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Joanne Whalley
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Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1964) is a British actress.
Born in Salford, she was brought up in Stockport, and initially appeared in bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Her film roles include an early, non-speaking part in Pink Floyd's The Wall; the fantasy adventure Willow; the mystery noir Shattered and the role of Christine Keeler in Scandal, about the Profumo Affair.
Her most significant roles on British
television were as Emma Craven in
Troy Kennedy Martin's
Edge of Darkness (
1985), and Nurse Mills in the
Dennis Potter-penned serial
The Singing Detective (
1986) both for
BBC Television. In
1987 she played a role in the TV movie
The Good Father. She also starred in 1989 as
Christine Keeler in the movie
Scandal highlighting the
Profumo Affair alongside stars
John Hurt and Sir
Ian McKellen. In
1994 she became only the second actress to play
Gone with the Wind heroine
Scarlett O'Hara when she appeared in a made-for-TV adaptation of the sequel novel,
Scarlett.
She was married to actor Val Kilmer from 1988 to 1996 and has two children. During her marriage, she used the name Joanne Whalley-Kilmer.
She has appeared in television films, including the 2000 tele-film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in which she played the title character.
In 2003, she collaborated with the pop-punk band blink-182 to read a letter at the beginning of the song "Stockholm Syndrome".
In 2005, she appeared as
Mary I of England in
The Virgin Queen, a
BBC TV series about
Elizabeth I starring
Anne-Marie Duff in the title role, shown on PBS in the U.S. in 2005 and the UK in 2006.
