Actor · Acting

Jane Lapotaire

Born 1944-12-26

Died 2026-03-05

📍 Ipswitch, Suffolk, UK

Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944 – 5 March 2026) was an English actress from Suffolk.

Filmography 71

The Burning Girls

as Joan Hartman

as Filio Williams

as Lady Lavinia

as Princess Alice

RSC Live: Henry V

as Queen Isobel

as Susan Maxwell-Scott

as Susie Maxwell-Scott

RSC Live: Richard II

as Duchess of Gloucester

as Madame Belasco

Windsor Castle: After the Fire

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

as Ernestine Carter

Broadway's Lost Treasures II

as Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")

He Knew He Was Right

as Lady Milborough

Bella and the Boys

There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

as Alice Brewer

as Dylan's Headmistress

Ain't Misbehavin'

as Clara Van Trapp

Midsomer Murders

Testament: The Bible in Animation

as Sarah (voice)

Surviving Picasso

as Olga Picasso

Johnny and the Dead

as Sylvia Liberty

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

as Elspeth Cost

The Big Battalions

as Martha Hoyland

Circles Of Deceit

as Betsey McCullough

Murder on the Moon

as Louise Mackey

as Madame de la Rougierre

The Master Builder

as Aline Solness

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

as Letizia Bonaparte

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Anouk Khoori

as Madame de la Rougierre

as Eileen Jarvis

as Miriam Spencer

as Princess Mary

Playing Shakespeare

To Catch a King

as Irene Neumann

as Lady Macbeth

as Helen McCann

The Captain's Doll

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett

Antony & Cleopatra

The Search for Alexander the Great

The Devil's Crown

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Other Woman

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as Miss Prescott

Edward the Seventh

as Princess Dagmar

Edward the Seventh

as Dowager Empress Dagmar

as Christina Cunningham

as Alice Hoatson

as Juliet Tomlin

Country Matters

as Orianda Crabbe

Antony and Cleopatra

Stocker's Copper

as Alice Stocker

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)

Armchair Theatre