Phoebe Nicholls

Phoebe Nicholls

Born: April 7, 1957
in London, England, UK
Phoebe Nicholls, born Sarah Phoebe Nicholls, is a British actress and writer. She has been married to director and writer Charles Sturridge since 1985. The couple has three children, Tom, Arthur, and Matilda Sturridge.

Movies for Phoebe Nicholls...

Title: Eric
Character: Anne Anderson
Released: May 30, 2024
Type: TV
A desperate father battles his demons on the vibrant, dangerous, and intoxicating streets of '80s New York in a race to bring home his missing son.
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Title: Anatomy of a Scandal
Character: Tuppence Whitehouse
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: TV
Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.
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Title: A Very British Scandal
Character: Helen Whigham
Released: December 26, 2021
Type: TV
The true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Title: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Character: Mrs Wain
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
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The Empty Man
Title: The Empty Man
Character: Nurse
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
Retired cop James Lasombra is asked by a friend to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, who seemingly packed in the night and left an ominous message on the bathroom mirror - "The Empty Man Made Me Do It." As he investigates this mysterious figure further, James begins to see and hear strange things, and is forced to come to terms with his past and what it means for his future.
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Title: Sticks and Stones
Character: Janice Lancing
Released: December 16, 2019
Type: TV
After badly bungling a pitch meeting, middle manager Thomas Benson is determined to win back the client but feels undermined by his team. Is someone really out to get him? And can Bartlett create the same paranoid intensity from workplace bullying as he did with a betrayal in the home?
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Mari
Title: Mari
Character: Margot
Released: June 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Modern dance is an evocative narrative tool in Georgia Parris' debut, which investigates a young woman's identity and the complex relationship she has with her mother and sister.
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Berlin, I Love You
Title: Berlin, I Love You
Character: Capucine
Released: February 8, 2019
Type: Movie
An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.
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Finding Your Feet
Title: Finding Your Feet
Character: Janet
Released: December 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Title: Transformers: The Last Knight
Character: Aunt Helen
Released: June 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
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Chubby Funny
Title: Chubby Funny
Character: Aunty Jane
Released: June 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Oscar thinks he's special. He isn't. He thinks it's everyone else's fault. It's not. Moving to London, he gives himself a year to break into showbiz, but ends up waylaid by the same old problems: friendships, flings, and finding ultimate fulfillment. Say what you like, but it's tough being Chubby Funny.
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Starfish
Title: Starfish
Character: Tom's Mother
Released: October 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. While her husband was in coma, Nicola gave birth to their second child on the other side of the same hospital. Within a matter of days, sepsis would rob Tom of both his arms and legs, and left his face severely disfigured. As an ordinary man, Tom never put himself at risk — he just woke up two months later in a nightmare, a face-off quadruple amputee... This incredible story of survival shows what can be overcome when love is unconditional.
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Title: Doctor Thorne NA
Character: Countess de Courcy
Released: March 6, 2016
Type: TV
Doctor Thorne, in North America, is a four part television drama adaptation of the 1858 Anthony Trollope novel Doctor Thorne scripted by Julian Fellowes. Mary Thorne, penniless and with undisclosed parentage, grows up under the guardianship of her uncle Doctor Thorne. She spends much of her formative years in the company of the Gresham family at Greshamsbury Park estate. As they close on the world of adult cares and responsibilities, the past starts to impinge and the financial woes of the Gresham family threaten to tear relationships apart.
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Three Women Wait for Death
Title: Three Women Wait for Death
Character: Miranda
Released: January 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Miranda and her adult-ish daughters, Hester and Rose, are crammed in a rotting little caravan to be near their irascible Gramps in his final days. They love him but his care bills are mounting and when they discover that he’s hidden his savings and doesn’t remember where... they could bloody kill him.
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Title: Fortitude
Character: Doctor Allerdyce
Released: January 29, 2015
Type: TV
Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: Caroline Bryce-Morgan
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Loving Miss Hatto
Title: Loving Miss Hatto
Character: Mrs. Hatto
Released: December 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring love
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The Scapegoat
Title: The Scapegoat
Character: Charlotte
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Susan MacClare
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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The Road to Coronation Street
Title: The Road to Coronation Street
Character: Mrs Simpson
Released: September 15, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of how 22 year old writer Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street.
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Clapham Junction
Title: Clapham Junction
Character: Natasha
Released: July 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
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The Trial of Tony Blair
Title: The Trial of Tony Blair
Character: Cherie Blair
Released: January 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
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Hawking
Title: Hawking
Character: Isobel Hawking
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Janet Wheeler
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Emily Shackleton
Released: January 2, 2002
Type: TV
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
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The Miracle Maker
Title: The Miracle Maker
Character: Mary (voice)
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God's word. An amazing miracle brings to light the true meaning of Christ, and the sacrifices he endured for the deliverance of mankind. A compelling story of faith, trust, and devotion.
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Title: Second Sight
Character: Judith Bendrix
Released: January 9, 2000
Type: TV
Maverick cop DCI Ross Tanner finds out that he has a rare disease which is causing him to go blind.
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Title: People Like Us
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
People Like Us was a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into a television series for BBC Two that aired from September 1999 to June 2000.
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Title: I'm Alan Partridge
Released: November 3, 1997
Type: TV
The fortunes of a former chat show host who is reduced to a lowly slot on Radio Norwich. Alan Partridge is divorced, living in a travel tavern, and desperate for a return to television.
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FairyTale: A True Story
Title: FairyTale: A True Story
Character: Polly Wright
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Laura Smythe-Webster
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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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Elizabeth Elliot
Released: May 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
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Heart of Darkness
Title: Heart of Darkness
Character: The Intended
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Seduction
Title: Seduction
Character: Annabel (Segment "Tell Me More")
Released: April 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Anthology of short plays on the topic of seduction
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Shaw
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Drowning in the Shallow End
Title: Drowning in the Shallow End
Character: Sarah
Released: January 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A writer struggles to stay afloat as his romantic and professional prospects crumble.
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Maurice
Title: Maurice
Character: Anne Durham
Released: September 18, 1987
Type: Movie
After his lover rejects him, Maurice, a young man in early 20th-century England, trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society, tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
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Title: The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Character: May Thrace
Released: August 2, 1987
Type: TV
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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Gentry
Title: Gentry
Character: Susannah
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit. But their expedition quickly turns into a nightmare when three criminals arrive, searching for the money they hid in the building years ago.
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Poppyland
Title: Poppyland
Character: Louie Jermy
Released: January 13, 1985
Type: Movie
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.
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Hay Fever
Title: Hay Fever
Character: Sorel Bliss
Released: December 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward's most popular plays.
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Ordeal by Innocence
Title: Ordeal by Innocence
Character: Tina Argyle
Released: June 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.
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To the Camp and Back
Title: To the Camp and Back
Character: Christine
Released: February 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German prisoner-of-war-a Luftwaffe pilot. At first reluctant, she agrees to help give him a day of freedom. They take a trip to a nearby city and have a romantic time. But Christine's reactions to the man and his situation come as both a revelation and a shock to her. The two develop a relationship of intensity whereby mere moments are unimportant. To The Camp And Back is a story of love and understanding sure to captivate the romantic in everyone!
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Party Party
Title: Party Party
Character: Rebecca
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
It's New Year's Eve. Larry's parents are at the vicarage dance leaving Larry in charge of the house. Big mistake, because Larry's a party animal and tonight he's going to go wild - with a little help from his friends!
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The Missionary
Title: The Missionary
Character: Deborah Fitzbanks
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Lady Cordelia Flyte
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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Blade on the Feather
Title: Blade on the Feather
Character: Christabel Cavendish
Released: October 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer … but both men are more than they claim to be.
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The Elephant Man
Title: The Elephant Man
Character: Merrick's Mother
Released: October 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Carol
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Secret Orchards
Title: Secret Orchards
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the three daughters she bore, from his society wife and remaining children. Known to the daughters only as 'Uncle Bodger', they remained unaware he was their father until after his death. The film also covers the impact on them of their improvised upbringing - their mother was frequently absent - and the social irony of his closet homosexual son, Joe struggling to unburden his truth onto his reluctant, outwardly respectable father. Joe became the eminent author J R Ackerley on whose book, My Father And Myself, the film is partially based, along with The Secret Orchard Of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre, one of Roger's 'illegitimate' daughters.
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Alternative 3
Title: Alternative 3
Released: June 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Treesje
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Women in Love
Title: Women in Love
Character: Winifred Crich
Released: September 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
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Our Mother's House
Title: Our Mother's House
Character: Gerty (as Sarah Nicholls)
Released: September 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Title: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Carol Rogers (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
Released: February 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
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The Pumpkin Eater
Title: The Pumpkin Eater
Character: Younger Elizabeth
Released: July 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.