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Elizabeth Berrington
English actress (born 1970)
English actress (born 1970)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Elizabeth Berrington |
| birth_name | Elizabeth Evans |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Wallasey, Cheshire, England |
| occupation | Actress |
| years_active | 1993–present |
Elizabeth Berrington (born 3 August 1970) is an English actress and graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art; she is best known for her roles as Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road, Paula Kosh in Stella, Mel Debrou in Moving Wallpaper, and Dawn Stevenson in The Syndicate. She has also featured in British television series such as The Bill, Doctor Who, The Office, Casualty, The Lakes, The Grimleys, and Rose and Maloney.
Career
From 1997 to 1999, Berrington appeared alongside Emma Wray and Tony Robinson in the ITV comedy-drama My Wonderful Life. In 1999, she played Marie Antoinette in Let Them Eat Cake, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. In cinema Berrington has featured in many films, such as The Little Vampire and, more recently, Nanny McPhee with Emma Thompson and In Bruges alongside Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. In 2008 and 2009, she played Mel in Moving Wallpaper, and was in the 2008 Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". Berrington also featured in the 1993 Mike Leigh film Naked, and had a role in Leigh's 1996 drama film Secrets & Lies, starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Timothy Spall.
In 2009, Berrington and actress Shirley Henderson were the stars of the popular ITV drama May Contain Nuts in which she played Ffion, a snobbish suburban mother. Berrington also played Nicola, a nurse, in the BBC Two comedy Psychoville. She appeared as Food Technology teacher Ruby Fry in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road from 2009 to 2011, departing after two series. She played "Auntie" in "The Doctor's Wife", an episode in series 6 of Doctor Who. In 1997, she appeared in a TV Licence advert. In 2012, she was in an episode of New Tricks, playing a murderer called Grace. From 2012 to 2013, she portrayed Paula Kosh in the Sky One comedy series Stella; in 2015, she returned for two episodes. In 2011, Berrington appeared in the BBC Christmas show Lapland as Paula, a role which she reprised in the six-part spin-off series Being Eileen, which aired from February 2013.
Berrington appeared on stage in the 2013 play The Low Road. Later, in August 2014, she appeared in Series 2, Episode 4 of Cuckoo as Sandra. In 2016, Berrington appeared in "Hated in the Nation", the sixth episode of the third season of the Netflix original, Black Mirror.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Naked | Giselle | On-Screen debut | |
| 1996 | Secrets & Lies | Jane | ||
| The Moonstone | Limping Lucy | TV film | ||
| 1998 | Urban Ghost Story | Mrs. Ash | ||
| 1999 | 8½ Women | Celeste, Emmenthal Maid | ||
| Onegin | Mlle. Volkonsky | |||
| Mad Cows | Pru | |||
| 2000 | The Little Vampire | Elizabeth McAshton | ||
| Quills | Charlotte | |||
| 2001 | Large | Dog Therapist | ||
| Delilah | Adult Debbie | Short film | ||
| Once Seen | (unknown) | Short film | ||
| 2002 | Domestic | Leah | Short film | |
| 2003 | The Deal | Cherie Blair | TV film | |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | Cynical Lady | ||
| Spivs | Nigel's Secretary | |||
| 2005 | A Cock and Bull Story | Debbie | ||
| Nanny McPhee | Letitia | |||
| 2006 | Missing | Nurse Peters | TV film | |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Joanna Syms | TV film | ||
| Scoop | Antique Shop Woman (Lucy) | |||
| Are You Ready for Love? | Debbie | |||
| 2007 | The Dinner Party | The Shrew | TV film | |
| Fred Claus | Linda Elf | |||
| 2008 | In Bruges | Natalie | ||
| 2009 | May Contain Nuts | Ffion Russell | TV film | |
| 2011 | Lapland | Paula Cooper | TV film | |
| 2012 | Hard Boiled Sweets | Jackie | ||
| Eggbox | Nurse | TV film | ||
| 2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Bernie | ||
| 2014 | Night Armour | Sophie | Short film | |
| Mr Turner | Lady Critic | |||
| 2015 | Saturday | Marie | Short film | |
| National Civil War Centre Film Series | Queen Henrietta Maria | Short TV film | ||
| 2016 | Swallows and Amazons | Mrs. Blackett | ||
| Deliverers | Val | |||
| Rendezvous B4 the Wedding | Auntie Raine | Short film | ||
| 2017 | Sticky | Mum | Short film | |
| 2018 | Teen Spirit | Lorene | ||
| 2019 | Yesterday | Hazel | ||
| 2021 | Spencer | Anne, Princess Royal | ||
| Last Night in Soho | Ms. Tobin | |||
| 2022 | Why Wouldn't I Be? | Alice | Short film | |
| 2023 | Grey Matter | Eileen |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Between the Lines | Pamela Hewitt | Episode: "Shoot to Kill" | |
| 1996 | Staying Alive | Leah Howes | 1 episode | |
| The Bill | Avril Stone | Episode: "Hard Enough" | ||
| 1997–1999 | The Lakes | Ruth | Series regular | |
| My Wonderful Life | Marina | Series regular | ||
| 1998 | Casualty | June White | Episode: "Degrees of Separation" | |
| Silent Witness | Jane Nelson | 2 episodes: "Brothers in Arms: Parts 1 & 2" | ||
| 1999 | Let Them Eat Cake | Marie Antoinette | 3 episodes | |
| 2000 | The Vice | Julie Evans | 2 episodes: "Betrayed: Parts 1 & 2" | |
| Nature Boy | Miss Owthwaite | Mini-series; episode 1 | ||
| Rhona | Roxanne | Episode: "The Haircut" | ||
| 2001 | The Grimleys | Mrs. Robins | Episode: "An Inspector Calls" | |
| The Bill | Lynn Roberts | 2 episodes: "A Week of Nights: Parts 1 & 2" | ||
| Sam's Game | Irene | Episode: "Slogan" | ||
| Chambers | Staff Sergeant Tina Stent | 3 episodes | ||
| 2002 | Rescue Me | Mary Hope | 1 episode | |
| Bodily Harm | Belinda Chalk | Mini-series; episodes 1 & 2 | ||
| 2003 | The Office | Anne | 2 episodes: "Christmas Special: Parts 1 & 2" | |
| 2004 | Family Business | Jessica Brooker | Series regular | |
| Shane | Myrtle | Series regular | ||
| Where the Heart Is | Jemma Harper | Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye" | ||
| 2005 | The Rotters' Club | Irene Anderton | Mini-series; episodes 1–3 | |
| Rose and Maloney | Maggie | Episode: "Annie Johnson" | ||
| 2006–2007 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Val Sinclair/Duggan | Series regular | |
| 2007 | Annually Retentive | Make-up Artist | 1 episode | |
| 2008 | A Touch of Frost | Babs Sellwood | Episode: "Mind Games" | |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | Grace Springer | Episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons" | ||
| Apparitions | Kim Portman | Mini-series; episode 3 | ||
| 2008–2009 | Moving Wallpaper | Mel Debrou | Series regular | |
| 2009 | The Street | Jane Miller | Episode: "Smoke" | |
| Psychoville | Nicola | 5 episodes | ||
| 2009–2011 | Waterloo Road | Ruby Fry | Series regular | |
| 2010 | Little Crackers | Terry | Episode: "Goodbye Fluff" | |
| Ordinary People | Stacey | Series regular | ||
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Lady Constance Bridgelow | Mini-series; episodes 1–4 | |
| Doctor Who | Auntie | Episode: "The Doctor's Wife" | ||
| 2012 | New Tricks | Grace Cusack | Episode: "Blue Flower" | |
| 2012–2017 | Stella | Paula Kosh | Series regular | |
| 2013 | Being Eileen | Paula Cooper | Series regular | |
| Playhouse Presents | Jill | Episode: "Stage-Door Johnnies" | ||
| Midsomer Murders | Libs Pearce | Episode: "The Christmas Haunting" | ||
| 2014 | Pramface | Hester | Episode: "A Proper Little Family" | |
| The Smoke | Pauline Pynchon | Mini-series; episodes 1, 5 & 6 | ||
| W1A | Elaine Pearson | 1 episode | ||
| Trying Again | Gail | Series regular | ||
| Cuckoo | Sandra | Episode: "Funeral" | ||
| Babylon | Vanessa Peters | Mini-series; episode 1: "Cravenwood" | ||
| 2015 | The Syndicate | Dawn Stevenson | Series 3 (regular) | |
| 2016 | Camping | Kerry | Series regular. Mini-series; episodes 1–6 | |
| Doctors | Nic Katchevski | 5 episodes | ||
| The Living and the Dead | Maud Hare | Series regular | ||
| Wasted | Denise | Episode: "Come Down Day" | ||
| Black Mirror | Jo Powers | Episode: "Hated in the Nation" | ||
| Marley's Ghosts | Jill | 2 episodes: "Fit" & "Blind Sided" | ||
| 2016–2017 | Tracey Ullman's Show | Various characters | Series regular | |
| 2017 | Father Brown | Margaret Cartwright | Episode: "The Lepidopterist's Companion" | |
| Little Boy Blue | Debra Taylor | Mini-series; episodes 1–4 | ||
| Loaded | Carly | Episode: "The Boat" | ||
| Borderline | Mary Parfitt | Episode: "Inspection" | ||
| 2018 | Death in Paradise | Diane Smith | Episode: "Murder from Above" | |
| Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Brenda Quintus | Episode: "This Promised End" | ||
| Patrick Melrose | Fleur | Mini-series; episode 5: "At Last" | ||
| Vanity Fair | Lady Bareacres | Mini-series; episodes 4–6 | ||
| 2019 | Vera | Paula | Episode: "Cold River" | |
| Sanditon | Mrs. Griffiths | Series regular | ||
| 2019, 2023 | Good Omens | Dagon, Lord of the Files | 4 episodes | |
| 2021–2023 | The Nevers | Lucy Best | Series regular | |
| 2022 | The Responder | Lynne Renfrew | 3 episodes | |
| The Pact | Kate | 5 episodes | ||
| 2022–2024 | Ridley | Jean Dixon | 3 episodes | |
| 2023 | Fifteen-Love | Carol Pearce | 5 episodes | |
| Henpocalypse! | Bernadette | 6 episodes | ||
| Sex Education | Celebrant Samantha | 1 episode | ||
| 2024 | Lost Boys and Fairies | Jackie | Series regular. Mini-series; episodes 1–3 | |
| Brassic | Paloma | Episode: "Heartbreak" | ||
| 2025 | Virdee | DS Clare Conway | Series regular | |
| 2025 | Frauds | Jackie Diamond | ||
| 2026 | The Death of Bunny Munro | Charlotte Parnovar |
Notes
References
References
- "Family Business - Elizabeth Berrington plays Jessica Brooker". BBC.
- (4 October 2012). "BBC One commissions new six-part comedy series, Lapland". [[BBC Online]].
- "Being Eileen". [[BBC]].
- (29 February 2024). "BBC announces casting for new crime thriller Virdee".
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