Patricia Hodge
Born: 1946-09-29 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
- Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert as Berthe
2024
- Arthur's Whisky as Joan
2023
- The Laureate as Amy Graves
- Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh as Self (Narrator)
2022
- Murder in Provence as Florence Bonnet
- Emmerdale: 50 Unforgettable Years as Self - Narrator
- Litvinenko: The Mayfair Poisoning as Self- Narrator
2020
- All Creatures Great & Small as Mrs. Pumphrey
- Roadkill as Lady Roche
- Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration as Self
- The Big Night In as Self
2018
- A Very English Scandal as Ursula Thorpe
- Surviving Christmas with the Relatives as Aunt Peggy
2015
- Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow as Narrator (voice)
2012
- Miranda - It was panning as Penny
2010
- Miranda - The perfect Christmas as Penny
2009
- Miranda as Penny
2007
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- Maxwell as Betty Maxwell
2006
- Great British Menu as Self - Guest Judge
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Evadne Willett
- Hustle as Veronica Powell
2002
- The Falklands Play as Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister)
- Before You Go as Vi
2001
- Waking the Dead as Lady Alice Beatty
1998
- Prague Duet as Olivia Walton
- Jilting Joe as Gwennie
1996
- The Leading Man as Delvene
- The Legacy of Reginald Perrin
- The Moonstone as Lady Julia Verinder
1995
1992
- The Cloning of Joanna May as Joanna May
1990
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Lady Evelyn
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Madame Olivier
- Victoria Wood as Moira
- The Shell Seekers as Olivia
- The Heat of the Day as Stella
- Thieves in the Night as Lady Joyce
1988
- This Morning as Self
- Sunset as Christina Alperin
- An Audience With Victoria Wood as Self
- Just Ask for Diamond as Betty Charlady/Brenda von Falkenberg
1987
- Inspector Morse as Lady Hanbury
- The Death of the Heart as Anna Quayne
1986
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil as Mary Foster
- Vilde, the Wild One as Edward's Wife
- Hotel du Lac as Monica
1985
- Screen Two as Monica
- Time for Murder as Margaret Tutting
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope
- Robin of Sherwood as Queen Hadwisa
- Hay Fever as Myra Arundel
1983
- Betrayal as Emma
1981
- Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years as Lady Londonderry
- Six Fifty-Five Special as Self
- Charlotte as Teacher
- Riding High as Miss Hemmings
1980
- The Elephant Man as Screaming Mum
- The Other 'Arf
- Holding the Fort
- Rumpole's Return as Phyllida Erskine-Brown
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- Edward and Mrs Simpson as Lady Diana Cooper
- Disraeli as Rosina Bulwer
- Jemima Shore Investigates
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Lady Diana Cooper
- The One and Only Phyllis Dixey as Maisie
- Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse as Sister Belter
1977
- The Professionals as Ann Holly
- Target as Laura Bentley
- The Disappearance as Young Wife
1976
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as Geraldine Hackstraw
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Phyllida Trant
- The Naked Civil Servant as Ballet Teacher
- The Girls of Slender Means as Anne Baberton
- Great Big Groovy Horse
1969
- Softly Softly: Task Force as Chris Stroud
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Olivia