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Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom (1992)
Character: Young Woman / Sawdust For Brains
A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live in manufactured time. If we can stop just for a moment , we will see the magical place outside of time.
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Loop (1997)
Character: Waitress
Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.
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Sin Bin (1994)
Character: Donna
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
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Wide-Eyed and Legless (1993)
Character: Sheila
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but at a civic luncheon, he is seated next to Aileen Armitage, a novelist who is blind. They have a nice time, and on the sly, Diana contacts Aileen to made an odd request. Diana's declining health and her resolve bring this triangle of unlikely friends to a surprising place.
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Character: Lambton Maid
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
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The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
Character: Woman
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
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The Soloist (2009)
Character: Barely Dressed Woman
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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Catherine Called Birdy (2022)
Character: Nan the Midwife
A teenage girl in Medieval England navigates life and tries to avoid the arranged marriages her father maps out for her.
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Scoop (2006)
Character: Screamer
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Middleton's Changeling (1998)
Character: N/A
Movie adaptation of the 17th century tragedy play, originally written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Character: Druggy Prostitute
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
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Schadenfreude (2025)
Character: Marge
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"
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Peterloo (2018)
Character: Abusive Bystander
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
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Breathtaking (2000)
Character: Linda
A beautiful psychiatrist befriends an abused patient, ultimately leading to lust and murder.
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Vroom (1988)
Character: Tess
Two young men and a sultry divorcee flee their drab hometown existence, taking to the road in a bubblegum pink chevrolet.
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Life Is Sweet (1991)
Character: Paula
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
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Sixty Six (2006)
Character: Fiji Woman
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
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Mary Reilly (1996)
Character: Young Woman
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
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Visiting Mr Beak (1987)
Character: N/A
A Boy runs through the streets with a present for Mr Beak. Along the way he meets a series of strange characters in a strange world where your previous memories are inexorably attracted to you.
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Road (1987)
Character: Clare
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
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