Known For
Complete Filmography
Good Boy
2023
as Jackie
Out of money and out of luck, Danny is determined to turn his life around, but the interventions of his anarchic mum and the reappearance of figures f...
Tommies
2022
as Mrs. Willis
In Regency-era London, five women waiting for a carriage descend into a frenzy of vicious gossip.
Brighton
2019
as Dinah
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result ...
Peterloo
2018
as Lady Conyngham
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Mancheste...
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
2018
as Penny
William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Leslie. But with the contract signed and death assur...
Allied
2016
as Mrs. Sinclair
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reuni...
National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea
2016
as Mrs. Elton
A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of...
The Lady in the Van
2015
as Convent Housekeeper
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van ...
Fuel to Fire
2015
as Dena Monk
To end a bitter blood feud and bind two warring families, a mother must accept her son's murderer into her home.
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
as Self
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a...
Mr. Turner
2014
as Sophia Booth
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful ...
Toast
2010
as Mrs. Adams
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained ...
Persuasion
2007
as Mrs. Croft
Royal Navy Captain Wentworth was haughtily turned down eight years ago as suitor of pompous baronet Sir Walter Elliot's daughter Anne, despite true lo...
The Sickie
2006
as Carol
When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas Knott, a diligent and extremely busy office manager, he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, ...
Cherished
2005
as Marion Harding
A drama based on the true story of Angela Cannings, who was wrongly convicted of killing two of her children, on the basis of "expert witness" evidenc...
Vera Drake
2004
as Mrs. Fowler
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
All or Nothing
2002
as Carol
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, ...
Nasty Neighbours
2000
as Jean Peach
Mr. and Mrs. Peach's favourite neighbours emigrate to Australia, leaving the grieving couple anxiously twitching the net curtains of their suburban cu...
Coppers
1988
as Julia
Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen One...
Way Upstream
1987
as June
Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.
Sakharov
1984
as Ludmilla Kovalov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Charlie
1984
as Susan Alexander
Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop ...
Meantime
1983
as Barbara
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. On...
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.