Paola Dionisotti (pronounced as /it/; born 1946 in Turin) is an Italian-British actress active on stage and British television since 1975.
Dionisotti is the daughter of Italian literary critic Carlo Dionisotti and Marisa Pinna Pintor. She has two sisters: Anna Carlotta, a Latinist at the King's College London, and Eugenia, a librarian.
A character actress best known on television for recurring roles as Lady Patricia Broughall in Forever Green and Aunt Nicholls in Harbour Lights, Dionisotti also has had prominent roles in Miss Marple and Midsomer Murders. She is also known for playing Lady Waynwood in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.[1] On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles.[2] She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Aldwych.[3] In 2014, she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two.
| Year | Title | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | The Sailor's Return | Lucy Sturmey | |
| 1982 | The Young Ones "Boring" | Queen | |
| 1982 | The Young Ones "Bomb" | DHSS Official | |
| 1983 | Fords on Water | Eddie's Mother | |
| 1984 | Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: “A Murder is Announced” | Miss Hinchcliffe | |
| 1998 | The Tichborne Claimant | The Dowager | |
| Vigo | Marie | ||
| 2000 | Come and Go | Flo | |
| 2001 | Intimacy | Amanda | |
| 2004 | Love's Brother | Nonna | |
| 2009 | Midsomer Murders: ’’The Great and the Good’’ | Mrs Stroud | |
| 2010 | Doctors: “Careless Whisper” | Tricia Andrews | |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie: Poirot "Hallowe'en Party" | Mrs Goodbody | |
| 2010 | My Mother's Coat | Narrator | |
| 2012 | Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Mrs Whitstable | |
| 2014 | Game of Thrones: “The Mountain and the Viper” | Anya Waynwood | |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Baroness Le Feyre |