Janet Dibley
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Janet Dibley is an English
actress. She is best known for her role the 1980s sitcom The Two of Us. She currently appears as Dr. Elaine Cassidy
in the BBC
soap opera Doctors.
, in April 1976 she appeared in GAS with the National Student Drama Festival which won the Royal Shakespeare Company
's inaugural Buzz Goodbody Award and The Festival Judges' Awards.
Dibley came to public attention playing Elaine in ITV
's The Two of Us, a sit-com about a co-habiting couple, opposite Nicholas Lyndhurst
. In 1993, Dibley played the part of Linda in The Gingerbread Girl a series about a single mother trying to raise her daughter. She then played Lorna Cartwright
in the BBC
soap EastEnders
. However, it was reported that she decided to quit the show, because she was uncomfortable with the plans for her character, where the script writers proposed Lorna became a prostitute and then end up getting raped. Dibley agreed an exit strategy, and the scripts were rewritten. She did play a prostitute in the ITV drama 'Gold'.
Dibley has also done theatre work with the National Theatre
and had roles in Mr Cinders, Carousel
, Twelfth Night, Figaro
, Guys and Dolls and Cinderella
.
She also starred in the BBC drama The Chase
, and also writes. Dibley joined the cast of BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors in August 2010.
Married to Tyler Butterworth
, the couple have one child.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress. She is best known for her role the 1980s sitcom The Two of Us. She currently appears as Dr. Elaine Cassidy
Dr. Elaine Cassidy
Doctor Elaine Cassidy is a fictional character from the British BBC One soap opera Doctors, played by Janet Dibley. She made her first on-screen appearance on 31 August 2010 in the episode "Frozen" series twelve, episode eighty-nine of the program. Dibley had made two former unrelated guest...
in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
soap opera Doctors.
Biography
Before training at the Rose Bruford CollegeRose Bruford College
Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance is a British drama school, offering university-level and professional vocational training for theatre and performance and the BA and MA degrees, based in Sidcup, Southeast London.-History:Founded in 1950, Rose Bruford "pioneered the first acting degree...
, in April 1976 she appeared in GAS with the National Student Drama Festival which won the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
's inaugural Buzz Goodbody Award and The Festival Judges' Awards.
Dibley came to public attention playing Elaine in ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's The Two of Us, a sit-com about a co-habiting couple, opposite Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, and as Adam Parkinson in Carla Lane's series Butterflies...
. In 1993, Dibley played the part of Linda in The Gingerbread Girl a series about a single mother trying to raise her daughter. She then played Lorna Cartwright
Lorna Cartwright
Lorna Cartwright is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Janet Dibley intermittently between 1997 and 1998. Lorna was introduced primarily as a catalyst to break up the marriage of the characters Phil and Kathy Mitchell...
in the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
soap EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
. However, it was reported that she decided to quit the show, because she was uncomfortable with the plans for her character, where the script writers proposed Lorna became a prostitute and then end up getting raped. Dibley agreed an exit strategy, and the scripts were rewritten. She did play a prostitute in the ITV drama 'Gold'.
Dibley has also done theatre work with the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
and had roles in Mr Cinders, Carousel
Carousel (musical)
Carousel is the second stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II . The work premiered in 1945 and was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline...
, Twelfth Night, Figaro
Figaro
-Literature:* Figaro, the central character in:** The Barber of Seville by Beaumarchais***Il barbiere di Siviglia , the opera by Paisiello based on Beaumarchais' play...
, Guys and Dolls and Cinderella
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
.
She also starred in the BBC drama The Chase
The Chase (TV series)
The Chase is a BBC drama series that first aired on 16 July 2006. The Chase centered around a family run veterinary practice.It was co-written by Gaynor Faye , the daughter of the show's creator, Kay Mellor...
, and also writes. Dibley joined the cast of BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors in August 2010.
Married to Tyler Butterworth
Tyler Butterworth
Tyler Butterworth is an English actor, who has appeared in Rumpole Of The Bailey, Bergerac, Last of the Summer Wine, The Bill, The Darling Buds of May, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Osborne in the ITV sitcom Fiddlers Three...
, the couple have one child.
Notable TV roles
- The ChaseThe Chase (TV series)The Chase is a BBC drama series that first aired on 16 July 2006. The Chase centered around a family run veterinary practice.It was co-written by Gaynor Faye , the daughter of the show's creator, Kay Mellor...
- Fat FriendsFat FriendsFat Friends is an ITV drama , following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships,...
- The Two of Us