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Birthday:

12-31-1947 (77 years)

Birthplace:

Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK

Biography

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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The End of the Affair

Act like Miss Smythe

event1999 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

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.

Vanity Fair

Act like Mrs. Sedley

event2004 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

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?

Me Without You

Act like Judith

event2001 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

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.

From A Strange Land

Act like Margaret

event2021 top_panel_open

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.

One of Those Days

Act like Supervisor

event2008 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

Jane Eyre

Act like Mrs. Reed

event1997 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale

Act like Susan Owen

event2007 star_border 4.5 top_panel_open

Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.

Home

Act like Margaret Ballantyne

event2003 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

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.

Top Girls

Act like Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd

event1991 top_panel_open

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.

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

Act like Volumnia

event2014 star_border 8.4 top_panel_open

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.

15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight

Act like Cheryl Morris

event1993 star_border 5 top_panel_open

A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.

First and Last

Act like Lisa

event1989 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

Up on the Roof

Act like Claire

event2023 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

Two old lovers reunite many years later after a chance meeting.

Such a Lovely Day

Act like Grandmother

event2023 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

Coalition

Act like Harriet Harman

event2015 star_border 7 top_panel_open

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.

Suite Française

Act like Madame Joseph

event2015 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

Gunrush

Act like Jill

event2009 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

Natural Lies

event1992 top_panel_open

An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.

The Lady in the Van

Act like Pauline

event2015 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

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.

Busted

Act like Angela

event1983 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

Truly Madly Deeply

Act like Claire

event1991 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

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.

The Ones Below

Act like Tessa

event2016 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

Jack & Sarah

Act like Miss Cartwright

event1995 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

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.

The House of Bernarda Alba

Act like Martirio

event1991 top_panel_open

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.

Arthur Christmas

Act like General (voice)

event2011 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. 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 Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Who Gets the Dog

Act like Pamela Wilson

event2007 star_border 5 top_panel_open

A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.

Milner

Act like Sylvia Milner

event1994 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

This Life +10

event2007 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

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.

Jackie

Act like Maud Shaw

event2016 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

The Yellow House

Act like Madame Roulin

event2007 star_border 8 top_panel_open

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.

Summer

Act like Doctor Price

event2008 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

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.

Kaleidoscope

Act like Maureen

event2017 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.

Hampstead

Act like Mary Neal

event2017 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

National Theatre Live: Allelujah!

Act like Sister Gilchrist

event2018 top_panel_open

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.

Making Noise Quietly

Act like Helene

event2019 star_border 5.7 top_panel_open

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.

Commitments

Act like Ingy

event1982 top_panel_open

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?

Romeo & Juliet

Act like Nurse

event2021 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

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.

State of Mind

Act like D.C.I Stella Munroe

event2003 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

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.

That Christmas

Act like Mrs. Horton (voice)

event2024 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.

The Drowning

Act like Lynn (4 ep.)

event2021 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

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.

Sherlock Holmes

Act like Sarah Cushing (1 ep.)

event1984 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

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.

Great Performances

Act like Nurse (1 ep.)

event1971 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

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.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Act like Rowena Drake (1 ep.)

event1989 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

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.

This Life

Act like Doctor (1 ep.)

event1996 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Cult drama series about a group of aspiring young lawyers sharing a shabby house in London, charting their careers and personal lives.

Leaving

Act like Vanessa (3 ep.)

event2012 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

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.

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Act like Kay Consett (3 ep.)

event1992 star_border 5 top_panel_open

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.

The Last Train

(1 ep.)

event1999 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

Ladies in Charge

(1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 5 top_panel_open

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.

Kavanagh Q.C.

Act like Susannah Emmott (1 ep.)

event1995 star_border 7 top_panel_open

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.

Casualty

Act like Debbie Cookson (1 ep.)

event1986 star_border 6 top_panel_open

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.

Midsomer Murders

Act like Lorna Soane (1 ep.)

event1997 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

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.

Anna Karenina

Act like Countess Lydia (4 ep.)

event2000 star_border 7 top_panel_open

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.

Life In Squares

Act like Aunt Jane (3 ep.)

event2015 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

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.

Wives and Daughters

Act like Miss Phoebe (6 ep.)

event1999 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

The Split

Act like Ruth Defoe (18 ep.)

event2018 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

Silent Witness

Act like Gemma King (1 ep.)

event1996 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

All Good Things

Act like Doll (6 ep.)

event1991 top_panel_open

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.

Dalgliesh

Act like Heather Pearce (1 ep.)

event1983 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

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.

Lewis

Act like Lady Hugh (1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Heartbeat

Act like Eva Knight (1 ep.)

event1992 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Performance

Act like Isabella Bird (1 ep.)

event1991 star_border 6 top_panel_open

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Torchwood

Act like Denise Riley (2 ep.)

event2006 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Lovesick

Act like Fiona (1 ep.)

event2014 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

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.

Cranford

Act like Miss Tomkinson (7 ep.)

event2007 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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