Rebecca Front

Biography

Rebecca Front (born 16 May 1964) is a British stage, film and television actress, comedian and writer, best known for playing characters on the comedy show "The Thick of It" as well as the Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent in the television drama series "Lewis".

Known For

Doctor Who

Walsh

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Self - Panellist

Have I Got News for You

Self

Would I Lie to You?

Self

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

Midsomer Murders

Reverend Martha Hillcott

The Last Leg

Self

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Miss Brewis

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	The Academy of Armando	Self
2022	Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me	Self- Narrator
2021	Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	Therapist
2020	Christmas in New York: Inside the Plaza	Self - Narrator (voice)
2020	Marionette	Maureen
2019	The Aeronauts	Aunt Frances
2018	Down a Dark Hall	Miss Orlonsky
2018	The Gettys: The World's Richest Art Dynasty	Narrator (voice)
2017	Miranda: Morecambe & Wise and Me	Self
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Aunt Marie
2017	Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?	Herself
2017	Edmund the Magnificent	Shop Keeper
2016	Billionaire Boy	Miss Sharpe
2016	British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves	Self - Narrator (voice)
2016	Grimsby	Lady at Worldcure Event
2015	The Eichmann Show	Mrs Landau
2015	Mr. Bean: Funeral	Mourner that Mr. Bean kisses
2015	Cameraman to the Queen
2014	Great Poets: In Their Own Words	Narrator (voice)
2014	50 Years of BBC Two Comedy	Self
2014	Cat Wars	Narrator (voice)
2014	Jazz Legends in Their Own Words	Narrator
2013	Fox Wars	Narrator
2013	Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things	Self - Narrator (voice)
2012	Chateau Chunder: A Wine Revolution	Narrator
2011	Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties	Self
2011	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The True Story	Narrator
2011	Horrid Henry: The Movie	Miss Oddbod
2009	Planet 51	Additional Voices (voice)
2007	You Can Choose Your Friends	Amanda Snell
2005	Sex Actually	Carol
2005	Colour Me Kubrick	Maureen
2003	George Orwell: A Life In Pictures	Jura Interviewer
1997	The Missing Postman	Sarah Seymour
1996	Company	Sarah
1996	Never Mind the Horrocks
1995	England, My England	Mary II

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	The Chelsea Detective	Diana Hopkinson
2020	Avenue 5	Karen Kelly
2020	The Other One	Tess Walcott
2020	Between the Covers	Self
2019	Dark Money	Cheryl Denon
2018	Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier	Self - Guest
2017	All Star Musicals	Self - Performer
2017	Queers.	Alice
2017	Love, Lies & Records	Judy
2016	War and Peace	Anna Mikhailovna
2016	Doctor Thorne	Lady Arabella Gresham
2016	Insert Name Here	Self - Panelist
2016	Doctor Thorne NA	Lady Arabella Gresham
2015	Humans	Vera
2015	Poldark	Lady Whitworth
2014	The Brits Who Built the Modern World	Narrator (Voice)
2014	The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick	Narrator (Voice)
2013	Psychobitches	The Therapist
2013	Fabric of Britain	Narrator (Voice)
2013	Up the Women	Helen
2013	Death Comes to Pemberley	Mrs. Bennett
2013	8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013	The Spa	Alison Crabbe
2013	The Last Leg	Self
2011	That Sunday Night Show
2011	Death in Paradise	Fiona Tait
2011	Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words	Narrator
2010	Grandma's House	Tanya
2010	Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010	Just William	Mrs Brown
2009	Let's Dance for Comic Relief	Self - Contestant
2007	Lewis	Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
2007	Would I Lie to You?	Self
2005	The Thick of It	Nicola Murray
2005	Doctor Who	Walsh
2005	Monkey Trousers
2005	Love Soup
2005	The Rotters' Club	Sheila Trotter
2004	Nighty Night	Cathy Cole
2004	The Catherine Tate Show	Narrator
2003	Monkey Dust
2003	Absolute Power
2000	Time Gentlemen Please	Vicky Jackson
1999	People Like Us	Nicola Broadbent
1998	Big Train
1998	Stressed Eric
1998	If I Ruled the World	Herself
1998	In the Red	Beth Parsons
1997	I'm Alan Partridge	Tessa McPherson
1997	Jonathan Creek	Heidi
1997	Midsomer Murders	Reverend Martha Hillcott
1995	Coogan's Run
1995	Fist of Fun	Doris
1995	Kavanagh Q.C.	Cathy Winslow
1994	The Day Today	Barbara Wintergreen
1994	Room 101	Self
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Sue Lewis
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Tania Beaumont
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Yvonne Boyd
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Charlotte Fraser
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Gina Langland
1994	Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge	Bridie McMahon
1993	The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
1992	Absolutely Fabulous	Cherysh
1991	Performance	Sarah
1990	Have I Got News for You	Self
1989	Tricky Business
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Miss Brewis
1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Carol
1978	The South Bank Show	Self
	Have I Got a Bit More News for You	Self - Panellist