Hannah Walters | |
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 Walters in 2018 | |
| Born | 19 January 1974 |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Hannah Walters (born 19 January 1974) is an English actress, producer, and director. She is best known for her work on This is England '86 , Whitechapel , No Offence , Boiling Point , and Adolescence . [1] [2]
Hannah Walters was born on 19 January 1974, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. She trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College, graduating in 1996. [3] [4] Before embarking on a career as an actress, Walters was a teacher of drama, educating GCSE and A-Level students. [5]
Walters began her acting career in 2006, with a small role in The Thieving Headmistress.[ citation needed ] She followed this with appearances as Trudy in the Shane Meadows film This Is England (2006) and its film sequels, This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), as well as the TV miniseries This Is England '90 (2015).[ citation needed ]
She played DC Megan Riley in 12 episodes over seasons 3 and 4 of the ITV 1 crime drama series Whitechapel (2012–2013).[ citation needed ]
In 2019, Walters appeared in the short film Boiling Point, which, two years later, went on to become a feature-length film of the same name, released in 2021. Walters was an executive producer for the film, alongside her husband, Stephen Graham. In the UK, the film earned US$107,525 from fifty-three theatres in its opening weekend. Worldwide, the film amassed US$1,142,493 in total box office sales. [6]
In 2020, Walters co-founded the production company Matriarch Productions with her husband, Stephen Graham. [7] [8]
In 2021, Walters appeared as Sonia McNally in Time , [9] [10] the wife of her real-life husband's character. [11]
In 2022, Walters appeared as Jean in four episodes of BBC comedy PRU. [12] [13]
In April 2023, Walters starred as Matron Beth Relp in the ITVX drama series Malpractice . [14] Walters said about the production, "Malpractice has that element of being a medical thriller. But it's also about humanity and the chaos inside a human and how human beings react." [15] Also in 2023, Walters appeared as the sister-in-law to the title character in Sweet Sue, a film starring Maggie O'Neill, Tony Pitts and Harry Trevaldwyn. [16] Also in 2023, she featured as Emily in the series Boiling Point , which was set six months after the premise of the original feature film. [17] [18] She was also a co-director on the series. [19] The series was broadcast on BBC One in October 2023, [20] with all four episodes becoming available on its iPlayer streaming service the same day. [21]
In 2025 Walters featured in and executive produced A Thousand Blows . [22] She also produced Adolescence , which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. In December 2025, Walters won the ENVY Producer Award at that year's Women in Film and TV Awards for her work on Adolescence. [23] In an interview about the success and reaction to the series, Walters shared,
"I did not, hand on heart, realise the profound effects it was going to have on people. Parents are sending me lots of messages of thanks, lots of messages of gratitude, because they're opening those bedroom doors and talking to their children in ways that they hadn't talked to them before. I think that's all we needed to do - give everybody a little shake and say, come on, it's our duty now to make sure that this generation don't get lost, because it's so easy to lose them." [24]
Walters married actor Stephen Graham on 6 June 2008; they had met and started dating while both were training at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance. They currently live in Ibstock, Leicestershire, having previously lived in the Beckenham area of London. They have a son and a daughter. [25] [26] [27] Graham has been open about how his dyslexia means that Walters will help him to learn his lines as well as help to choose his next projects based on the scripts he receives. [28]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | The Thieving Headmistress | Ms Wallis | Television film |
| This Is England | Shoe shop assistant | ||
| 2008 | Filth and Wisdom | Business man's wife | |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Woman at The Captain's Daughter | Uncredited |
| 2016 | Gaslighting | Tracey | Short film |
| 2017 | Funny Cow | Jean | |
| 2018 | Walk like a Panther | Gloria Giles | |
| 2019 | Boiling Point | Amanda | Short film |
| 2020 | Pop | ||
| 2023 | Sweet Sue | Sister-in-law | |
| TBA | Amazing Grace | Grace | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Antiques Rogue Show | 2nd Detective | Television film |
| 2010 | This Is England '86 | Trudy | 4 episodes; 2 episodes uncredited |
| 2011 | Walk Like a Panther | Gloria Giles | Series 1 episode 1 |
| Without You | Alison | Series 1 episodes 1 & 2 | |
| This Is England '88 | Trudy | 2 episodes; 1 episode uncredited | |
| 2012–2013 | Whitechapel | DC Megan Riley | 12 episodes |
| 2015 | Code of a Killer | Kath Eastwood | 2 episodes |
| No Offence | Connie Ball | 8 episodes | |
| Playhouse Presents | Episode: "King for a Term" | ||
| This Is England '90 | Trudy | Episode: "Winter" | |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge | Beatrice | |
| 2021 | Time | Sonia McNally | 3 episodes |
| Boiling Point | Emily | Also executive producer | |
| 2022 | PRU | Jean | 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Malpractice | Matron Beth Relph | 5 episodes |
| Boiling Point | Emily | BBC TV series [29] | |
| 2025 | A Thousand Blows | Eliza Moody | 4 episodes; executive producer [30] |
| 2025 | Adolescence | Mrs Bailey | 2 episodes; also Co-Executive Producer 4 episodes |
| 2025 | What It Feels Like for a Girl | Mommar Joe |