Lisa Ann Diveney (born 1984) is a British actress, best known for playing Beth in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass. She has also appeared in an episode of BBC drama Call the Midwife.
Lisa Diveney | |
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| Born | Lisa Ann Diveney 1984 (age 37–38)[1] |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Diveney trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
John Sullivan cast Diveney in the role of Beth in The Green Green Grass[2] where she appeared in Series 1–3. She then went on to appear in Cleansed[3] directed by Sean Holmes at the Arcola Theatre and in Michael Grandage's production of John Gabriel Borkman[4] for the Donmar Warehouse where Ian McDiarmid and Penelope Wilton headed the cast. In 2009 she played Young Enid in the biopic Enid[5] alongside Helena Bonham Carter.
Diveney portrayed Colette in the premiere of Frank McGuinness' play Greta Garbo Came to Donegal[6] at the Tricycle Theatre alongside Michelle Fairley and Angeline Ball. Then appeared in the premiere of A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky[7] by David Eldridge, Robert Holman and Simon Stephens at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Diveney appeared as series regular Kate Travers in the ITV1 Drama Injustice[8] where she played the on-screen daughter of James Purefoy and Dervla Kirwan. She then went on to play Bridget in Bijan Sheibani's production of Moonlight[9] at the Donmar Warehouse, where she starred alongside David Bradley and Daniel Mays. Diveney played Julia Masterson in Series 2 of the BBC drama Call the Midwife,[10] In 2014 Diveney starred alongside Sir Tony Robinson and Imogen Stubbs in The Hypochondriac.[11] Diveney appeared as Sasha in the premiere of Moses Raine's Donkey Heart[12] directed by Nina Raine at the Old Red Lion which transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in 2015. Diveney then went on to play Masha in The Seagull.[13] Regent's Park Open Air Theatre directed by Matthew Dunster.[14]