Biography
Ellen Thomas (born 3 February 1956) is a Sierra Leonean-British actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Gardening
2024
as Lady O'Inspiri Pajis
In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she re...

Such a Lovely Day
2023
as Claude
Seen through the eyes of Sam, we are taken on a journey through the loveliest of days. A glorious family gathering in a perfect English summer garden....

National Theatre Live: The Wife of Willesden
2022
as Aunty P/Old Wife
A proper local legend. Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. Alvita will tell her life story to anyone in the pub – there’s no shame in her...

The Pay Day
2022
as Ms Boomer
A broke and frustrated IT technician decides to embark on a one woman heist to steal valuable data worth millions on the black market.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022
as Vi Butterfield
A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

A Birthday Party
2022
as Aunty Fatou
The close relationship between twin sisters is broken down irrevocably, when one insists on keeping up the tradition of circumcision of her young daug...

Can I Live?
2021
as Grandma
Part of the group Global Majority, actor Fehinti Balogun's path and priorities have been changed by what he's learned about planet Earth.

Cinderella: After Ever After
2019
as Fairy Godmother
Cinderella weds her Prince Charming, only to find married life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Brain in Gear
2019
as Mother
Remi is struggling with her stress levels, not to mention her running feud with the woman across the street and her incontinent dog. Life is made so m...

The Queen and I
2018
as Philomena Troussaint
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council esta...

Golden Years
2016
as Thelma
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M...

The Love Punch
2014
as Doreen
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on ...

Ashes
2012
as Susie
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospita...

Johnny English Reborn
2011
as Tucker's Mum
The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives ...
The Future WAGs of Great Britain
2010
as Auntie Deborah
Two sisters - Kim, a student, and Missy, an aspiring WAG - hatch a plan to make money from their insider football knowledge.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
2009
as Carmen
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like plane...
The Marchioness Disaster
2008
as Linda Hunt
A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in Augu...

Breaking and Entering
2006
as Judge
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...

Basic Instinct 2
2006
as Prosecutor
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, l...

Cherps
2005
as Reggie's Mother
Cherps is a fresh and charming romantic comedy that draws equally on traditions of British story telling and New York independent filmmaking. Reggie ...

South West 9
2001
as Mrs Ashwara
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had chang...

Buried Treasure
2001
as Martha
Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughte...

The Secret Laughter of Women
1999
as Bitter Leaf
Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian si...

Wonderland
1999
as Donna
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, p...

Not Even God Is Wise Enough
1993
as Aunt Mafe
Sometimes Busi is a champion boxer, sometimes a rock star. But when he escapes from court, where he is facing a charge of assault, he embarks on an od...

Home Away from Home
1993
as Miriam
To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultura...