Frances de la Tour

Acting · Born 1944-07-30 in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Madame Olympe Maxime
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Olympe Maxime
• Hugo as Madame Emilie
• Love Actually as Lesbian Lover (uncredited)
• Enola Holmes as The Dowager
• Miss You Already as Jill
• The Book of Eli as Martha
• Murder with Mirrors as Miss Bellaver
• The History Boys as Mrs. Lintott
• Rising Damp as Miss Jones

TV

• Outlander as Mother Hildegarde
• Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Maud Dane Calthrop
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Salome Otterbourne
• The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Aunt Western
• Rising Damp as Ruth
• Heartbeat as Tessa
• Professor T as Adelaide Tempest
• Play for Today as Marcia
• New Tricks
• A Kind of Living as Carol Beasley