Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay

Born: December 23, 1947
in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK
Deborah Findlay is an English actress.

Her TV credits include the recurring character Greer Thornton in 4 of the 6 episodes of State of Play, and in the episode The French Drop (2004) in Foyle's War. She also appeared in 4 episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. In Autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford playing the role of the endless spinster Miss Augusta Tompkinson as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood's 2009 third series Children of Earth, and featured as lawyer Gemma King in one episode of the BBC1 series Silent Witness in January 2010.

In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared, again alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade, and reprised her (in this case more prominent) role as Augusta Tompkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford.

She also played Gillian in the acclaimed 1999 ITV Drama The Last Train

She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her formance in Stanley.

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Such a Lovely Day
Title: Such a Lovely Day
Character: Grandmother
Released: October 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Seen through the eyes of Sam, we are taken on a journey through the loveliest of days. A glorious family gathering in a perfect English summer garden. There’ll be lunch under the mulberry tree, wine, games and dancing. And then, of course, this being a party, there’ll be a surprise.
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Up on the Roof
Title: Up on the Roof
Character: Claire
Released: March 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Two old lovers reunite many years later after a chance meeting.
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From A Strange Land
Title: From A Strange Land
Character: Margaret
Released: November 2, 2021
Type: Movie
An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about over-stepping the line and how we find common ground.
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Romeo & Juliet
Title: Romeo & Juliet
Character: Nurse
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy set in modern-day Italy where two young lovers strive to transcend a violent world where Catholic and secular values clash.
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Title: The Drowning
Character: Lynn
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
Since losing her son eight years ago, Jodie has been rebuilding her life but when she catches sight of Daniel, she is convinced she has found her missing son.
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Making Noise Quietly
Title: Making Noise Quietly
Character: Helene
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second World War unfolds across the English Channel. A bereaved mother struggles with bitterness and love in recollecting her estranged son, lost in the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany, an ageing holocaust survivor seeks to bring peace to disturbed young boy and his equally wild stepfather.
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National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Title: National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Character: Sister Gilchrist
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
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Title: The Split
Character: Ruth
Released: April 24, 2018
Type: TV
The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.
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Kaleidoscope
Title: Kaleidoscope
Character: Maureen
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
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Hampstead
Title: Hampstead
Character: Mary Neal
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
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Jackie
Title: Jackie
Character: Maud Shaw
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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The Ones Below
Title: The Ones Below
Character: Tessa
Released: March 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
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The Lady in the Van
Title: The Lady in the Van
Character: Pauline
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
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Title: Life In Squares
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: TV
The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.
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Coalition
Title: Coalition
Character: Harriet Harman
Released: March 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.
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Suite Française
Title: Suite Française
Character: Madame Joseph
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: Movie
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
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Title: Lovesick
Character: Fiona
Released: October 2, 2014
Type: TV
After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
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National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Title: National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Character: Volumnia
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: Movie
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.
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Title: Leaving
Character: Vanessa
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: TV
A bond between a troubled 25-year-old Aaron Simmons and Julie Ranmore a 44-year-old mother of two, whose marriage has lost all passion, has profound implications for both.
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Arthur Christmas
Title: Arthur Christmas
Character: General (voice)
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present half way around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.
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Gunrush
Title: Gunrush
Released: August 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Set against the rising wave of gun crime in Britain, Gunrush sees a father driven to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is shot dead.
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Summer
Title: Summer
Character: Doctor Price
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
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One of Those Days
Title: One of Those Days
Character: Supervisor
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.
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Who Gets the Dog
Title: Who Gets the Dog
Character: Pamela Wilson
Released: December 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.
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Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale
Title: Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale
Character: Susan Owen
Released: November 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.
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The Yellow House
Title: The Yellow House
Character: Madame Roulin
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Lady Hugh
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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This Life +10
Title: This Life +10
Character: Doctor
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
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This Life +10
Title: This Life +10
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
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Title: Torchwood
Character: Denise Riley
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: TV
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Mrs. Sedley
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
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Home
Title: Home
Character: Margaret Ballantyne
Released: October 6, 2003
Type: Movie
The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.
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State of Mind
Title: State of Mind
Character: D.C.I Stella Munroe
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
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Me Without You
Title: Me Without You
Character: Judith
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.
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Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Countess Lydia
Released: May 9, 2000
Type: TV
In 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the dashing Count Vronsky that could lead to both their ruin. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.
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The End of the Affair
Title: The End of the Affair
Character: Miss Smythe
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
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Title: Wives and Daughters
Character: Miss Phoebe
Released: November 28, 1999
Type: TV
Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
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Title: The Last Train
Released: April 7, 1999
Type: TV
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television. In the United States, the Fox Network purchased the rights to produce a new version of the series soon after its original UK transmission. Retitled The Ark, the idea did not progress beyond the pilot stage. As of May 2013, the series has not been released on DVD or any other format, and has never aired in the US.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Lorna Soane
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Hilary Richards
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Mrs. Reed
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Title: This Life
Character: Doctor
Released: March 18, 1996
Type: TV
Cult drama series about a group of aspiring young lawyers sharing a shabby house in London, charting their careers and personal lives.
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Title: Silent Witness
Character: Gemma King
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: TV
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.
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Jack & Sarah
Title: Jack & Sarah
Character: Miss Cartwright
Released: June 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
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Title: Kavanagh Q.C.
Character: Susannah Emmott
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: TV
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.
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Milner
Title: Milner
Character: Sylvia Milner
Released: December 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
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15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Title: 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Character: Cheryl Morris
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.
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Natural Lies
Title: Natural Lies
Released: May 31, 1992
Type: Movie
An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.
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Title: Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Character: Kay Consett
Released: May 12, 1992
Type: TV
Gerald Middleton, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and disapproving of his youngest son’s job Gerald’s life and work are starting to lose their meaning. Keenly aware of his faults and the void that he has created around himself Middleton is forced back into the world once again as events from his past begin to catch up with him.
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Title: Heartbeat
Character: Eva Knight
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: TV
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Title: The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Martirio
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
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Top Girls
Title: Top Girls
Character: Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd
Released: November 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
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Title: All Good Things
Character: Doll
Released: May 14, 1991
Type: TV
A marriage and home can be made complete with the arrival of a new baby, but Shirley Frame feels a need to share her good fortune by going out into the world and helping others - driving husband Phil up the wall.
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Truly Madly Deeply
Title: Truly Madly Deeply
Character: Claire
Released: May 3, 1991
Type: Movie
Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
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Title: Performance
Character: Isabella Bird
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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First and Last
Title: First and Last
Character: Lisa
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Rowena Drake
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Debbie Cookson
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Ladies in Charge
Released: May 6, 1986
Type: TV
This touching drama series charts the fortunes of three young women who, having returned from their voluntary service as ambulance drivers during the First World War, decide to set up a 'universal aunts' agency to help those less fortunate than themselves. This set comprises the complete series alongside the pilot episode, scripted by Upstairs, Downstairs' Alfred Shaughnessy and screened in 1985 as a drama in ITV's Storyboard anthology. Penned by a largely female team that includes novelist Fay Weldon, Ladies in Charge stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills and Julia Swift as the ladies of benevolent intent; guests include Imelda Staunton, Julian Glover, Michael Gough, Richard Vernon and, in one of his earliest television roles, Hugh Grant.
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Sarah Cushing
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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Title: Dalgliesh
Character: Heather Pearce
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: TV
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
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Busted
Title: Busted
Character: Angela
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: Movie
A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
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Commitments
Title: Commitments
Character: Ingy
Released: January 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Three-day weeks, strikes and the lights going out - the winter of 1973-4 finally spurs Hugh into political action. But is his new-found zeal going to be enough for the unexpected demands the new life makes of him?
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Nurse
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.