{{short description|English actress}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=October 2011}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2011}} }} '''Sally Mortemore''' is an English [[stage actor|stage]], [[film actor|film]] and television actress. She appeared in ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', where she played [[Madame Pince]], the librarian of [[Hogwarts]].
==Career== Mortemore first worked in theatre as an acting [[assistant stage manager]] at the [[Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch|Queen's Theatre]] in [[Hornchurch]]<ref name="scarylittlegirls">{{cite web |url= http://www.scarylittlegirls.co.uk/about-us/associate-artists/sally-mortemore/ |title=Sally Mortemore |work=scarylittlegirls.co.uk |year=2014 |access-date=25 July 2014}}</ref> followed by seasons at the [[Haymarket Theatre]] in [[Basingstoke]], [[Watford]]'s Palace Theatre, [[Bolton]]'s [[Octagon Theatre, Bolton|Octagon Theatre]] and the [[Churchill Theatre]] in [[Bromley]], London. She also toured with the [[David Glass (actor)|David Glass]] Ensemble,<ref name="scarylittlegirls"/> [[Redshift (group)|Redshift]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.filmbug.com/db/342925 |title=Sally Mortemore |work=Filmbug |year=2014 |access-date=25 July 2014}}</ref> Cleanbreak Theatre Company and Great Eastern Stage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oobdoo.com/online/latestmovies/potterd.htm |title=Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |work=oobdoo.com |year=2010 |access-date=25 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131160854/http://www.oobdoo.com/online/latestmovies/potterd.htm |archive-date=31 January 2013 }}</ref>
Mortemore appeared as Gertrude in [[David Glass (actor)|David Glass]]' production of ''[[Gormenghast (TV serial)|Gormenghast]]'' in 2006/2007.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/apr/03/theatre |title=Theatre review: Gormenghast / BAC, London |first= Lyn|last= Gardner|work=[[The Guardian]] |date= 3 April 2007|publisher=[[Guardian Media Group|GMG]] |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |access-date=10 October 2011}}</ref> Her film and television appearances include ''[[White Heat]]'' BBC2/ITV (2012), ''Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World'' (2010), ''[[Salt Grain]]'' (2010), ''[[Dead Gorgeous]]'', [[Too Many Cooks (novel)|''Too Many Cooks'']], ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' as [[Madame Pince]] and ''[[Wire in the Blood]]''<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/537809/Sally-Mortemore/filmography |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140809085235/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/537809/Sally-Mortemore/filmography |url-status= dead |archive-date= 9 August 2014 |title=Sally Mortemore – Filmography |location=[[New York, NY|New York]] |issn=0362-4331 |department= Movies & TV Dept. |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= 2014 |access-date=25 July 2014}}</ref> and ''Daphne & Apollo'' for the [[BBC]] as directed by [[Clare Kilner]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.film.britishcouncil.org/clare-kilner |title=Clare Kilner |work=British Council |access-date=23 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906183219/http://film.britishcouncil.org/clare-kilner |archive-date=6 September 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2016, she portrayed a Braavosi woman in the [[HBO]] series ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' in [[Game of Thrones (season 6)|Season 6]].
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |2002|| ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' || Madam Irma Pince || |- |2010|| ''Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World'' || Interviewer 2 || |- |2018|| ''Aux'' || Mrs. Roberts || |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.sallymortemore.com/ Official website] * {{IMDB name|1090693}}
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