Lisa Palfrey | |
|---|---|
 Palfrey in 1987 | |
| Born | 9 February 1967 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Children | 1 |
Lisa Palfrey (born 9 February 1967) is a Welsh actress. She is known for playing the roles of Gwenny in House of America (1997), Mrs. Nice in Guest House Paradiso (1999), Maureen in Pride (2014), Mrs. Dai Bread 1 in Under Milk Wood (2015), Cynthia in the Netflix original television series Sex Education and Eleanor James in the Sky One original television series COBRA .
Palfrey was born in Wales on 9 February 1967, her mother is Eiry Palfrey, an actress and author. She attended Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, a Welsh-medium secondary school near Pontypridd. [1]
Palfrey started acting at the age of 20 when she played the role of 15-year-old girl, Jane Sanderson, in the BBC One television series The District Nurse . Her first major role was in the film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain . [2] She has gone on to star in the cult film House of America , [3] and appeared as Melanie Collier in the medical drama television series Casualty as well as Inspector Tracey McAndrew in the third series of the police procedural television series Line of Duty . She played the role of Rhiannedd Frost in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm . [4]
Palfrey has performed in a number of plays, including the original production of David Eldridge's Festen , [5] The Iceman Cometh , [6] Under The Blue Sky , [7] and Tom Wells's The Kitchen Sink.
In 2019, Palfrey played the role of Cynthia in the Netflix original series Sex Education.
In 2020, Palfrey played the role of government minister Eleanor James in the Sky One original television drama series COBRA , written by Ben Richards and starring Robert Carlyle as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland. She played the part of Pam Green in the BBC Drama Chloe in 2022. In 2023 she filmed the BBC television feature Men Up , about the first clinical trials for the drug Viagra that took place in Swansea in 1994. [8]
Palfrey has a daughter, Lowri Palfrey, who is also an actress.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain | Blod Jones | |
| 1997 | House of America | Gwenny | |
| The Deadness of Dad | Mam | Short film | |
| 1999 | Guest House Paradiso | Mrs. Nice | |
| Oh Little Town of Bethlehem | Michelle | Short film | |
| 2000 | Maybe Baby | Jan | |
| 2003 | Y Mabinogi | Arianrhod | Voice role |
| 2008 | Poncho Mamgu | Nel | Documentary |
| 2011 | 360 | Psychologist | |
| 2014 | Pride | Maureen | |
| 2015 | Under Milk Wood | Mrs. Dai Bread 1 | |
| Visiting Mr Keats | Professor Bell | Short film | |
| 2018 | National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Mama | |
| 2019 | Make Up | Shirley | |
| 2021 | The Feast | Mair Bowen | |
| 2022 | Prey for the Devil | Sister Euphemia |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | The District Nurse | Jane Sanderson | Episode: "A Flick of the Coin" |
| 1993 | Thicker Than Water | Young Mother | TV film |
| 1996 | Lord of Misrule | Amy Clarke | TV film |
| 1997 | Soldier Soldier | Private Diane Saltmarsh | Episode: "Fit to Explode" |
| The Investigator | Sergeant Kathy Bartlett | TV film | |
| 1999 | Split Second | Christine Montgomery | TV film |
| 2001 | Mind Games | DC Rebecca Longton | TV film |
| The Bench | Jules Bowen | Episodes: S01 E01, S01 E03 | |
| 2002 | Outside the Rules | Lola Davies | TV series |
| Green-Eyed Monster | DC Karen Carter | TV film | |
| Casualty | Melanie Collier | 8 episodes | |
| 2003 | High Hopes | Dominique | Episode: "Pretty Woman" |
| 2004 | The Bill | Fee Paterson | Episode: "187: Shaken" |
| The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Lizzie Shakespeare | Episode: "If Wishes Were Horses" | |
| 2006–2007 | Pobol y Cwm | Rhiannedd Frost | Welsh TV series |
| 2010 | Pen Talar | Doctor | Episode: "Part 8" |
| 2013 | Family Tree | Luba Chadwick | Recurring role, 4 episodes |
| 2015 | The Bastard Executioner | Nia's mother | Episode: "Effigy/Ddelw" |
| 2016 | Line of Duty | Inspector Tracey McAndrew | 3 episodes |
| Aberfan: The Green Hollow | Edna | TV movie, documentary | |
| Hinterland | Sioned Jones | Episode: "Aftermath" | |
| 2019–2020 | Sex Education | Cynthia | Main role |
| 2019 | Wild Bill | Audrey Merrick | Episode: "Bad Blood in the Soil" |
| 2020 | COBRA | Eleanor James | Main role |
| 2021 | Intergalactic | Zeeda | Episode: S01 E02, S01 E02 |
| 2022 | Pact | Beth | Main role |
| 2023 | Men Up | Teresa Rigby | Television film |
Dame Penelope Alice Wilton is an English actress.
Lorraine Pilkington is an Irish actress from Dublin who is best known for her roles as Katrina Finlay from Monarch of the Glen and Lulu in Human Traffic.
Sarah Caroline Sinclair, known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, two Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Debra Jo Rupp is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Kitty Forman in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006) and its Netflix sequel series That '90s Show (2023–present). Rupp also had roles in the NBC sitcom Friends (1997–1998), the ABC animated series Teacher's Pet (2000–2002) and its 2004 sequel film, the ABC sitcom Better with You (2010–2011), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021) and Agatha All Along (2024).
Joanna Louise Page is a Welsh actress and presenter, known for portraying Stacey Shipman in the BAFTA-winning television series Gavin & Stacey. She played Dora Spenlow in the 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield, and featured as Just Judy in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually. She currently co-presents the BBC One consumer series Shop Well for Less. In 2023, Page joined Loose Women as a regular panellist.
Ashley Jensen is a Scottish actress and narrator. She is best known for her roles as Maggie Jacobs in Extras, Christina McKinney in Ugly Betty (2006–2010), Agatha Raisin in Agatha Raisin (2014–present), and DI Ruth Calder in Shetland (2023–present).
Zoë Tapper is an English actress who first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film Stage Beauty in 2004. She is known for portraying Anya Raczynski in Survivors and Mina Harker in Demons.
Eve Myles is a Welsh actress. She is best known for her television roles portraying Ceri Lewis in the long-running BBC Wales drama series Belonging (2000–2009), Gwen Cooper in the BBC science-fiction series Torchwood (2006–2011), and Faith Howells in the bilingually produced BBC / S4C drama series Keeping Faith / Un Bore Mercher (2017–2020). She is also an accomplished theatre actress.
Jenna-Louise Coleman is an English actress. She began her television career by playing Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera Emmerdale from 2005 to 2009, followed by a recurring role in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2009). She made her film debut with a small role in the American superhero film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and made appearances on diverse British period miniseries, including Titanic (2012), and Death Comes to Pemberley (2013).
Victoria Hamilton is an English actress.
Lisa Dillon is an English actress.
Tammy Blanchard is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her role as teenage Judy Garland in the critically acclaimed television film Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001), for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination and a Primetime Emmy Award. Her other notable film roles were in The Good Shepherd (2006), Sybil (2007), Into the Woods (2014) and The Invitation (2015).
David Eldridge is a British dramatist and screenwriter, born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom. His plays have been produced in the West End and on Broadway. He has written for stage, screen and radio.
Steven James Meo is a Welsh television actor from Coelbren in the Swansea Valley in Wales. He is best known for his roles in BBC Wales sitcom High Hopes (2002–2008), BBC Three series Grownups (2006–2009), and BBC Wales drama series Belonging (1999–2009).
Michelle Keegan is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2008–2014) and Georgie Lane in the BBC military drama Our Girl (2016–2020). Keegan has also starred as Tina Moore in the biopic Tina and Bobby (2017), Erin Croft in Sky Max comedy Brassic (2019–present), Kate Thorne in BBC period drama Ten Pound Poms (2023–present) and Maya Stern in Netflix thriller Fool Me Once (2024).
Aimee-Ffion Edwards is a Welsh actress. She is best known for her television roles as Sketch in Skins, Esme Shelby in Peaky Blinders, Sophie in Detectorists, Abi in Loaded, and Shirley Dander in Slow Horses. Her video game voice roles include Rachel Baker in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Mio in the English dub of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Ranni the Witch in Elden Ring.
Chanel Cresswell is an English actress, known for playing Kelly Jenkins in the film This Is England (2006) and the three subsequent series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011) and This Is England '90 (2015), for which, she won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in 2016.
Caroline Cave is a Canadian film, television and stage actor, known for her roles in the films This Beautiful City, One Week, The War Bride, Six Figures and Saw VI, and the television series Cra$h & Burn. She has also had guest roles in The L Word, Haven, Stargate Atlantis, Kevin Hill, The Associates, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Die neue Prophezeiung der Maya in 2013. She co-starred in the 2015 Lifetime TV movie Accidental Obsession.
Cynthia Erivo is an English actress and singer. She gained recognition for starring in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple from 2015 to 2017, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Erivo ventured into films in 2018, playing roles in the heist film Widows and the thriller Bad Times at the El Royale. For her portrayal of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet (2019), Erivo received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress; she also wrote and performed the song "Stand Up" on its soundtrack, which garnered her a nomination in the Best Original Song category.
Hildy Brooks is an American actress who appeared on Broadway and later on television. Elia Kazan directed her on the Broadway stage in Tennessee Williams' play Sweet Bird of Youth.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
