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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 30, 1944
Place of Birth
Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Frances J. de Lautour
- فرانسیس دی لا تور
Frances de la Tour
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Frances de la Tour is an English television, stage and film actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom "Rising Damp" from 1974 until 1978; Madame Olympe Maxime in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (2005) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" (2010) and Mrs. Lintott in Alan Bennett's "The History Boys". She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
Known For
6.5
Queen Elizabeth (voice)
The Prince
2021
7.3
Adelaide Tempest
Professor T
2021
7.2
The Dowager
Enola Holmes
2020
6.6
Dragon (voice)
Dolittle
2020
6.4
The Rabbit (voice)
The Highway Rat
2018
7.3
Lady Matilda Crawley
Vanity Fair
2018
7.5
Mrs. March
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
6.5
Yvette Sabine
The Collection
2016
6.6
Aunt Imogene
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
6.4
Ursula Vaughan Williams
The Lady in the Van
2015
Credits
The Prince
as Queen Elizabeth (voice)
2021
6.5
Professor T
as Adelaide Tempest
2021
7.3
Enola Holmes
as The Dowager
2020
7.2
Dolittle
as Dragon (voice)
2020
6.6
The Highway Rat
as The Rabbit (voice)
2018
6.4
Vanity Fair
as Lady Matilda Crawley
2018
7.3
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Mrs. March
2017
7.5
The Collection
as Yvette Sabine
2016
6.5
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Aunt Imogene
2016
6.6
The Lady in the Van
as Ursula Vaughan Williams
2015
6.4
Miss You Already
as Jill
2015
7.4
Mr. Holmes
as Madame Schirmer
2015
6.5
Survivor
as Sally
2015
5.7
Into the Woods
as Giant
2014
5.8
Outlander
as Mother Hildegarde
2014
8.2
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as Kay
2013
6.2
Big School
as Ms Baron
2013
6.8
Trap for Cinderella
as Aunt Elinor
2013
5.2
Vicious
as Violet Crosby
2013
7.5
National Theatre Live: People
as Dorothy Stacpoole
2013
8.0
Suspension of Disbelief
as Nesta
2012
4.2
Private Peaceful
as Grandma Wolf
2012
6.6
Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'
as Self
2012
6.0
Hugo
as Madame Emilie
2011
7.2
The Nutcracker
as The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
2010
5.0
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Olympe Maxime
2010
7.7
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
as Kay
2010
8.0
Alice in Wonderland
as Aunt Imogene
2010
6.6
The Book of Eli
as Martha
2010
6.8
The History Boys
as Mrs. Lintott
2006
6.6
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Madame Olympe Maxime
2005
7.8
Sensitive Skin
2005
7.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
2004
7.8
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
New Tricks
2004
7.4
Love Actually
as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
2003
7.1
🎬
What's Your Problem?
2002
0.0
Born and Bred
as Eugenia Maddox
2002
8.5
Waking the Dead
as Alice Taylor-Garnett
2001
7.2
The Cherry Orchard
as Charlotte Ivanovna
1999
4.3
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Aunt Western
1997
7.0
Cold Lazarus
as Emma Porlock
1996
6.8
Downwardly Mobile
1994
0.0
Genghis Cohn
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist
1993
3.9
Genghis Cohn
as Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger
1993
3.9
Every Silver Lining
1993
6.0
Heartbeat
as Tessa
1992
7.1
Bejewelled
as Beatrice
1991
4.4
Strike It Rich
as Mrs de Vere
1990
5.0
Stay Lucky
1989
6.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Salome Otterbourne
1989
8.2
🎬
A Kind of Living
1988
5.0
🎬
Unnatural Causes
as Marcia
1986
5.5
Murder with Mirrors
as Miss Bellaver
1985
6.5
🎬
Skirmishes
as Jean
1982
0.0
The Bounder
as Celia
1982
6.3
Flickers
as Maud Cole
1980
6.0
Rising Damp
as Miss Jones
1980
5.5
Wombling Free
as Julia Frogmorton
1977
9.5
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
as The Woman
1977
0.0
Housewives' Choice
as Marcia
1976
0.0
To the Devil a Daughter
as Salvation Army Major
1976
5.4
Rising Damp
as Ruth
1974
7.5
All Good Men
1974
0.0
Our Miss Fred
as Miss Lockhart
1972
5.8
Right to Work March
as Elizabeth I
1972
0.0
Play for Today
as Marcia
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Maria Waite
1970
6.3
Every Home Should Have One
as Maud Crape
1970
4.8