Pippa Haywood

Acting

Born May 6, 1961, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Philippa "Pippa" Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire (1991-1997), Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress & Anger and the hot-tempered, sex-mad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2004-2006), for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland). She has also done many dramatic roles, including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game, and Mrs. Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom, and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge (2013). Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles, Harriet, on the BBC One drama Prisoners' Wives, and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott & Bailey. In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia, as Susan Wyse. In 2015, Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community. The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck. Haywood has also worked in film and theatre. Recent stage credits include: House & Garden, Private Lives, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis.

Filmography

• Belzebubs — Nana (voice)
• Bergerac — Margaret Heaton
• Dexter Procter — Dr Marigold
• The Regime — Susan Goin
• Best Interests — Judge Spottiswood
• The Doll Factory — Mrs Slater
• Deep Heat — Pam
• Magpie Murders — Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye
• Peacock — Teresa
• The Chelsea Detective — Gillian Compton
• Trigger Point — Dr. MacAndrew
• FBI: International — Scarlett Garretson
• 2021Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break — Jayney
• 2020Behind the Filter — Frances
• Bridgerton — Mrs. Colson
• Feel Good — Felicity
• 2020Four Kids and It — Bookshop Owner
• 2020Supernova — Lilly
• 2018Agatha and the Truth of Murder — Mabel
• Bodyguard — Lorraine Craddock
• Requiem — Dr. Verity Satlow
• Stath Lets Flats — Antonia
• Henry IX — Prime Minister Oxlade
• Loaded — Pam
• Porridge — Governor Hallwood
• 20165 Greedy Bankers — Catherine Stone
• Agatha Raisin — Reverend Grace Lancing
• Brief Encounters — Bunny
• 2016Porridge — Governor Hallwood
• 2016Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — Mrs Long
• Tracey Ullman's Show — Claire Hollis
• Mapp and Lucia — Susan Wyse MBE
• Millie Inbetween — Gloria
• Undeniable — DI Alison Hall
• Breathless — Valerie Smallwood
• Father Brown — Eileen Slither
• Moonfleet — Aunt Lydia
• Mr Selfridge — Flora Bunting
• Plebs — Antonia
• 2013Ye Olde Dragons' Den — Deborah Meaden
• 20128 Minutes Idle — Kathy
• Gravity Falls — Wax Lizzie Borden (voice)
• Prisoners' Wives — Harriet
• Death in Paradise — Charlotte Hamilton
• Scott & Bailey — DCI Julie Dodson
• Without You — Frances Shaw
• 2010Huge — Jongleurs Boss
• Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge — Councillor Bronwyn Matthews
• 2010Tamara Drewe — Tess
• Hotel Trubble — Mrs Beasley
• Lost in Austen — Frankie
• The Wrong Door — Various
• Comedy Showcase — Mother of Fanny
• 2007Confessions of a Diary Secretary — Julie Jones
• Fear, Stress & Anger — Julie Chadwick
• 2007Green Wing Special — Joanna Clore
• Kingdom — Mrs. Anderson
• Lewis — Veronica Gray
• 2005Like Father Like Son — Mrs. Sutton
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Mrs Price
• Green Wing — Joanna Clore
• 2004If Only — Lavinia
• New Tricks — Jackie Small
• The Commander — Helen Dirkwood
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Juliet Spence
• 2001Love or Money — Bridget
• Office Gossip — Maxine
• My Family — Doreen
• Holby City — Sian Wooldridge
• Roger Roger — Helen Jackson
• Get Fit with Brittas
• Grown Ups — Claire
• Jonathan Creek — Lorna Claithorne
• Midsomer Murders — Andrea Craven
• 1997Tangier Cop — Diana Andrews
• 1996Cuts — Cynthia Hyde-Lemon
• Dalziel and Pascoe — ACC Rebecca Fenning
• Silent Witness — Justine Greenwood
• 1996Surviving Christmas — Helen Brittas
• Budgie the Little Helicopter — Nancy Kitchen (voice)
• Headhunters — Antonia Watkins
• Goodnight Sweetheart — Mrs Flanagan
• Chimera — Diane Rohmer
• The Brittas Empire — Helen Brittas
• The House of Eliott — Clara Rhoades
• She-Wolf of London — Betty Biddles
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs Upjohn
• Capital City — Liz Armitage
• Mike and Angelo — Tiara Thickerton-Plank
• The One Game — Jenny Thorne
• The Return of Shelley — Dr Hall
• Home James! — Fiona
• Boon — Dominique
• Brush Strokes — Francesca, Gillian
• Casualty — Peggy Raeburn
• The Bill — Sgt Strong, Saffron Jones, Celia Barrett, Trudy Vincent