Ellie Haddington

Acting

Born January 1, 1955, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

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

• 2025Revert — Mum
• The Rumour
• Granite Harbour — Rose Gough
• 2022Motherland: Last Christmas — Marion
• 2022Operation Mincemeat — Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley
• 2022Plebs: Soldiers of Rome — Phaedra
• Crime — Avril Lennox
• 2020Enola Holmes — Miss Gregory
• 2020Limbo — Beatrice
• 2020Mairi — Fiona
• 2020Surge — Joyce
• Guilt — Sheila Gemmell
• Years and Years — Dr. Moss
• Motherland — Marion
• 2017Their Finest — Catrin's Landlady
• 2016Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them — Mrs. Esposito
• The Musketeers — Josette
• Shetland — Lana Mair
• Ripper Street — Agatha Chudleigh
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Princess Puffer
• Death in Paradise — Barbara Michell
• The Café — Carol Porter
• Little Crackers — Nellie
• Luther — DCS Linda Carroway
• 2010Mo — Jean
• 2009Gracie! — Jenny Stansfield
• Doctor Who — Professor Docherty
• 2004Denial — Sandy
• Life Begins — Kathleen
• New Tricks — Jean Bennett
• 2003Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Florrie Bradley
• Cutting It — Lo Ferris
• Foyle's War — Hilda Pierce
• 2002Lawless Heart — Judy
• 2000Beautiful Creatures — Maureen
• 2000Breathtaking — DCI Matthews
• 2000The Wyvern Mystery — Mrs. Tarnley
• Bad Girls — Joy Masterton
• 1999Killing Joe
• Life Support — Fiona Drummond
• Midsomer Murders — Joan Farley, Ginny Welton
• Silent Witness — Meg McGrath
• Wycliffe — Katherine Geach
• Cracker — Mrs Barnes
• Heartbeat — Joan Braithwaite
• In Suspicious Circumstances — Evelyn Goslett
• 1990The Lorelei — Helen
• 1989Loving Hazel — WPC
• Unnatural Causes — Female Interviewee
• Screen Two — Helen
• Coronation Street — Josie Clarke