Career Retrospective with actor Hannah Waddingham.
BIO:
Hannah Waddingham is an Emmy Award winning television, film, and theater actress and singer.
Widely recognized as ‘Rebecca Welton,’ Waddingham can be seen starring in the award-winning Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso,” currently streaming its third and final season. She has garnered Emmy, Critics Choice, and HCA Awards, as well as two Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.
Waddingham can also be seen starring in Dan Harmon’s FOX animated series “Krapopolis.” The show debuted as the highest rated animated series in over a decade.
Next, Waddingham will star in Univeral’s upcoming action film, The Fall Guy, which has an ensemble led by Ryan Gosling and includes Emily Blunt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The film is slated for release on May 3rd, 2024. Waddingham has joined the cast of the Sony Pictures animated adaptation of Garfield, set to be released on May 24th, 2024. She will also be seen in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two alongside Tom Cruise, which is slated for a 2025 release. Waddingham will soon start production on a forthcoming action-adventure series alongside Octavia Spencer. The untitled series will produce eight episodes for Prime Video across the world.
Late 2023, Waddingham premiered her Christmas concert special on Apple TV+ entitled Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas to rave reviews. Recorded live at The Coliseum in London, one of London’s oldest and most beautiful theaters, the one-hour special features Waddingham ringing in the season with musical performances of beloved Christmas classics. This TV special earned her a BAFTA TV Award nomination.
Waddingham was recently seen in PBS Masterpiece and ITV’s “Tom Jones” and Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 in the role of ‘Mother Witch.' She made her hosting debut in April 2023 at the Olivier Awards followed by Eurovision Song Contest 2023, which garnered her a second BAFTA TV nomination.
Her other notable credits include Season 1 & 2 of the Netflix series “Sex Education.” Previously, she starred as the villainous ‘Jax-Ur’ in season 2 of the Warner Bros series “Krypton” for E4/SyFy. She is probably best known on screen, however, from her scene-stealing, GIF-generating run as “Septa Unella”, the Shame Nun, in HBO's groundbreaking series “Game of Thrones.” Waddingham also appeared as “Magdalena” in television adaptation of “12 Monkeys” for SyFy and played “Dr. Stone” in Kay Mellor's prime time BBC drama “In The Club”. She starred in BBC 2's “The Entire Universe” alongside Eric Idle, Warwick Davis, Noel Fielding and Prof. Brian Cox, which also aired on PBS in America and appears in the MGM feature The Hustle with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson released in 2019.
As well as her extensive film and television work, Waddingham has a wealth of experience in theatre and is most known for her contribution to West End musical theatre over the last twenty years with three Olivier nominations for her roles in Kiss Me Kate as Kate/Lilli Vanessi (Old Vic/Dir. Trevor Nunn), A Little Night Music as Desiree Armfeldt (Garrick & Menier Chocolate Factory/Dir. Trevor Nunn) and Monty Python's Spamalot as The Lady of The Lake (Palace Theatre/Dir. Mike Nicholls) for which she won the Broadway.com Award for Best Newcomer when she reprised the role at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. She also won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting actress in a Musical as The Wicked Witch of The West in The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium/Dir. Jeremy Samms).
Other theatre work includes The Witch in Into The Woods (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre), Madame Pinglet in A Little Hotel on The Side (Theatre Royal Bath), Fay Hubbard in A Chorus of Disapproval (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Satan in Tonight's the Night and Rizzo in Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre), Christine Warner in The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre. Critics' Circle Award nomination), Suzanne Valadon in Lautrec (Shaftesbury Theatre. Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and Best Newcomer), Shimmy Girl in Smokey Joe's Café (UK tour), Chesty Prospects in Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Queen's Theatre).
Her other television work includes Jack Dee’s Bad Move, Josh, Partners in Crime, Benidorm, Miss Marple-The Mirror Crack'd, Not Going Out, My Family, among others. Feature works include Les Miserables and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Waddingham also appeared in Meet Pursuit Delange that premiered at the Raindance Film Festival 2016 in London.
Waddingham resides in London.
Run time: 90 minutes
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