Geraldine James’s film work includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the Warner Bros Sherlock Holmes films, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Calendar Girls and Gandhi. She has been BAFTA nominated four times for her television work: for Dummy, The Jewel in the Crown, Band of Gold and Sins. Other TV work includes Utopia, Little Britain, State of Play, Crime and Punishment, White Teeth and Blott on the Landscape. James’s theatre credits include Hamlet, The Seagull, Victory, The UN Inspector, The Faith Healer, Lysistrata and The Merchant of Venice on Broadway (for which she was nominated for a Tony Award).