
Frances de la Tour
Acting
- Born:
- 1944-07-30
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography

The Prince

Professor T

Enola Holmes

Dolittle

The Highway Rat

Vanity Fair

Man in an Orange Shirt

The Collection

Alice Through the Looking Glass

The Lady in the Van

Miss You Already

Mr. Holmes

Survivor

Into the Woods

Outlander

National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage

Big School

Trap for Cinderella

Vicious

National Theatre Live: People

Suspension of Disbelief

Private Peaceful

Shoot the Moon: The Making of 'Hugo'

Hugo

The Nutcracker

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

Alice in Wonderland

The Book of Eli

The History Boys

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Sensitive Skin

Agatha Christie's Marple

Who Do You Think You Are?

New Tricks

Love Actually
What's Your Problem?

Born and Bred

Waking the Dead

The Cherry Orchard

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

Cold Lazarus

Downwardly Mobile

Genghis Cohn

Every Silver Lining

Heartbeat

Bejewelled

Strike It Rich

Stay Lucky

Agatha Christie's Poirot
A Kind of Living

Unnatural Causes

Murder with Mirrors
Skirmishes

The Bounder

Flickers

Rising Damp
Leave it to Charlie

Wombling Free
Cottage to Let

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

Housewives' Choice

To the Devil a Daughter

Rising Damp

All Good Men

Our Miss Fred

Right to Work March

Play for Today

Every Home Should Have One

Brotherly Love

ITV Playhouse