Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 31, 1947
Place of Birth:
Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK
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.
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2025 | A Death in the Family | Mother |
2024 | That Christmas | Mrs. Horton (voice) |
2023 | Up on the Roof | Claire |
2023 | Such a Lovely Day | Grandmother |
2021 | From A Strange Land | Margaret |
2021 | Romeo & Juliet | Nurse |
2019 | Making Noise Quietly | Helene |
2018 | National Theatre Live: Allelujah! | Sister Gilchrist |
2017 | Kaleidoscope | Maureen |
2017 | Hampstead | Mary Neal |
2016 | The Ones Below | Tessa |
2016 | Jackie | Maud Shaw |
2015 | Coalition | Harriet Harman |
2015 | Suite Française | Madame Joseph |
2015 | The Lady in the Van | Pauline |
2014 | National Theatre Live: Coriolanus | Volumnia |
2011 | Arthur Christmas | General (voice) |
2009 | Gunrush | Jill |
2008 | One of Those Days | Supervisor |
2008 | Summer | Doctor Price |
2007 | Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale | Susan Owen |
2007 | Who Gets the Dog | Pamela Wilson |
2007 | This Life +10 | |
2007 | This Life +10 | Doctor |
2007 | The Yellow House | Madame Roulin |
2004 | Vanity Fair | Mrs. Sedley |
2003 | Home | Margaret Ballantyne |
2003 | State of Mind | D.C.I Stella Munroe |
2001 | Me Without You | Judith |
1999 | The End of the Affair | Miss Smythe |
1997 | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Reed |
1995 | Jack & Sarah | Miss Cartwright |
1994 | Milner | Sylvia Milner |
1993 | 15: The Life and Death of Philip Knight | Cheryl Morris |
1992 | Natural Lies | |
1991 | Top Girls | Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd |
1991 | Truly Madly Deeply | Claire |
1991 | The House of Bernarda Alba | Martirio |
1989 | First and Last | Lisa |
1983 | Busted | Angela |
1982 | Commitments | Ingy |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2021 | The Drowning | Lynn |
2018 | The Split | Ruth Defoe |
2015 | Life In Squares | Aunt Jane |
2014 | Lovesick | Fiona |
2012 | Leaving | Vanessa |
2007 | Lewis | Lady Hugh |
2007 | Cranford | Miss Tomkinson |
2006 | Torchwood | Denise Riley |
2002 | Foyle's War | Mrs Thorndyke/Evelyn Cresswell |
2000 | Anna Karenina | Countess Lydia |
1999 | The Last Train | |
1999 | Wives and Daughters | Miss Phoebe |
1997 | Midsomer Murders | Lorna Soane |
1997 | Midsomer Murders | Hilary Richards |
1996 | Silent Witness | Gemma King |
1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Susannah Emmott |
1992 | Anglo Saxon Attitudes | Kay Consett |
1992 | Heartbeat | Eva Knight |
1991 | All Good Things | Doll |
1991 | Performance | Isabella Bird |
1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Rowena Drake |
1986 | Ladies in Charge | |
1986 | Casualty | Debbie Cookson |
1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Sarah Cushing |
1983 | Dalgliesh | Heather Pearce |
1971 | Great Performances | Nurse |