Ellie Haddington
Acting • Born 1955-01-01
Biography
A trainee at the Bristol Old Vic in the 1970s, Ellie Haddington is an actress who has become more prolific and more in demand with each passing year. She first came to attention playing Josie Clarke in Coronation Street from 1995-1996 and played governor Joy Masterton in Bad Girls a decade later. She was Professor Docherty in the 2007 Doctor Who episode Last of the Timelords and played Carol Porter in Sky's sitcom The Cafe in 2011-2013. She memorably played Hilda Pierce in several episodes of Foyle's War from 2003 to 2015 and Fanny Biggetywitch in the BBC's Dickensian in 2016. Most recently she is the long suffering mother to Anna Maxwell Martin's character in Motherland and played Agatha Chudleigh in Ripper Street, as well as Mrs Esposito in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
Filmography
47 credits
Killing Joe
Movie • 1999
Limbo
Movie • 2020
Beatrice
Beautiful Creatures
Movie • 2000
Maureen
Operation Mincemeat
Movie • 2022
Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 2003
Florrie Bradley
Gracie!
Movie • 2009
Jenny Stansfield
Lawless Heart
Movie • 2002
Judy
The Wyvern Mystery
Movie • 2000
Mrs. Tarnley
Denial
Movie • 2004
Sandy
Plebs: Soldiers of Rome
Movie • 2022
Phaedra
Loving Hazel
Movie • 1989
WPC
The Lorelei
Movie • 1990
Helen
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Movie • 2016
Mrs. Esposito
Mo
Movie • 2010
Jean
Their Finest
Movie • 2017
Catrin's Landlady
Surge
Movie • 2020
Joyce
Enola Holmes
Movie • 2020
Miss Gregory
Breathtaking
Movie • 2000
DCI Matthews
Revert
Movie • 2025
Mum
Motherland: Last Christmas
Movie • 2022
Marion
Life Begins
TV • 2004
Kathleen
Cutting It
TV • 2002
Lo Ferris
Luther
TV • 2010
DCS Linda Carroway
Guilt
TV • 2019
Sheila Gemmell
New Tricks
TV • 2004
Jean Bennett
Bad Girls
TV • 1999
Joy Masterton
Motherland
TV • 2017
Marion
Crime
TV • 2021
Avril Lennox
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Professor Docherty
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Agatha Chudleigh
Little Crackers
TV • 2010
Nellie
Cracker
TV • 1993
Mrs Barnes
Wycliffe
TV • 1994
Katherine Geach
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Joan Braithwaite
The Café
TV • 2011
Carol Porter
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Barbara Michell
Years and Years
TV • 2019
Dr. Moss
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Joan Farley
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Ginny Welton
The Musketeers
TV • 2014
Josette
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
TV • 2012
Princess Puffer
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Meg McGrath
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Hilda Pierce
The Rumour
TV • 2025
Shetland
TV • 2013
Lana Mair
Life Support
TV • 1999
Fiona Drummond
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Josie Clarke