First Movie - Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd 1976
Last Movie - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 2023
Total Movies - 37
Highest Grossing Movies
- UK: The BFG (2016) - £30,694,086
- US: Downton Abbey (2019) - $96,779,850
- World: Pixels (2015) - $244,874,809
Combined grosses
- UK - £192.1 Million
- US - $455.3 Million
- Global - $1 Billion
Highest Rated Movie - Shaun of the Dead (2004) - 100%
Lowest rated movie - Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) - 20%

Acting credits By Year of release

By Year

By UK Gross

By US Gross

By Global Gross

Starring With

SEE SHORT LIST

Year

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

(Penelope Wilton plays Maureen)

Director(s):

Hettie Macdonald

Starring:

Jim Broadbent • Penelope Wilton • Earl Cave • Linda Bassett • Daniel Frogson

2023

Downton Abbey: A New Era

(Penelope Wilton plays Isobel Merton)

Director(s):

Simon Curtis

Starring:

Allen Leech • Tuppence Middleton • Eva Samms • Karina Samms • Imelda Staunton

2022

Operation Mincemeat

(Penelope Wilton plays Hester Leggett)

Director(s):

John Madden

Starring:

Colin Firth • Matthew Macfadyen • Kelly Macdonald • Penelope Wilton • Johnny Flynn

2022

Summerland

(Penelope Wilton plays Older Alice)

Director(s):

Jessica Swale

Starring:

Gemma Arterton • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Penelope Wilton • Tom Courtenay • Lucas Bond

2020

Eternal Beauty

(Penelope Wilton plays Vivian)

Director(s):

Craig Roberts

Starring:

David Thewlis • Billie Piper • Sally Hawkins • Morfydd Clark • Penelope Wilton

2019

Downton Abbey

(Penelope Wilton plays Isobel Grey, Baroness Merton)

Director(s):

Michael Engler

Starring:

Hugh Bonneville • Jim Carter • Michelle Dockery • Elizabeth McGovern • Maggie Smith

2019

Zoo

Director(s):

Colin McIvor

Starring:

Toby Jones • Penelope Wilton • Art Parkinson • Ian McElhinney • Amy Huberman

2018

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

(Penelope Wilton plays Amelia Maugery)

Director(s):

Mike Newell

Starring:

Jessica Brown Findlay • Tom Courtenay • Michiel Huisman • Katherine Parkinson • Marek Oravec

2018

The BFG

Director(s):

Steven Spielberg

Starring:

Mark Rylance • Ruby Barnhill • Penelope Wilton • Jemaine Clement • Rebecca Hall

2016

Pixels

Director(s):

Chris Columbus

Starring:

Adam Sandler • Kevin James • Michelle Monaghan • Peter Dinklage • Josh Gad

2015

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

(Penelope Wilton plays Jean Ainslie)

Director(s):

John Madden

Starring:

Dev Patel • Maggie Smith • Danny Mahoney • David Strathairn • Judi Dench

2015

Belle

Director(s):

Amma Asante

Starring:

Matthew Goode • Lauren Julien-Box • Natasha Williams • Alan McKenna • Penelope Wilton

2014

National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage

(Penelope Wilton plays Self / Delia (segment „Bedroom Farce„))

Director(s):

Nicholas Hytner • Tim Van Someren • Howard Davies • Rufus Norris • Alex Sims

Starring:

Roger Allam • Samuel Anderson • Alan Ayckbourn • Jonathan Bailey • Matthew Barker

2013

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

(Penelope Wilton plays Jean Ainslie)

Director(s):

John Madden

Starring:

Judi Dench • Tom Wilkinson • Patrick Pearson • Hugh Dickson • James Rawlings

2012

Half Broken Things

(Penelope Wilton plays Jean)

Director(s):

Tim Fywell

Starring:

Penelope Wilton • Daniel Mays • Sinead Matthews • Nicholas Le Prevost • Lara Cazalet

2007

Five Days: Revised Final Episode

(Penelope Wilton plays Barbara Poole)

Director(s):

Starring:

Janet McTeer • David Oyelowo • Hugh Bonneville • San Shella • Charlie Creed-Miles

2007

Celebration

Director(s):

John Crowley

Starring:

James Bolam • Janie Dee • Colin Firth • James Fox • Michael Gambon

2007

The History Boys

Director(s):

Nicholas Hytner

Starring:

Samuel Anderson • James Corden • Stephen Campbell Moore • Richard Griffiths • Frances de la Tour

2006

Match Point

(Penelope Wilton plays Eleanor Hewett)

Director(s):

Woody Allen

Starring:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Alexander Armstrong • Paul Kaye • Matthew Goode • Brian Cox

2006

Pride and Prejudice

Director(s):

Joe Wright

Starring:

Keira Knightley • Talulah Riley • Rosamund Pike • Jena Malone • Carey Mulligan

2005

Shaun of the Dead

(Penelope Wilton plays Barbara)

Director(s):

Edgar Wright

Starring:

Simon Pegg • Kate Ashfield • Nick Frost • Lucy Davis • Dylan Moran

2004

Calendar Girls

Director(s):

Nigel Cole

Starring:

Helen Mirren • Julie Walters • John Alderton • Linda Bassett • Annette Crosbie

2003

Iris

Director(s):

Richard Eyre

Starring:

Judi Dench • Kate Winslet • Jim Broadbent • Hugh Bonneville • Eleanor Bron

2002

The Whistle Blower

(Penelope Wilton plays Heather Graham)

Director(s):

Ben Bolt

Starring:

Nealson Barry • Robert Bowman • Amanda Burton • Emma Cunniffe • Olegar Fedoro

2001

The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka Or the Mystery of Chopin

Director(s):

Tony Palmer

Starring:

John Bird • Annabel Capper • Vernon Dobtcheff • John Fortune • Michael Gough

1999

Toms Midnight Garden

Director(s):

Willard Carroll

Starring:

Nigel Le Vaillant • Marlene Sidaway • Serena Gordon • Alfie Lawrence • Mel Martin

1999

Alice Through the Looking Glass

(Penelope Wilton plays White Queen)

Director(s):

John Henderson

Starring:

Kate Beckinsale • Charlotte Curley • Penelope Wilton • Geoffrey Palmer • Louise J. Taylor

1998

Carrington

Director(s):

Christopher Hampton

Starring:

Emma Thompson • Jonathan Pryce • Steven Waddington • Samuel West • Rufus Sewell

1995

The Secret Rapture

Director(s):

Howard Davies

Starring:

Juliet Stevenson • Joanne Whalley • Penelope Wilton • Neil Pearson • Alan Howard

1993

Blame It On the Bellboy

Director(s):

Mark Herman

Starring:

Dudley Moore • Bryan Brown • Richard Griffiths • Andreas Katsulas • Patsy Kensit

1992

Cry Freedom

(Penelope Wilton plays Wendy Woods)

Director(s):

Richard Attenborough

Starring:

Josette Simon • Wabei Siyolwe • John Matshikiza • Juanita Waterman • Evelyn Sithole

1987

Clockwise

(Penelope Wilton plays Pat)

Director(s):

Christopher Morahan

Starring:

John Cleese • Penelope Wilton • Alison Steadman • Stephen Moore • Sharon Maiden

1986

Laughterhouse

Director(s):

Richard Eyre

Starring:

Ian Holm • Penelope Wilton • Bill Owen • Richard Hope • Stephen Moore

1985

Singletons Pluck

(Penelope Wilton plays Alice Singleton)

Director(s):

Richard Eyre

Starring:

Ian Holm • Penelope Wilton • Bill Owen • Richard Hope • Stephen Moore

1984

The French Lieutenants Woman

(Penelope Wilton plays Sonia)

Director(s):

Karel Reisz

Starring:

Meryl Streep • Jeremy Irons • Hilton McRae • Emily Morgan • Charlotte Mitchell

1981

Joseph Andrews

Director(s):

Tony Richardson

Starring:

Ann-Margret • Peter Firth • Michael Hordern • Beryl Reid • Jim Dale

1977

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

(Penelope Wilton plays Mrs. Lizzie Holroyd)

Director(s):

Simon Langton

Starring:

Penelope Wilton • David Daker • Keith Drinkel • Anna Wing • Ann Beach

1976