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Zoë Wanamaker (born May 13, 1949) is an United
States|American actor|actress who lives and works
in the United Kingdom.

She is the daughter of the late Jewish American
film actor/director Sam Wanamaker, who came to
Britain after being blacklisted during the 1950s;
he led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in
London.

She is probably best-known by a world-wide
audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(movie)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
(see picture). She played Clarice, one of the
dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in
Gormenghast (miniseries)|Gormenghast, a British
Broadcasting Corporation|BBC television adaptation
of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. She has also appeared
in a variety of films, programmes, and plays.

Successful TV series included Love Hurts with Adam
Faith and My Family (television)|My Family with
Robert Lindsay (actor)|Robert Lindsay.

Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra was
widely acclaimed.

Wanamaker voices a Computer-generated imagery|CGI
creature named Cassandra in the Doctor Who episode
The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the
World, and is also going to appear in the 2006
series in an unknown role
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==External links==
*imdb name|id=0910738|name=Zoë Wanamaker
*http://film.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/news/0,106
08,596072,00.html Controversy over payment for
Harry Potter film
*http://www.geocities.com/zwsite/news.html
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