---
name: "Emily Woof"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emily-woof"
fi1m_id: "emily-woof"
imdb_id: "nm0941056"
tmdb_id: 33679
wikidata_id: "Q531629"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T12:04:04.085705+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emily Woof

## Identity

Emily Woof

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emily-woof
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emily-woof
- **IMDb ID:** nm0941056
- **TMDB ID:** 33679
- **Wikidata ID:** Q531629
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Woof, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531629, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941056/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33679

Actor. Born 1 January 1967 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1967, Newcastle upon Tyne
- **Active:** 1994–1998
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $262m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Woof, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531629, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941056/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33679

## Biography

Emily Woof is an English actor, author and playwright. She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1967 and studied English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She trained in physical theatre at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris and in trapeze at FoolTime in Bristol and London's Circus Space.

Woof is known for film roles including Mandy in *The Full Monty* (1997), Shannon in *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), Grace Melbury in *The Woodlanders* (1997) and Mrs Sheringham in *Mothering Sunday* (2021). Television credits include Nancy in the 1999 adaptation of *Oliver Twist*, Janet Bailey in *Midsomer Murders* (1997) and appearances in *Vera*, *Agatha Christie's Marple* and *Casualty*. She shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for *The Full Monty*. She is married to actor and writer Hamish McColl and has two children.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, encyclopedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), Fi1m 81, as Shannon — [page](https://film.one/film/velvet-goldmine.md)
- *The Full Monty* (1997), Fi1m 81, as Mandy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-full-monty.md)
- *Middlemarch* (1994), Fi1m 78, Actor — [page](https://film.one/tv/middlemarch.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mothering Sunday* (2021), as Mrs Sheringham
- *Finding Alice* (2021), series, as Emily
- *Jo* (2013), series, Actor
- *Vera* (2011), series, as Janice Ronson — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Born Equal* (2006), as Sandra
- *Einstein's Big Idea* (2005), as Lise Meitner
- *Ian Fleming: Bondmaker* (2005), as Ann Fleming
- *The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse* (2005), as Lindsay
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Rowena Waddy
- *School for Seduction* (2004), as Kelly
- *Wondrous Oblivion* (2004), as Ruth Wiseman
- *Silent Cry* (2002), as Rachel Stewart
- *Pandaemonium* (2001), as Dorothy Wordsworth
- *Going Going* (2001), as Anna · Writer
- *Oliver Twist* (1999), series, as Nancy
- *Daylight Robbery* (1999), series, as Paula Sullivan
- *Passion* (1999), as Karen Holten
- *This Year's Love* (1999), as Alice
- *Fast Food* (1998), as Letitia
- *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), as Shannon — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/velvet-goldmine.md)
- *Killer Net* (1998), series, as Susie
- *The Woodlanders* (1998), as Grace Melbury
- *Photographing Fairies* (1997), as Linda
- *The Full Monty* (1997), as Mandy — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-full-monty.md)
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Janet Bailey — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Middlemarch* (1994), series, Actor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/middlemarch.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as WDC Dawn Morris — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *NOVA* (1974), series, as Lise Meitner

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