Deborah Findlay
Acting • Born 1947-12-31
Biography
Deborah Findlay is an English actress. Her TV credits include the recurring character Greer Thornton in 4 of the 6 episodes of State of Play, and in the episode The French Drop (2004) in Foyle's War. She also appeared in 4 episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. In Autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford playing the role of the endless spinster Miss Augusta Tompkinson as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood's 2009 third series Children of Earth, and featured as lawyer Gemma King in one episode of the BBC1 series Silent Witness in January 2010. In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared, again alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade, and reprised her (in this case more prominent) role as Augusta Tompkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford. She also played Gillian in the acclaimed 1999 ITV Drama The Last Train She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her formance in Stanley. Description above from the Wikipedia article Deborah Findlay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
68 credits
The End of the Affair
Movie • 1999
Miss Smythe
Vanity Fair
Movie • 2004
Mrs. Sedley
Me Without You
Movie • 2001
Judith
From A Strange Land
Movie • 2021
Margaret
One of Those Days
Movie • 2008
Supervisor
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Reed
Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale
Movie • 2007
Susan Owen
Home
Movie • 2003
Margaret Ballantyne
Top Girls
Movie • 1991
Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
Movie • 2014
Volumnia
15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight
Movie • 1993
Cheryl Morris
First and Last
Movie • 1989
Lisa
Up on the Roof
Movie • 2023
Claire
Such a Lovely Day
Movie • 2023
Grandmother
Coalition
Movie • 2015
Harriet Harman
Suite Française
Movie • 2015
Madame Joseph
Gunrush
Movie • 2009
Jill
The Lady in the Van
Movie • 2015
Pauline
Busted
Movie • 1983
Angela
Truly Madly Deeply
Movie • 1991
Claire
The Ones Below
Movie • 2016
Tessa
Jack & Sarah
Movie • 1995
Miss Cartwright
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie • 1991
Martirio
Arthur Christmas
Movie • 2011
General (voice)
Who Gets the Dog
Movie • 2007
Pamela Wilson
Milner
Movie • 1994
Sylvia Milner
This Life +10
Movie • 2007
Doctor
This Life +10
Movie • 2007
Jackie
Movie • 2016
Maud Shaw
The Yellow House
Movie • 2007
Madame Roulin
Summer
Movie • 2008
Doctor Price
Kaleidoscope
Movie • 2017
Maureen
Hampstead
Movie • 2017
Mary Neal
National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Movie • 2018
Sister Gilchrist
Making Noise Quietly
Movie • 2019
Helene
Commitments
Movie • 1982
Ingy
National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 2021
Nurse
State of Mind
Movie • 2003
D.C.I Stella Munroe
That Christmas
Movie • 2024
Mrs. Horton (voice)
A Death in the Family
Movie • 2025
Mother
The Drowning
TV • 2021
Lynn
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Sarah Cushing
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Nurse
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Rowena Drake
Leaving
TV • 2012
Vanessa
The Last Train
TV • 1999
Kavanagh Q.C.
TV • 1995
Susannah Emmott
Casualty
TV • 1986
Debbie Cookson
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Lorna Soane
Anna Karenina
TV • 2000
Countess Lydia
Life In Squares
TV • 2015
Aunt Jane
Wives and Daughters
TV • 1999
Miss Phoebe
The Split
TV • 2018
Ruth Defoe
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
Gemma King
All Good Things
TV • 1991
Doll
Dalgliesh
TV • 1983
Heather Pearce
Lewis
TV • 2007
Lady Hugh
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Eva Knight
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Hilary Richards
Performance
TV • 1991
Isabella Bird
Torchwood
TV • 2006
Denise Riley
Lovesick
TV • 2014
Fiona
Cranford
TV • 2007
Miss Tomkinson
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Mrs Thorndyke/Evelyn Cresswell
Dalgliesh
TV • 2021
Miss Willard
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
TV • 1992
Kay Consett
Natural Lies
TV • 1992
Grace
Ladies in Charge
TV • 1986
Hetty