Hannah Waddingham is a British born actress. She is best known for her role as Rebecca Welton in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–present), for which she received the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and 2022, as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021.
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Who is the British Born Actress: Hannah Waddingham
Waddingham was born 28 July 1974, in Wandsworth, London. Melodie Kelly, her mother, was an opera singer. Waddingham grew up surrounded by the theater because her mother joined the English National Opera when she was eight years old.
Waddingham is an Academy of Live and Recorded Arts alumnus. She can sing in a range of four octaves. Her first role was in a dinner theater production of Joni and Gina’s Wedding, an interactive comedy.
Waddingham’s Career
Waddingham has performed as a theater actress in both the West End of London and on Broadway in New York. In Space Family Robinson and Lautrec, she played Suzanne Valadon and Starbird, respectively.
At London’s Open Air Theatre in the middle of 2010, Waddingham performed as the Witch in the production of Into the Woods. She was the first to perform the brand-new Lloyd Webber and Rice song “Red Shoes Blues” while playing the Wicked Witch of the West in the West End production of The Wizard of Oz, which premiered on March 1, 2011, at the London Palladium.
In seasons 5 and 6 of Game of Thrones, Waddingham played Septa Unella, the “Shame Nun”. She began filming nine weeks after the birth of her kid, and she performed all of the stunt work for a scene in which she is waterboarded.
In the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, Waddingham has played Rebecca Welton, owner of AFC Richmond, since 2020. The representation of a strong female friendship between Rebecca and Keeley, played by Juno Temple, has received praise for being “refreshing” in the show.
Together with Alesha Dixon, Graham Norton, and Julia Sanina, who is from Ukraine, Waddingham co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool in May 2023. Graham Norton joined them for the final. She garnered a lot of attention, earning the title of “overnight national treasure” according to The Guardian.
Hannah Waddingham’s Height
Hannah Waddingham stands 5 feet 11 inches (1.8 meters) tall.