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Mary Rose (1987)
Character: Mary Rose
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
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Big Cat (1998)
Character: Alice
Alice no longer expects a knight on a white charger to enter her life. Then she meets Leo. For the first time Alice begins to understand love and, for a while, it seems that she is going to live happily ever after.
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Love Again (2003)
Character: Maeve Brennan
Dramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his arrival as librarian at Hull University in 1955 to his death in 1985.
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Deep in the Heart (1996)
Character: Kate Markham
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
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The Robber Bride (2007)
Character: Tony Fremont
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party (2001)
Character: Karen
A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith.
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The Black Prince (2017)
Character: Queen Victoria
The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and eventually sent off to England. His attempts to return to India and reclaim his kingdom were subsequently thwarted by the British.
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Persuasion (1995)
Character: Anne Elliott
In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.
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The Iron Lady (2011)
Character: Amanda
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
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The Man Who Cried (1993)
Character: Hilda Maxwell
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.
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Summerland (2020)
Character: Mrs. Lawrence
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Allelujah (2023)
Character: Cynthia
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.
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Breaking the Code (1996)
Character: Patricia 'Pat' Green
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
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Jane Eyre (1996)
Character: Miss Temple
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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The BFG (1990)
Character: Sophie (voice)
Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalog and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but a mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children of the world.
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Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall (2007)
Character: Mrs. Chart
Witness the life and loves of Marie Lloyd, the music hall legend known for her bawdy songs and outrageous lifestyle, which included three marriages and an illegitimate child.
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Their Finest (2017)
Character: Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
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Fiona's Story (2008)
Character: Julie
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
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Hildegard (1994)
Character: Ricardis
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.
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