Geraldine James

Early life and family

Credits

Film appearances

• The Dumb Waiter as Sally
• Bloody Kids as Ritchie's Wife
• Sweet William as Pamela
• Gandhi as Mirabehn
• The Tall Guy as Carmen
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase as Mrs. Gertrude Brisket
• Prince of Shadows as Rebecca Osorio
• If Looks Could Kill – Teen Agent, as Vendetta Galante
• The Bridge as Mrs Todd
• Words Upon the Window Pane as Mrs. Henderson
• Moll Flanders as Edna
• The Man Who Knew Too Little as Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin
• Lover's Prayer as Mother
• An Angel for May
• Calendar Girls as Marie
• Northanger Abbey as the narrator
• Sherlock Holmes as Mrs Hudson
• Alice in Wonderland as Lady Ascot
• Made in Dagenham as Connie
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Cecilia Vanger
• Arthur as Vivienne Bach
• as Mrs Hudson
• 45 Years as Lena
• Alice Through the Looking Glass as Lady Ascot
• Rogue One as Jaldine Gerams
• Daphne
• Megan Leavey as The Veterinarian
• Beast
• Downton Abbey as Mary of Teck

  Music appearances

• Radio appearances

Television appearances

• The Sweeney: Pay Off as Shirley Glass
• Dummy as Sandra X
• The History Man as Barbara Kirk
• I Remember Nelson as Emma Hamilton
• The Jewel in the Crown as Sarah Layton
• Blott on the Landscape as Lady Maud Lynchwood

• Inspector Morse: Who Killed Harry Field as Helen Field
• A Doll's House as Kristine Linde
• Band of Gold as Rose Garrety
• Kavanagh QC as Eleanor Harker QC
• Rebecca as Beatrice
• Little Britain as Mother of Harvey Pincher
• The Sins as Gloria Green
• State of Play as Yvonne Shaps
• Hex as Lilith Hughes
• He Knew He Was Right as Lady Rowley
• Agatha Christie's Poirot – After the Funeral, as Helen Abernethie
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Hilary Rees-Benson
• A Harlot's Progress
• as Cornelia
• The Last Enemy as Barbara Turney
• Heist as Joanna
• Midsummer Murders Series 13, episode 8, "Fit for Murder".
• Thirteen Steps Down as Gwendolyn
• Utopia
• Black Work as Chief Constable Carolyn Jarecki
• The Five as Julia Wells
• Anne with an E as Marilla Cuthbert
• Back to Life as Caroline Matteson

  Theatre appearances

• Portia opposite Dustin Hoffman in the London and Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
• Hedda Gabler at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 1993.

  Awards

Honours

• James was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours.