Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson

Born: October 30, 1956
in Essex, England, UK
From Wikipedia

Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, CBE (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen.

Movies for Juliet Stevenson...

Title: Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Character: Narrator
Released: November 8, 2023
Type: TV
Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting world that ignited his creativity.
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Title: Wolf
Character: Matilda Anchor-Ferrers
Released: July 31, 2023
Type: TV
DI Jack Caffery is a young man searching for himself. Obsessed with the neighbour he believes murdered his 10 year-old brother in the 90s, Jack finds himself trying to right the wrongs of others - but at what cost? In an isolated house in Monmouthshire, the wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family find themselves the victims of a psychopath’s cruel games, trapped and terrorised. When the two narratives collide, it’s a thrilling, nail-biting and deeply disturbing race against time.
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Title: Secret Invasion
Character: Maria Hill's Mum
Released: June 21, 2023
Type: TV
Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
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Walls Like Windows
Title: Walls Like Windows
Character: Maggie
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: Movie
When Maggie invites a stranger into her home, she is confronted with the very thing she has been trying to avoid.
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Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Character: Mary Lou Prescott
Released: April 24, 2022
Type: TV
An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
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Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth
Character: Sister Mary Lou
Released: April 24, 2022
Type: TV
An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
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Title: The Long Call
Character: Dorothy Venn
Released: October 25, 2021
Type: TV
Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in.
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Title: Out of Her Mind
Character: Carol
Released: October 20, 2020
Type: TV
Heartbreak, family and how to survive them - and just why is everyone pairing up and having babies? A deliriously surreal journey into the mind of Sara Pascoe.
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Four
Title: Four
Character: The Dowager
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A Dowager prepares for her birthday party. A young couple are on the run. A mysterious man in black watches from the shadows. Four rooms. One evening. Nothing is quite as it seems.
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London Unplugged
Title: London Unplugged
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably. A refreshing take on the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the greatest City on Earth.
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Let Me Go
Title: Let Me Go
Character: Helga
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: Movie
The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gertrude
Released: March 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'
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Sea Sorrow
Title: Sea Sorrow
Character: Self
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past and present establish a dialogue. A reflection on the importance of human rights.
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Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Title: Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Character: Herself - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
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Love Is Thicker Than Water
Title: Love Is Thicker Than Water
Character: Ethel
Released: August 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.
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Title: Riviera
Character: Cassandra Eltham
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.
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1066: A Year to Conquer England
Title: 1066: A Year to Conquer England
Character: Herself - Narrator
Released: February 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Drama-Documentary in which historian Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to the Battle of Hastings.
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Title: 1066: A Year to Conquer England
Character: Herself - Narrator
Released: February 28, 2017
Type: TV
Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to war.
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Title: One of Us
Character: Louise Elliot
Released: August 23, 2016
Type: TV
A horrific double murder rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side in isolated rural Scotland. But instead of focusing on the investigation, One of Us explores the fallout for the grieving relatives, and the dark consequences that threaten to shatter their lives.
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Departure
Title: Departure
Character: Beatrice
Released: May 20, 2016
Type: Movie
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
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Title: The Enfield Haunting
Character: Betty Grosse
Released: May 3, 2015
Type: TV
A three part dramatization of the terrifying and bizarre real events that took place at an ordinary house in Enfield during the autumn of 1977. Adapted from Guy Lyon Playfair's book This House is Haunted.
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Title: X Company
Released: February 18, 2015
Type: TV
An emotionally-driven character drama, set in the thrilling and dangerous world of WWII espionage and covert operations. It follows the stories of five highly skilled young recruits - Canadian, American and British - torn from their ordinary lives to train as agents in an ultra-secret facility on the shores of Lake Ontario. These agents parachute behind enemy lines, where they're fair game for torture and execution. From elegant hotels to hellholes in the field, it's one risky operation after another, masterminded by the brains of Camp X.
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On Angel Wings
Title: On Angel Wings
Character: Mary
Released: December 1, 2014
Type: Movie
One cold Christmas night, an old shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the new born Christ child - ahead of the other shepherds, and in complete secret. Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo.
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In Search of Chopin
Title: In Search of Chopin
Character: Narrator
Released: May 15, 2014
Type: Movie
The latest in British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky's In Search Of series, looking at the life of Polish pianist and composer: Frédéric François Chopin, whose grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and whose music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide.
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The Portrait
Title: The Portrait
Character: Laura Burrell
Released: April 11, 2014
Type: Movie
The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?
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The Letters
Title: The Letters
Character: Mother Teresa
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.
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Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Title: Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin
Released: December 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Who is the new Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Gogol waiting to be discovered by the English-speaking world? Hosted by actor, author, and activist Stephen Fry, focuses on six authors whose vibrant, idiosyncratic work continues to gain traction with a global audience: Dmitry Bykov, Mariam Petrosyan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anna Starobinets, Vladimir Sorokin, and Lyudmila Ultiskaya. With contributions from their literary critics, publishers, and peers, the film features extensive interviews with each author.
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Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape
Title: Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape
Character: Narrator
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Leonora is no ordinary orangutan, she is a pioneer. With her three year old son in her arms, she is about to set off on an epic journey back to the wild - the great ape escape. It is a long way from what she is used to. After being orphaned as a baby, she has spent the majority of her life in a rescue centre. She is leaving behind 600 other orangutans, all of whom are relying on her for their chance at freedom. If Leonora can make it, they could too.
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Title: Atlantis
Character: The Oracle
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: TV
A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the city of Atlantis. Aided by his two new friends, Pythagoras and Hercules, Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery, and salvation, which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa, come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead.
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Diana
Title: Diana
Character: Sonia
Released: September 19, 2013
Type: Movie
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
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Title: The Village
Character: Clem Allingham
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: TV
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
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Title: White Heat
Character: Charlotte
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: TV
In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.
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In Search of Haydn
Title: In Search of Haydn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: Movie
In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. In Search of Haydn is an intricate portrait of Haydn's life told through performances and interviews from today's most admired classical musicians.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Natasha Carlton
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: The Hour
Character: Lady Elms
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
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Title: Accused
Character: Helen Ryland
Released: November 15, 2010
Type: TV
How certain people end up being accused of a crime.
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Triage
Title: Triage
Character: Amy
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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A Previous Engagement
Title: A Previous Engagement
Character: Julia Reynolds
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.
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Desert Flower
Title: Desert Flower
Character: Lucinda
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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In Search of Beethoven
Title: In Search of Beethoven
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 17, 2009
Type: Movie
In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. Eleven interviews are included in the Extras and Six complete movements.
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Title: Law & Order: UK
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
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The Secret of Moonacre
Title: The Secret of Moonacre
Character: Miss Heliotrope
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
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Dustbin Baby
Title: Dustbin Baby
Character: Marion
Released: December 21, 2008
Type: Movie
The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no-one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening but there's also friendship and love and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back - April must find her mother.
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Title: Place of Execution
Character: Catherine Heathcote
Released: September 22, 2008
Type: TV
On a freezing December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. As the entire country watched, newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett turned up enough evidence to see his suspect hanged and was hailed a hero by the people of Scardale. More than four decades later, the lingering cloud left by the missing body of Alison Carter compels controversial filmmaker Catherine Heathcote to turn her camera to Bennett.
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The Burning Season
Title: The Burning Season
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Dorjee Sun, a young Australian Entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from protecting rainforests in Indonesia, saving the orangutan from extinction and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his carbon trading scheme. It is a battle against time. Achmadi, the palm oil farmer is ready to set fire to his land to plant more palm oil, and Lone's orangutan centre has reached crisis point with over 600 orangutans rescued from the fires. The Burning Season is an eco-thriller about a young man not afraid to confront the biggest challenge of our time.
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Title: 10 Days to War
Character: Elizabeth Wilmshurst
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
Title: When Did You Last See Your Father?
Character: Kim Morrison
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
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A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Title: A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Documentary about internationally-renowned author Ariel Dorfman, the third generation of his family to know exile. His father's leftwing beliefs saw the family uprooted from both Argentina and the US, before settling in Chile. When Allende came to power, Ariel was a prominent member of his circle, but the bloody 1973 coup saw many of his friends and colleagues killed or disappeared and Ariel forced into exile again. Peter Raymont journeys with Ariel as he looks back on his life. (Storyville)
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Title: The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2007
Type: TV
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Diana Ellerby
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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Title: Comedy Map of Britain
Released: January 27, 2007
Type: TV
Comedy Map of Britain is a BBC documentary series which visits the places that have inspired many of Britain's leading comedians. It first aired on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker, comedians included in the two series include Angus Deayton, Anton Rodgers, Arthur Smith and Hale and Pace, Bill Bailey, Chris Moyles, the Chuckle Brothers, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Graham Fellows, Hugh Grant, Ian Hislop, Ian Lavender, Jim Davidson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Thomas, Maureen Lipman, Michael Palin, Paul Merton, Richard Whiteley, Ricky Gervais, Ronni Ancona, Rowan Atkinson, Roy Chubby Brown, Steve Coogan, Syd Little and Eddie Large, Terry Jones, Leigh Francis and many others.
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Cult Killer
Title: Cult Killer
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 21, 2006
Type: Movie
On January 7th 2005, 29 year old Rick Rodriguez murdered his former nanny and then killed himself on a lonely desert highway. Hours earlier he had videoed his suicide note and this final message provided a remarkable insight into a deeply damaged life. It also lifted the lid on one of the most notorious religious cults to emerge out of the 1960s counter culture: The Children of God sect.
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Breaking and Entering
Title: Breaking and Entering
Character: Rosemary
Released: December 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Infamous
Title: Infamous
Character: Diana Vreeland
Released: October 13, 2006
Type: Movie
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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In Search of Mozart
Title: In Search of Mozart
Character: Narrator
Released: January 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Made to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, IN SEARCH OF MOZART is the first feature-length documentary on Mozart's life. Produced with the world's leading orchestras and musicians, told through a 25,000 mile journey along every route Mozart followed, this detective story takes us to the heart of genius. Throughout, it is the music that takes center stage, with the jigsaw of Mozart's life fitting around it.
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The Snow Queen
Title: The Snow Queen
Character: Gerda's Mother
Released: December 24, 2005
Type: Movie
When Gerda befriends penniless Kay their growing friendship is cut short as one cold winter night a fragment of glass pierces Kay's eye, turning his heart cold. Enchanted by the Snow Queen he is swept away on her chariot over the glittering landscape to her frozen palace in the North. Gerda embarks on a magical and perilous journey to find and rescue Kay, finally arriving in the realm of the Snow Queen. But will this little girl in her red velvet cloak be able to match the power of the winter witch?
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Title: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Character: Annie Pierrepoint
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.
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John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
Title: John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
Character: Narrator
Released: October 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.
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Red Mercury
Title: Red Mercury
Character: Sofia Warburton
Released: May 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
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Being Julia
Title: Being Julia
Character: Evie
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. Julia finds exactly what she's looking for in a handsome young American fan, but it isn't long before the novelty fling adds a few more sparks than she was hoping for. Fortuately for her, this surprise twist in the plot will thrust her back into the greatest role of her life.
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The Hunt for the Camden Ripper
Title: The Hunt for the Camden Ripper
Character: Herself (voice)
Released: January 8, 2004
Type: Movie
The discovery of human body parts behind a pub in Camden over Christmas 2002 triggered one of the Metropolitan Police's largest man hunts and shocked the nation. The revelations that followed, about a man's brutal murder of three London women shocked a nation. But the story of the search for Anthony Hardy also revealed some painful truths about the anonymity of a city, and the complex challenges facing mental health units charged with protecting both the public and their patients.
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Mona Lisa Smile
Title: Mona Lisa Smile
Character: Amanda Armstrong
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
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Hear the Silence
Title: Hear the Silence
Character: Christine Shields
Released: December 15, 2003
Type: Movie
The four-year-old Nicolas Shield leads a brash and peaceful life. An annual unpleasant day has arrived: he has to visit the doctor to get an injection against mumps, measles and rubella. This goes without any problem, because Nicolas - also called Nicky - is a good guy. However, after a few months, Nicolas's behavior begins to change. Mother Christine does everything to get the boy back on the right track. But then comes the dreaded diagnosis: Nicky suffers from autism.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Title: Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Mrs. Squeers
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive
Title: Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.
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The Pact
Title: The Pact
Character: Gus Harte
Released: November 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
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Bend It Like Beckham
Title: Bend It Like Beckham
Character: Paula Paxton
Released: April 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
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The Road from Coorain
Title: The Road from Coorain
Character: Eve
Released: March 3, 2002
Type: Movie
A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
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Food of Love
Title: Food of Love
Character: Pamela Porterfield
Released: February 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
Title: Christmas Carol: The Movie
Character: Mrs. Cratchit / Mother Gimlet (voice)
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment in the afterlife, the cruel and greedy Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future to show him how the course of his life led him to where he is - and where it will lead if he doesn't change his ways.
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The Search for John Gissing
Title: The Search for John Gissing
Character: Gwenyth Moore
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
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Play
Title: Play
Character: 2nd Woman
Released: July 14, 2001
Type: Movie
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.
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Trial by Fire
Title: Trial by Fire
Character: Helen West
Released: June 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Juliet Stevenson stars as prosecutor Helen West from the popular crime novels by Frances Fyfield. Helen and her significant other, Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey (Jim Carter), have recently moved to a sedate London suburb only to face a shocking murder. Bailey thinks he has the case wrapped up, but Helen punches holes in the evidence and his ego, and then proceeds to track down the real killer.
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Cider with Rosie
Title: Cider with Rosie
Character: Annie Lee
Released: December 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.
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B.P. Confidential
Title: B.P. Confidential
Character: Narrator
Released: November 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.
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Title: Arthouse
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 26, 1997
Type: TV
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Jane
Released: July 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, featured the main characters as animals.
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Evita: Una Tumba Sin Paz
Title: Evita: Una Tumba Sin Paz
Character: Narrator
Released: June 22, 1997
Type: Movie
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Stone, Scissors, Paper
Title: Stone, Scissors, Paper
Character: Jean
Released: June 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Mrs. Elton
Released: August 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
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Paris Was a Woman
Title: Paris Was a Woman
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.
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Title: The Politician's Wife
Character: Flora Matlock
Released: May 16, 1995
Type: TV
The Politician's Wife is a British television political drama written by Paula Milne, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995 and starring Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson. The story centres around high-flying politician Duncan Matlock, Families Minister for the UK Government, who becomes embroiled in tabloid scandal as it is discovered that he has been having an affair with a former escort turned parliamentary researcher. Duncan's wife Flora becomes the focus of media attention as her reactions to the revelations are played out. Initially she plays out the part of the loyal wife, but as an aide of her husband feeds her details about the affair and various other political scandals that could be made to happen. She begins to sabotage her husband's integrity and reputation through a campaign of leaks and misinformation to the press and British Conservative Party stalwarts. After a series of increasingly sensational and damaging stories in the press, her husband is forced to resign in humiliation. The last episode closes with the results of the by-election being announced on TV. Flora Matlock wins with the support of her party whilst her husband is exiled to a minor post in Belgium.
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The Secret Rapture
Title: The Secret Rapture
Character: Isobel Coleridge
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories is a compilation of five of Eric Carle’s most popular stories. In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar eats and eats... and eats his way through the week; Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me shows a young girl asking her father for the moon, but he discovers that the moon is very, very big. The Very Quiet Cricket is about a cricket who finally finds his voice and The Mixed-Up Chameleon learns an important lesson about being himself. Finally, I See A Song invites audiences on a magical musical journey. But can you really see a song?
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Title: The World of Eric Carle
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: TV
A series of five of Eric Carle’s most popular stories which bring the wonders of the world surrounding young children into focus.
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The Legends of Treasure Island
Title: The Legends of Treasure Island
Character: Jane (voice)
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: The Legends of Treasure Island
Character: Jane (voice)
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The Legends Of Treasure Island is an animated cartoon from the UK that ran from 1993-1995. It had two series of 13 episodes each and each episode runs for 22–25 minutes. The series was loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's original story "Treasure Island". Featuring a mysterious and dark storyline, it incorporates magic and many new characters. Unlike the book and most adaptations Long John Silver is not an anti-hero with dubious morality but rather a straight villain. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom and in other countries throughout Europe and Latin America and was also aired in Australia. The programme was a FilmFair production for Central Independent Television, The Legends of Treasure Island, is owned by ITV PLC.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: Fraulein Burstner
Released: June 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Nora Helmer
Released: November 21, 1992
Type: Movie
One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
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Truly Madly Deeply
Title: Truly Madly Deeply
Character: Nina
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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Aimée
Title: Aimée
Character: Lucy
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: Movie
A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.
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Title: Performance
Character: Nora Helmer
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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Living with Dinosaurs
Title: Living with Dinosaurs
Character: Vicky
Released: December 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of his favorite doll, a stuffed dinosaur named Dog.
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The March
Title: The March
Character: Clare Fitzgerald
Released: May 22, 1990
Type: Movie
A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
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Ladder of Swords
Title: Ladder of Swords
Character: Alice Howard
Released: January 12, 1990
Type: Movie
An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus
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Title: This Is David Lander
Released: October 31, 1988
Type: TV
This Is David Lander was a TV show that parodies Roger Cook style door-stepping investigative journalism shows, starring Stephen Fry as David Lander and written by Tony Sarchet. It began as the BBC Radio 4 show Delve Special, which became this six part Channel 4 series in 1988.
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Drowning by Numbers
Title: Drowning by Numbers
Character: Cissie Colpitts 2
Released: September 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
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Out Of Love
Title: Out Of Love
Character: Ruth
Released: August 10, 1988
Type: Movie
The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.
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Stanley
Title: Stanley
Character: Hilda Carline
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: Movie
The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.
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Life Story
Title: Life Story
Character: Rosalind Franklin
Released: September 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
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Theban Plays: Antigone
Title: Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Antigone
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.
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Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Title: Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus
Character: Antigone
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Title: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Character: Thaisa
Released: December 8, 1984
Type: Movie
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Natural World
Character: Narrator
Released: October 30, 1983
Type: TV
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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Title: Timewatch
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: TV
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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The Mallen Curse
Title: The Mallen Curse
Character: Barbara Mallen
Released: June 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Title: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Follows Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover, David Blakely.
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Title: King and Conqueror
Character: Lady Emma
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.
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Title: The Mallens
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
The Mallens was a popular Granada Television adaptation of Catherine Cookson novels that ran for 13 episodes from 1979-1980.
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Reawakening
Title: Reawakening
Character: Mary
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
John (BAFA-winner JARED HARRIS) and Mary (BAFTA-nominee JULIET STEVENSON) have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when she was fourteen and no trace of her whereabouts has ever been found. When Clare (ERIN DOHERTY) returns, now a young woman of twenty-four, Mary is overjoyed. But John comes to believe that Clare is not who she claims to be. As old tensions resurface, a gripping search for the truth unfolds. Powerful, evocative and moving, Reawakening is the second feature from BAFTA-nominated writer-director Virginia Gilbert.
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Ceres
Title: Ceres
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Ceres tells the story of a daughter seeking refuge from her emotionally abusive partner at the home of her estranged mother. It follows their attempt to reconnect, and move forward, despite the knowledge that their time together is limited; bound in a knot of silent agreement to the changing of the seasons.