Hannah Walters

Hannah Walters (born 19 January 1974) is an English actress. She is best known for her work on This Is England '86, Whitechapel, No Offence, Boiling Point, and Adolescence.

Early life Hannah Walters was born on 19 January 1974 in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. She had a strong relationship with her mother, describing her as having a caring nature. She died when Walters was 33.

Walters trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, graduating in 1996. There she met her future husband, Stephen Graham.

Before embarking on a career as an actress, Walters was a teacher of drama, educating GCSE and A-Level students.

Career Walters began her acting career in 2006,

The film is a one-shot film (which Walters claims is the first one-shot film ever made). There were two weeks of rehearsal for the film, one with the camera man and director (technical team); and the second with the full cast. This was followed by one week of filming. They had planned to do two takes per night, but only did four takes in total, selecting the third take as the final film. The film was set in a real restaurant.

In 2023, Walters starred as pastry chef, Emily, in the series Boiling Point, which was set six months after the premise of the original feature film. She was also a co-director on the series. The series was broadcast on BBC One in October 2023, with all four episodes becoming available on its iPlayer streaming service the same day. The series was produced by Matriarch Productions. It was directed by Philip Barantini, who was also co-writer with James Cummings. Walters said that the series aimed to explore both the kitchen ("the microcosm"), but also further explore the lives of the characters ("the macrocosm").

Walters has said that, after receiving heartfelt reactions by viewers to the theme of self-harm in the feature film, "It felt almost like a duty of care to explore it again." Walters described the show as "gritty Northern". Although Walters learnt about the role by reading the script that came through for Stephen, she insisted she wanted to go to audition and get her role off her own merit and not just because she is Graham's wife.

In April 2023, Walters starred as Matron Beth Relp in the ITVX drama series Malpractice. Walters said about the production, "Malpractice has that element of being a medical thriller. But it's also about humanity and the chaos inside a human and how human beings react."

In 2023, Walters appeared as the sister-in-law to the title character in Sweet Sue, a film starring Maggie O'Neill, Tony Pitts and Harry Trevaldwyn.

In 2025, Walters featured in and executive produced A Thousand Blows. Walters played Eliza, a member of the Forty Elephants gang.

Adolescence (2025)

In 2025, Walters was the Executive Producer for Adolescence, a four-part TV drama exploring the case of a thirteen-year-old boy who is accused of murdering a teenage girl, created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne. She also starred in the second episode of the series, as Mrs Bailey. The series has been made available free of charge for schools to use as a learning tool. The series was given a total of eight awards at the 2025 Emmys.

In an interview about the success and reaction to the series, Walters shared: "I did not, hand on heart, realise the profound effects it was going to have on people. Parents are sending me lots of messages of thanks, lots of messages of gratitude, because they're opening those bedroom doors and talking to their children in ways that they hadn't talked to them before. I think that's all we needed to do - give everybody a little shake and say, come on, it's our duty now to make sure that this generation don't get lost, because it's so easy to lose them."

Matriarch Productions

In 2020, Walters co-founded the production company Matriarch Productions with her husband, Stephen Graham. The company aims to create opportunities for those underrepresented in the screen industries, as well as first time writers and directors. The company is based in Leicestershire, where the couple live.

Personal life Walters married actor Stephen Graham on 6 June 2008. having previously lived in the Beckenham area of London. They have a son, Alfie, and a daughter, Grace. In 2023, the family appeared on Channel 4's Standup to Cancer Celebrity Gogglebox special. Their first film together was This Is England in 2006. Subsequent projects they have both been on include: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), Walk Like A Panther, Boiling Point, Time and A Thousand Blows. She reads through the scripts he receives, and if she gets through ten pages, she suggests Graham should take it on.

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