Background and career
Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer, and television presenter. She is known for roles on both stage and screen, and has received several accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA TV Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and three Laurence Olivier Awards.
She gained stardom playing Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ comedy series Ted Lasso (since 2020), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Other television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in Game of Thrones (2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019), Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023), and Judith in Ride or Die (2026). Furthermore, she voices Deliria in the animated series Krapopolis (since 2023), for which she earned an Emmy Award nomination. On film, she has acted in the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Winter Ridge (2018), the animated film The Garfield Movie (2024), the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024), and the action film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).
On stage, she has appeared in a number of West End musicals, earning three nominations for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances as Lady of the Lake in the Monty Python musical comedy Spamalot (2007), Desirée Armfeldt in the Stephen Sondheim musical revival A Little Night Music (2010), and Katharine in the Cole Porter musical romance comedy Kiss Me, Kate (2013). She made her Broadway debut reprising her role in the New York City transfer of Spamalot (2008). Waddingham also co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 and hosted the Laurence Olivier Awards twice in 2023 and 2024.
Hannah Waddingham was born on 28 July 1974 in Wandsworth, south London. Waddingham is half-Manx; her mother Melodie Kelly is from Port Erin. Her mother was an opera singer, as were both of her maternal grandparents, joining the English National Opera when Waddingham was eight years old. She grew up around the theatre. Her grandfather Harry Waddingham was the oldest known British Second World War veteran at the time of his death in 2026 aged 109.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (2026-04-29), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
