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Hannah Waddingham
British actress and singer (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is a British actress, singer and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–2023), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in both 2021 and 2022.[1]
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Born | (1974-07-28) 28 July 1974 (age 49) Wandsworth, London, England |
Education | Academy of Live and Recorded Arts |
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer, television presenter |
Years active | 1997–present |
Children | 1 |
She has also appeared in a number of West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods, and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West, and has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work.
Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018) and the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2015–2016),[2] Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest.