| 4th | Top people from Stockport |
| 6th | Top Coronation Street actors |
| Joanne Whalley | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 August 1964 Stockport, Cheshire, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Val Kilmer (28 February 1988 – February 1996) (divorced) |
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1964, Stockport, Cheshire),[1][2][3] is an English actress.
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Brought up in Stockport, Whalley first appeared in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Her early film roles include a non-speaking part as a groupie in Pink Floyd's The Wall; and as a young Beatles fan in Birth of the Beatles.
In the post punk era, she flirted with the fringes of the Manchester New Wave scene and was briefly a member of a Stockport based band called The Slowguns but left before the release of their two singles.
Later, in 1982, at Abbey Road Studios as the lead singer of the pop group Cindy & The Saffrons, they recorded the Shangri-Las song "Past, Present and Future" and the next year, "Terry" by Twinkle. The group split up soon thereafter.[4]
In 1982 she played Ingrid Rothwell in A Kind of Loving, a well received Granada TV adaptation of Stan Barstow's three Vic Brown novels. Joanne Whalley acted in the film No Surrender (Dumbarton Films with Film Four) scripted by Alan Bleasdale, released in 1985, but the film was not successful.
Whalley came to prominence on British television as Emma Craven in Troy Kennedy Martin's Edge of Darkness (1985), quickly followed by Nurse Mills in the Dennis Potter-written serial The Singing Detective (1986) both for BBC Television. In 1987 she played Jackie in the TV movie Will You Love Me Tomorrow, she also played a role in The Good Father (1985), another Channel 4 backed film.
She met the American actor Val Kilmer while filming the fantasy adventure Willow,[5] whom she married in 1988 and after which she used the name Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. She continued filming, making more films in Hollywood than the UK, including the mystery noir Shattered and, in 1989, the role of Christine Keeler in Scandal alongside stars John Hurt and Sir Ian McKellen. In 1994 she became only the second actress to play Gone with the Wind heroine Scarlett O'Hara when she appeared in a made-for-TV adaptation of the sequel novel, Scarlett.
She took a break from filming to raise her two children with Kilmer, who said that she filed divorce papers after he left to film The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1996, with him finding out from a CNN broadcast. She also starred in the 1997 film The Man Who Knew Too Little.
Whalley returned to acting through making television films, including the 2000 television film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in which she played the title character. After divorce from Kilmer, she collaborated with the pop-punk band Blink-182 to read a letter at the beginning of the song "Stockholm Syndrome". In 2005, she appeared as Mary I of England in The Virgin Queen, a BBC serial about the life of Queen Elizabeth I which also starred Anne-Marie Duff and Tara Fitzgerald. The same year she also filmed Played which also starred her now ex-husband Val Kilmer but the two never appeared in the same scene together. In 2006, she appeared in Life Line, a two-part drama on BBC1, starring opposite Ray Stevenson. In 2008, she appeared in the ITV mini series Flood with Robert Carlyle amongst others.
In February 2008, she appeared on stage in Billy Roche's Poor Beast in the Rain presented by the Salem K. Theatre Company at The Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles, California.[6][7]
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