

Filmography:

1. "My Family" ... Susan Harper - And Other Animals (2006) TV Episode ... Susan Harper - An Embarrassment of Susans (2006) TV Episode ... Susan Harper - Living the Dream (2006) TV Episode ... Susan Harper - Dentally Unstable (2006) TV Episode ... Susan Harper - The Spokes Person (2006) TV Episode ... Susan Harper (67 more)
2. "Doctor Who" - New Earth (2006) TV Episode ... Cassandra - The End of the World (2005) TV Episode (voice) .. Cassandra
3. Johnny and the Bomb (2006) (TV) .... Mrs. Tachyon
4. "Poirot" ... aka Agatha Christie's Poirot (UK: complete title) - Cards on the Table (2005) TV Episode ... Ariadne Oliver - Dead Man's Folly (????) TV Episode ... Ariadne Oliver - Mrs. McGinty's Dead (????) TV Episode ... Ariadne Oliver
5. A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005) (TV) ... Countess of Pembroke
6. Marple: A Murder Is Announced (2005) (TV) ... Letitia Blacklock
7. Five Children and It (2004) ... Martha ... aka Cinq enfants et moi (France)
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) ... Madame Hooch ... aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Canada: English title) (International: English title) (UK) ... aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (USA)
9. The Dark (2001) (V) (voice) ... Tooth Fairy
10. Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001) (TV) ... Tania Braithwaite
11. "Gormenghast" (2000) (mini) TV Series ... Clarice Groan
12. David Copperfield (1999) (TV) ... Miss Murdstone
13. The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) (TV) ... Mary Muldoon ... aka Kampf der Kobolde (Germany) ... aka Leprechauns (USA: short title)
14. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle (1998) (TV) (voice) ... Narrator
15. "A Dance to the Music of Time" (1997) (mini) TV Series ... Audrey Maclintick (segment film two and film three)
16. Swept from the Sea (1997) ... Mary Foster ... aka Amy Foster (UK) ... aka Balayé par la mer (Canada: French title)
17. Wilde (1997) ... Ada Leverson ... aka Oscar Wilde (Germany) (Japan: English title)
18. "Creatures Fantastic" (1997) TV Series (voice) ... Narrator
19. Prime Suspect 4: Scent of Darkness (1995) (TV) (uncredited) ... Moyra Henson (in photograph)
20. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1995) (TV) ... Mrs. Holroyd
21. The English Wife (1995) (TV) ... Caroline Griveau
22. The Blackheath Poisonings (1992) (TV) ... Charlotte Collard
23. "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" - Macbeth (1992) TV Episode (voice) ... Lady Macbeth
24. "Love Hurts" (1992) TV Series ... Tessa Piggott/Carver
25. Memento Mori (1992) (TV) ... Olive Mannering
26. The Countess Alice (1992) ... Connie