Frances de la Tour

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: Acting

Born: Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1944-07-30

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Every Home Should Have One	Maud Crape	46
2	1972	Right to Work March	Elizabeth I	0
3	1972	Our Miss Fred	Miss Lockhart	64
4	1974	All Good Men		0
5	1976	To the Devil a Daughter	Salvation Army Major	55
6	1976	Housewives' Choice	Marcia	0
7	1977	Wombling Free	Julia Frogmorton	95
8	1980	Rising Damp	Miss Jones	55
9	1982	Skirmishes	Jean	0
10	1985	Murder with Mirrors	Miss Bellaver	65
11	1990	Strike It Rich	Mrs de Vere	50
12	1991	Bejewelled	Beatrice	44
13	1993	Genghis Cohn	Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger, Psychiatrist	45
14	1993	Genghis Cohn	Dr. Helga Feuchtwanger	45
15	1999	The Cherry Orchard	Charlotte Ivanovna	50
16	2003	Love Actually	Lesbian Lover (uncredited)	71
17	2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Madame Olympe Maxime	78
18	2006	The History Boys	Mrs. Lintott	66
19	2010	The Book of Eli	Martha	68
20	2010	Alice in Wonderland	Aunt Imogene	66
21	2010	National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art	Kay	80
22	2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1	Olympe Maxime	77
23	2010	The Nutcracker	The Rat Queen / Frau Eva	51
24	2011	Hugo	Madame Emilie	72
25	2012	Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'	Self	60
26	2012	Private Peaceful	Grandma Wolf	66
27	2012	Suspension of Disbelief	Nesta	43
28	2013	National Theatre Live: People	Dorothy Stacpoole	80
29	2013	Trap for Cinderella	Aunt Elinor	53
30	2013	National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage	Kay	70
31	2014	Into the Woods	Giant	58
32	2015	Survivor	Sally	57
33	2015	Mr. Holmes	Madame Schirmer	65
34	2015	The Lady in the Van	Ursula Vaughan Williams	64
35	2016	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Aunt Imogene (uncredited)	66
36	2018	The Highway Rat	The Rabbit (voice)	63
37	2020	Dolittle	Dragon (voice)	66
38	2020	Enola Holmes	The Dowager	73

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Play for Today	Marcia	61
2	1970	Play for Today	Maria Waite	61
3	1974	Rising Damp	Ruth	75
4	1977	The Galton & Simpson Playhouse		0
5	1980	Flickers	Maud Cole	60
6	1982	The Bounder	Celia	63
7	1986	Unnatural Causes	Marcia	55
8	1988	Kind of Living		50
9	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Salome Otterbourne	81
10	1989	Stay Lucky		60
11	1992	Heartbeat	Tessa	70
12	1993	Every Silver Lining		60
13	1994	Downwardly Mobile		0
14	1996	Cold Lazarus	Emma Porlock	68
15	1997	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Aunt Western	70
16	2001	Waking the Dead	Alice Taylor-Garnett	73
17	2002	Born and Bred		85
18	2002	What's Your Problem?		0
19	2004	New Tricks		74
20	2004	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	67
21	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop	76
22	2005	Sensitive Skin		70
23	2013	Vicious	Violet Crosby	75
24	2013	Big School	Ms Baron	69
25	2014	Outlander	Mother Hildegarde	82
26	2016	The Collection	Yvette Sabine	67
27	2017	Man in an Orange Shirt	Mrs. March	76
28	2018	Vanity Fair	Lady Matilda Crawley	74
29	2021	Professor T	Adelaide Tempest	74
30	2021	The Prince	Queen Elizabeth (voice)	65