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Pippa Haywood
Born: 6th May 1961 Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
Dept: Acting
Philippa "Pippa" Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire (1991-1997), Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress & Anger and the hot-tempered, sex-mad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2004-2006), for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland).
She has also done many dramatic roles, including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game, and Mrs. Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom, and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge (2013). Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles, Harriet, on the BBC One drama Prisoners' Wives, and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott & Bailey. In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia, as Susan Wyse.
In 2015, Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community. The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck.
Haywood has also worked in film and theatre. Recent stage credits include: House & Garden, Private Lives, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 58
Film: 18 (31%)
Television: 40 (69%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action & Adventure, TV Movie, Adventure
Filmography
Feb 2025 (first aired)
Ex-cop Jim Bergerac is forced to confront a troubling past case when a wealthy woman is murdered, pushing him to overcome personal demons and reignite ... view
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Margaret Heaton (6 ep.)
Nov 2023 (first aired)
Iris dreams of being an artist. Silas is a taxidermist who longs to be revered. Louis is a painter searching for his next muse. As their lives collide ... view
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Mrs Slater (6 ep.)
Jun 2023 (first aired)
Marnie has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. And so ... view
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Judge Spottiswood (4 ep.)
Apr 2022 (first aired)
A trainer tries to make his way as an instructor at a gym where the clientele doesn't take physical fitness very seriously. ... view
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Teresa (1 ep.)
Feb 2022 (first aired)
An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript. ... view
Character:
Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye (6 ep.)
Feb 2022 (first aired)
Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a ... view
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Gillian Compton (1 ep.)
Jan 2022 (first aired)
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm. ... view
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Dr. MacAndrew (1 ep.)
Sep 2021 (first aired)
Follows the elite agents of the FBI's International Fly Team headquartered in Budapest as they travel the world with the mission of protecting America ... view
Character:
Scarlett Garretson (1 ep.)
2021
A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of 5 selfish people cause him to miss his audition, h ... view
Character:
Jayney
Dec 2020 (first aired)
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family. ... view
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Mrs. Colson (1 ep.)
2020
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker w ... view
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Lilly
2020
This isn't how Ruby imagined her life - single, unemployed, IBS, the wrong side of 25 and living at home with her parents. The time has come for her t ... view
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Frances
2020
A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes. ... view
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Bookshop Owner
Mar 2020 (first aired)
Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of their life. Life is f ... view
Character:
Felicity (3 ep.)
2018
England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel ... view
Character:
Mabel
Aug 2018 (first aired)
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot. ... view
Character:
Lorraine Craddock (6 ep.)
Feb 2018 (first aired)
In 1994, a toddler disappeared from a small Welsh village, never to be seen again. 23 years later, in London, the mother of rising cello star Matilda ... view
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Dr. Verity Satlow (5 ep.)
2016
Sequel to the classic sitcom set 40 years on from the original series. Nigel Norman Fletcher, grandson of Norman Stanley Fletcher, is sentenced to 5 y ... view
Character:
Governor Hallwood
2016
A Heist movie in which two victims of the grasping GREEDY BANKERS decide it's time for a special kind of revenge. ... view
Character:
Catherine Stone
Dec 2014 (first aired)
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village. ... view
Character:
Susan Wyse MBE (3 ep.)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Nearly a quarter of a century after she witnessed the murder of her mother, Jane Fielding is married and has a daughter of her own, but the traumatic ... view
Character:
DI Alison Hall (2 ep.)
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contrace ... view
Character:
Valerie Smallwood (1 ep.)
2013
With fascinating facts and big laughs, this spoof edition of Dragons' Den travels through time as great (and not so great) inventors from history pitc ... view
Character:
Deborah Meaden
Mar 2013 (first aired)
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just h ... view
Character:
Antonia (1 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve my ... view
Character:
Eileen Slither (1 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1 ... view
Character:
Flora Bunting (10 ep.)
Jun 2012 (first aired)
Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tour ... view
Character:
Wax Lizzie Borden (voice) (1 ep.)
2012
Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to ... view
Character:
Kathy
Jan 2012 (first aired)
Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' ... view
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Harriet (10 ep.)
Dec 2011 (first aired)
Ellie's beloved husband is killed in a car accident. A woman was in the car with him and killed too. Who was she? Was he having an affair? Was it an a ... view
Character:
Frances Shaw (2 ep.)
Oct 2011 (first aired)
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Sa ... view
Character:
Charlotte Hamilton (1 ep.)
May 2011 (first aired)
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate ... view
Character:
DCI Julie Dodson (3 ep.)
2010
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. ... view
Character:
Tess
2010
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy. ... view
Character:
Jongleurs Boss
Sep 2008 (first aired)
Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British miniseries written by Guy Andrews, that reimagines Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, where a contemporary ... view
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Frankie (1 ep.)
Aug 2008 (first aired)
The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the ... view
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Various (6 ep.)
Apr 2007 (first aired)
Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, ... view
Character:
Mrs. Anderson (2 ep.)
2007
Funny film concerning John Prescott's affair with Tracey Temple ... view
Character:
Julie Jones
Feb 2007 (first aired)
Fear, Stress & Anger is a British sitcom that aired on BBC Two in 2007. Starring Peter Davison and Pippa Haywood, it was written by Michael Aitkens. T ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
2007
Feature length special doubling as the finale of the show. Alan and Joanna are on the run after a crime spree and the HR staff begin to riot. Meanwhil ... view
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Joanna Clore
2005
Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were ve ... view
Character:
Mrs. Sutton
Sep 2004 (first aired)
Follow new surgical registrar Dr Caroline Todd through her first day at work and beyond, starting out as she means to go on - dishevelled and under-de ... view
Character:
Joanna Clore (18 ep.)
2004
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stri ... view
Character:
Lavinia
Jan 2004 (first aired)
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Ori ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Feb 2003 (first aired)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
2001
Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony to ... view
Character:
Bridget
Feb 2001 (first aired)
Office Gossip is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2001. Starring Pauline Quirke, it was written by Paul Mayhew-Archer, who co-wrote The Vicar ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Jan 1998 (first aired)
Roger Roger is a BBC television comedy-drama written by John Sullivan. The series was about a mini-cab firm called Cresta Cabs. The pilot aired in 199 ... view
Character:
Helen Jackson (7 ep.)
May 1997 (first aired)
Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to t ... view
Character:
Lorna Claithorne (1 ep.)
Mar 1997 (first aired)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his ... view
Character:
Andrea Craven (1 ep.)
1997
Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the ... view
Character:
Diana Andrews
1996
Gordon Brittas takes his staff for a military-style team-building exercise in Wales. While dealing with the rigors of the wild, they are relentlessly ... view
Character:
Helen Brittas
Mar 1996 (first aired)
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Aug 1991 (first aired)
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s. ... view
Character:
Clara Rhoades (1 ep.)
Jan 1991 (first aired)
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well ... view
Character:
Helen Brittas (50 ep.)
Jun 1988 (first aired)
Nick Thorne, a successful businessman whose company markets games, is pulled by his former partner Magnus into a game which appears far too real... Th ... view
Character:
Jenny Thorne (4 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Jacko is a painter and decorator with an eye for the ladies. He works with Eric, who's married to his sister Jean. The painting and decorating firm th ... view
Character:
Francesca (1 ep.)
Gillian (1 ep.)