Elizabeth Berrington (born 3 August 1970) is an English actress and graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art; she is best known for her roles as Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road, Paula Kosh in Stella, Mel Debrou in Moving Wallpaper, and Dawn Stevenson in The Syndicate. She has also featured in British television series such as The Bill, Doctor Who, The Office,[1] Casualty, The Lakes, The Grimleys, and Rose and Maloney.
Elizabeth Berrington | |
|---|---|
| Born | Elizabeth Evans 3 August 1970 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Career
editFrom 1996 to 1999 Berrington appeared alongside Emma Wray and Tony Robinson in the ITV comedy-drama My Wonderful Life. In 1999 she played Marie Antoinette in Let Them Eat Cake, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
In cinema Berrington has featured in many films, such as The Little Vampire and, more recently, Nanny McPhee with Emma Thompson and In Bruges alongside Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. In 2008 and 2009 she played Mel in Moving Wallpaper, and was in the 2008 Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". Berrington also featured in the 1993 Mike Leigh film Naked, and had a role in Leigh's 1996 drama film Secrets & Lies, starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Timothy Spall.
In 2009 Berrington and actress Shirley Henderson were the stars of the popular ITV drama May Contain Nuts in which she played Ffion, a snobbish suburban mother. Berrington also played Nicola, a nurse, in the BBC Two comedy Psychoville. She appeared as Food Technology teacher Ruby Fry in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road from 2009 to 2011, departing after two series. She played "Auntie" in "The Doctor's Wife", an episode in series 6 of Doctor Who. In 1997 she appeared in a TV Licence advert. In 2012 she was in an episode of New Tricks, playing a murderess called Grace. From 2012 to 2013 she portrayed Paula Kosh in the Sky 1 comedy series Stella; in 2015 she returned for two episodes.
In 2011, Berrington appeared in the BBC Christmas show Lapland as Paula, a role which she reprised in the six-part spin-off series Being Eileen, which aired from February 2013.[2][3]
Berrington appeared on stage in the 2013 play The Low Road. Later, in August 2014, she appeared in Series 2, Episode 4 of Cuckoo as Sandra.
In 2016 Berrington appeared in "Hated in the Nation", the sixth episode of the third season of the Netflix original, Black Mirror.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Naked | Giselle | On-Screen Debut |
| 1996 | Secrets & Lies | Jane | |
| The Moonstone | Limping Lucy | TV film | |
| 1998 | Urban Ghost Story | Mrs Ash | |
| 1999 | 8½ Women | Celeste, Emmenthal Maid | |
| Onegin | Mile Volkonsky | ||
| Mad Cows | Pru | ||
| 2000 | The Little Vampire | Elizabeth McAshton | |
| Quills | Charlotte | ||
| 2001 | Large | Dog Therapist | |
| 2003 | The Deal | Cherie Blair | TV film |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | Cynical Lady | |
| Spivs | Nigel's Secretary | ||
| 2005 | A Cock and Bull Story | Debbie | |
| Nanny McPhee | Letitia | ||
| 2006 | Missing | Nurse Peters | TV film |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Joanna Syms | TV film | |
| Scoop | Antique Shop Woman (Lucy) | ||
| Are You Ready for Love? | Debbie | ||
| 2007 | The Dinner Party | The Shrew | TV film |
| Fred Claus | Linda Elf | ||
| 2008 | In Bruges | Natalie | |
| 2009 | May Contain Nuts | Ffion Russell | TV film |
| 2011 | Lapland | Paula Cooper | TV film |
| 2012 | Hard Boiled Sweets | Jackie | |
| Eggbox | Nurse | TV film | |
| 2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Bernie | |
| 2014 | Mr Turner | Lady Critic | |
| 2016 | Swallows and Amazons | Mrs Blackett | |
| 2018 | Teen Spirit | Lorene | |
| 2019 | Yesterday | Hazel | |
| 2021 | Spencer | Anne, Princess Royal | |
| Last Night in Soho | Ms Tobin | ||
| 2022 | Why Wouldn't I Be? | Alice | Short |
| 2023 | Grey Matter | Eileen |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Between the Lines | Pamela Hewitt | Episode: "Shoot to Kill" |
| 1996 | Staying Alive | Leah Howes | 1 episode |
| The Bill | Avril Stone | Episode: "Hard Enough" | |
| 1997–1999 | The Lakes | Ruth | Series regular |
| My Wonderful Life | Marina | Series regular | |
| 1998 | Casualty | June White | Episode: "Degrees of Separation" |
| Silent Witness | Jane Nelson | Episode: "Brothers in Arms" | |
| 1999 | Let Them Eat Cake | Marie Antoinette | 3 episodes |
| 2000 | The Vice | Julie Evans | Episode: "Betrayed" |
| Nature Boy | Miss Owthwaite | 1 episode | |
| Rhona | Roxanne | Episode: "The Haircut" | |
| 2001 | The Grimleys | Mrs Robins | Episode: "An Inspector Calls" |
| The Bill | Lynn Roberts | Episode: "A Week of Nights" | |
| Sam's Game | Irene | Episode: "Slogan" | |
| Chambers | Tina Stent | Episode: "Survival Trek" | |
| 2002 | Rescue Me | Mary Hope | 1 episode |
| Bodily Harm | Belinda Chalk | 2 episodes | |
| 2003 | The Office | Anne | Episode: "Christmas Special" |
| 2004 | Family Business | Jessica Brooker | Series regular |
| Shane | Myrtle | Series regular | |
| Where the Heart Is | Jemma Harper | Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye" | |
| 2005 | The Rotters' Club | Irene Anderton | Mini-series |
| Rose and Maloney | Maggie | Episode: "Annie Johnson" | |
| 2006–2007 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | Val Duggan | Series regular |
| 2007 | Annually Retentive | Make Up Artist | 1 episode |
| 2008–2009 | Moving Wallpaper | Mel Debrou | Series regular |
| 2008 | A Touch of Frost | Babs Sellwood | Episode: "Mind Games" |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | Grace Springer | Episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons" | |
| Apparitions | Kim Portman | 1 episode | |
| 2009 | The Street | Jane Miller | Episode: "Smoke" |
| Psychoville | Nicola | 5 episodes | |
| 2009–2011 | Waterloo Road | Ruby Fry | Series regular |
| 2010 | Little Crackers | Terry | Episode: "Goodbye Fluff" |
| 2010 | Ordinary People | Stacey | Series regular |
| 2011 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Lady Constance Bridgelow | Miniseries |
| Doctor Who | Auntie | Episode: "The Doctor's Wife" | |
| 2012–2017 | Stella | Paula Kosh | Series regular |
| 2012 | New Tricks | Grace Cusack | Episode: "Blue Flower" |
| 2013 | Being Eileen | Paula Cooper | Series regular |
| Playhouse Presents | Jill | Episode: "Stage-Door Johnnies" | |
| Midsomer Murders | Libs Pearce | Episode: "The Christmas Haunting" | |
| 2014 | Pramface | Hester | Episode: "A Proper Little Family" |
| The Smoke | Pauline Pynchon | Mini-series | |
| W1A | Elaine Pearson | 1 episode | |
| Trying Again | Gail | Series regular | |
| Cuckoo | Sandra | Episode: "Funeral" | |
| Babylon | Vanessa Peters | 1 episode | |
| 2015 | The Syndicate | Dawn Stevenson | Series 3 (regular) |
| 2016–2017 | Tracey Ullman's Show | Various Roles | Series regular |
| 2016 | Camping | Kerry | Series regular |
| Doctors | Nic Katchevski | 5 episodes | |
| The Living and the Dead | Maud Hare | Series regular | |
| Wasted | Denise | Episode: "Come Down Day" | |
| Black Mirror | Jo Powers | Episode: "Hated in the Nation" | |
| Marley's Ghosts | Jill | 2 episodes | |
| 2017 | Father Brown | Margaret Cartwright | Episode: "The Lepidopterist's Companion" |
| Little Boy Blue | Debra Taylor | Mini-series | |
| Loaded | Carly | Episode: "The Boat" | |
| Borderline | Mary Parfitt | Episode: "Inspection" | |
| 2018 | Death in Paradise | Diane Smith | Episode: "Murder from Above" |
| Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Brenda Quintus | Episode: "This Promised End" | |
| Patrick Melrose | Fleur | Episode: "At Last" | |
| Vanity Fair | Lady Bareacres | 3 episodes | |
| 2019 | Vera | Paula | Episode: "Cold River" |
| Good Omens | Dagon, Lord of Files | 2 episodes | |
| Sanditon | Mrs Griffiths | Series regular | |
| 2021–2023 | The Nevers | Lucy Best | Series regular |
| 2022 | The Responder | Lynne Renfrew | 3 episodes |
| 2022 | The Pact | Kate | 5 episodes |
| 2023 | Fifteen-Love | Carol Pearce | 6 episodes |
| 2023 | Henpocalypse! | Bernadette | 6 episodes |
| 2023 | Sex Education | Celebrant Samantha | 1 episode |
| 2024 | Lost Boys and Fairies | Jackie | Series regular |
| TBA | Virdee | DS Clare Conway | Upcoming six-part thriller[4] |
References
edit- ^ "Family Business - Elizabeth Berrington plays Jessica Brooker". BBC. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "BBC One commissions new six-part comedy series, Lapland". BBC. BBC Online. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ^ "Being Eileen". BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "BBC announces casting for new crime thriller Virdee". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. 29 February 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.