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Hannah Waddingham
as Voice of Deliria
Hannah Waddingham is an Emmy Award winning, and BAFTA nominated television, film, and theatre actress and singer.
Recently, Waddingham can be seen in Universal Pictures action film, The Fall Guy, which is led by Ryan Gosling. The film released in May 2024. Additionally, Waddingham recently starred in the Sony Pictures animated adaptation of Garfield.
Waddingham can also be seen starring in Dan Harmon’s FOX animated series Krapopolis for which she received a 2024 Emmy Award nomination. The show debuted as the highest rated animated series in over a decade.
Late 2023 saw Waddingham premiere in her own Christmas special on Apple TV+, entitled Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas, to rave reviews. Recorded live at The London Coliseum, this one-hour special features Waddingham ringing in the season with musical performances of beloved Christmas classics. It has earned her and her producing partners a BAFTA TV Award nomination.
Waddingham recently wrapped production on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two opposite Tom Cruise, which is slated for a 2025 release. Waddingham will soon begin production on an untitled comedy action-adventure series for Amazon worldwide, which she will Executive Produce and star alongside Octavia Spencer.
Widely recognized of late as ‘Rebecca Welton” in the multi award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, currently streaming its third and final season. She has garnered Emmy, Critics Choice, Hollywood Critics Association and SAG Awards, as well as two individual Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.
Previously, Waddingham appeared in PBS Masterpiece and ITV’s Tom Jones (HCA Best Supporting actress in a comedy series) and Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 as the long awaited “Mother Witch”.
Waddingham made her worldwide hosting debut in April 2023 at The Olivier Awards followed swiftly by the BBC Eurovision Song Contest 2023, for which she has been garnered with her second BAFTA TV nomination and has just won The Royal Television Society award for “Best Entertainment performance” 2024. She made her return as host of the 2024 Olivier Awards which was met with rave reviews.
Her other notable credits include the Netflix series Sex Education and Warner Bros. series Krypton for E4/SyFy, but she was probably best known on screen until recent years as “Septa Unella”, the Shame Nun, in HBO's groundbreaking series Game of Thrones. Waddingham also appeared as “Magdalena” in 12 Monkeys for SyFy, she starred in BBC 2's The Entire Universe working again with Eric Idle, which also aired on PBS in America, MGM’s feature The Hustle and as “Tonya Dyke” in ITV’s Benidorm season 6.
Before her extensive film and television work, Waddingham was best known for her contribution to West End and Broadway musical theatre over the last twenty five 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). Originating the role in the West End, then a move to the Broadway production, where she won the Broadway.com award for Best Newcomer when she reprised the role at the Shubert Theatre.
Waddingham also won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting actress in a Musical as The Wicked Witch of The West in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium/Dir. Jeremy Samms).
Other theatre work includes The Witch from 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 back in 2000!
Waddingham resides in London.
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Bio
Hannah Waddingham is an Emmy Award winning, and BAFTA nominated television, film, and theatre actress and singer.
Recently, Waddingham can be seen in Universal Pictures action film, The Fall Guy, which is led by Ryan Gosling. The film released in May 2024. Additionally, Waddingham recently starred in the Sony Pictures animated adaptation of Garfield.
Waddingham can also be seen starring in Dan Harmon’s FOX animated series Krapopolis for which she received a 2024 Emmy Award nomination. The show debuted as the highest rated animated series in over a decade.
Late 2023 saw Waddingham premiere in her own Christmas special on Apple TV+, entitled Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas, to rave reviews. Recorded live at The London Coliseum, this one-hour special features Waddingham ringing in the season with musical performances of beloved Christmas classics. It has earned her and her producing partners a BAFTA TV Award nomination.
Waddingham recently wrapped production on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two opposite Tom Cruise, which is slated for a 2025 release. Waddingham will soon begin production on an untitled comedy action-adventure series for Amazon worldwide, which she will Executive Produce and star alongside Octavia Spencer.
Widely recognized of late as ‘Rebecca Welton” in the multi award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, currently streaming its third and final season. She has garnered Emmy, Critics Choice, Hollywood Critics Association and SAG Awards, as well as two individual Golden Globe and SAG nominations for this role.
Previously, Waddingham appeared in PBS Masterpiece and ITV’s Tom Jones (HCA Best Supporting actress in a comedy series) and Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2 as the long awaited “Mother Witch”.
Waddingham made her worldwide hosting debut in April 2023 at The Olivier Awards followed swiftly by the BBC Eurovision Song Contest 2023, for which she has been garnered with her second BAFTA TV nomination and has just won The Royal Television Society award for “Best Entertainment performance” 2024. She made her return as host of the 2024 Olivier Awards which was met with rave reviews.
Her other notable credits include the Netflix series Sex Education and Warner Bros. series Krypton for E4/SyFy, but she was probably best known on screen until recent years as “Septa Unella”, the Shame Nun, in HBO's groundbreaking series Game of Thrones. Waddingham also appeared as “Magdalena” in 12 Monkeys for SyFy, she starred in BBC 2's The Entire Universe working again with Eric Idle, which also aired on PBS in America, MGM’s feature The Hustle and as “Tonya Dyke” in ITV’s Benidorm season 6.
Before her extensive film and television work, Waddingham was best known for her contribution to West End and Broadway musical theatre over the last twenty five 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). Originating the role in the West End, then a move to the Broadway production, where she won the Broadway.com award for Best Newcomer when she reprised the role at the Shubert Theatre.
Waddingham also won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting actress in a Musical as The Wicked Witch of The West in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium/Dir. Jeremy Samms).
Other theatre work includes The Witch from 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 back in 2000!
Waddingham resides in London.