Pippa Haywood
Philippa "Pippa" Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire (1991-1997), Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress & Anger and the hot-tempered, sex-mad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2004-2006), for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland). She has also done many dramatic roles, including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game, and Mrs. Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom, and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge (2013). Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles, Harriet, on the BBC One drama Prisoners' Wives, and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott & Bailey. In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia, as Susan Wyse. In 2015, Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community. The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck. Haywood has also worked in film and theatre. Recent stage credits include: House & Garden, Private Lives, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Regime as Susan
- 2023 · The Doll Factory as Mrs Slater
- 2023 · Best Interests as Judge Spottiswood
- 2022 · Peacock as Teresa
- 2022 · Magpie Murders as Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye
- 2022 · The Chelsea Detective as Gillian Compton
- 2021 · FBI: International as Scarlett Garretson
- 2021 · Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break as Jayney
- 2020 · Bridgerton as Mrs. Colson
- 2020 · Supernova as Lilly
- 2020 · Behind the Filter as Frances
- 2020 · Four Kids and It as Bookshop Owner
- 2020 · Feel Good as Felicity
- 2018 · Agatha and the Truth of Murder as Mabel
- 2018 · Bodyguard as Lorraine Craddock
- 2018 · Requiem as Dr. Verity Satlow
- 2016 · 5 Greedy Bankers as Catherine Stone
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Susan Wyse MBE
- 2014 · Undeniable as DI Alison Hall
- 2013 · Ye Olde Dragons' Den as Deborah Meaden
- 2013 · Father Brown as Eileen Slither
- 2013 · Mr Selfridge as Flora Bunting
- 2012 · Gravity Falls as Wax Lizzie Borden (voice)
- 2012 · 8 Minutes Idle as Kathy
- 2012 · Prisoners' Wives as Harriet
- 2011 · Death in Paradise as Charlotte Hamilton
- 2011 · Scott & Bailey as DCI Julie Dodson
- 2010 · Tamara Drewe as Tess
- 2010 · Huge as Jongleurs Boss
- 2008 · Lost in Austen as Frankie
- 2008 · The Wrong Door as Various
- 2007 · Kingdom as Mrs. Anderson
- 2007 · Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Julie Jones
- 2007 · Fear, Stress & Anger as
- 2005 · Like Father Like Son as Mrs. Sutton
- 2004 · Green Wing as Joanna Clore
- 2004 · If Only as Lavinia
- 2004 · New Tricks as
- 2003 · The Commander as
- 2001 · Love or Money as Bridget
- 2001 · Office Gossip as
- 1998 · Roger Roger as Helen Jackson
- 1997 · Get Fit with Brittas as
- 1997 · Jonathan Creek as Lorna Claithorne
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Andrea Craven
- 1997 · Tangier Cop as Diana Andrews
- 1996 · Surviving Christmas as Helen
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1991 · The House of Eliott as Clara Rhoades
- 1991 · The Brittas Empire as Helen Brittas
- 1989 · Capital City as
- 1988 · The One Game as Jenny Thorne
- 1986 · Brush Strokes as Francesca
- 1986 · Brush Strokes as Gillian
- Future · Bergerac as Margaret Heaton