Joanna Scanlan
Joanna Marion Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is a British actress and writer. On television, she is known for her roles in The Thick of It (2005–2012), Big School (2013–2014), Puppy Love (2014), No Offence (2015–2018), Requiem (2018), and The Larkins (2021). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for Getting On (2009–2012), including two for Best Writing.
Scanlan's film appearances include Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Notes on a Scandal (2006), The Invisible Woman (2013), and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the 2020 film After Love. She was the first person since 2003 to win the award without being nominated for the corresponding Oscar.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1013 |
| Birthday | 1961-10-27 |
| Place of Birth | West Kirby, Merseyside, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Jo Scanlan, Ms. Joanna Scanlan, Joanna Scanlon, |
2006
Notes on a Scandal
7.094/983
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions w...
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Notes on a Scandal
2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring
6.639/1468
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl Wit...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
2021
Ropey
0/0
A jet-black dramedy about love, loss and the complexities of mental health.
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Ropey
2005
Kinky Boots
6.719/361
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take h...
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Kinky Boots
2007
The Moon and the Stars
5.111/9
1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film....
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The Moon and the Stars
2013
The Invisible Woman
5.948/212
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Te...
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The Invisible Woman
2011
Hot Hot Hot
6/1
Ferdinand is a long-standing employee at Fish Land, the aquatic centre within the globalised leisure complex "Worlds Apart". He's a small, bald forty...
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Hot Hot Hot
2016
Dylan's Room
0/0
A mother finds a way back to her lost son.
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Dylan's Room
2014
Get Santa
6.1/148
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself o...
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Get Santa
2024
Tabby McTat
6.8/10
Busker Fred and his cat Tabby McTat entertain and delight passersby with music across London. One day, Fred falls, injures his leg, and is whisked awa...
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Tabby McTat
2022
This Is Christmas
7/54
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam br...
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This Is Christmas
2024
Wicked Little Letters
6.933/657
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is...
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Wicked Little Letters
2007
Grow Your Own
6.5/15
A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years
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Grow Your Own
2009
In the Loop
7/769
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers...
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In the Loop
2024
The Rising of the Sap
0/0
When her daughter Bea abruptly arrives home, Elizabeth struggles to keep her from being unwittingly drawn into the power of The Rising.
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The Rising of the Sap
2005
A Little Trip to Heaven
5.448/86
Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horr...
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A Little Trip to Heaven
2015
Fungus The Bogeyman
2.5/3
Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next d...
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Fungus The Bogeyman
2015
Testament of Youth
7.262/791
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...
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Testament of Youth
2003
The Deal
6.778/27
It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the...
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The Deal
2000
The Announcement
7/1
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly...
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The Announcement
2017
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
6/423
In 1970s London, a teenage outsider named Enn falls in love with a rebellious alien girl named Zan, who has come to Earth for a party. Together, they...
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2007
Stardust
7.288/4410
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...
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Stardust
2007
The Rise of the Nutters
8.3/5
With Hugh in Australia and Glenn in Wales, Ollie is left in charge, feeding policies to junior minister Ben Swain. He is one of the 'Nutters', the gro...
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The Rise of the Nutters
1998
A Rather English Marriage
5.5/13
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They...
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A Rather English Marriage
2007
Maxwell
6/6
Basil Brookes joins "Captain Bob" - press mogul Robert Maxwell - as financial director and witnesses Maxwell's financial shenanigans as he contests st...
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Maxwell
2017
Tulip Fever
6.518/738
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a...
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Tulip Fever
1997
Jane Eyre
7.106/47
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
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Jane Eyre
2008
The Other Boleyn Girl
6.695/2199
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sister...
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The Other Boleyn Girl
2018
Pin Cushion
6.4/50
Super close mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of thing...
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Pin Cushion
2010
The Calling
0/0
Joanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
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The Calling
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
6.409/3072
After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her...
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Bridget Jones's Baby
2013
40 Year Old Virgins
5.5/6
Most of us lose our virginity in our teens or early twenties. But for some, problems having sex for the first time overshadow their lives. Clive, aged...
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40 Year Old Virgins
2015
The Bad Education Movie
5.7/146
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
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The Bad Education Movie
2010
The Angina Monologues
0/0
Victoria Wood takes to the stage with an all female bill for a night of comedy in support of The British Heart Foundation to help raise awareness of h...
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The Angina Monologues
2018
Wild Honey Pie!
3.7/9
A wanna-be author feels pressured to move beyond her meandering writing career and get a more stable job. She decides to organize a Shakespeare festiv...
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Wild Honey Pie!
2020
How to Build a Girl
5.7/65
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets...
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How to Build a Girl
2021
After Love
7.1/152
Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband....
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After Love
2007
Spinners and Losers
8.3/3
Peter Mannion's speech on immigration, leaking the PM's policy, did not have the effect Tucker desired and now the PM is resigning, leaving the way cl...
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Spinners and Losers
2021
Don vs Lightning
7.167/5
When Don, an elderly Scottish grump, finds himself the victim of multiple lightning strikes he begins to worry that his quiet, orderly life may never...
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Don vs Lightning
2024
Joy
6.9/161
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursu...
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Joy
2025
Rhubarb Rhubarb
0/0
In Yorkshire's legendary “rhubarb triangle”, Jo and her aging father cultivate the delicate pink herbaceous plant for which the region was famous a ce...
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
Poe
0/0
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe wraps around four of his most famous tales and several of his poems.
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Poe
2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
6.392/521
Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, s...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Anxious People
0/0
On the day before Christmas Eve, investment banker Zara begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a group of strangers at an open house. When a relucta...
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Anxious People
1999
Coming Soon
8/1
Coming Soon is the story of an existentialist-style experimental theatre troupe that travels from London to Scotland trying to organize the troupe for...
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Coming Soon
The Arrival
0/0
As two long-lost blood brothers grow closer, seduced by the idea of their shared history finally making sense, they must confront the uncomfortable tr...
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