Biography
Phoebe Sarah Nicholls (born April 7, 1957) is a British author and actress of film, stage, and television. She is married to Emmy-nominated director Charles Sturridge.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Widow Clicquot
2024
as Marie-Catherine Clicquot
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revoluti...

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
as Mrs Wain
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public...

The Empty Man
2020
as Nurse
Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominou...

Berlin, I Love You
2019
as Capucine
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

Mari
2019
as Margot
Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she has...

Finding Your Feet
2017
as Janet
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Chubby Funny
2017
as Aunty Jane
Oscar thinks he's special. He isn't. He thinks it's everyone else's fault. It's not. Moving to London, he gives himself a year to break into showbiz, ...

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Aunt Helen
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

Starfish
2016
as Tom's Mother
Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. Wh...

Three Women Wait for Death
2016
as Miranda
Miranda and her adult-ish daughters, Hester and Rose, are crammed in a rotting little caravan to be near their irascible Gramps in his final days. The...

Loving Miss Hatto
2012
as Mrs. Hatto
Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring lov...

The Scapegoat
2012
as Charlotte
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

The Road to Coronation Street
2010
as Mrs Simpson
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.

Clapham Junction
2007
as Natasha
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty...

The Trial of Tony Blair
2007
as Cherie Blair
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal...

Hawking
2004
as Isobel Hawking
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend...

The Miracle Maker
2000
as Mary (voice)
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...

FairyTale: A True Story
1997
as Polly Wright
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the ...

Persuasion
1995
as Elizabeth Elliot
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea capt...

Heart of Darkness
1993
as The Intended
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Seduction
1991
as Annabel (Segment "Tell Me More")
Anthology of short plays on the topic of seduction

Drowning in the Shallow End
1990
as Sarah
Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be ...

Maurice
1987
as Anne Durham
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Gentry
1987
as Susannah
Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit. ...
Poppyland
1985
as Louie Jermy
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confine...

Hay Fever
1984
as Sorel Bliss
Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the ...

Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Tina Argyle
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed ...

To the Camp and Back
1983
as Christine
Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-w...

Party Party
1983
as Rebecca
It's New Year's Eve. Larry's parents are at the vicarage dance leaving Larry in charge of the house. Big mistake, because Larry's a party animal and t...

The Missionary
1982
as Deborah Fitzbanks
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...

Blade on the Feather
1980
as Christabel Cavendish
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.

The Elephant Man
1980
as Merrick's Mother
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revea...

Hesther for Example
1980
as Geraldine
Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value...
Secret Orchards
1979
The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the three...

Alternative 3
1977
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the ...

Women in Love
1969
as Winifred Crich
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a weal...

Our Mother's House
1967
as Gerty (as Sarah Nicholls)
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1965
as Carol Rogers (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An arch...

The Pumpkin Eater
1964
as Younger Elizabeth
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi...