Hannah Walters

Hannah Walters is an English actress and producer.

Career
Walters began her acting career in 2006, with a small role in The Thieving Headmistress. She followed this with appearances as Trudy in the Shane Meadows film This Is England and its continuing series, This Is England '86, This Is England '88 and This Is England '90. Walters is best known for her role as DC Megan Riley in the ITV 1 crime drama series Whitechapel, a role she portrayed for 12 episodes.

In 2019, Walters appeared in the short film Boiling Point, which, two years later, went on to become a feature-length film of the same name. Walters is credited as being an executive producer for the film, alongside her husband, Stephen Graham. In the United Kingdom, the film earned $107,525 from fifty-three theaters in its opening weekend. Worldwide, the film amassed $1,142,493 in total box office sales.

In 2021, Walters appeared as Sonia McNally in Time, the wife of her real-life husband's character. In 2022, Walters appeared, as Jean, in four episodes of BBC comedy PRU. In October 2022, it was announced that there would be a BBC sequel series of Boiling Point. Walters will feature as Emily in the series set six months after the premise of the original feature film. 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."

Walters is due to feature in Sweet Sue, a film currently in post-production and starring Maggie O'Neill, Tony Pitts and Harry Trevaldwyn.

Personal life
Walters married actor Stephen Graham on 6 June 2008; they had met and started dating while both were training at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance. They currently live in Ibstock, Leicestershire, having previously lived in the Beckenham area of London. They have a son and a daughter. Graham has been open about how his dyslexia means that Walters will help him to learn his lines as well as help to choose his next projects based on the scripts he receives.