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Complete Filmography

Dial M for Middlesbrough
2019
as Edna
Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitor...

Eat Locals
2017
as Alice
In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crock...

British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Margaret Meldrew (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri...

Dad's Army
2016
as Cissy Godfrey
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German ...

Cider with Rosie
2015
as Granny Trill
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Into the Woods
2014
as Granny
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

What We Did on Our Holiday
2014
as Doreen
Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes ...

Viva Blackpool
2006
as Mrs. Berry
Ripley is now an ordained minister and owner of the Chapel of Love. He's on a search for the prize that will bring him untold riches - the Jules Rimet...

Footprints in the Snow
2005
as Julie's Mum
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husba...
Quite Ugly One Morning
2004
as Mrs. Kinross
Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the grue...

Calendar Girls
2003
as Jessie
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Visiting Uncle Dick
2001
as Margaret Meldrew
Margaret is visiting a relative in hospital. Victor is his usual self, complaining about everything; and Margaret is her usual self, pretending not to...

The Debt Collector
1999
as Lana
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of E...

Endgame
1997
as Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews make an effort to get on with their pleasant new neighbors; Victor buys a haunted caravan and accidentally kidnaps the mother of an India...

Shooting Fish
1997
as Mrs Cummins
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

Starbound
1996
as Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and deali...

Flowers of the Forest
1996
as Dr. Elizabeth MacKay
Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced th...

The Wisdom Of The Witch
1995
as Margaret Meldrew
A witch predicts an untimely end for Victor; Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Meldrews, but Patrick gets stuck with Victor while tr...

Nervous Energy
1995
as Tom's Mother
Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms nervous energy and in his manic state he suddenly d...

Solitaire for 2
1995
as Mrs. Dwyer
Katie can read minds. Being desirable, the male minds she reads are all thinking of one thing. She always responds by hitting them and storming off wi...

The Man Who Blew Away
1994
as Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews get a surprise visit from Mr. Foskett, whom they know only because they stayed in the same guest house 17 years ago.

Message for Posterity
1994
as 1st Labour MP
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.

One Foot in the Algarve
1993
as Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them the...

Victor In The Bath
1993
as Margaret Meldrew (Voice)
Victor muses about life while in the bath.

Leon the Pig Farmer
1993
as Dr Johnson
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial ...

The Man In The Long Black Coat
1991
as Margaret Meldrew
Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during a visit from a council health inspector, Victor l...

The Pope Must Die
1991
as Mother Superior
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and ...

Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Dr. Galina Petrovna
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.

Who's Listening
1990
as Margaret Meldrew
The Meldrews become acquainted with a reverend who thinks he has lost his faith, and Victor learns more about a video shop clerk with whom he had a co...

Beyond The Pale
1989
as Cynthia
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunt...

Paying Guests (Part 2)
1986
as Mrs. Holders
Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples'...

Paying Guests (Part 1)
1986
as Mrs. Holders
Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for t...
Paradise Postponed
1986
as Dorothy Simcox
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel ...
Off Peak
1985
as Freda
Because of her cheating husband, Elizabeth elicits patronizing "pity" from her so-called friends, but they (and he) don't suspect her plans.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984
as Dionyza
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shi...

Ordeal by Innocence
1984
as Kirsten Lindstrom
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 ...

The Tragedy of Richard III
1983
as Duchess of York
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duk...

The Disappearance of Harry
1982
as Lizzy Webster
Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flouri...
A Gift of Tongues
1982
as Dorrie Childs
A man and a woman (both married to other people) are found dead in a show home in what appears to have been double suicide. Their respective children ...

Northern Lights
1982
as Nettie
A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.

Find Me First
1981
as Henrietta
A TV play from Taste of Honey writer Shelagh Delaney. A chance encounter late one night in central Manchester reunites two estranged sisters-but for h...

Jessie
1980
as Nanny
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his or...

Hawk the Slayer
1980
as Abbess
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to liv...

The Misanthrope
1980
as Arsinoe
One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set in Paris...

Twelfth Night
1980
as Maria
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into ...
A Question Of Faith
1979
as Sofya Andreyevna
The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is h...

The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Galadriel (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.

Langrishe, Go Down
1978
as Helen Langrishe
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate stude...

The Slipper and the Rose
1976
as Fairy Godmother
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the p...

The General's Day
1972
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Follow Me!
1972
as Miss Framer
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.

A Splinter of Ice
1972
as Joy
Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.

Killing Time
1970
Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. On...

The Lie
1970
as Katherine
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Co...
Wine of India
1970
as Julie
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government cont...

Separate Tables
1970
as Miss Cooper
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
as Maid (uncredited)
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a nationa...

Sky West and Crooked
1966
as Mrs. White
A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 ye...

The Bridal Path
1959
as 1st Waitress
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying...
Anchor Me
N/A
as Hattie Carter
Architect Nathan returns home with his teenage son Michael to nurse his dying elderly mother, but soon becomes caught up in a relationship with his wi...