Ellie Haddington

Actress

Birthday February 17, 1955

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Aberdeen, Scotland

Age 69 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

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1955

Ellie Haddington (born 17 February 1955 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish actress with a career in both tv and film.

Haddington was born in Aberdeen.

1975

She trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1975 to 1977.

1995

Haddington appeared in 101 episodes of Coronation Street as Josie Clarke from 1995 to 1996.

1997

Haddington's other TV credits include Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Life Begins, Foyle's War (as Hilda Pierce), Endeavour, A&E, Cracker, Cutting It, Holby City, Wire in the Blood, Midsomer Murders, The Musketeers, Taggart, Scott & Bailey, Bad Girls, Guilt, New Tricks - and The Bill, in which she played two different roles, the first in 1997 and the second in 2007.

She later appeared as Professor Docherty in the third-season finale of Doctor Who, entitled "Last of the Time Lords".

In 1997 she played Joan Braithwaite in “Closing Ranks,” the fourth episode of the seventh series of Heartbeat.

2001

In 2001 she appeared in Midsomer Murders "Tainted Fruit", as Joan Farley.

2011

In 2011 and 2013 she appeared in the lead role of Carol Porter in the Sky One comedy series The Café.

2012

Onstage in 2012, she appeared in Bingo at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Young Vic.

2013

In 2013, she appeared as Madame Dupin in the BBC TV miniseries Spies of Warsaw.

2015

In 2015, Haddington played Gina Corbin in Ordinary Lies and Fanny Biggetywitch in Dickensian.

2016

From 2016 to 2022, she played Julia's mother Marion in Motherland.

2018

In 2018, she appeared in Midsomer Murders "Death of the Small Coppers" as Giny Weldon and in Endeavour "Quartet" as Millie Bagshot.

2019

In 2019, she played Dr Moss in the final episode of BBC six-part TV drama by Russell T Davies, Years and Years.

In 2021, she reprised the part of Sheila Gemmell in the BBC black-comedy series Guilt, which was first shown on BBC Two in 2019.

She also played Wendy in the Channel 4 miniseries Close to Me.

In 2024 she played a guest part in Death in Paradise.