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Polly Walker
Known for: ActingPolly Alexandra Walker was born on May 19, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. She graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but an injury at age 18 forced her to change direction. She started at London's Drama Centre to the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she portrayed small parts before graduating to small roles on television. Polly landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone (1990) before making her feature debut in Journey of Honor (1991) ("Shogun Mayeda"). She first gained attention as an English woman in an Irish terrorist brigade in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games (1992)
Filmography 28
Rome
Caprica
John Carter
Patriot Games
Clash of the Titans
Bookish
Sliver
State of Play
Robinson Crusoe
Emma
D-Tox
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Prisoners' Wives
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Control
as Barbara Copeland
Age Before Beauty
Restoration
as Celia Clemence
Curtain Call
as Julia
Roseanna's Grave
Enchanted April
8 ½ Women
The Trial
as Leni
Dark Harbor
as Alexis Chandler Weinberg
Talk of Angels
as Mary Lavelle
Lorna Doone
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
as Mme. Dumont
Savage Messiah