Hannah Waddingham

Hannah Waddingham is an English actress, singer, and television presenter. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received various accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA TV Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Laurence Olivier Awards.

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1974

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Born: ( 1974-07-28 ) 28 July 1974 (age 51) , Wandsworth , London, England
Education: Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
Occupations: Actress singer television presenter
Years active: 1997–present
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Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer, and television presenter. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received various accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA TV Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Laurence Olivier Awards.

She gained stardom playing Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–present), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in Game of Thrones (2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019), and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). Furthermore, she voices Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (2023-present), for which she earned an Emmy Award nomination. On film, she has acted in the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Winter Ridge (2018), the animated film The Garfield Movie (2024), the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024), and the action film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).