Pippa Haywood

Actor May 6 (age 65) Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK 1986–2026 (40 year career)

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Biography

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 pe…

Known For

Film

Bodyguard

Lorraine Craddock

Film

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Mrs Long

Film

If Only

Lavinia

Film

Supernova

Lilly

Film

Green Wing

Joanna Clore

Film

Tamara Drewe

Tess

Film

Mr Selfridge

Flora Bunting

Film

Lost in Austen

Frankie

Filmography

Acting (76)

Movies (19)

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break

as Jayney

Four Kids and It

as Bookshop Owner

Supernova

as Lilly

Behind the Filter

as Frances

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

2018

as Mabel

6.4

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2016

as Mrs Long

6.2

5 Greedy Bankers

2016

as Catherine Stone

Ye Olde Dragons' Den

2013

as Deborah Meaden

8 Minutes Idle

as Kathy

Huge

as Jongleurs Boss

Tamara Drewe

as Tess

Cat Among the Pigeons

2009

as Mrs. Upjohn

Confessions of a Diary Secretary

2007

as Julie Jones

Like Father Like Son

as Mrs. Sutton

If Only

as Lavinia

Love or Money

as Bridget

Tangier Cop

as Diana Andrews

Surviving Christmas

as Helen Brittas

Cuts

as Cynthia Hyde-Lemon

Television (57)

Belzebubs

2026

as Nana (voice)

Bergerac

2025

as Margaret Heaton

6.1

Dexter Procter

2025

as Dr Marigold

The Regime

as Susan

The Doll Factory

as Mrs Slater

Best Interests

as Judge Spottiswood

The Chelsea Detective

2022

as Gillian Compton

6.3

Magpie Murders

2022

as Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye

Trigger Point

as Dr. MacAndrew

Peacock

as Teresa

Deep Heat

as Pam

FBI: International

as Scarlett Garretson

Bridgerton

as Mrs. Colson

Feel Good

as Felicity

Bodyguard

as Lorraine Craddock

Requiem

as Dr. Verity Satlow

Porridge

as Governor Hallwood

Brief Encounters

as Bunny

Mapp and Lucia

as Susan Wyse MBE

Undeniable

as DI Alison Hall

Father Brown

as Eileen Slither

Mr Selfridge

as Flora Bunting

Plebs

as Antonia

Breathless

as Valerie Smallwood

Moonfleet

as Aunt Lydia

Gravity Falls

as Wax Lizzie Borden (voice)

Prisoners' Wives

as Harriet

Death in Paradise

as Charlotte Hamilton

Scott & Bailey

as DCI Julie Dodson

Without You

as Frances Shaw

Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

2010

as Councillor Bronwyn Matthews

Lost in Austen

as Frankie

Lost in Austen

as Frankie

The Wrong Door

as Various

Lewis

as Veronica Gray

Kingdom

as Mrs. Anderson

Comedy Showcase

as Mother of Fanny

Fear, Stress & Anger

New Tricks

Green Wing

as Joanna Clore

The Commander

Office Gossip

Roger Roger

as Helen Jackson

Midsomer Murders

as Andrea Craven

Jonathan Creek

as Lorna Claithorne

Get Fit with Brittas

Grown Ups

as Claire

Dalziel and Pascoe

as ACC Rebecca Fenning

6.4

Dalziel and Pascoe

1996

6.4

Budgie the Little Helicopter

1994

as Nancy Kitchen (voice)

6.2

Headhunters

1994

as Antonia Watkins

The House of Eliott

as Clara Rhoades

The Brittas Empire

as Helen Brittas

Chimera

as Diane Rohmer

She-Wolf of London

as Betty Biddles

The One Game

as Jenny Thorne

Brush Strokes

as Gillian