Patricia Ann Hodge OBE is an English actress. She is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992), Jemima Shore in Jemima Shore Investigates (1983), Penny in Miranda (2009–2015) and Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small (2021–present). Hodge made her West End debut in 1972, and the next year, starred in the West End production of Pippin directed by Bob Fosse. Hodge has received two nominations for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and in 2000, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the play Money. Her other screen credits include the 1983 film Betrayal, the 1986 TV adaptation of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and the TV film Hotel du Lac (1986). For her role in Hotel du Lac, Hodge received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.

Filmography

• 2025Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert — Berthe
• 2024Arthur's Whisky — Joan
• 2023The Laureate — Amy Graves
• Murder in Provence — Florence Bonnet
• All Creatures Great & Small — Mrs. Pumphrey
• Roadkill — Lady Roche
• A Very English Scandal — Ursula Thorpe
• 2018Surviving Christmas with the Relatives — Aunt Peggy
• Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Miranda Hart’s Maracattack
• Miranda — Penny
• 2007Maxwell — Betty Maxwell
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mrs. Evadne Willett
• Hustle — Veronica Powell
• 2002Before You Go — Vi
• 2002The Falklands Play — Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister)
• Waking the Dead — Lady Alice Beatty
• 1998Jilting Joe — Gwennie
• 1998Prague Duet — Olivia Walton
• 1996The Leading Man — Delvene
• The Legacy of Reginald Perrin — Geraldine Hackstraw
• 1996The Moonstone — Lady Julia Verinder
• Good Morning Summer
• The Cloning of Joanna May — Joanna May
• Rich Tea and Sympathy — Julia Merrygrove
• 1990The Secret Life of Ian Fleming — Lady Evelyn
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Madame Olivier
• 1989The Heat of the Day — Stella
• 1989The Shell Seekers — Olivia
• 1989Thieves in the Night — Lady Joyce
• Victoria Wood — Moira
• 1988Just Ask for Diamond — Betty Charlady/Brenda von Falkenberg
• 1988Sunset — Christina Alperin
• Inspector Morse — Lady Hanbury
• 1987The Death of the Heart — Anna Quayne
• 1986Hotel du Lac — Monica
• The Life and Loves of a She-Devil — Mary Foster
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope
• 1986Vilde, the Wild One — Edward's Wife
• Screen Two — Monica
• Time for Murder — Margaret Tutting
• 1984Hay Fever — Myra Arundel
• Robin of Sherwood — Queen Hadwisa
• Sherlock Holmes — Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope
• 1983Betrayal — Emma
• 1981Charlotte — Teacher
• 1981Riding High — Miss Hemmings
• Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years — Lady Londonderry
• Holding the Fort — Penny Milburn
• 1980Rumpole's Return — Phyllida Erskine-Brown
• 1980The Elephant Man — Screaming Mum
• The Other 'Arf
• Disraeli — Rosina Bulwer
• 1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson — Lady Diana Cooper
• Edward and Mrs Simpson — Lady Diana Cooper
• Jemima Shore Investigates
• 1978Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse — Sister Belter
• 1978The One and Only Phyllis Dixey — Maisie
• Target — Laura Bentley
• 1977The Disappearance — Young Wife
• The Professionals — Ann Holly
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin — Geraldine Hackstraw
• 1975Great Big Groovy Horse
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Phyllida Trant, Phyllida Erskine-Brown
• The Girls of Slender Means — Anne Baberton
• 1975The Naked Civil Servant — Ballet Teacher
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Chris Stroud
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Olivia
• Heartland — Penelope Langley

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2023Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh — Self (Narrator)
• 2022Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years — Self - Narrator
• 2022Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning — Self- Narrator
• 2020Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration — Self
• 2020The Big Night In — Self
• The Alan Titchmarsh Show — Self
• Great British Menu — Self - Guest Judge
• 1988An Audience With Victoria Wood — Self
• This Morning — Self
• Six Fifty-Five Special — Self
• An Audience with... — Self