Erika Hoffman

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Erika Hoffman is an English actress known for portraying Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC comedy 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.

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Career

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]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1984 Minder FaithEpisode: "The Second Time Around"
1984 No Place Like Home Sandra2 episodes
1984 Oxbridge Blues Girl at picnicEpisode: "Sleeps Six"
1984 Just Good Friends KarinaEpisode: "Special"
1985 Jenny's War Gerta4 episodes
1986HilaryLoisEpisode: "Over the Hill?"
1986 Only Fools and Horses AnnaEpisode: "From Prussia with Love"
1986 Fairly Secret Army NurseEpisode: "I've Got a Job for You"
1986 Home to Roost AprilEpisode: "Plastic Dreamworld"
1986 The Last Days of Patton Young BeatriceTelevision film
1986 Lytton's Diary StephanieEpisode: "The Miracle Man"
1986–1988 Room at the Bottom Nancy / Secretary7 episodes
1987–1991 Brush Strokes Lesley26 episodes
1988 Chelmsford 123 Gargamadua6 episodes
1988 Tales of the Unexpected Suzie AndersonEpisode: "Mr. Know-All"
1989 Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage Mrs. ToplessTelevision film
1992 Casualty Helen HollowayEpisode: "Silent Night"
1993 To Play the King The Lady4 episodes
1994 Machair Charlotte Van Agten2 episodes
1995 The Final Cut Princess
1996 The Bill ReceptionistEpisode: "Black Money"

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References

  1. Sullivan, Jim; Jones, Mike (30 September 2021). Lovely Jubbly: A Celebration of 40 Years of Only Fools and Horses. Random House. ISBN   978-1-4735-3307-3.
  2. "Erika Hoffman". IMDb. Retrieved 14 October 2022.