Penelope Wilton films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 17 films and 3 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for Downton Abbey, Pride & Prejudice and Shaun of the Dead.

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Starring Penelope Wilton

Pride & Prejudice
2005 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant...
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Downton Abbey
2010 · TV
8.1/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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After Life
2019 · TV
7.9/10 · TMDB
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter...
Summerland
2020 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Shaun of the Dead
2004 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary...
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in...
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Match Point
2005 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
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Belle
2013 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges...
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Downton Abbey
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2011 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find...
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Calendar Girls
2003 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold...
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Operation Mincemeat
2022 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of...
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Iris
2001 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2015 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
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The BFG
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would...
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Eternal Beauty
2020 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
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Murder Is Easy
2023 · TV
5.7/10 · TMDB
England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are accidents, but Miss Pinkerton...

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