Elizabeth Berrington

Elizabeth Berrington
Born	Elizabeth Ann Berrington (1970-08-03) 3 August 1970 Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1993–present

Elizabeth Ann Berrington (born 3 August 1970) is an English actress and graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, she is best known for her roles as Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road, Paula Kosh in Stella, Mel Debrou in Moving Wallpaper and Dawn Stevenson in The Syndicate. She has also featured in British television series such as The Bill, Doctor Who, The Office, Casualty, The Lakes, The Grimleys and Rose and Maloney.

Career

From 1996 to 1999, Berrington starred alongside Emma Wray and Tony Robinson in the ITV comedy-drama My Wonderful Life. In 1999, she played Marie Antoinette in Let Them Eat Cake, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

In cinema, Berrington has featured in many popular films such as The Little Vampire and, more recently, Nanny McPhee with Emma Thompson and In Bruges alongside Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes. In 2008 and 2009, a she played Mel in Moving Wallpaper. She was in the 2008 Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". Berrington also featured in the 1993 Mike Leigh film Naked, and had a role in Leigh's 1996 drama film Secrets & Lies, starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Timothy Spall.

In 2009, Berrington and actress Shirley Henderson were the stars of the popular ITV drama May Contain Nuts in which she played Ffion, a snobbish suburban mother. Berrington also played Nicola, a nurse in the BBC Two comedy, Psychoville. She appeared as Food Technology teacher Ruby Fry in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road from 2009 to 2011, departing after two series. She played "Auntie" in "The Doctor's Wife", an episode in series 6 of Doctor Who. In 1997, she appeared in a TV Licence advert. In 2012, she was in an episode of New Tricks, playing a murderer called Grace. From 2012–13 she portrayed Paula Kosh in the Sky 1 comedy series Stella, in 2015 she returned for two episodes.

In 2011, Berrington starred in the BBC Christmas show, Lapland as Paula, a role which she reprised in the six-part spin-off series Being Eileen, which aired from February 2013.

Berrington appeared onstage in the 2013 play The Low Road. Later, she appeared on Series 2, Episode 4 of Cuckoo as Sandra in August 2014.

In 2016, Berrington appeared in "Hated in the Nation", the sixth episode of the third season of the Netflix original, Black Mirror.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Naked	Giselle	On-Screen Debut
1996	Secrets & Lies	Jane
	The Moonstone	Limping Lucy	TV film
1998	Urban Ghost Story	Mrs. Ash
1999	8½ Women	Celeste, Emmenthal Maid
	Onegin	Mile Volkonsky
	Mad Cows	Pru
2000	The Little Vampire	Elizabeth McAshton
	Quills	Charlotte
2001	Large	Dog Therapist
2003	The Deal	Cherie Blair	TV film
2004	Vera Drake	Cynical Lady
	Spivs	Nigel's Secretary
2005	A Cock and Bull Story	Debbie
	Nanny McPhee	Letitia
2006	Missing	Nurse Peters	TV film
	Love Lies Bleeding	Joanna Syms	TV film
	Scoop	Antique Shop Woman (Lucy)
	Are You Ready for Love?	Debbie
2007	The Dinner Party	The Shrew	TV film
	Fred Claus	Linda Elf
2008	In Bruges	Natalie
2009	May Contain Nuts	Ffion Russell	TV film
2011	Lapland	Paula Cooper	TV film
2012	Hard Boiled Sweets	Jackie
	Eggbox	Nurse	TV film
2013	Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa	Bernie
2014	Mr. Turner	Lady Critic
2016	Swallows and Amazons	Mrs. Blackett
2018	Teen Spirit	Lorene
2019	Yesterday	Hazel

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Between the Lines	Pamela Hewitt	Episode: "Shoot to Kill"
1996	Staying Alive	Leah Howes	1 episode
	The Bill	Avril Stone	Episode: "Hard Enough"
1997–1999	The Lakes	Ruth	Series regular
	My Wonderful Life	Marina	Series regular
1998	Casualty	June White	Episode: "Degrees of Separation"
	Silent Witness	Jane Nelson	Episode: "Brothers in Arms"
1999	Let Them Eat Cake	Marie Antoinette	3 episodes
2000	The Vice	Julie Evans	Episode: "Betrayed"
	Nature Boy	Miss Owthwaite	1 episode
	Rhona	Roxanne	Episode: "The Haircut"
2001	The Grimleys	Mrs. Robins	Episode: "An Inspector Calls"
	The Bill	Lynn Roberts	Episode: "A Week of Nights"
	Sam's Game	Irene	Episode: "Slogan"
	Chambers	Tina Stent	Episode: "Survival Trek"
2002	Rescue Me	Mary Hope	1 episode
	Bodily Harm	Belinda Chalk	2 episodes
2003	The Office	Anne	Episode: "Christmas Special"
2004	Family Business	Jessica Brooker	Series regular
	Shane	Myrtle	Series regular
	Where the Heart Is	Jemma Harper	Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
2005	The Rotters' Club	Irene Anderton	Mini-series
	Rose and Maloney	Maggie	Episode: "Annie Johnson"
2006–2007	Drop Dead Gorgeous	Val Duggan	Series regular
2007	Annually Retentive	Make Up Artist	1 episode
2008–2009	Moving Wallpaper	Mel Debrou	Series regular
2008	A Touch of Frost	Babs Sellwood	Episode: "Mind Games"
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Grace Springer	Episode : "Cat Among the Pigeons"
	Apparitions	Kim Portman	1 episode
2009	The Street	Jane Miller	Episode: "Smoke"
	Psychoville	Nicola	5 episodes
2009–2011	Waterloo Road	Ruby Fry	Series regular
2010	Little Crackers	Terry	Episode: "Goodbye Fluff"
2010	Ordinary People	Stacey	Series regular
2011	The Crimson Petal and the White	Lady Constance Bridgelow	Miniseries
	Doctor Who	Auntie	Episode: "The Doctor's Wife"
2012–2017	Stella	Paula Kosh	Series regular
2012	New Tricks	Grace Cusack	Episode: "Blue Flower"
2013	Being Eileen	Paula Cooper	Series regular
	Playhouse Presents	Jill	Episode: "Stage Door Johnnies"
	Midsomer Murders	Libs Pearce	Episode: "The Christmas Haunting"
2014	Pramface	Hester	Episode: "A Proper Little Family"
	The Smoke	Pauline Pynchon	Mini-series
	W1A	Elaine Pearson	1 episode
	Trying Again	Gail	Series regular
	Cuckoo	Sandra	Episode: "Funeral"
	Babylon	Vanessa Peters	1 episode
2015	The Syndicate	Dawn Stevenson	Series 3 (regular)
2016–2017	Tracey Ullman's Show	Various Roles	Series regular
2016	Camping	Kerry	Series regular
	Doctors	Nic Katchevski	5 episodes
	The Living and the Dead	Maud Hare	Series regular
	Wasted	Denise	Episode: "Come Down Day"
	Black Mirror	Jo Powers	Episode: "Hated in the Nation"
	Marley's Ghosts	Jill	2 episodes
2017	Father Brown	Margaret Cartwright	Episode: "The Lepidopterist's Companion"
	Little Boy Blue	Debra Taylor	Mini-series
	Loaded	Carly	Episode: "The Boat"
	Borderline	Mary Parfitt	Episode: "Inspection"
2018	Death in Paradise	Diane Smith	Episode: "Murder from Above"
	Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators	Brenda Quintus	Episode: "This Promised End"
	Patrick Melrose	Fleur	Episode: "At Last"
	Vanity Fair	Lady Bareacres	3 episodes
2019	Vera	Paula	Episode: "Cold River"
	Good Omens	Dagon, Lord of Files	2 episodes
	Sanditon	Mrs. Griffiths	Series regular

External links

• Elizabeth Berrington at IMDb
• Elizabeth Berrington at AllMovie
• Elizabeth Berrington at Rotten Tomatoes