What is Joanne Whalley's Net Worth?
Joanne Whalley is an English actress who has a net worth of $2.5 million. Joanne Whalley rose to prominence in the 1980s with her roles in the BBC television serials "Edge of Darkness" and "The Singing Detective." She has since appeared in numerous television series and television films, including "Scarlett," "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis," "The Virgin Queen," "The Borgias," "Daredevil," and "Willow." Whalley has also acted frequently on the big screen, with credits including "Scandal," "The Secret Rapture," "Trial by Jury," and "Love is Love is Love."
Early Life and Education
Joanne Whalley was born on August 25, 1961 in Salford, England. She later moved to Stockport, where she attended Bredbury Comprehensive School. Whalley went on to attend Harrytown Convent Girls' School in Romiley and the Braeside School of Speech and Drama in Marple. Later, from 1982 to 1986, she studied and performed with the Royal Court Theatre. Whalley was also briefly a member of the vocal group Cindy & The Saffrons, alongside Lindsay Neil and Sally Stairs.
Television Career
Whalley began her acting career as a teenager, appearing in episodes of such ITV television series as "Coronation Street," "Crown Court," and "Emmerdale Farm." From 1976 to 1979, she appeared on the long-running educational history show "How We Used to Live," and in 1978 was in the ITV television film "The One and Only Phyllis Dixey." In the early 1980s, Whalley made guest appearances on such shows as "Juliet Bravo," "Scene," "The Gaffer," "The Gentle Touch," and "Bergerac." She had one of her most acclaimed roles in the 1985 BBC serial "Edge of Darkness," for which she earned a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress. Whalley continued her success with the 1986 BBC serial "The Singing Detective." She didn't appear much on the small screen in the years immediately after that. Whalley's next major television role was as Scarlett O'Hara in the acclaimed 1994 CBS television miniseries "Scarlett." After another break from the small screen, she portrayed Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in the 2000 CBS television film of the same name. That same year, Whalley was in the Showtime television film "Run the Wild Fields."
In 2005, Whalley portrayed Mary I in the BBC miniseries "The Virgin Queen." Toward the end of the decade, she starred in the CBC miniseries "Diverted." Whalley subsequently played the recurring role of Princess Sophie Grimaldi in the fourth season of the American teen drama series "Gossip Girl." At the same time, she played the main role of Vannozza dei Cattanei in the historical drama series "The Borgias," which ran from 2011 to 2013. In the latter year, Whalley appeared in the television film "The Challenger Disaster." She was subsequently in the BBC miniseries "Jamaica Inn" and "Wolf Hall," portraying Catherine of Aragon in the latter. Whalley next starred in the television film "The Ark" and the miniseries "A.D. The Bible Continues." In 2016, she played Rheda in the short-lived ITV series "Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands." The following year, Whalley portrayed Margaret of Burgundy in the historical drama miniseries "The White Princess." In 2018, she played the main role of Sister Maggie in the third season of the superhero series "Daredevil." Whalley later appeared in the Disney+ series "Willow" and the Amazon Prime Video series "Carnival Row."
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Film Career
Whalley made her big-screen debut with a small part as a groupie in the 1979 biographical film "Birth of the Beatles." She played a groupie again in her next film appearance, 1982's "Pink Floyd The Wall." Whalley had her first significant film role in Mike Newell's "Dance with a Stranger," released in 1985. She reunited with Newell later in the year for his film "The Good Father." Whalley went on to appear in the 1988 films "Willow" and "To Kill a Priest." In 1989, she portrayed model and showgirl Christine Keeler in the historical drama "Scandal," based on the Profumo affair. Whalley also starred in the neo-noir thriller "Kill Me Again" alongside her then-husband Val Kilmer. In the early 1990s, she starred in such films as "Navy SEALs," "The Big Man," "Shattered," "The Secret Rapture," and "Trial by Jury." Toward the end of the decade, Whalley appeared in the Bill Murray spy comedy "The Man Who Knew Too Little," based on Robert Farrar's novel "Watch That Man."
Kicking off the new millennium, Whalley appeared in "The Guilty" and "Breathtaking." In 2002, she was in the comedy "Before You Go" and the coming-of-age drama "Virginia's Run." Whalley next appeared in the 2005 film "The Californians," a modern-day retelling of the Henry James novel "The Bostonians." She followed that with roles in the crime film "Played" and the disaster film "Flood." Closing out the decade, Whalley had a supporting role in "44 Inch Chest." She went on to appear in two films in 2011, "Golf in the Kingdom" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Twixt," the latter starring Val Kilmer. Whalley didn't return to the big screen until 2017, when she was in the supernatural thriller "Muse." The year after that, she played Priscilla in the Biblical drama "Paul, Apostle of Christ." In 2020, Whalley was part of the ensemble cast of "Love is Love is Love," directed and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola's wife Eleanor.
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Stage Career
Whalley has acted in a number of stage productions since she began acting with the Royal Court Theatre in the early 1980s. In 1983, she played the titular role in the first production of Daniel Mornin's "Kate" at the Bush Theatre, and over the subsequent years she acted in Danny Boyle's production of "Saved" and Max Stafford-Clark's "The Pope's Wedding." Whalley then moved to the Royal National Theatre, appearing in Peter Gill's productions of "As I Lay Dying" and "The Women." After moving to the United States in the late 1980s, she acted in John Tillinger's off-Broadway production of "What the Butler Saw" and Ian McDiarmid's production of "The Lulu Plays." Whalley's later stage credits include Billy Roche's "Poor Beast in the Rain."
Personal Life
While filming "Willow" in 1987, Whalley met and began dating her costar Val Kilmer. The two married in 1988, and later had a daughter named Mercedes and a son named Jack. Whalley and Kilmer separated in 1995 and divorced not long after.
