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Deborah Findlay

Born 1947-12-31
📍 Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK

Deborah Findlay is an English actress.

Her TV credits include the recurring character Greer Thornton in 4 of the 6 episodes of State of Play, and in the episode The French Drop (2004) in Foyle's War. She also appeared in 4 episodes of the 2001 series of The Armstrong and Miller Show. In Autumn 2007 she appeared with Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton and Francesca Annis in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford playing the role of the endless spinster Miss Augusta Tompkinson as well as in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale. She portrayed Home Secretary Denise Riley in Torchwood's 2009 third series Children of Earth, and featured as lawyer Gemma King in one episode of the BBC1 series Silent Witness in January 2010.

In 2008 she starred in the US premiere of Vincent River by Philip Ridley. In 2009 she appeared, again alongside Judi Dench in a Donmar West End revival of Madame de Sade, and reprised her (in this case more prominent) role as Augusta Tompkinson in the two-part Christmas special Return to Cranford.

She also played Gillian in the acclaimed 1999 ITV Drama The Last Train

She won the 1997 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (sharing the award with Allison Janney and Celia Weston) as well as the Olivier Award for her formance in Stanley.

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Filmography 67

A Death in the Family
as Mother
2025
That Christmas
as Mrs. Horton (voice)
2024
Such a Lovely Day
as Grandmother
2023
Up on the Roof
as Claire
2023
Dalgliesh
as Miss Willard
2021
From A Strange Land
as Margaret
2021
National Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
2021
The Drowning
as Lynn
2021
Making Noise Quietly: Three Conversations
as Helene
2019
National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
as Sister Gilchrist
2018
The Split
as Ruth Defoe
2018
Kaleidoscope
as Maureen
2017
Hampstead
as Mary Neal
2017
Jackie
as Maud Shaw
2016
The Ones Below
as Tessa
2016
The Lady in the Van
as Pauline
2015
Life In Squares
as Aunt Jane
2015
Coalition
as Harriet Harman
2015
Suite Française
as Madame Joseph
2015
Lovesick
as Fiona
2014
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus
as Volumnia
2014
Leaving
as Vanessa
2012
Arthur Christmas
as General (voice)
2011
Gunrush
as Jill
2009
Summer
as Doctor Price
2008
One of Those Days
as Supervisor
2008
Who Gets the Dog
as Pamela Wilson
2007
Cranford
as Miss Tomkinson
2007
The Yellow House
as Madame Roulin
2007
Lewis
as Lady Hugh
2007
This Life +10
2007
This Life +10
as Doctor
2007
Torchwood
as Denise Riley
2006
Vanity Fair
as Mrs. Sedley
2004
Home
as Margaret Ballantyne
2003
State of Mind
as D.C.I Stella Munroe
2003
Foyle's War
as Mrs Thorndyke/Evelyn Cresswell
2002
Me Without You
as Judith
2001
Anna Karenina
as Countess Lydia
2000
The End of the Affair
as Miss Smythe
1999
Wives and Daughters
as Miss Phoebe
1999
The Last Train
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Lorna Soane
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Hilary Richards
1997
Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Reed
1997
Silent Witness
as Gemma King
1996
Jack & Sarah
as Miss Cartwright
1995
Kavanagh Q.C.
as Susannah Emmott
1995
Milner
as Sylvia Milner
1994
Natural Lies
as Grace
1992
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Kay Consett
1992
Heartbeat
as Eva Knight
1992
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Martirio
1991
Top Girls
as Isabella Bird / Joyce / Mrs Kidd
1991
Performance
as Isabella Bird
1991
All Good Things
as Doll
1991
Truly Madly Deeply
as Claire
1991
First and Last
as Lisa
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Rowena Drake
1989
Casualty
as Debbie Cookson
1986
Ladies in Charge
as Hetty
1986
Sherlock Holmes
as Sarah Cushing
1984
Shroud for a Nightingale
as Heather Pearce
1984
Dalgliesh
as Heather Pearce
1983
Busted
as Angela
1983
Commitments
as Ingy
1982
Great Performances
as Nurse
1971