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The Actual Woman (1974)
Character: Caro
A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isnt' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.
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You've Made Your Bed - Now Lie in It (1969)
Character: Chico
Eames is a middle aged man, with a boring, routine job. His life changes when he meets a young girl and a painter. This rekindles his youthful artistic leanings, which he blames his father for stopping.
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Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005)
Character: Eve Fleming
A look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in Naval Intelligence as a Commander until his death in 1964. This docudrama gives an insight into what Fleming was really like and how he wrote the Bond novels.
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Sunday Worship (2017)
Character: Rose Champion
Jim is a lonely septuagenarian who has been to too many funerals and said goodbye to too many friends. Struggling and aimless, he begins to conceal his ailing well-being from his doting wife, finding solace watching a local grassroots football team. Jim’s levels of fandom start to border on obsession as his wife begins to question his strange behaviour...
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On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978)
Character: N/A
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
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Work Experience (1989)
Character: Wealthy Woman
Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood (1980)
Character: Good Fun Cast Member (uncredited)
This 1980 Arena documentary profiles writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar. Wood is seen, alongside Julie Walters, during rehearsals for Wood's stage play Good Fun at the Sheffield Crucible and the film explores her talent to amuse through her witty and engaging songs. The film also looks at Dunbar, as her first play, The Arbor, written when she was only 15, was running at the Royal Court.
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On Giant's Shoulders (1979)
Character: Journalist
The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.
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Vérité (1973)
Character: Shirley
A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest
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Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1999)
Character: Various
Peter O'Toole stars as the complex, funny, charming, and hard-drinking Jeffrey Bernard in this live performance at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Character: The Transylvanians
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.
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M. Butterfly (1993)
Character: Frau Baden
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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Real Life (1984)
Character: Carla
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble.
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Defence of the Realm (1986)
Character: Trudy Markham
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
Character: Self
Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
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A Business Affair (1994)
Character: Literary Guest
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
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Alive and Kicking (1996)
Character: Paris Mourner
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
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Every Home Should Have One (1970)
Character: Chandler's Secretary
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.
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Lennon Naked (2010)
Character: Rich Lady
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
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Shock Treatment (1981)
Character: DTV Audience Member (uncredited)
Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors?
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Le Mur de l’Atlantique (1970)
Character: Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
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The Nest (2020)
Character: Patricia Davis
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
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Wimbledon (2004)
Character: Pauline Rossdale
Britain’s Peter Colt has never quite lived up to his dreams of tennis stardom. Once ranked as high as number 11 in the world, the journeyman veteran has watched his number slip to 119 as his confidence on the court slowly ebbs away. Now, on the eve of his leaving the world of professional tennis, he’s granted a wild card, allowing him to play his final Wimbledon tournament…make that his final tournament ever.
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A Royal Night Out (2015)
Character: Lady MacCloud
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
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Still Life (2023)
Character: The Mother
Natalie re-enacts a childhood memory in an attempt to come to terms with her mother's death.
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This Camera is Broken (2019)
Character: The Director
An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her present reality and the film's blur.
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