Josie Lawrence

Actor Jun 6 (age 67) Staffordshire, England, UK 1979–2026 (47 year career)

6.8 avg rating

Biography

Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, June 6, 1959) is an English actress and comedian known for Whose Line Is It Anyway? and playing Manda Best in EastEnders.

Known For

Film

Finding Your Feet

Pamela Harper

Film

Enchanted April

Lottie Wilkins

Film

EastEnders

Manda Best

Film

Halo

Minnie

Film

Good Omens

Agnes Nutter

Film

Skins

Liz

Film

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Mrs. Grant

Film

The Green Man

Lucy

Filmography

Acting (68)

Movies (26)

Mother's Pride

as Edith

A Clever Woman

as Dot

Finding Your Feet

as Pamela Harper

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

2016

as Self

Bonobo

2014

as Anita

4.7

Round Ireland with a Fridge

2010

as Sandra

5.0

The Old Curiosity Shop

2007

as Mrs. Jiniwin

5.0

The Man from Montevideo

2007

as Gillian Langham

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

2006

as Donna / Bonnie

8.0

Get Bizzy

2005

Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening

2002

Married 2 Malcolm

2000

as Nathalie

6.2

The Flint Street Nativity

1999

as Mary/Debbie Bennett

5.4

Bill's New Frock

1998

as Bill's Mum

The Animal Train

as Mum / Crane

Gogs: Gogwana

Spot's Magical Christmas

1995

as Sally/Helen(voice: UK version)

6.8

An Audience with Ken Dodd

1994

as Self

7.7

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland

1994

as Pigwig (voice)

Queen of the Wild Frontier

1993

as Susie

Enchanted April

1991

as Lottie Wilkins

6.8

Norbert Smith: A Life

1989

as Ruby Lawrence

7.0

The Third Floor Flat

1989

as Mrs. Grant

Sales People from Hell

1989

Rachel and the Roarettes

1985

as Rachel

A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre

1979

as Mrs. Dilber / Fred's Younger Sister

3.0

Television (42)

Art Detectives

2025

as Jane Fielding

7.0

Inside Longleat

2025

as Self - Narrator

Halo

as Minnie

Good Omens

as Agnes Nutter

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

2018

as Dr. Helen Middleton

7.2

Richard Osman's House of Games

2017

as Self - Contestant

6.1

We Have Been Watching

2017

as Self

Humans

2015

as Barbara

7.5

Reluctant Persuaders

2015

as Amanda Brook (voice)

Just a Minute

as Self

Death in Paradise

as Marjorie Dodds

Skins

as Liz

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

Robin Hood

The Complete Guide to Parenting

as Phoebe Huntley

as Self

Keen Eddie

Fat Friends

as Julia Fleshman

A Many Splintered Thing

Loose Women

as Self

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

1998

as Self

7.8

Star Hill Ponies

1998

as Various Characters (voice)

Jonathan Creek

1997

as Denise

7.5

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

as Self

Outside Edge

Downwardly Mobile

Gogs

Absolutely Fabulous

as Cable TV Presenter

7.5

GamesMaster

1992

6.5

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

as Pigwig (voice)

Josie

The Green Man

as Lucy

Not with a Bang

as Janet Wilkins

Jackson Pace: The Great Years

1990

as Ryveeta Tusk

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Mrs. Grant

8.2

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

This Morning

as Self

Friday Night Live

Campaign

as Linda Prentice

Casualty

1986

as Janet Haines

6.2

Get Fresh

1986

as Self - Get the Joke

EastEnders

1985

as Manda Best

4.2