Joanne Whalley
Also Known As: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Τζόαν Γουόλεϊ, جوان ولی, جوان والی, جوآن ولی
Biography: Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has since amassed numerous credits, primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including Dance with a Stranger (1985), Willow (1988), Scandal (1989), The Secret Rapture (1993) and Mother's Boys (1994). Following her marriage to Val Kilmer in 1988, she was credited as Joanne Whalley-Kilmer until their divorce in 1996. Whalley was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1985 BBC serial Edge of Darkness, and was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Nymph Award at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for the 2011 series The Borgias. Her other television roles include the 1986 BBC serial The Singing Detective; playing the title role in the 2000 CBS TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and as Claudia, wife of Pontius Pilate in the 2015 NBC series A.D. The Bible Continues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Whalley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salford, Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: August 25, 1961
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Gender: Female
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Shattered
Overview: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-11
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Willow
Overview: The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Willow: Behind the Magic
Overview: Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the making of the hit original series.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-25
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Kill Me Again
Overview: After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Flood
Overview: Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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Played
Overview: An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-19
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Scandal
Overview: An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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The One and Only Phyllis Dixey
Overview: Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Dance with a Stranger
Overview: Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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44 Inch Chest
Overview: Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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Mother's Boys
Overview: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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Trial by Jury
Overview: Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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Virginia's Run
Overview: A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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The Good Father
Overview: Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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To Kill a Priest
Overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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Diverted
Overview: On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-08
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A Texas Funeral
Overview: It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to impart to his grandson, in this whimsical comedy from the writer of The Bourne Identity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Californians
Overview: When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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The Guilty
Overview: Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the situation by trying to have the woman murdered. Further complicating matters, he assigns the task to a young man who, unbeknownst to Crane, is actually his son, Nathan. Nathan refuses to do the deed, but not before informing several people, one of whom tries to take on the job.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-01
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The Big Man
Overview: An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-31
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Twixt
Overview: A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Golf in the Kingdom
Overview: In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He meets a spirited pro who teaches him about golf and life, and how the two are beautifully intertwined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-28
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No Surrender
Overview: It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Storyville
Overview: While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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The Secret Rapture
Overview: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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The Challenger Disaster
Overview: When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered. The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America's most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause of a tragedy that stunned America.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-18
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Child of Mine
Overview: A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-13
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Run the Wild Fields
Overview: A gentle, pacifist drifter faces a town's patriotic wrath on the World War II era home front in this original drama. Ten-year-old Pug (Alexa Vega) and her lonely mother Ruby (Joanne Whalley) have their lives shaken by a conscientious objector named Tom (Sean Patrick Flanery) who brings their loneliness to an end but also stirs up bitter feelings among their neighbors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-05
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Overview: Inspired by the true story of Mary Bell; Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal : 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love and to be loved'. Reality can be harsh and unforgiving.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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The Ark
Overview: Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a devastating flood. A seemingly impossible task, especially when his sons refuse to believe him and help, Noah risks ridicule and humiliation from the degenerate townsfolk as well as his loving but exasperated family, in his quest to carry out his God-given task.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-30
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Gardel
Overview: In 1920s Buenos Aires, Tango sensation Carlos Gardel is involved with several women, including the baroness Ms. Wakefield. He finds his way to 1930s Paris and captivates the local culture with his alluring voice and dashing visage. Against the background of social upheaval and political turmoil, the baroness changes him forever, transforming a wandering soul into a legendary musical icon.
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Original Language: en
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A Good Man in Africa
Overview: Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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A TV Dante
Overview: A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-13
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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Overview: Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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A Christmas Carol
Overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-09
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Life Line
Overview: A supernatural love story focusing on a successful entrepreneur, Peter Brisco, who encounters his true love, Katy, but then loses her in a tragic accident. He seeks solace on Life Line, a mysterious chat line for the bereaved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-24
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Before You Go
Overview: The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, obsessive cleaning and hectoring her long-suffering husband, Frank. Catherine, the youngest, resorts to retail therapy, industrial quantities of marijuana and manic phone calls to her elusive boyfriend in Barcelona. Middle daughter Mary seeks consolation in professional detachment and the arms of her lover, Mike. Like Mary, Mike's a doctor. Unlike Mary, he's married... The sisters soon discover that their early memories have grown fuzzy over time and the past becomes fuzzier still as they attempt to cope with their mother's parting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-20
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Navy Seals
Overview: During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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Muse
Overview: Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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Shoreleave
Overview: Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two weeks prior to his leave. Trying to piece together what happened, Billy becomes enamoured with Myra (Joanne Whalley), a nightclub singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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And Mum Came Too
Overview: Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists on coming too. Sandra is horrified - will any of her friends come?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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Birth of The Beatles
Overview: The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
Overview: Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
Overview: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-14
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Love is Love is Love
Overview: Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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Willow: The Making of an Adventure
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Willow (1988). Included are interviews with cast and crew and scenes of the actual filming of the production itself.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-26
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Breathtaking
Overview: A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-16
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Resurrection
Overview: In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they realize that hope didn’t die on the cross. It lives on in them. One man changed the world and brought hope in a time of despair.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-27
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The Bird Game
Overview: A cautionary tale in which a trickster crow lures a group of innocent children to their deaths.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-13
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Hardcore Halbert
Overview: A young man with an ailing ficus, desperate to escape his mother’s scrutiny, finds refuge in his connection with his neighbor Abby and their mutual love of Heavy Metal.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Val
Overview: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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Bosses From Hell
Overview: John Cleese training video about bosses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Employees From Hell
Overview: John Cleese training video about employees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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