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Ellie Haddington (born 17 February 1955 in Aberdeen[1][2]) is a British actress with a career spanning over 40 years.

Ellie Haddington
Born	(1955-02-17) 17 February 1955 (age 67) Aberdeen, Scotland
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1975–present
Notable work	Coronation Street Foyle's War Life Begins Bad Girls The Café Motherland

Early life and education

Haddington was born in Scotland. She trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1975 to 1977.[1]

Career

Haddington appeared in 101 episodes of Coronation Street as Josie Clarke from 1995 to 1996. Haddington's other TV credits include Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Life Begins, Foyle's War as Hilda Pierce, Endeavour, A&E, Cracker, Cutting It, Holby City, Wire in the Blood, Midsomer Murders, The Musketeers, Taggart, Scott & Bailey, Bad Girls, Guilt, New Tricks and The Bill in which she played two different roles, the first in 1997 and the second in 2007. She later appeared as Professor Docherty in the third-season finale of Doctor Who entitled "Last of the Time Lords". In 1997 she played Joan Braithwaite in Closing Ranks the fourth episode of the seventh series of Heartbeat. In 2001 she appeared in Midsomer Murders "Tainted Fruit" as Joan Farley.

On stage, in 2012, she appeared in Bingo at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Young Vic.[3] In 2011 and 2013 she appeared as lead role Carol Porter in the Sky One comedy series The Café. In 2013, she appeared as Madame Dupin in the BBC TV miniseries Spies of Warsaw.

In 2015 she played Gina Corbin in Ordinary Lies and Fanny Biggetywitch in Dickensian. In 2017, Haddington played Julia's mother Marion in Motherland. In 2018 she appeared in Midsomer Murders "Death of the Small Coppers" as Giny Weldon and in Endeavour "Quartet" as Millie Bagshot. In 2019, she played Dr Moss in the final episode of BBC 6-part TV drama by Russell T Davies, Years and Years.

In 2021 she reprised the part of Sheila Gemmell in the BBC black comedy series Guilt, which was first shown on BBC Four in 2019. She also played Wendy in the Channel 4 mini series Close to Me.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director
1999	Killing Joe (short film)		Mehdi Norowzian
2000	Beautiful Creatures	Maureen	Bill Eagles
2000	Breathtaking	DCI Matthews	David Green
2001	Lawless Heart	Judy	Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
2007	Sparkle	Frances	Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
2009	Death of a Double Act (short film)	Fox	Christine Entwisle
2009	Creation	Nanny Brodie	Jon Amiel
2009	Miss St. Andrews (short film)	Jenny	Claire Grove
2016	Their Finest	Catrin's Landlady	Lone Scherfig
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Mrs. Esposito	David Yates
2016	Art in Heaven (short film)	Mrs. Bardell	Elisa Boyd
2020	Surge	Joyce	Aneil Karia
2020	Limbo	Beatrice	Ben Sharrock
2020	Enola Holmes	Miss Gregory	Harry Bradbeer
2020	Mairi (short film)	Fiona	Natalie Malla
2021	Operation Mincemeat	Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley	John Madden
2022	One Man's Trash (short film)	Dot Evans	Xiao Jiao

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Muck and Brass	Reporter	Miniseries (guest, 1 episode)
1986	Unnatural Causes	Woman Interviewee	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
1989	ScreenPlay	WPC	Series 4 (guest, 1 episode)
1990	Screen Two	Helen	Series 6 (guest, 1 episode)
1994	Wycliffe	Katherine Geach	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
1994	Cracker	Mrs. Barnes	Series 2 (guest, 2 episodes)
1995–96	Coronation Street	Josie Clarke	Soap opera (regular, 101 episodes)
1995	Kavanagh QC	Diane	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
1996	In Suspicious Circumstances	Evelyn Goslett	Series 5 (guest, 1 episode)
1997	Casualty	Lottie McKenzie	Series 11 (guest, 1 episode)
1997	The Bill	Janet Beadle	Series 13 (guest, 1 episode)
1997	Heartbeat	Joan Braithwaite	Series 7 (guest, 1 episode)
1997	Wing and a Prayer	Diana Randall	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
1998	Looking After Jo Jo	May McCann	Series 1 (regular, all 4 episodes)
1999	Life Support	Fiona Drummond	Series 1 (regular, 5 episodes)
1999	Bad Blood	Ann Bilton	TV movie
2000	The Wyvern Mystery	Mrs. Tarnley	Miniseries (regular, 2 episodes)
2001	Taggart	Isabelle Higson	New Year special (guest)
2001	Midsomer Murders	Joan Farley	Series 4 (guest, 1 episode)
2002	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Florrie Bradley	TV movie
2002	Cutting It	Lo Ferris	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
2002	Always and Everyone	Carla	Series 4 (guest, 1 episode)
2003	Sons & Lovers	Mrs. Leivers	TV movie
2003–15	Foyle's War	Hilda Pierce	Series 2–3, 5, 7–8 (recurring, 9 episodes)
2003–04	Holby City	Jean Yorke	Series 6 (recurring, 5 episodes)
2004	Sea of Souls	Ellen McKay	Series 1 (guest, 2 episodes)
2004–05	Life Begins	Kathleen	Series 1–2 (regular, 13 episodes)
2005	A Very Social Secretary	Pat	TV movie
2005–06	Bad Girls	Joy Masterton	Series 7–8 (regular, 11 episodes)
2006	Wire in the Blood	Brenda Douglas	Series 4 (guest, 1 episode)
2007	The Bill	Lesley Baylis	Series 23 (guest, 1 episode)
2007	Doctor Who	Professor Docherty	Series 3 (guest, 1 episode)
2008–09	New Tricks	Jean Bennett	Series 5–6 (recurring, 2 episodes)
2008	Doctors	Mary Drake	Series 10 (guest, 1 episode)
2009	Gracie!	Jenny Stansfield	TV movie
2010	Mo	Jean	TV movie
2010	Doctors	Bridget Manners	Series 12 (guest, 1 episode)
2010	Little Crackers	Nellie	Series 1 (guest, 1 episode)
2011	Holby City	Jeanette Ryan	Series 13 (guest, 1 episode)
2011	Luther	DSC Linda Carroway	Series 2 (guest, 1 episode)
2011–13	The Café	Carol Porter	Series 1–2 (regular, all 13 episodes)
2012	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Princess Puffer	Miniseries (regular, 2 episodes)
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Madame Dupin	Miniseries (recurring, 3 episodes)
2014	Scott & Bailey	Evie Pritchard	Series 4 (recurring, 2 episodes)
2014	Atlantis	Entourage	Series 2 (guest, 1 episode)
2015	The Musketeers	Josette	Series 2 (guest, 1 episode)
2015	Ordinary Lies	Gina	Series 1 (recurring, 2 episodes)
2015–16	Dickensian	Fanny Biggetywitch	Series 1 (recurring, 9 episodes)
2016–	Motherland	Marion	Series 1– (recurring, 13 episodes)
2016	Ripper Street	Agatha Chudleigh	Series 5 (recurring, 5 episodes)
2017	Casualty	Carole Marshall	Series 32 (guest, 1 episode)
2018	Endeavour	Millie Badshot	Series 5 (guest, 1 episode)
2018	Midsomer Murders	Ginny Welton	Series 20 (guest, 1 episode)
2019	Years and Years	Dr. Miss	Miniseries (guest, 1 episode)
2019	Guilt	Sheila Gemmell	Series 1 (regular, 4 episodes)
2021	Beep	Carol	TV movie
2021–	Close to Me	Wendy	Series 1– (recurring, 2 episodes)

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
25 November 2007	Lorca's Rural Trilogy: Blood Wedding [4][5]	Servant/Mother-in-law	Pauline Harris	BBC Radio 3 Drama on 3
29 August 2008	They Have Oak Trees in North Carolina [6]	Eileen	Gaynor Macfarlane	BBC Radio 4 Friday Play
29 October 2008	Love Contract [7]	Manager	Claire Grove	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
14 December 2011	The Lamp [8]	Elspeth	Eilidh McCreadie	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1989	The Duchess of Malfi	The Duchess	Royal Exchange, Manchester
1990	The Winter's Tale	Paulina	Royal Exchange, Manchester
	My Mother Said I Never Should	Margaret	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
1991	The Sea	Mafanwy Price	Lyttelton Theatre, London
1992	Richard III	Duchess of York	Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon & UK Tour
1993	Mother Courage and Her Children	Anna Fierling	Cottesloe Theatre, London
1994	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
1996	The House of Bernarda Alba		Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Flintshire
2000	Denial	Sandy	Bristol Old Vic, Bristol
2007	Taking Care of Baby	Lynn Freeman	The Rep, Birmingham & Hampstead Theatre, London
2012	Bingo	Old Woman	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester & Young Vic, London
2016	Oil	MA Singer	Almeida Theatre, London

References

Bibliography

• Hayward, Anthony (1996). Who's Who on Television. London: Boxtree. ISBN 0-7522-1067-X.

External links

• Ellie Haddington at IMDb

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