Hatfield House - Film Credits

Film Credits

• Portions of the house and exterior were used in the 1992 film, Orlando, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth.

• Many interior scenes of the Wayne Manor in the 1989 film Batman and the 1992 sequel Batman Returns were shot at Hatfield House.

• The outside scenes of the two Lara Croft films with Angelina Jolie were shot at Hatfield House which serves as her home in the film. Subsequently, the outside of Lara's mansion in the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld is based on Hatfield House. In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, The Long Gallery and the Library of the house were used for filming the scene where the MI6 agents meet Lara and gives her a task to retrieve Pandora's Box. The Bo Ken self-defense practice scene was filmed in the entrance hall of the house.

• It appears in the 2005 film The New World with Colin Farrell.

• Hatfield House was used to portray Chartley Hall, where Mary, Queen of Scots, played by Samantha Morton, was kept captive before her execution, in the 2007 film The Golden Age.

• The white frontage of the south facing view of Hatfield House was used in the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love as a location in Greenwich.

• Hatfield House was featured as "Chimneys" in the 2010 Agatha Christie's Marple adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Secret of Chimneys.

• Hatfield House appeared several times throughout the television film Dustbin Baby as the manor to which Marion takes April, and as the manor where Marion and Elliot work.

• The Long Gallery was used in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.

• Russell Brand filmed at the house in August 2009, for the 2010 film Get Him to the Greek.

• In July 2010, an episode of Antiques Roadshow was filmed at Hatfield House.

• In 2010, MasterChef Australia filmed the contestants cooking for Heston Blumenthal in Hatfield House.

• It featured in a November episode of Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets, which studied the house's 17th century formal Garden.

• In March 2011 Hatfield House featured as part of the 20 episode long series of the BBC's Royal Upstairs Downstairs which followed the royal tour of Queen Victoria in 1846 who visited the home.

Other films include Cromwell with Alec Guinness, west side of the house, The Avengers with Sean Connery overlooking the maze, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring Johnny Depp and V for Vendetta with Stephen Fry.