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Zoë Wanamaker
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Zoë Wanamaker CBE (born 13 May 1949) is an American-born English actress. She is best known for her roles in My Family and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 1.2 Career
- 2 Selected filmography
- 3 Footnotes
- 4 External links
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Biography
Personal life
Wanamaker was born in New York City and holds both American and British citizenship. She became a British citizen in 2000 specifically so that she would receive a CBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace rather than an honorary decoration from the British Foreign Secretary. [1] She is the daughter of the late Jewish American film actor/director/producer Sam Wanamaker, who left the United States for England after being blacklisted in 1952 and his wife, Charlotte Holland. Both of her parents died of cancer. Wanamaker is Jewish.[1]
In November 1994, she married the British actor and dramatist
Gawn Grainger.
Career
While she may be best known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Wanamaker is best known in the UK for playing Susan Harper in the sitcom My Family.
She played Clarice, one of the dimwitted 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, programmes, and plays. Successful television series have included Love Hurts with Adam Faith.
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.
Selected filmography
Footnotes
- ^ "Variety Club - Jewish Chronicle colour supplement "350 years"", The Jewish Chronicle, 2006-12-15, pp. 28-29. Retrieved on December 23, 2006.
