Hannah Waddingham

Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is an English actress, singer, and television presenter. She is known for playing businesswoman Rebecca Welton in Ted Lasso (2020–present), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award and two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.She has also appeared in a number of West End musicals, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West, and has received three Laurence Olivier Awards nominations for her work.Waddingham's film work includes the film adaptation of Les Misérables (2012), the psychological thriller Winter Ridge (2018), the action comedy The Fall Guy (2024), and the action film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). Other notable television roles include playing Tonya Dyke in Benidorm (2014), Septa Unella in the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2015–2016), Jax-Ur in Krypton (2018–2019) and Sofia Marchetti in Sex Education (2019–2023). In 2023, she co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest. Beginning in 2023, Waddingham began to expand into voice acting, portraying the snarky goddess Deliria in animated series Krapopolis (2023-present) and earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance nomination, and Jinx in The Garfield Movie.