Julia Sawalha
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Julia Sawalha is an English actress well known for her roles as Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous
, Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang
and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice
. She also played Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford
.
. She was named after her grandmother, a Jordan
ian businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise. She is of Jordanian, English, and French Huguenot
ancestry. She was born into an acting family: her father Nadim is an actor who appeared in the James Bond
movies The Spy Who Loved Me
and The Living Daylights, while her sister Nadia
starred in the soap EastEnders
and is now a television presenter and chat show host.
mini series Fame is the Spur
and in 1988, played a small role in Inspector Morse
on the episode "Last Seen Wearing". She first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning ITV
teenage comedy/drama Press Gang
, which ran from 1989 to 1993. From 1991-94, she starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thoughts and continued with her character, Hannah (Lynda Bellingham's
daughter), in the British Comedy Award-winning Faith in the Future
(1995–98). In 1994, she played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in the BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit
.
From 1992 to 2005, Sawalha played strait-laced daughter Saffron Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous
alongside Jennifer Saunders
and Joanna Lumley
. She starred in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen
's Pride and Prejudice
as Lydia Bennet, co-starring opposite Jennifer Ehle
and Colin Firth
. She also voiced Ginger in DreamWorks
/Aardman's Chicken Run
.
In 2000, she appeared as Janet, the Australian barmaid ("Built for bar work; it's instinct... instinct!!") in the first series of the British sitcom Time Gentlemen Please
. She also played the much put-upon PA to "Zak" in Argos
TV adverts during 2002-2004, along with Richard E. Grant
. She has also joined actor Ioan Gruffudd
in the internationally successful TV/DVD adaptations of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower
novels, as the captain's wife Maria. The following year, she became the Alan Davies
co-star in Jonathan Creek
after Caroline Quentin
left, appearing in a Christmas Special ("Satan's Chimney"). She returned for a series between 2003-2004.
In 2006, she participated in the third series of the genealogy
documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? tracing her family's roots, which are Jordanian Bedouin
on her father's side, and French Huguenot on her mother's. She also appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's A Taste of my Life presented by Nigel Slater
. After a two-year break, she was back on screen in May 2007, competing in the BBC dog training
celebrity reality show
The Underdog Show
. She then returned to acting in two successive BBC costume dramas; as Jessie Brown in 2007 series Cranford
, followed by Lark Rise to Candleford
in 2008. She provided the voice acting for Sister Hannah (a.k.a. "Hammer"), a main character in the Xbox 360
video game Fable II.
, and subsequently comedian Richard Herring
. She also had a relationship with Patrick Marber
. She reportedly had an affair with actor Keith Allen, the father of Lily Allen
and Alfie Allen.
On 1 January 2004, it was alleged in the tabloid newspapers that she had married boyfriend Alan Davies
, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek
. Both she and Davies, who avoided discussing their private lives in public, denied this, and took legal action against the reports.
After meeting Rich Annetts at the Glastonbury Festival
in 2005, the couple moved to Bath, Somerset and lived in a flat close to the Royal Crescent
. Annetts had a canal boat
on the Kennet and Avon canal
, which the couple would regularly visit. They then moved to a cottage in the Somerset
countryside, which they renamed Flowers Cottage. Sawalha started growing her own vegetables, attending yoga
lessons and is studying for an Open University
English
degree. Sawalha and Annetts have since split up.
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...
, Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang
Press Gang
Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...
and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
's Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial)
Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC...
. She also played Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)
Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the...
.
Early life
Sawalha was born in London, the daughter of Roberta and actor Nadim SawalhaNadim Sawalha
Nadim Sawalha is a Jordanian-born English actor and father of actresses Julia and Nadia Sawalha.He was born in Madaba in 1935 and came to England from Jordan in the 1950s, to study drama...
. She was named after her grandmother, a Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
ian businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise. She is of Jordanian, English, and French Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...
ancestry. She was born into an acting family: her father Nadim is an actor who appeared in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
movies The Spy Who Loved Me
The Spy Who Loved Me (film)
The Spy Who Loved Me is a spy film, the tenth film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional secret agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and the screenplay was written by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum...
and The Living Daylights, while her sister Nadia
Nadia Sawalha
Nadia Sawalha is an English actress and television presenter.Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress...
starred in the 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...
and is now a television presenter and chat show host.
Career
Sawalha made her debut in the 1982 BBCBBC
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...
mini series Fame is the Spur
Fame is the Spur (TV series)
Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982 . It was based on the novel Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay...
and in 1988, played a small role in Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse (TV series)
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....
on the episode "Last Seen Wearing". She first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning 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...
teenage comedy/drama Press Gang
Press Gang
Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...
, which ran from 1989 to 1993. From 1991-94, she starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thoughts and continued with her character, Hannah (Lynda Bellingham's
Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham is a Canadian-born English actress, broadcaster and author, who is known for her distinctive husky voice.-Early life:...
daughter), in the British Comedy Award-winning Faith in the Future
Faith in the Future
Faith in the Future was a British comedy television show running from 1995-1998. It was a sequel to the show Second Thoughts. It aired on ITV for 22 episodes....
(1995–98). In 1994, she played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in the BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series)
Martin Chuzzlewit was a 1994 TV mini series produced by the BBC. It is based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge. The music was composed by Geoffrey Burgon...
.
From 1992 to 2005, Sawalha played strait-laced daughter Saffron Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...
alongside Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...
and Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...
. She starred in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
's Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial)
Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC...
as Lydia Bennet, co-starring opposite Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.-Early life:...
and Colin Firth
Colin Firth
SirColin Andrew Firth, CBE is a British film, television, and theatre actor. Firth gained wide public attention in the 1990s for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...
. She also voiced Ginger in DreamWorks
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television program and online virtual worlds...
/Aardman's Chicken Run
Chicken Run
Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films...
.
In 2000, she appeared as Janet, the Australian barmaid ("Built for bar work; it's instinct... instinct!!") in the first series of the British sitcom Time Gentlemen Please
Time Gentlemen Please
Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. Commissioned by Sky One, it was primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and ran for two series between 2000 and 2002.- Premise and characters :...
. She also played the much put-upon PA to "Zak" in Argos
Argos (retailer)
Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 800 stores. It is unique amongst major retailers in the UK in that it is a catalogue merchant...
TV adverts during 2002-2004, along with Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
. She has also joined actor Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd
Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...
in the internationally successful TV/DVD adaptations of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...
novels, as the captain's wife Maria. The following year, she became the Alan Davies
Alan Davies
Alan Davies is an English comedian, writer and actor best known for starring in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI.- Early life :...
co-star in Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
after Caroline Quentin
Caroline Quentin
Caroline Jones known by her stage name Caroline Quentin, is an English actress. Quentin became known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for three years.-Early life:...
left, appearing in a Christmas Special ("Satan's Chimney"). She returned for a series between 2003-2004.
In 2006, she participated in the third series of the genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? tracing her family's roots, which are Jordanian Bedouin
Bedouin
The Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes or clans, known in Arabic as ..-Etymology:...
on her father's side, and French Huguenot on her mother's. She also appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's A Taste of my Life presented by Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Prior to this, Slater was food writer for Marie Claire for five years...
. After a two-year break, she was back on screen in May 2007, competing in the BBC dog training
Dog training
Dog training is the process of teaching skills or behaviors to a dog. This can include teaching a dog to respond to certain commands, or helping the dog learn coping skills for stressful environments. Dog training often includes operant conditioning, classical conditioning, or non-associative...
celebrity reality show
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
The Underdog Show
The Underdog Show
The Underdog Show was a six week television series presented by Julian Clary and his dog, Valerie. The series was produced by the independent production company Splash Media.-Format:...
. She then returned to acting in two successive BBC costume dramas; as Jessie Brown in 2007 series Cranford
Cranford (TV series)
Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions...
, followed by Lark Rise to Candleford
Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)
Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the...
in 2008. She provided the voice acting for Sister Hannah (a.k.a. "Hammer"), a main character in the Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
video game Fable II.
Personal life
Sawalha lived with Press Gang co-star Dexter FletcherDexter Fletcher
Dexter Fletcher is an English actor. He is best known for his role in Guy Ritchie film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as television roles in such shows as the dramedy Hotel Babylon, the critically acclaimed HBO series Band of Brothers and earlier in his career, the children's show...
, and subsequently comedian Richard Herring
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
. She also had a relationship with Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...
. She reportedly had an affair with actor Keith Allen, the father of Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...
and Alfie Allen.
On 1 January 2004, it was alleged in the tabloid newspapers that she had married boyfriend Alan Davies
Alan Davies
Alan Davies is an English comedian, writer and actor best known for starring in the TV mystery series Jonathan Creek and as the permanent panellist on the TV panel show QI.- Early life :...
, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
. Both she and Davies, who avoided discussing their private lives in public, denied this, and took legal action against the reports.
After meeting Rich Annetts at the Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
in 2005, the couple moved to Bath, Somerset and lived in a flat close to the Royal Crescent
Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses laid out in a crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I...
. Annetts had a canal boat
Canal boat
There are three articles associated with canal watercraft:* The Volunteer - A replica 1848 canal boat docked on the Illinois and Michigan Canal at LaSalle, Illinois* Narrowboat - a specialized craft for operation in early narrow canals...
on the Kennet and Avon canal
Kennet and Avon Canal
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of , made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section...
, which the couple would regularly visit. They then moved to a cottage in the Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
countryside, which they renamed Flowers Cottage. Sawalha started growing her own vegetables, attending yoga
Yoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
lessons and is studying for an Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
English
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
degree. Sawalha and Annetts have since split up.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Keep It in the Family Keep It in the Family (TV series) Keep It in the Family is a British comedy television series that aired for five seasons between 1980 and 1983. It was about a likable and mischievous British cartoonist, Dudley Rush. Also featured were Dudley's wife, Muriel and their two daughters, Jacqui and Susan... |
Walk-On Role | uncredited |
| 1982 | The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film) The Pirates of Penzance is a 1983 musical film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name. It stars Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, and, Tony Azito... |
Daughter | uncredited |
| Fame Is the Spur Fame is the Spur (TV series) Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982 . It was based on the novel Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay... |
Amy | TV series (1 episode: "Episode 1.2") | |
| Educating Marmalade | Good Girl | TV series (4 episodes) | |
| 1988 | Inspector Morse Inspector Morse (TV series) Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes.... |
Rachel | TV series (1 episode: "Last Seen Wearing") |
| 1989 | Press Gang Press Gang Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993... |
Lynda Day/Young Katherine Hill | TV series (43 episodes: 1989-1993) RTS Television Award - Best Actor |
| 1990 | Spatz Spatz Spatz is a children's comedy series that ran on CITV during the 1990s, produced by Thames Television and created by Andrew Bethell. The show originally ran from 28 February 1990 to 10 April 1992, with repeats shown until 1996. The show centred around a fictional burger bar situated in Cricklewood,... |
Chloe Fairbanks | TV series (1 episode: "The Sound of Muzak") |
| 1991 | El C.I.D. El C.I.D. El C.I.D. was an ITV television series that ran for three seasons from 1990 to 1992. It starred Alfred Molina as Bernard Blake, a C.I.D. officer who takes early retirement and moves to Spain where he and his partner, John Bird, a retired records officer, keep an eye on the ex-pat community of... |
Trudy | TV series (1 episode: "Thursday's Child") |
| Buddy's Song | Kelly | ||
| Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The... |
Nikki Watson | TV series (1 episode: "Living In Hope") | |
| Second Thoughts | Hannah Grayshot | TV series (47 episodes: 1991-1994) | |
| 1992 | Bottom Bottom (TV series) Bottom was a British sitcom television series that originally aired on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by comic duo Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson who star as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates living on the dole in Hammersmith, London... |
Veronica Head | TV series (1 episode: "Parade") |
| Absolutely Fabulous | Saffron Monsoon | TV series (37 episodes: 1992-2005) | |
| 1994 | Lovejoy Lovejoy Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant... |
Joanna Whymark | TV series (1 episode: "Double-Edged Sword") |
| Keeper | Alison | tv short | |
| Martin Chuzzlewit Martin Chuzzlewit (TV series) Martin Chuzzlewit was a 1994 TV mini series produced by the BBC. It is based on the novel by Charles Dickens, with a screenplay by David Lodge. The music was composed by Geoffrey Burgon... |
Mercy Pecksniff | TV series (6 episodes) | |
| 1995 | In The Bleak Midwinter | Nina Raymond (Ophelia) | |
| Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV serial) Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth starred as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton, the serial was a BBC... |
Lydia Bennett | TV mini-series (6 episodes) | |
| Faith in the Future Faith in the Future Faith in the Future was a British comedy television show running from 1995-1998. It was a sequel to the show Second Thoughts. It aired on ITV for 22 episodes.... |
Hannah Grayshot | TV series (22 episodes: 1995-1998) | |
| 1996 | French and Saunders French and Saunders French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.... |
TV series (1 episode: "Baywatch") | |
| Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Crypt (TV series) Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO... |
Teresa | TV series (1 episode: "The Kidnapper") | |
| The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows (1996 film) The Wind in the Willows, released on video in the U.S. as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, is a 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows , although it differs substantially from the novel... |
The Jailer's Daughter | ||
| 1997 | McLibel! | Helen Steel | TV mini-series (1 episode: "Episode 1.1") |
| Ain't Misbehavin | Dolly Nightingale | TV mini-series (3 episodes) | |
| 1998 | Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Not! | Saffron Monsoon | video |
| 1999 | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death is a four-episode special of Doctor Who made for the Red Nose Day charity telethon in the United Kingdom, and broadcast on BBC One on 12 March 1999... |
Emma | Charity spoof TV movie by Comic Relief Comic Relief Comic Relief is an operating British charity, founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia. The highlight of Comic Relief's appeal is Red Nose Day, a biennial telethon held in March, alternating with sister project Sport Relief... |
| The Flint Street Nativity | Wise Man | TV movie | |
| The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything | Catherine Parr | TV movie | |
| 2000 | Chicken Run Chicken Run Chicken Run is a 2000 British stop-motion animation film made by the Aardman Animations studios, the production studio of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films... |
Ginger | voice |
| Mirrorball Mirrorball (TV pilot) Mirrorball was a sitcom pilot in the United Kingdom directed by Adrian Edmondson and written by Jennifer Saunders. It originally aired on 22 December 2000.... |
Freda Krell | tv short | |
| Time Gentleman Please Time Gentlemen Please Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. Commissioned by Sky One, it was primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and ran for two series between 2000 and 2002.- Premise and characters :... |
Janet Wilson | TV series (21 episodes: 2000-2001) | |
| 2001 | Venus and Mars | Marie | |
| Jonathan Creek Jonathan Creek Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches... |
Carla Borrego | TV series (7 episodes: 2002-2004) | |
| 2002 | The Final Curtain The Final Curtain (2002 film) The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch to pen his biography, in the hope of sealing his immortality in the hearts and minds... |
Karen Willet | |
| 2003 | Hornblower: Loyalty | Maria Mason | TV movie |
| Hornblower: Duty | Maria Mason | TV movie | |
| 2007 | Cranford Cranford (TV series) Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions... |
Jessie Brown | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 2008 | Lark Rise to Candleford Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside, published between 1939 and 1943. The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD in the UK. In the... |
Dorcas Lane | TV series (40 episodes: 2008-2011) |
Appearances
| Year | Appearance | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | The Word The Word (TV series) The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom.-Format:Its presenters included Mancunian radio presenter Terry Christian, comedian Mark Lamarr, Dani Behr, Katie Puckrik, Jasmine Dotiwala, Alan Connor, Amanda de Cadenet and "Huffty"... |
TV series (1 episode: "Episode 3.2") |
| 1993 | Parallel 9 Parallel 9 Parallel 9 was a British children's television entertainment show that broadcast from 1992 to 1994. A total of three series - one in each year - was produced, and each series ran for up to twenty-two weeks Parallel 9 (commonly known as 'P9') was a British children's television entertainment show... |
TV series (1 episode: "Episode 2.5") |
| 1997 | An Audience with the Spice Girls | TV special |
| 1998 | Light Lunch Light Lunch Light Lunch is a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998. It starred Mel and Sue... |
TV series (1 episode: "The Future's Bright, the Future's Funny") |
| 1999 | Late Lunch | TV series (1 episode: "#2.14") |
| 2000 | The Hatching of 'Chicken Run | TV special |
| Loose Women Loose Women Loose Women is a British lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1999 on ITV. It consists of a panel of four women who interview celebrities and discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs, to celebrity gossip... |
TV series (1 episode: "#2.13") | |
| Bob Martin Bob Martin (TV series) Bob Martin is a British situation comedy. Its concept bears significant resemblance to The Larry Sanders Show. Michael Barrymore is its principal actor. It was made by Granada for the ITV network from 2 April 2000 to 4 June 2001.... |
TV series (1 episode: "Through the Keyhole") | |
| Masterchef | TV series (1 episode: "#10.14") | |
| Poultry in Motion: The Making of Chicken Run | TV special | |
| HBO First Look HBO First Look HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in 1992 with a documentary on A League of Their Own starring Tom Hanks, and still airs today. The series shows behind-the-scenes looks at the filming and interviews with the actors. The show... |
TV series (1 episode: "The Hatching of Chicken Run") | |
| Stars in Their Eyes Stars In Their Eyes Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars... |
TV series (1 episode: "Cerys Matthews") | |
| 2004 | The Story of Absolutely Fabulous | TV special |
| Hell's Kitchen | TV series (1 episode: "#1.4") | |
| 2006 | A Taste of My Life | TV special |
| Who Do You Think You Are? | TV series (1 episode: "Julia Sawalha") | |
| 2007 | The Underdog Show The Underdog Show The Underdog Show was a six week television series presented by Julian Clary and his dog, Valerie. The series was produced by the independent production company Splash Media.-Format:... |
TV series (unknown episodes) |
| The Graham Norton Show The Graham Norton Show The Graham Norton Show is a British comedy chat show that is broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom. It was originally shown on BBC Two from February 2007 to May 2009 until it moved to BBC One from October 2009... |
TV series (1 episode: "#1.7") | |
| 2009 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show The Alan Titchmarsh Show The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime TV chat show broadcast between 3 and 4pm weekdays on the ITV Network.-Format:The programme made its debut on ITV in 2007. It focused on the theme of "The Best of British" focusing on food, entertainment and celebrities in a mid-afternoon slot... |
TV series (1 episode: "9 March 2009") |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Comedy Connections Comedy Connections Comedy Connections was a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2008. The show looked at the stories behind the production of some of Britain's comedy television programmes, showing how they tied in with the production of other comedy shows... |
Narrator | TV series (14 episodes: 2003-2004) |
| 2008 | Fable 2 Fable 2 Fable II is an action role-playing game in the Fable game series developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox 360. It is the sequel to Fable and Fable: The Lost Chapters, it was originally announced in 2006 and released in October 2008... |
Hannah/Hammer | Game for XBox |