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Erika Hoffman is an English actress known for portraying Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes from series two onwards. [1] When the Brush Strokes series ended, she joined fellow cast member Howard Lew Lewis in the Channel 4 comedy series Chelmsford 123, where she played Gargamadua.
In 1986, she played Anna, a 19-year-old pregnant German girl, in the Only Fools and Horses episode "From Prussia with Love". In the ITV comedy Room at the Bottom , she played secretary Nancy, alongside James Bolam and Richard Wilson.
In the Yorkshire Television 1986 comedy Home To Roost , she played April, a charity worker, alongside John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. She also appeared in a minor role in Just Good Friends . She appeared in the 1990s soap opera Machair , playing Charlotte Van Agten. Hoffman appeared on stage and in television films such as Last Days of Patton and as "The Lady" in To Play the King . [2]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Minder | Faith | Episode: "The Second Time Around" |
| 1984 | No Place Like Home | Sandra | 2 episodes |
| 1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Girl at picnic | Episode: "Sleeps Six" |
| 1984 | Just Good Friends | Karina | Episode: "Special" |
| 1985 | Jenny's War | Gerta | 4 episodes |
| 1986 | Hilary | Lois | Episode: "Over the Hill?" |
| 1986 | Only Fools and Horses | Anna | Episode: "From Prussia with Love" |
| 1986 | Fairly Secret Army | Nurse | Episode: "I've Got a Job for You" |
| 1986 | Home to Roost | April | Episode: "Plastic Dreamworld" |
| 1986 | The Last Days of Patton | Young Beatrice | Television film |
| 1986 | Lytton's Diary | Stephanie | Episode: "The Miracle Man" |
| 1986–1988 | Room at the Bottom | Nancy / Secretary | 7 episodes |
| 1987–1991 | Brush Strokes | Lesley | 26 episodes |
| 1988 | Chelmsford 123 | Gargamadua | 6 episodes |
| 1988 | Tales of the Unexpected | Suzie Anderson | Episode: "Mr. Know-All" |
| 1989 | Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage | Mrs. Topless | Television film |
| 1992 | Casualty | Helen Holloway | Episode: "Silent Night" |
| 1993 | To Play the King | The Lady | 4 episodes |
| 1994 | Machair | Charlotte Van Agten | 2 episodes |
| 1995 | The Final Cut | Princess | |
| 1996 | The Bill | Receptionist | Episode: "Black Money" |
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