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Deborah Findlay

Actor
Born December 23, 1947 (76 years)
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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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Sherlock Holmes (1984)
  • Me Without You
  • Heartbeat
  • Jane Eyre
  • Kavanagh Q.C.
  • Summer
  • Heat of the Sun
Known For
  • The Split
  • The Ones Below
  • The Lady in the Van
  • Suite Française
  • Jane Eyre
  • Coriolanus
  • The Drowning
  • Wives and Daughters
  • Me Without You
  • Cranford
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Leaving
  • Romeo & Juliet
  • Armstrong and Miller
  • Gunrush
  • Making Noise Quietly
  • National Theatre Live: Allelujah!

Filmography

2024
That Christmas · as Mrs. Horton
2022
Up on the Roof · as Claire
2021
From A Strange Land · as Margaret
2021
Dalgliesh (2021) (TV Series) · as Miss Willard
2021
Romeo & Juliet · as Nurse
2021
The Drowning (TV Series) · as Lynn
2019
2018
National Theatre Live: Allelujah! · as Sister Gilchrist
2018
The Split (TV Series) · as Ruth
2018
Collateral (TV Series) · as Eleanor Shaw
2017
Hampstead · as Mary Neal
2016
Kaleidoscope · as Maureen
2016
Jackie · as Maud Shaw
2015
The Lady in the Van · as Pauline
2015
The Ones Below · as Tessa
2015
Life In Squares (TV Series) · as Aunt Jane
2015
Coalition · as Harriet Harman
2014
Suite Française · as Madame Joseph
2014
Lovesick (TV Series) · as Fiona
2014
Coriolanus · as Volumnia
2012
Leaving (TV Series) · as Vanessa
2012
Starlings (TV Series) · as Sandra
2011
Arthur Christmas · as General (voice)
2009
Law & Order: UK (TV Series) · as Kim Sharkey
2009
Gunrush · as Jill
2008
Summer · as Doctor Price
2007
Cranford (TV Series) · as Miss Tomkinson
2007
Who Gets the Dog? · as Pamela Wilson
2007
The Good Samaritan · as Eileen Mayhew
2007
The Yellow House · as Madame Roulin
2007
This Life + 10 · as Doctor
2007
The Making of Cranford · as Miss Tomkinson
2006
Torchwood (TV Series) · as Denise Riley
2006
Lewis (TV Series) · as Lady Hugh
2004
Vanity Fair · as Mrs. Sedley
2003
Home · as Margaret Ballantyne
2003
State of Play (TV Series) · as Greer Thornton
2003
State of Mind · as D.c.i Stella Munroe
2003
New Tricks (TV Series) · as Helen Gilder
2002
Foyle's War (TV Series) · as Evelyn Cresswell
2001
2001
Messiah (TV Series) · as Clarissa Buchanan
2000
Anna Karenina (2000) (TV Series) · as Countess Lydia
1999
The End of the Affair · as Miss Smythe
1999
Wives and Daughters (TV Series) · as Miss Phoebe
1999
The Last Train (TV Series)
1999
Holby City (TV Series) · as Philippa Pawlowski
1998
Comedy Lab (TV Series) · as Roxanne Anderson
1998
Heat of the Sun (TV Series) · as Matilda Watcham
1997
Trial & Retribution (TV Series) · as Dc Jill Ashton
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Hilary Richards
1997
Jane Eyre · as Mrs. Reed
1997
Armstrong and Miller (TV Series) · as Cast
1996
Silent Witness (TV Series) · as Gemma King
1995
Jack & Sarah · as Miss Cartwright
1995
Kavanagh Q.C. (TV Series) · as Susannah Emmott
1993
1992
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (TV Series) · as Kay Consett
1992
Heartbeat (TV Series) · as Eva Knight
1992
Maigret (1992) (TV Series) · as Juliette Motte
1991
1991
Performance (TV Series) · as Isabella Bird
1991
All Good Things (1991) (TV Series) · as Doll
1990
Truly Madly Deeply · as Claire
1989
First and Last · as Lisa
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Rowena Drake
1986
Casualty (TV Series) · as Debbie Cookson
1984
The Bill (TV Series) · as Dsu Wray
1984
Sherlock Holmes (1984) (TV Series) · as Sarah Cushing
1984
Shroud for a Nightingale (TV Series) · as Heather Pearce
1983
Dramarama (TV Series) · as Nurse
1980
Love Again (TV Series) · as Heather Pearce
1971
Great Performances (TV Series) · as Nurse
1970
Play for Today (TV Series) · as Ingy

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