Frances de la Tour
Year Title Role
1970 Country Dance District Nurse
1970 Every Home Should Have One Maud Crape
1972 Our Miss Fred Miss Lockhart
1974-1978 Rising Damp Miss Ruth Jones
1976 To the Devil a Daughter Salvation Army Major
1977 Wombling Free Julia Frogmorton
1977 Maggie : It 's Me Maggie
1980 Rising Damp Miss Ruth Jones
1980 Flickers Maud Cole
1983 The Bounder Celia
1984 Ellis Island Millie Renfrew
1985 Murder with Mirrors Miss Bellaver
1990 Strike It Rich Mrs. De Vere
1996 Cold Lazarus Emma Porlock
1997 The History of Tom Jones : A Foundling Aunt Western
1998 Heartbeat Tessa
1999 The Cherry Orchard Charlotte Ivanova
2004 Agatha Christie 's Poirot Salome Otterbourne
2004 Waking the Dead Alice Taylor-Garrett
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Madame Olympe Maxime
TV and filmography
Frances de la Tour, also Frances J. de Lautour, (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 until 1978. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner. She performed as Mrs. Lintott in the play The History Boys in London and on Broadway, winning the 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She reprised the role in the 2006 film. Her other film roles include Madame Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010). Television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial Cold Lazarus (1996), Headmistress Margaret Baron in BBC sitcom Big School and Violet Crosby in the sitcom Vicious.