Credits

• 2026 · A Talent for a Murder as Peggy
• 2025 · The Deal as Cindy Cohen
• 2025 · King & Conqueror as Emma
• 2025 · Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius as Self - Narrator
• 2025 · A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story as Dr. Charity Taylor
• 2024 · Rhoda as Rhoda
• 2024 · Mozart: Rise of a Genius as Self - Narrator
• 2024 · Reawakening as Mary
• 2023 · Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius as Narrator
• 2023 · Wolf as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers
• 2023 · Secret Invasion as Maria Hill's Mum
• 2022 · Remembers… as
• 2022 · The Man Who Fell to Earth as Sister Mary Lou
• 2022 · The Man Who Fell to Earth as Mary Lou Prescott
• 2021 · The Long Call as Dorothy Venn
• 2021 · Professor T as Helena Goldberg
• 2020 · Out of Her Mind as Carol
• 2018 · London Unplugged as
• 2018 · Let Me Go as Helga
• 2018 · Hamlet as Gertrude
• 2017 · Sea Sorrow as Self
• 2017 · Love Is Thicker Than Water as Ethel
• 2017 · Riviera as Cassandra Eltham
• 2017 · 1066: A Year to Conquer England as Herself - Narrator
• 2016 · One of Us as Louise Elliot
• 2016 · Departure as Beatrice
• 2015 · The Enfield Haunting as Betty Grosse
• 2015 · X Company as
• 2014 · On Angel Wings as Mary
• 2014 · The Portrait as Laura Burrell
• 2014 · The Letters as Mother Teresa
• 2013 · Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin as
• 2013 · Atlantis as The Oracle
• 2013 · Diana as Sonia
• 2013 · The Village as Clem Allingham
• 2012 · White Heat as Charlotte
• 2011 · The Hour as Lady Elms
• 2010 · Accused as Helen Ryland
• 2010 · The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories as Narrator (voice)
• 2009 · Triage as Amy
• 2009 · A Previous Engagement as Julia Reynolds
• 2009 · Desert Flower as Lucinda
• 2009 · In Search of Beethoven as Narrator (voice)
• 2009 · Law & Order: UK as
• 2009 · The Secret of Moonacre as Miss Heliotrope
• 2008 · Dustbin Baby as Marion
• 2008 · Place of Execution as Catherine Heathcote
• 2008 · 10 Days to War as Elizabeth Wilmshurst
• 2007 · And When Did You Last See Your Father? as Kim Morrison
• 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
• 2007 · Lewis as Diana Ellerby
• 2007 · Comedy Map of Britain as
• 2006 · Breaking and Entering as Rosemary
• 2006 · Infamous as Diana Vreeland
• 2006 · In Search of Mozart as Narrator
• 2005 · The Snow Queen as Gerda's Mother
• 2005 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman as Annie Pierrepoint
• 2005 · Red Mercury as Sofia Warburton
• 2004 · Being Julia as Evie
• 2004 · If... as
• 2003 · Mona Lisa Smile as Amanda Armstrong
• 2003 · Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film as Self - W2 (From "Play")
• 2002 · Nicholas Nickleby as Mrs. Squeers
• 2002 · The Pact as Gus Harte
• 2002 · Bend It Like Beckham as Paula Paxton
• 2002 · Food of Love as Pamela Porterfield
• 2001 · Christmas Carol: The Movie as Mrs. Cratchit / Mother Gimlet (voice)
• 2001 · The Search for John Gissing as Gwenyth Moore
• 2001 · Play as 2nd Woman
• 1999 · Trial by Fire as Helen West
• 1998 · Cider with Rosie as Annie Lee
• 1997 · Arthouse as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1997 · Treasure Island as Jane
• 1996 · Emma as Mrs. Elton
• 1996 · Paris Was a Woman as Narrator (voice)
• 1995 · The Politician's Wife as Flora Matlock
• 1993 · The Secret Rapture as Isobel Coleridge
• 1993 · The World of Eric Carle as Narrator (voice)
• 1991 · Performance as Nora Helmer
• 1991 · Truly Madly Deeply as Nina
• 1987 · Dispatches as
• 1986 · ScreenPlay as Ruth
• 1985 · Screen Two as Fräulein Bürstner
• 1985 · Screen Two as Hilda Carline
• 1985 · Screen Two as Lucy
• 1985 · Screen Two as Jean
• 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
• 1983 · Natural World as Narrator (voice)
• 1982 · Timewatch as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as Thaisa
• Future · Dustfall as
• 1993 · The Legends of Treasure Island as Jane (voice)
• 1993 · The Trial as Fraulein Burstner
• 1990 · The March as Clare Fitzgerald
• 1988 · This Is David Lander as
• 1988 · Drowning by Numbers as Cissie Colpitts (Daughter)
• 1987 · Life Story as Rosalind Franklin
• 1984 · Freud as Elizabeth von Rietberg
• 1979 · The Mallens as Barbara Bensham (née Mallen)
• Future · Elsinore as
• 2025 · National Theatre at Home: The Land of the Living as Ruth
• 2022 · Ceres as
• 2022 · Walls Like Windows as Maggie
• 2020 · Four as The Dowager
• 2017 · Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2017 · 1066: A Year to Conquer England as Herself - Narrator
• 2014 · In Search of Chopin as Narrator
• 2013 · Orangutans: The Great Ape Escape as Narrator
• 2013 · Penelope as Penny
• 2012 · In Search of Haydn as Narrator (voice)
• 2008 · The Mallen Secret as Barbara Mallen
• 2008 · The Burning Season as Narrator (voice)
• 2007 · A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman as
• 2006 · Cult Killer as Narrator (voice)
• 2005 · John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction as Narrator
• 2005 · The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart as Narrator
• 2004 · The Hunt for the Camden Ripper as Herself (voice)
• 2003 · Hear the Silence as Christine Shields
• 2002 · Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive as Narrator (voice)
• 2002 · The Road from Coorain as Eve
• 2000 · The Beginning of the End of the Affair as Readings (voice)
• 1998 · B.P. Confidential as Narrator
• 1997 · Evita: A Grave Without Peace as Narrator
• 1997 · Stone, Scissors, Paper as Jean
• 1993 · The Legends of Treasure Island as Jane (voice)
• 1993 · Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me as Narrator
• 1992 · A Doll's House as Nora Helmer
• 1991 · Aimée as Lucy
• 1990 · Living with Dinosaurs as Vicky
• 1990 · Ladder of Swords as Alice Howard
• 1988 · Out Of Love as Ruth
• 1988 · Stanley as Hilda Carline
• 1986 · Theban Plays: Antigone as Antigone
• 1986 · Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus as Antigone
• 1984 · Pericles, Prince of Tyre as Thaisa
• 1980 · The Mallen Curse as Barbara Mallen
• 1979 · The Mallens as Barbara Mallen