Ellen Thomas (actress)

Career

In Teachers, Thomas played Liz Webbe, a school secretary, and appeared in all four series, from 2001 to 2004. She was a regular cast member in BBC Radio 4's Clare in the Community and in BBC Three's Coming of Age, in which she portrayed the principal. For her role in Rev, she was nominated for "Best TV Comedy Performance" at the Black International Film Festival and Music Video & Screen Awards. In 2010, she had a minor role in Come Fly with Me, as Mrs Mbutu.

Thomas is known for the number of characters she has portrayed in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She initially played Pearl Chadwick in 1990, Estella Hulton in 2002, Grace Olubunmi from 2010 to 2011, and most notably Claudette Hubbard from 2015 to 2016. From 2018 to 2019, Thomas appeared in the medical drama by the BBC Casualty, in the recurring role of Omo Masters. In 2020, she appeared in an episode of Death in Paradise. In 2021 she appeared in the first season of Netflix's Arcane, voicing Ambessa Medarda and reprised the role for season 2 in 2024. In 2023, she appeared in The Madame Blanc Mysteries. In 2024, she appeared in two episodes of the BBC crime drama Silent Witness.

On stage, Thomas made her debut in July 1981, in London, playing Madam Irma in the ground breaking multi-racial performance of Jean Genet's revolutionary The Balcony, presented by Internationalist Theatre

Filmography

Audiobooks

• 2025: C. L. Clark: Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf. A League of Legends: Arcane Novel, Little, Brown Audio

Awards and nominations

References

References

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7. (1 March 2016). "English actress Ellen Thomas, Kadi out and about in Sierra Leone". Swit Salone.
8. Griffiths, Eleanor Bley. (27 February 2020). "Meet the cast of Death in Paradise series 9".
9. (9 November 2024). "Arcane Season 2 Cast, Characters & Voice Actors Guide (Photos) - Ella Purnell, Hailee Steinfeld".
10. (23 May 2023). "The Madame Blanc Mysteries season 3: how to watch, cast, episode guide and all you need to know".
11. Cremona, Patrick. (12 February 2024). "Silent Witness season 27 cast: Meet the characters".
12. Christopher Hudson, [https://archive.org/details/TheNewStandardListingByChristopherHudsonForTheBalcony "On the Fringe"], ''The New Standard'', 3 July 1981, p. 29.
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