Genevieve Gaunt
Genevieve Wilhelmina Gaunt is a British actress of Scottish and Dutch heritage, voice over artist, and writer known for portraying Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Wilhelmina "Willow" Moreno Henstridge in The Royals and Marilyn Monroe in at Park Theatre.
Early life
Gaunt was born and raised in London, England, the daughter of Scottish actress Fiona Gaunt and Dutch actor Frederik de Groot. Gaunt attended the Godolphin and Latymer School in London. She graduated with a double first in English from Newnham College, Cambridge.Career
Acting and audio
Gaunt narrated The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming as part of a set of audiobook recordings released in January 2025.Gaunt voiced a singing muppet Binko in Cunk On Life for the BBC starring Diane Morgan. It aired in January 2025, created by Charlie Brooker and directed by Al Campbell.
Gaunt portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the 2024 theatre production The Marilyn Conspiracy, directed and co-written by Guy Masterson.
in 2024 Gaunt portrayed young Diane Keaton in Sky Cinema's film Arthur's Whisky starring Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu, Boy George, David Harewood, Bill Patterson and Lawrence Chaney.
Gaunt portrayed Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Jessica Fuller in The Face of an Angel. She portrayed Princess Isabella in Knightfall in 2019 and Wilhelmina "Willow" Moreno on The Royals from 2015 to 2018.
In 2022 she led new play Ghosts of the Titanic by Ron Hutchinson at The Park Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In October 2022 Dame Harriet Walter and Gaunt performed a staged reading of The Dame and the Showgirl by Simon Berry at The Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly. The play is about the meeting between Dame Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe. The play was previously produced as an audiodrama in 2021 for Audible with Emma Thompson and Sinead Matthews.
In 2020 Gaunt narrated The Discomfort of Evening and played the lead little boy in Code Name Bananas by David Walliams. Gaunt is the voice of Lady Penelope and Grandma Tracy in Thunderbirds.
In October 2022 Gaunt narrated Maggie O'Farrell's novel The Marriage Portrait for which she won the AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award. Her narration of The Memory of Animals by Clare Fuller won the AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award in 2023.
Writing and broadcasting
In 2021, Gaunt produced podcast The Cupid Couch, in which she interviewed Rose McGowan, Buck Angel and Kathy Lette. It was listed by The Radio Times in their '34 Best Podcasts of 2021'.In October 2022 Gaunt co-curated The Braemar Literary Festival at The Fife Arms in Scotland with HM the Queen Consort's 'Reading Room', St Margaret's, local cultural partners and Tom Parker Bowles. Guests included Sebastian Faulks, Jeremy Lee, Angela Hartnett, Jackie Kay, Ian Rankin, Sam Leith, Dr Frank Tallis, Justine Picardie, Stephen Page and Kate Mosse.
Gaunt interviews writers and creatives such as Amor Towles, Patrick Radden Keefe, Kathryn Hunter and Julia Masli for film and culture magazine, A Rabbit's Foot,
Gaunt adapted Thunderbirds comic Mr Steelman for audiodrama as part of the seriesDanger and Deception for release in January 2024.
Gaunt writes book reviews for The Spectator.
Awards
- Sylvia Kristel Award
- Earphones Award for Audiobook Narration 2023, The Memory of Animals by Clare Fuller.
- Earphones Award for Audiobook Narration 2022, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell.