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Cora Bissett
Dept: Directing
Cora Bissett (born 1974) is a Scottish theatre director, playwright, actor and musician. As a director she has created Amada, Roadkill, Grit: The Martyn Bennett Story, Glasgow Girls and Room. As an actor she had regular appearances in the television programmes Rab C. Nesbitt and High Times. She is an associate director at the National Theatre of Scotland.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 12
Film: 7 (58%)
Television: 5 (42%)
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Filmography
May 2025 (first aired)
Follow the investigation into the crash of Pan Am 103 from both sides of the Atlantic and discover the devastating effect it had on the small town and ... view
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Elma Pringle (5 ep.)
2025
Confronted by an old acquaintance, Lee is taken aback by the question, "Do you have kids?" It's a friendly question tossed casually into conversation, ... view
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Lee
Aug 2021 (first aired)
The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the ... view
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Astrid McAndrews (3 ep.)
2020
Schooled in Fife, coming of age in a rock ’n’ roll band, then finding her forte was directing temperamental actors, Cora Bissett is no stranger to ... view
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Presenter
2014
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge, charting the memories of those who built it and those who operated the Forth ferries that r ... view
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Narrator - (Voice)
2014
Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two ... view
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Miss Browning
2013
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound succes ... view
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Bookshop Owner
Mar 2013 (first aired)
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the c ... view
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Eve Galbraith (6 ep.)
2006
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to ... view
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Jo
Sep 2004 (first aired)
High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in t ... view
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Janet (12 ep.)
2001
It's Laura's first job and she is anxious to do well, but her instinctive empathy with the elderly people in her care puts her in conflict with her co ... view
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Apr 2000 (first aired)
Detective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors, does not hesitate to ... view
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Trudy Laing (1 ep.)