Paola Dionisotti (; born 1946 in Turin) is an Italian-British actress active on stage and British television since 1975.
Early life 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.
Career 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. On the stage, she is noted for her Shakespearean roles.Rutter, Carol. Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare's Women Today with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter (London: The Woman's Press, 1988) She starred in Michael Bogdanov's 1978 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Aldwych.Miller, Stephen Roy (ed.) The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), page 52 In 2014, she played the tavern landlady Mistress Quickly in the RSC production of Henry IV Parts One and Two.
Partial filmography Year Title Role1978 The Sailor's Return Lucy Sturmey1982 The Young Ones: "Boring" Queen1982 The Young Ones: "Bomb" DHSS Official1983 Fords on Water Eddie's Mother1984 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: "A Murder is Announced" Miss Hinchcliffe1998 The Tichborne Claimant The DowagerVigo Marie2000 Come and Go Flo2001 Intimacy Amanda2004 Love's Brother Nonna2009 Midsomer Murders: "The Great and the Good" Mrs Stroud2010Doctors: "Careless Whisper"Tricia Andrews2010 Agatha Christie's Poirot: "Hallowe'en Party" Mrs Goodbody2010 My Mother's Coat Narrator 2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Mrs Whitstable2014Game of Thrones: "The Mountain and the Viper"Anya Waynwood2016 Florence Foster Jenkins Baroness Le Feyre
Awards 2000: London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Further Than The Furthest Thing at the Royal National Theatre
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