Frances de la Tour
Acting • Born 1944-07-30
Biography
Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
Filmography
69 credits
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Movie • 2005
Madame Olympe Maxime
The Book of Eli
Movie • 2010
Martha
Murder with Mirrors
Movie • 1985
Miss Bellaver
The History Boys
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Lintott
Rising Damp
Movie • 1980
Miss Jones
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 2010
Aunt Imogene
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie • 2010
Olympe Maxime
Hugo
Movie • 2011
Madame Emilie
The Nutcracker
Movie • 2010
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
Wombling Free
Movie • 1977
Julia Frogmorton
Private Peaceful
Movie • 2012
Grandma Wolf
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
Movie • 2012
Self
Suspension of Disbelief
Movie • 2012
Nesta
Trap for Cinderella
Movie • 2013
Aunt Elinor
Into the Woods
Movie • 2014
Giant
National Theatre Live: People
Movie • 2013
Dorothy Stacpoole
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Movie • 2010
Kay
Our Miss Fred
Movie • 1972
Miss Lockhart
Genghis Cohn
Movie • 1993
Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
The Lady in the Van
Movie • 2015
Ursula Vaughan Williams
All Good Men
Movie • 1974
Survivor
Movie • 2015
Sally
Love Actually
Movie • 2003
Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
Mr. Holmes
Movie • 2015
Madame Schirmer
Skirmishes
Movie • 1982
Jean
Strike It Rich
Movie • 1990
Mrs de Vere
Bejewelled
Movie • 1991
Beatrice
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie • 2016
Aunt Imogene
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie • 2013
Kay
Every Home Should Have One
Movie • 1970
Maud Crape
The Highway Rat
Movie • 2018
The Rabbit (voice)
Right to Work March
Movie • 1972
Elizabeth I
Genghis Cohn
Movie • 1993
Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1999
Charlotte Ivanovna
Enola Holmes
Movie • 2020
The Dowager
To the Devil a Daughter
Movie • 1976
Salvation Army Major
Dolittle
Movie • 2020
Dragon (voice)
Housewives' Choice
Movie • 1976
Marcia
Miss You Already
Movie • 2015
Jill
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
TV • 1997
Aunt Western
Rising Damp
TV • 1974
Ruth
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Tessa
Professor T
TV • 2021
Adelaide Tempest
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Marcia
What's Your Problem?
TV • 2002
A Kind of Living
TV • 1988
Carol Beasley
Every Silver Lining
TV • 1993
Downwardly Mobile
TV • 1994
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Alice Taylor-Garnett
Unnatural Causes
TV • 1986
Marcia
Vicious
TV • 2013
Violet Crosby
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2004
Self
Outlander
TV • 2014
Mother Hildegarde
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Maria Waite
Sensitive Skin
TV • 2005
Stay Lucky
TV • 1989
The Collection
TV • 2016
Yvette Sabine
The Bounder
TV • 1982
Celia
Man in an Orange Shirt
TV • 2017
Mrs. March
Vanity Fair
TV • 2018
Lady Matilda Crawley
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
Big School
TV • 2013
Ms Baron
The Prince
TV • 2021
Queen Elizabeth (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Salome Otterbourne
Born and Bred
TV • 2002
Eugenia Maddox
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
TV • 1977
The Woman
Flickers
TV • 1980
Maud Cole
Cold Lazarus
TV • 1996
Dr Emma Porlock