Acting

Lorraine Cheshire

Born August 15, 1960 · Wythenshawe, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Died December 19, 2025 · aged 65

Lorraine Cheshire (15 August 1960 - 19 December 2025) was an English actress, known for her roles as Sue Benson in the Sky sitcom Trollied, Fleur Budgen in the BBC One school-based drama Waterloo Road and Lorraine Bird in the Channel 4 school-based drama series Ackley Bridge. Cheshire began acting at the age of 35, after her husband was made redundant from the Army. She attended the Arden Drama S…

Known For

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus · 2009

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

MovieAdventureFantasy

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.

Chatroom

Chatroom · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise · 2001

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

MovieComedyDrama

Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to their eyes in debt. Even Tommy admits his 'soul's in holes'. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping.

Incompatible

Incompatible · 2022

A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her situation because of society’s stigma surrounding termination and the self- silencing of women concerning reproduction, she painfully decides the best way forward.

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death · 2002

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

MovieCrimeDrama

James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale · 2008

Florence Nightingale

MovieDramaTV Movie

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

Mrs. Meitlemeihr · 2002

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road · 2006

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus · 2009

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

MovieAdventureFantasy

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.

Mum

Chatroom

Chatroom · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

Yorkshire Housewife

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise · 2001

Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

MovieComedyDrama

Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to their eyes in debt. Even Tommy admits his 'soul's in holes'. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping.

Hot Pot

Incompatible

Incompatible · 2022

A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her situation because of society’s stigma surrounding termination and the self- silencing of women concerning reproduction, she painfully decides the best way forward.

Nurse Pauline

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death · 2002

Harold Shipman: Doctor Death

MovieCrimeDrama

James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Canteen Lady

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale · 2008

Florence Nightingale

MovieDramaTV Movie

Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale

Watson

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

Mrs. Meitlemeihr · 2002

Mrs. Meitlemeihr

Hitler escapes the war to London, where he lives as Mrs. Meitlemeihr, in this what-if black comedy from commercial director Graham Rose.

Courtyard Mother

Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road · 2006

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

Fleur Budgen

Life on Mars

Life on Mars · 2006

SeriesCrimeDrama

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

Big Bird

Trollied

Trollied · 2011

Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a range of customers, from the irate to the downright bizarre.

Sue

The Afternoon Play

The Afternoon Play · 2003

The Afternoon Play

SeriesDramaComedy

The Afternoon Play is a British television anthology series of standalone contemporary dramas aired during the afternoons of 2003–07 on BBC One, featuring well-known actors in one-off stories. A daytime drama strand showcasing a variety of genres, from comedy to mystery, it was part of a long tradition of afternoon plays on BBC Radio 4, which would go on to influence the television version.

Patty

Early Doors

Early Doors · 2003

A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.

Jean Bell

Sunshine

Sunshine · 2008

SeriesComedyDrama

Sunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers of The Royle Family and Early Doors. These co-writers, Craig Cash and Phil Mealey, also appear in the series.

Joan

The Royal

The Royal · 2003

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

Mrs. Hastings