Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, June 6, 1959) is an English actress and comedian known for Whose Line Is It Anyway? and playing Manda Best in EastEnders.

Filmography

• 2026Mother's Pride — Edith
• Art Detectives — Jane Fielding
• 2023A Clever Woman — Dot
• Halo — Minnie
• Good Omens — Agnes Nutter
• Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators — Dr. Helen Middleton
• 2017Finding Your Feet — Pamela Harper
• Humans — Barbara
• Reluctant Persuaders — Amanda Brook (voice)
• 2014Bonobo — Anita
• 2010Round Ireland with a Fridge — Sandra
• Skins — Liz
• 2007The Man from Montevideo — Gillian Langham
• 2007The Old Curiosity Shop — Mrs. Jiniwin
• 2006Acorn Antiques: The Musical — Donna / Bonnie
• Robin Hood
• The Complete Guide to Parenting — Phoebe Huntley
• 2005Get Bizzy
• Keen Eddie
• 2002Richard Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening
• A Many Splintered Thing
• Fat Friends — Julia Fleshman
• 2000Married 2 Malcolm — Nathalie
• 1999The Flint Street Nativity — Mary/Debbie Bennett
• 1998Bill's New Frock — Bill's Mum
• 1998Gogs: Gogwana
• Star Hill Ponies — Various Characters (voice)
• 1998The Animal Train — Mum / Crane
• Jonathan Creek — Denise
• The Adventures of Dawdle the Donkey — Dawdle (voice)
• 1995Spot's Magical Christmas — Sally/Helen(voice: UK version)
• Downwardly Mobile
• Outside Edge — Maggie Costello
• 1994The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland — Pigwig (voice)
• Gogs
• 1993Queen of the Wild Frontier — Susie
• Absolutely Fabulous — Cable TV Presenter
• GamesMaster
• The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends — Pigwig (voice)
• 1991Enchanted April — Lottie Wilkins
• Josie
• Jackson Pace: The Great Years — Ryveeta Tusk
• Not with a Bang — Janet Wilkins
• The Green Man — Lucy
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs. Grant
• 1989Norbert Smith: A Life — Ruby Lawrence
• 1989Sales People from Hell
• Campaign — Linda Prentice
• Friday Night Live
• Casualty — Janet Haines
• EastEnders — Manda Best
• 1985Rachel and the Roarettes — Rachel
• 1979A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre — Mrs. Dilber / Fred's Younger Sister

Appearances as themselves (14)

• Inside Longleat — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Richard Osman's House of Games — Self - Contestant
• We Have Been Watching — Self
• 2016Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches — Self
• Just a Minute — Self
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• QI — Self
• Loose Women — Self
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self
• 1994An Audience with Ken Dodd — Self
• This Morning — Self
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? — Self
• Get Fresh — Self - Get the Joke