Acting

Maria Miles

Born June 19, 1979 · Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England, UK (age 47)

Maria Miles is an Actress known for Kafka (1991), Cold Comfort Farm (1995) and Dublin Murders (2019). She acted in William Shakespeare's play, "Twelfth Night", in a Peter Hall Theatre Company production at the Playhouse Theatre in London, England with Sara Crowe, Dinsdale Landen, Martin Jarvis, Eric Porter, David Ryall, Richard Garnett and Diane Bull in the cast. Peter Hall was also the director.

Known For

Kafka

MovieDramaMystery

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm · 1995

Cold Comfort Farm

MovieComedyRomance

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

Holby City

Holby City · 1999

SeriesSoapDrama

Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

Silent Witness

Silent Witness · 1996

SeriesCrimeDrama

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Skins

SeriesDramaComedy

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

Doctors

Doctors · 2000

SeriesSoapDrama

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.

Heartbeat

Heartbeat · 1992

SeriesCrimeDrama

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Filmography

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Kafka

MovieDramaMystery

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

Anna

Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm · 1995

Cold Comfort Farm

MovieComedyRomance

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

Elfine Starkadder

Holby City

Holby City · 1999

SeriesSoapDrama

Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.

Roma Portman

Silent Witness

Silent Witness · 1996

SeriesCrimeDrama

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

June Hughes

Casualty

Casualty · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Cheryl Skinner

Skins

SeriesDramaComedy

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

Sheila

Doctors

Doctors · 2000

SeriesSoapDrama

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.

Nicola Renshaw

Heartbeat

Heartbeat · 1992

SeriesCrimeDrama

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Sandie

Luther

SeriesCrimeDrama

A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.

Tessa Barnaby

Cadfael

Cadfael · 1994

SeriesDramaCrime

Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Brother Cadfael is often called on to solve murders and other crimes in and around Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in the border country where England meets Wales.

Margery Aurifaber

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales · 1992

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

SeriesAnimation

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Celia / Audrey (voice)

Van der Valk

Van der Valk · 1972

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

Helena Pel

Dublin Murders

Dublin Murders · 2019

SeriesDramaCrime

Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.

Mrs. Donnelly

The Cinder Path

The Cinder Path · 1994

The Cinder Path

In a heroic journey of epic proportions, everyman Charlie McFell wrestles with his demons — including a coldhearted wife, economic hardship, the horror of the world's first Great War, and a painful secret he'd rather forget.

Nellie Chapman