Penelope Wilton
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Penelope Alice Wilton (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress.
She is best known for her appearance in the BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89); acting Homily in The Borrowers (1992) and Return of the Borrowers (1993); and for her role as the widowed Isobel Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2010–15).
In 2005–08, she appeared in Doctor Who's recurring role of Harriet Jones. Wilton has had a long career in theatre, receiving six Olivier Award nominations in a row.
She was nominated for Man and Superman (1981), The Secret Rapture (1994), John Gabriel Borkman (2008) and The Chalk Garden (2009) before winning the 2015 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Taken at Midnight.
Clockwise (1986), Cry Freedom (1987), Calendar Girls (2003), Match Point (2005), The Girl (2012), and The BFG (2016).
Early life and background
Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the second of three children of Cliff Wilton's two daughters, one-educated businessman and barrister who had played rugby union on amateur and provincial levels, and Alice Linda Travers, a tap dancer and former actor, was born in the sport.
She is the niece of actor Bill Travers and Linden Travers. Angela and Richard Morant, two actresses, are among her cousins. Theatres were owned by her maternal grandparents.
She appeared at the Drama Centre London from 1965 to 1968.
Personal life
Wilton was married to actor Daniel Massey from 1975 to 1984. Alice, the couple's daughter, was born in 1977. They had a stillborn son before that.
Ian Holm married Wilton in 1991. In 1992, they appeared together as Pod and Homily in the BBC's version of The Borrowers. They appeared in a sequel to The Return of the Borrowers a year later. Ian Holm was knighted in 1998, and Wilton became Lady Holm. In 2001, the couple married.
Career
Wilton began her career on stage in 1969 at the Nottingham Playhouse. Cordelia in King Lear was one of her early roles, both in Nottingham and at The Old Vic.
She made her Broadway debut in March 1971 with Araminta in The Broadway revival and then again in The Philanthropist, and she made her West End debut in August 1971 opposite Sir Ralph Richardson in the John Osborne play West of Suez at the Cambridge Theatre. She had appeared in both plays at the Royal Court Theatre before. Ruth appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests trilogy in 1974 London.
Vivie Warren appeared in the BBC2's adaptation of Mrs. Warren's Profession opposite Coral Browne in the title role and Robert Powell in 1972. On BBC1, the performance was repeated as part of the Play of the Month series in 1974. In 1994, Wilton portrayed Browne in a BBC World Service radio version of An Englishman Abroad, which has been repeated on various BBC radio stations since. The following is a recap of 'Mrs.' Profession' of Warren Buffett, Wilton later appeared on television, including two of the BBC Television Shakespeare performances (as Desdemona in Othello and Regan in King Lear).
Wilton's film work includes appearances in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Cry Freedom (1987), Iris (2004), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (2005), Woody Allen's Match Point (2006), and The History Boys (2006).
She did not become a household name until she appeared in the 1984 BBC situation comedy, Ever Decreasing Circles, which ran for five years. Ann, Martin's long-serving wife, became an obsessive and pedantic "do-gooder." In 2005, Wilton guest star Harriet Jones appeared in two episodes of BBC's revival of the famous TV science-fiction series Doctor Who. Russell T. Davies, the programme's chief writer and executive producer, had written specifically for her, and she had appeared on Bob and Rose (ITV, 2001). In the Doctor Who 2005 Christmas special "The Christmas Invasion," Jones' character returned as Prime Minister. "The Stolen Earth," the former Prime Minister who sacrificed herself by extermination by the Daleks so that the Doctor's companions could contact him in the first part of the 2008 series finale, she made her final appearance.
In the BBC television drama series Five Days in 2005, Barbara Poole, the mother of a missing woman, was on television, as well as in ITV's drama Half Broken Things (October 2007) and the BBC's rendition of The Passion (Easter 2008). She appeared as Isobel Crawley in all six seasons of Downton Abbey's hit period drama, beginning in 2010. In April 2008, she was the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. She was the narrator in Lin Coghlan's dramatization of Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalets in December 2012 and 2013, which was broadcast on BBC Radio.