Hannah Waddingham
Acting • Born 1974-07-28
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 for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination and Jinx in The Garfield Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Hannah Waddingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
61 credits
Hocus Pocus 2
Movie • 2022
The Witch Mother
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Movie • 2025
Admiral Neely
An Audience with Adele
Movie • 2021
Self
Michael Bublé's Christmas in the City
Movie • 2022
Self
Les Misérables
Movie • 2012
Factory Woman 2
Willow: Behind the Magic
Movie • 2023
Self - 'Hubert'
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Movie • 2008
Elizabeth Maddox
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
Movie • 2023
Self
The Garfield Movie
Movie • 2024
Jinx (voice)
The Fall Guy
Movie • 2024
Gail Meyer
Smurfs
Movie • 2025
Jezebeth (voice)
Tiddler
Movie • 2024
Narrator (voice)
Lilo & Stitch
Movie • 2025
Grand Councilwoman (voice)
The Entire Universe
Movie • 2016
Time and Space
The Only Boy for Me
Movie • 2006
Melissa
Winter Ridge
Movie • 2018
Joanne Hill
The Gatehouse
Movie • 2016
The Agent
The Hustle
Movie • 2019
Shiraz
Into the Woods
Movie • 2011
Witch
West End Unplugged Vol.2
Movie • 2020
The Woman in Cabin 10
Movie • 2025
Heidi Heatherley
Mr. Sunny Sky
Movie
High in the Clouds
Movie • 2027
Gretsch (voice)
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Mimi Dagmar
Eurovision Song Contest
TV • 1956
Self - Host
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Krapopolis
TV • 2023
Deliria (voice)
The Ranganation
TV • 2019
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Lola Brewster
Coupling
TV • 2000
Jenny Turbot
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Septa Unella
A League of Their Own
TV • 2010
Themselves - Guest
12 Monkeys
TV • 2015
Magdalena
Partners in Crime
TV • 2015
Blonde Assassin
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Sherri
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
Ride or Die
TV
Judith
Tom Jones
TV • 2023
Lady Bellaston
Krypton
TV • 2018
Jax-Ur
My Hero
TV • 2000
Miranda
My Hero
TV • 2000
Lula
Sex Education
TV • 2019
Sofia Marchetti
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
TV • 2019
Self - Guest Judge
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
QI
TV • 2003
Self
Willow
TV • 2022
Hubert
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 2021
Self - Panellist
Benidorm
TV • 2007
Tonya
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Bad Education
TV • 2012
Loretta
Ted Lasso
TV • 2020
Rebecca Welton
Footballers' Wives
TV • 2002
Jools
Not Going Out
TV • 2006
Jane
The Voice UK
TV • 2012
Herself - Guest Mentor
The Last Leg
TV • 2013
Self
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
M.I. High
TV • 2007
Allanah Sucrose