Haydn Gwynne (March 21, 1957 – October 20, 2023) was an English actress. She was nominated for the 1992 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance for the comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1991), and won the 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical. She was also a four-time Olivier Award nominee. Her other television roles included Peak Practice (1999–2000), Merseybeat (2001–2002), and playing Camilla in The Windsors (2016–2023).

Filmography

• 2025Mickey 17 — Congresswoman, In Memory Of
• The Suspect — Ann
• 2018The Midnight Gang — Matron
• 2017Beauty and the Beast — Clothilde
• 2017RSC Live: Coriolanus — Volumnia
• 2016National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera — Celia Peachum
• The Crown — Lady Susan Hussey
• The Windsors — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
• 2015The C-Word — Jane McFarlane
• Father Brown — Professor Jane Milton
• 2013National Theatre Live: The Audience — Margaret Thatcher
• 2013Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball — Jane Austen
• The Silent War — Narrator (Voice)
• 2012Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
• Ripper Street — George Tait
• Death in Paradise — Charlotte Doran
• 2011Hunky Dory — Miss Valentine
• 2010Hollow — Child Welfare Officer
• Sherlock — Miss Wenceslas
• 2008Player — Marion
• 2007Consenting Adults — Mary Cohen
• Lewis — Sandra Walters
• 2007Lullaby — Mother
• Rome — Calpurnia
• New Tricks — Sara Hamlyn
• Absolute Power
• Comedy Connections
• 2003Myra: The Making of a Monster — Narrator
• 2002The Secret — Emma Faraday
• The Secret — Emma Faraday
• Merseybeat
• 1999Human, All Too Human — Narrator
• Verdict — Lynn Durban
• 1997Hospital! — Victoria Barking
• Midsomer Murders — Jennifer Carter, Maggie Viviani
• 1997Remember Me? — Jamie's wife
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Dr McKenzie Mansfield
• 1996The Merchant of Venice — Portia
• Dangerfield
• Kavanagh Q.C. — Mary Armstrong QC
• Modern Times
• Peak Practice — Dr. Joanna Graham
• 1992The Pleasure Principle — Judith
• 1991Amnesty International's Big 30 — Alex Pates
• Time Riders — Dr B.B. Miller
• Drop the Dead Donkey — Alex Pates
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Coco Courtenay, Miss Battersby
• Nice Work — Dr. Robyn Penrose
• 1989Teams from Hell
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Mme. Chauchat
• Dispatches
• A Very Peculiar Practice — Donizetti
• Call Me Mister — Bridget Bartholomew
• 1986Car Trouble — Ticket Girl
• Lovejoy — Cosima
• 1985What Mad Pursuit — Shirley Benedict

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2022Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends — Self