Pippa Haywood
Born: 1961-05-06 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
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
2024
- The Regime as Susan
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
2021
- FBI: International as Scarlett Garretson
- Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break as Jayney
2020
- Bridgerton as Mrs. Colson
- Supernova as Lilly
- Feel Good as Felicity
- Behind the Filter as Frances
- Four Kids and It as Bookshop Owner
2018
- Bodyguard as Lorraine Craddock
- Agatha and the Truth of Murder as Mabel
- Requiem as Dr. Verity Satlow
2016
- 5 Greedy Bankers as Catherine Stone
2014
- Mapp and Lucia as Susan Wyse MBE
- Undeniable as DI Alison Hall
2013
- Father Brown as Eileen Slither
- Plebs as Antonia
- Mr Selfridge as Flora Bunting
- Breathless as Valerie Smallwood
- 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
2010
- Tamara Drewe as Tess
- Huge as Jongleurs Boss
2008
- Lost in Austen as Frankie
- The Wrong Door as Various
2007
- Kingdom as Mrs. Anderson
- Fear, Stress & Anger
- Confessions of a Diary Secretary as Julie Jones
2005
- Like Father Like Son as Mrs. Sutton
2004
- New Tricks
- If Only as Lavinia
- Green Wing as Joanna Clore
2003
2001
- Love or Money as Bridget
- Office Gossip
1998
- Roger Roger as Helen Jackson
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Andrea Craven
- Jonathan Creek as Lorna Claithorne
- Tangier Cop as Diana Andrews
- Get Fit with Brittas
1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- Surviving Christmas as Helen Brittas
1991
- The House of Eliott as Clara Rhoades
- The Brittas Empire as Helen Brittas
1989
1988
- The One Game as Jenny Thorne
1986
- Brush Strokes as Francesca