Known For
Complete Filmography
Ethel & Ernest
2016
as Midwife / Aunty Flo (voice)
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and t...
Genius
2016
as Julia Wolfe
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...
National Theatre Live: Treasure Island
2015
as Grandma
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet s...
Mr. Nice
2010
as Irish Phone Operator
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as le...
Oliver Twist
2005
as Mrs. Sowerberry
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who a...
The Heart of Me
2004
as Betty
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which...
All the Queen's Men
2001
as Nettie
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...
Les Misérables
1998
as La Thénardier
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
The Heart Surgeon
1997
as Margot
Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend...
Woman of the Wolf
1994
as Madame Printemps
This fairy-tale-like drama, based on a 1904 short story by American poet and feminist author Renée Vivien, tells two opposing versions of the same nar...
Safe
1993
as Eileen
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
1993
as Margaret Knight
A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
as Maid
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have n...
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
1989
as Mrs. Shubunkin
A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolat...
A Woman Alone
1988
Adaptation
A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lecherous invalid...