Joely Richardson

Career timeline

1. 1965 · Born

   Born in Marylebone, London, England, UK

2. 1984 · Screen debut

   The Hotel New Hampshire (Movie)

3. 2011 · Breakthrough

   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie)

4. 2025 · Latest release

   Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Movie)

Career in numbers

10 1980s

16 1990s

15 2000s

23 2010s

15 2020s

• Drama53
• Mystery16
• Comedy15
• Thriller15
• Romance14
• Crime13

Highest-rated title Agatha Christie's Poirot 1989 8.2 Most popular title The Blacklist 2013 7.6

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Joely Richardson in our catalogue.

Mark Gatiss

2 titles together

1. 2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Lady Petersfield 7.1 Movie
2. 2025 Bookish as Sandra Dare 6.2 TV
3. 2024 Renegade Nell as Lady Eularia Moggerhanger 7.3 TV
4. 2024 The Gentlemen as Lady Sabrina Horniman 7.9 TV
5. 2024 One Day as Helen 7.7 TV
6. 2023 Little Bone Lodge as Ma 6.6 Movie
7. 2022 Lady Chatterley's Lover as Mrs. Bolton 6.7 Movie
8. 2022 The Sandman as Ethel Cripps 7.8 TV
9. 2022 Surface as Olivia Huntley 6.3 TV
10. 2022 Suspect as Jackie Snowden 6.0 TV
11. 2022 The Lost Girls as Jane 4.8 Movie
12. 2020 My Dad's Christmas Date as Sarah 6.2 Movie
13. 2020 Hot Pink Horror: The Making of Color Out of Space Movie
14. 2020 Color Out of Space as Theresa Gardner 6.1 Movie
15. 2020 The Turning as Darla Mandell 5.7 Movie
16. 2019 The Rook as Linda Farrier 6.4 TV
17. 2019 The Aspern Papers as Miss Tina 4.3 Movie
18. 2018 Surviving Christmas with the Relatives as Lyla 5.1 Movie
19. 2018 In Darkness as Alex 6.0 Movie
20. 2018 Red Sparrow as Nina Egorova 6.5 Movie
21. 2017 The Hatton Garden Job as Erzebet Zslondos 5.5 Movie
22. 2017 The Time of Their Lives as Lucy 5.0 Movie
23. 2017 Emerald City as Glinda 6.6 TV
24. 2016 Fallen as Ms Sophia Bliss 6.1 Movie
25. 2016 Snowden as Janine Gibson 7.1 Movie
26. 2015 Papa Hemingway in Cuba as Mary Hemingway 5.4 Movie
27. 2015 The Messenger as Psychiatrist 4.9 Movie
28. 2015 Maggie as Caroline 5.4 Movie
29. 2014 Pandas: The Journey Home Movie
30. 2014 Endless Love as Anne Butterfield 6.9 Movie
31. 2014 Vampire Academy as Queen Tatiana Ivashkov 6.3 Movie
32. 2013 The Blacklist as Cassandra Bianchi 7.6 TV
33. 2013 Thanks for Sharing as Katie 6.0 Movie
34. 2013 The Devil's Violinist as Ethel Langham 6.6 Movie
35. 2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel as Countess Markievicz 7.2 TV
36. 2012 Red Lights as Monica Handsen 6.2 Movie
37. 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Anita Vanger 7.4 Movie
38. 2011 Anonymous as Princess Elizabeth Tudor 6.4 Movie
39. 2009 The Day of the Triffids as Jo Playton 5.9 TV
40. 2007 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey as Susan McDowell 6.0 Movie
41. 2007 The Tudors as Catherine Parr 7.8 TV
42. 2007 The Last Mimzy as Jo Wilder 6.3 Movie
43. 2006 Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America as Dr. Iris Varnack 5.9 Movie
44. 2005 Wallis & Edward as Wallis Simpson Movie
45. 2005 Lies My Mother Told Me as Laren Sims Movie
46. 2004 The Fever as Woman at 30 Movie
47. 2003 Shoreditch as Butterfly Movie
48. 2003 Nip/Tuck as Julia McNamara 7.2 TV
49. 2003 Fallen Angel as Katherine Wentworth 6.3 Movie
50. 2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Marie-Antoinette 5.6 Movie
51. 2000 The Patriot as Charlotte Selton 7.2 Movie
52. 2000 Maybe Baby as Lucy Bell 5.5 Movie
53. 2000 Return to Me as Elizabeth Rueland 6.7 Movie
54. 1998 The Echo as Amanda Powell TV
55. 1998 The Tribe as Emily Movie
56. 1998 Wrestling with Alligators as Claire Movie
57. 1997 Event Horizon as Starck 6.6 Movie
58. 1996 101 Dalmatians as Anita 5.9 Movie
59. 1996 Loch Ness as Laura 5.7 Movie
60. 1996 Hollow Reed as Hannah Wyatt Movie
61. 1996 TFI Friday TV
62. 1994 Sister My Sister as Christine 5.9 Movie
63. 1994 I'll Do Anything as Cathy Breslow 5.6 Movie
64. 1993 Lady Chatterley as Constance, Lady Chatterley 6.3 TV
65. 1992 Rebecca's Daughters as Rhiannon Movie
66. 1992 Shining Through as Margrete Von Eberstein 6.5 Movie
67. 1991 King Ralph as Princess Anna 5.4 Movie
68. 1991 Heading Home as Janetta Wheatland Movie
69. 1990 Available Light as Gussy Movie
70. 1989 Behaving Badly as Serafina TV
71. 1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot as Joanna Farley 8.2 TV
72. 1988 Drowning by Numbers as Cissie Colpitts (Granddaughter) 7.0 Movie
73. 1988 The Storyteller: The Three Ravens as Princess Movie
74. 1988 The Storyteller as Princess 8.2 TV
75. 1987 Body Contact as Dominique Movie
76. 1986 ScreenPlay as Gussy TV
77. 1985 Wetherby as Jean Travers (Young) 6.0 Movie
78. 1985 Screen Two as Janetta Wheatland TV
79. 1984 The Hotel New Hampshire as Waitress 5.7 Movie

1. 2019 The Aspern Papers 4.3 Movie

Photos

Quick facts