Hannah Waddingham is an Emmy Award-winning film, television, and theatre actress and singer.
Best known to audiences as ‘Rebecca Welton,’ in the award-winning Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso”, Waddingham has garnered Emmy and Critics Choice wins, as well as two Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.
Upcoming, Waddingham will star in Universal’s upcoming action film, The Fall Guy, which has an ensemble led by Ryan Gosling and includes Emily Blunt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The film is slated for release on May 3rd, 2024. Additionally, Waddingham can be seen next in Sony Pictures animated adaptation of Garfield, opposite Chris Pratt, set to be released on May 24th, 2024. She will also be seen in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two alongside Tom Cruise, which is slated for a 2025 release.
Past feature film credits include; Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 in the role of ‘Mother Witch” and the MGM feature The Hustle with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.
Waddingham will also soon start production on a forthcoming action-adventure television series alongside Octavia Spencer. The untitled series will produce eight episodes for Prime Video across the world.
Additional television credits include FOX animated series “Krapopolis.” The show debuted as the highest rated animated series in over a decade and Netflix’s hit show “Sex Education.”
Previously on television, she starred as the villainous ‘Jax-Ur’ in season two of the Warner Bros series “Krypton” for E4/SyFy. She is probably best known on screen, however, from her scene-stealing run as “Septa Unella”, the Shame Nun, in HBO’s groundbreaking series “Game of Thrones.” Waddingham also appeared as “Magdalena” in television adaptation of “12 Monkeys” for SyFy and played “Dr. Stone” in Kay Mellor’s prime time BBC drama “In The Club”. Waddingham was recently seen in PBS Masterpiece and ITV’s “Tom Jones”, BBC 2’s “The Entire Universe” alongside Eric Idle, Warwick Davis, Noel Fielding and Prof. Brian Cox, which also aired on PBS in America.
In late 2023, Waddingham premiered her Christmas concert special on Apple TV+ entitled Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas to rave reviews. Recorded live at The Coliseum in London, one of London’s oldest and most beautiful theaters, the one-hour special features Waddingham ringing in the season with musical performances of beloved Christmas classics. This TV special earned her a BAFTA TV Award nomination, in addition to a nomination for her hosting duties at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
Waddingham made her hosting debut in 2023 with the Olivier Awards in London and will return as host in 2024.
As well as her extensive film and television work, Waddingham has a wealth of experience in theatre and is most known for her contribution to West End musical theatre over the last twenty years with three Olivier nominations for her roles in
Kiss Me Kate as Kate/Lilli Vanessi (Old Vic/Dir. Trevor Nunn),
A Little Night Music as Desiree Armfeldt (Garrick & Menier Chocolate Factory/Dir. Trevor Nunn) and
Monty Python’s Spamalot as The Lady of The Lake (Palace Theatre/Dir. Mike Nicholls) for which she won the
Broadway.com Award for Best Newcomer when she reprised the role at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. She also won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting actress in a Musical as The Wicked Witch of The West in The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium/Dir. Jeremy Samms).
Other theatre work includes The Witch in Into The Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Madame Pinglet in A Little Hotel on The Side (Theatre Royal Bath), Fay Hubbard in A Chorus of Disapproval (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Satan in Tonight’s the Night and Rizzo in Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre), Christine Warner in The Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre. Critics’ Circle Award nomination), Suzanne Valadon in Lautrec (Shaftesbury Theatre. Awards for Best Actress in a Musical and Best Newcomer), Shimmy Girl in Smokey Joe’s Café (UK tour), Chesty Prospects in Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Queen’s Theatre).
Waddingham resides in London.
