Beth Goddard
Acting • Born 1969-03-31
Biography
Elizabeth Jane "Beth" Goddard (born 1969) is a British actress. She grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and attended Clacton County High School and the Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, Kent, from 1986 to 1989. She met her husband, Philip Glenister, best known for his role as Gene Hunt in TV drama Life on Mars, at a birthday party of Jamie Glover in 1997. They married in 2006. The couple have two daughters, Millie and Charlotte, born in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Goddard played Belinda Ashton in the ITV detective drama Lewis, broadcast in March 2008. Goddard also starred as Suze Littlewood in the comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme. She appeared alongside her husband in the third series of BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes. In this episode the couple shared an on screen kiss. One of her first television roles was as unscrupulous yellow journalist Clare Moody in a 1994 episode of the ITV drama Cracker. Her character was involved in reporting on the crimes committed by serial killer Albie Kinsella (Robert Carlyle), who targeted her for supposedly writing the controversial TRUTH page about the Hillsborough disaster and showing no remorse for it, even continuing to use fabricated information to print stories for more profit. Albie ultimately killed her character with a letter bomb
Filmography
48 credits
The Last Seduction II
Movie • 1999
Murphy
Beautiful Thing
Movie • 1996
Brewery Official
The Perfect Match
Movie • 1995
Mandy
A Business Affair
Movie • 1994
Student
Top Girls
Movie • 1991
Waitress / Kit / Shona
According to Beryl
Movie • 2001
Queenie
Queen of the Desert
Movie • 2015
Aunt Lascelles
Edge of Tomorrow
Movie • 2014
Secretary - Judith
X-Men: First Class
Movie • 2011
Mrs. Xavier
Low Level Panic
Movie • 1994
Celia
Tu£sday
Movie • 2008
Tu£sday
Movie • 2008
Helen
A Street Cat Named Bob
Movie • 2016
Hillary
The Dead Peasants Society
Movie • 2007
Claire Symmons
Bugs
TV • 1995
Cracker
TV • 1993
Clare Moody
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Wendy Smythe-Webster
The Scarlet Pimpernel
TV • 1999
Lady Suzanne Foulkes
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV • 2007
Sister Helena
The Bill
TV • 1984
Gimme Gimme Gimme
TV • 1999
Vital Signs
TV • 2006
Take Me
TV • 2001
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Helen Fox
Sunnyside Farm
TV • 1997
Big Bad World
TV • 1999
Daylight Robbery
TV • 1999
Peak Practice
TV • 1993
Leanda Sharpe
Manhunt
TV • 2019
Cathy Rook
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Paula Symes
Becoming Elizabeth
TV • 2022
Joan Denny
Outlander
TV • 2014
Lady Louisa Dunsany
Casualty
TV • 1986
Hannah Fleet
The Eustace Bros.
TV • 2003
Melissa Garvey
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Violet Wilson
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
TV • 1994
Sara Polson
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Pamela Dobson
Endeavour
TV • 2013
Barbara Batten
The Serpent Queen
TV • 2022
Antoinette de Bourbon
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Sister Agnieszka
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Selina Stanton
Performance
TV • 1991
Waitress
Frances Tuesday
TV • 2004
Bishop
Des
TV • 2020
Frances
Ellington
TV • 1996
Kelly Logan
The Gold
TV • 2023
Shirley
Code of Silence
TV • 2025
Helen Redman
Crooked House
TV • 2008
Mrs Glanville