Morag Siller

Morag Siller

Born: November 1, 1969
Died: April 15, 2016
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Born in Edinburgh in 1969, Morag Siller was an actress of stage, cinema and TV, a voice artist, radio personality and writer. A graduate of Sylvia Young and RADA, in theatre Siller starred in musicals such as Grease, Mamma Mia!, The Wizard of Oz, Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd and in Shakespearean productions such as A Comedy of Errors, Tis Pity She's a Whore and Hamlet, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. On television she had semi-regular roles in Casualty (for which she won the AOL award for Best Dramatic Performance in 2000), Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Monarch of the Glen, and appeared in the films Memphis Belle, Secret Society and House of Mirth. Famously she appeared in the pop video for Morrissey's single You're The One For Me Fatty. In 2005, Siller married her long term partner, classical musician Tim Nicholson, and the pair set up home in Cheshire. Siller died following a battle with breast cancer in April 2016 at the age of 46.

Movies for Morag Siller...

National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Title: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Character: Voltemand
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
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Title: Lip Service
Released: October 12, 2010
Type: TV
Sex, lies and true love in modern Scotland. Following the lives and loves of a group of twenty-something lesbians living in Glasgow.
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Title: Moving On
Character: Helen
Released: May 18, 2009
Type: TV
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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Title: Ladies of Letters
Released: February 3, 2009
Type: TV
Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them. The ladies and their kin act out the events in the letters: in their homes, prison or wherever else they land, revealing the hilarious, venomous, or empathetic truth, between their ever-increasing lines. Based on a 13 year long BBC 4 radio series.
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Summer Solstice
Title: Summer Solstice
Character: Jessie
Released: December 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
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Title: The Ghost Squad
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating police corruption, the premise of the series is that the squad continued to operate in secret after officially being shut down. It starred Elaine Cassidy as a police constable recruited into the squad and Jonas Armstrong as her handler. The show was cancelled after a single seven episode series.
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Secret Society
Title: Secret Society
Character: Sarah / Raging Bull
Released: October 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
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The House of Mirth
Title: The House of Mirth
Character: 4th Millinery Girl
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: Movie
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
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Title: Monarch of the Glen
Released: February 27, 2000
Type: TV
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
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Title: Trial & Retribution
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.
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Title: Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Character: Susan
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: TV
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
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Title: Anna Lee
Character: Tina
Released: February 27, 1994
Type: TV
Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody. These were broadcast in the U.S. on the A&E cable network. The title role was played by Imogen Stubbs. Music was by Anne Dudley with theme song "Sister, Sister" and some additional songs by Luciana Caporaso. Considerable alterations were made from the original books so that sometimes they seem to share only their titles. According to actor Ken Stott's webpage:
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Memphis Belle
Title: Memphis Belle
Character: Farm Girl / Jitterbugger
Released: September 7, 1990
Type: Movie
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.