Debra Gillett

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Debra Gillett
OccupationActress
Spouse
(m. 2002)
Children3

Debra J. [1] Gillett is an English actress who has appeared in productions including The Witches, Chimera, Truckers, Casualty, Just William , Dalziel and Pascoe, Spooks , Doctor Who , Soul Music, and Cranford .

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Career

Gillett's stage work includes Limehouse (2017). In 2018 she played The Nurse ("a cartoonish delight" [2] ) in Patrick Marber's adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Royal National Theatre, and was a "sympathetic" [3] Queen Charlotte in Adam Penford's adaptation of The Madness of George III at the Nottingham Playhouse.

She played Nurse Fay in a 1997 Radio 3 production of Loot by Orton, repeated in 2017. [4]

Personal life

Gillett is the wife of playwright Patrick Marber. They married in 2002 and have three children. [5]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990 The Witches Waitress
1991 Riff-Raff Singer
1991 Young Soul Rebels Jill
2000BreathtakingJulie
2006 Notes on a Scandal Lorraine
2014 A Small Family Business Poppy McCracken
2016 Bridget Jones's Baby Daisy
2018 National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III Queen Charlotte

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991 Chimera JulieEpisode #1.1
1991 G.B.H. Sylvia3 episodes
1991 Casualty ReporterEpisode: "Judgement Day"
1991 Stay Lucky ReceptionistEpisode: "Poetic Justice"
1992 Truckers Grimma12 episodes
1992 Between the Lines Mary ShibdenEpisode: "Lies and Damned Lies"
1993 Screen Two Pat McVurrichEpisode: "The Long Roads"
1995 The Bill NinaEpisode: "Expert Witness"
1995Eleven Men Against ElevenJennyTelevision film
1995 Just William PeggyEpisode: "William and the Old Man in the Fog"
1995 Coogan's Run MaudEpisode: "The Curator"
1996 Wales Playhouse AlisonEpisode: "A Skip Day in Splott"
1997 Soul Music Susan Sto Helit7 episodes
1997Mr. White Goes to WestminsterKathTelevision film
2001 Cold Feet GeorginaEpisode #4.2
2002 Dalziel and Pascoe Sonia Wingate2 episodes
2004–2005 Spooks Debra Langham / Psychologist3 episodes
2005Footprints in the SnowValTelevision film
2006 Doctor Who Rita ConnollyEpisode: "The Idiot's Lantern"
2007–2009 Cranford Mrs Johnson6 episodes
2011The Many Faces of...Mrs JohnsonEpisode: "Dame Judi Dench"
2014 Call the Midwife Mrs HarperEpisode #3.5
2021 Inside No. 9 PennyEpisode: "Last Night of the Proms"

References

  1. Reunited, Genes. "Debra Gillett - Marriages & Divorces [1] - Genes Reunited". www.genesreunited.co.uk.
  2. "'Exit the King' review". Time Out . 26 July 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  3. "The Madness of George III starring Mark Gatiss review at Nottingham Playhouse – 'Gatiss rises to the challenge'". The Stage . 7 November 2018. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  4. Loot, BBC Media Centre notice accessed 4 April 2025.
  5. Holden, Anthony (16 November 2003). "Reasons to be cheerful". The Observer. Retrieved 22 December 2018.