Pippa Haywood
Born: 1961-05-06 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
- Bergerac as Margaret Heaton
- Dexter Procter as Dr Marigold
2024
- The Regime as Susan Goin
2023
- The Doll Factory as Mrs Slater
- Best Interests as Judge Spottiswood
2022
- The Chelsea Detective as Gillian Compton
- Trigger Point as Dr. MacAndrew
- Magpie Murders as Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye
- Peacock as Teresa
- Deep Heat as Pam
2021
- FBI: International as Scarlett Garretson
- Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break as Jayney
2020
- Bridgerton as Mrs. Colson
- Feel Good as Felicity
- Four Kids and It as Bookshop Owner
- Supernova as Lilly
- Behind the Filter as Frances
2018
- Bodyguard as Lorraine Craddock
- Requiem as Dr. Verity Satlow
- Stath Lets Flats as Antonia
- Agatha and the Truth of Murder as Mabel
2016
- Agatha Raisin as Reverend Grace Lancing
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as Mrs Long
- Tracey Ullman's Show as Claire Hollis
- Brief Encounters as Bunny
- Porridge as Governor Hallwood
- 5 Greedy Bankers as Catherine Stone
2014
- Millie Inbetween as Gloria
- Mapp and Lucia as Susan Wyse MBE
- Undeniable as DI Alison Hall
2013
- Father Brown as Eileen Slither
- Mr Selfridge as Flora Bunting
- Plebs as Antonia
- Breathless as Valerie Smallwood
- Moonfleet as Aunt Lydia
- Ye Olde Dragons' Den as Deborah Meaden
2012
- Gravity Falls as Wax Lizzie Borden (voice)
- Prisoners' Wives as Harriet
- 8 Minutes Idle as Kathy
2011
- Death in Paradise as Charlotte Hamilton
- Scott & Bailey as DCI Julie Dodson
- Without You as Frances Shaw
2010
- Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge as Councillor Bronwyn Matthews
- Tamara Drewe as Tess
- Huge as Jongleurs Boss
2008
- Hotel Trubble as Mrs Beasley
- Lost in Austen as Frankie
- The Wrong Door as Various
2007
- Lewis as Veronica Gray
- Kingdom as Mrs. Anderson
- Comedy Showcase as Mother of Fanny
- Fear, Stress & Anger as Julie Chadwick
- Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Julie Jones
- Green Wing Special as Joanna Clore
2005
- Like Father Like Son as Mrs. Sutton
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs Price
- New Tricks as Jackie Small
- Green Wing as Joanna Clore
- If Only as Lavinia
2003
- The Commander as Helen Dirkwood
2002
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Juliet Spence
2001
- Office Gossip as Maxine
- Love or Money as Bridget
2000
- My Family as Doreen
1999
- Holby City as Sian Wooldridge
1998
- Roger Roger as Helen Jackson
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Andrea Craven
- Jonathan Creek as Lorna Claithorne
- Grown Ups as Claire
- Get Fit with Brittas
- Tangier Cop as Diana Andrews
1996
- Silent Witness as Justine Greenwood
- Dalziel and Pascoe
- Cuts as Cynthia Hyde-Lemon
- Surviving Christmas as Helen Brittas
1994
- Headhunters as Antonia Watkins
- Budgie the Little Helicopter as Nancy Kitchen (voice)
1993
- Goodnight Sweetheart as Mrs Flanagan
1991
- The House of Eliott as Clara Rhoades
- The Brittas Empire as Helen Brittas
- Chimera as Diane Rohmer
1990
- She-Wolf of London as Betty Biddles
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs Upjohn
- Mike and Angelo as Tiara Thickerton-Plank
- Capital City as Liz Armitage
1988
- The Return of Shelley as Dr Hall
- The One Game as Jenny Thorne
1987
- Home James! as Fiona
1986
- Casualty as Peggy Raeburn
- Boon as Dominique
- Brush Strokes as Francesca
1984
- The Bill as Sgt Strong