Joanna Scanlan films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 16 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, The Thick of It and After Love.

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Starring Joanna Scanlan

The Thick of It
2005 · TV
8.2/10 · TMDB
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil servants.
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After Love
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the...
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Wicked Little Letters
2024 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish...
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Testament of Youth
2014 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful...
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Stardust
2007 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals...
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Bridget Jones finally has some luck in her life; she has a great job as a screenwriter, her family and a new boyfriend; the fact that he's over twenty years her junior isn't the only thing causing problems.
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Notes on a Scandal
2006 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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Boat Story
2023 · TV
7.1/10 · TMDB
Two hard-up strangers stumble across a haul of cocaine on a shipwrecked boat. After agreeing to sell it and split the cash, they become entangled with police, masked hitmen, and a sharp-suited gangster known as 'The Tailor'.
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of...
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Kinky Boots
2005 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid...
Tulip Fever
2017 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
After breaking up with Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones's 'happily ever after' hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job as top news producer and surround herself with old friends and...
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This Is Christmas
2022 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire...
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Joy
2024 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world's first 'test tube baby', Louise Joy Brown.
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How to Talk to Girls at Parties
2017 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.
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The Invisible Woman
2013 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful...
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How to Build a Girl
2020 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton...
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