Lisa Diveney

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Lisa Diveney
Born
Lisa Ann Diveney

1984 (age 39–40) [1]
Newport, Wales [1]
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present

Lisa Ann Diveney (born 1984) is a British actress, best known for playing Beth in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass . She has also appeared in an episode of BBC drama Call the Midwife .

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Career

John Sullivan cast Diveney in the role of Beth in The Green Green Grass [2] where she appeared in Series 1–3. She then went on to appear in Cleansed [3] directed by Sean Holmes at the Arcola Theatre and in Michael Grandage's production of John Gabriel Borkman [4] for the Donmar Warehouse where Ian McDiarmid and Penelope Wilton headed the cast. In 2009 she played Young Enid in the biopic Enid [5] starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Diveney portrayed Colette in the premiere of Frank McGuinness' play Greta Garbo Came to Donegal [6] at the Tricycle Theatre alongside Michelle Fairley and Angeline Ball. Then appeared in the premiere of A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky [7] by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith.

Diveney appeared as series regular Kate Travers in the ITV1 Drama Injustice [8] where she played the on-screen daughter of James Purefoy and Dervla Kirwan. She then went on to play Bridget in Bijan Sheibani's production of Moonlight [9] at the Donmar Warehouse, where she starred alongside David Bradley and Daniel Mays. Diveney played Julia Masterson in Series 2 of the BBC drama Call the Midwife . [10]

In 2014 Diveney starred alongside Sir Tony Robinson and Imogen Stubbs in The Hypochondriac. [11] and in the same year, appeared as Sasha in the premiere of Moses Raine's Donkey Heart [12] directed by Nina Raine at the Old Red Lion which transferred to the Trafalgar Studios. Diveney then went on to play Masha in The Seagull [13] at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre directed by Matthew Dunster. [14]

In 2023, she reunited with Matthew Dunster to play Ruth in his production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming [15] at The Young Vic, starring alongside Jared Harris and Joe Cole.

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  2. ↑ "'The Green Green Grass' Who's Who". Shazam Productions Ltd. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Billington, Michael (4 September 2004). "Sarah Kane's Cleansed & Phaedra's Love Revived". London: What's on Stage. Retrieved 20 October 2005.
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