Acting

Sandra Voe

Born October 6, 1936 · Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK (age 89)

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Known For

Naked

MovieDramaComedy

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves · 1996

Breaking the Waves

MovieDramaRomance

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Vera Drake

Vera Drake · 2004

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved · 1994

Immortal Beloved

MovieDramaMusic

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

Erik the Viking

Erik the Viking · 1989

Erik the Viking

MovieAdventureFantasy

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.

Local Hero

Local Hero · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Blood

MovieDramaThriller

When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya · 1991

MovieDramaComedy

Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.

Filmography

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Naked

MovieDramaComedy

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Bag Lady

Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves · 1996

Breaking the Waves

MovieDramaRomance

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Mother

Vera Drake

Vera Drake · 2004

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Vera's Mother

Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved · 1994

Immortal Beloved

MovieDramaMusic

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

Marie Fröhlich

Erik the Viking

Erik the Viking · 1989

Erik the Viking

MovieAdventureFantasy

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life.

Ivar's Mum

Local Hero

Local Hero · 1983

MovieComedyDrama

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Mrs Fraser

Blood

MovieDramaThriller

When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.

Sandra Buleigh

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya · 1991

MovieDramaComedy

Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.

Nanny

The Winter Guest

The Winter Guest · 1997

The Winter Guest

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth, travels to Frances' house to reconnect with her daughter and grandson, Alex. Meanwhile, old women Chloe and Lily go to a funeral, youngsters Sam and Tom cut class, and Alex gets a crush on tomboy Nita.

Chloe

Salt on Our Skin

Salt on Our Skin · 1992

Salt on Our Skin

MovieDramaRomance

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.

Gavin's Mother

Andrina

Andrina · 1981

MovieDramaTV Movie

Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.

Tina Stewart

Janice Beard 45 WPM

Janice Beard 45 WPM · 1999

Janice Beard 45 WPM

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

Mimi

Faintheart

Faintheart · 2009

MovieRomanceComedy

A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.

Julian's Mum

Agatha

MovieDramaMystery

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Therapist

Felicia's Journey

Felicia's Journey · 1999

Felicia's Journey

MovieDramaThriller

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.

Jumble sale woman

Leech

An elderly blind woman is unaware of the stranger secretly living in her home.

Mary

The Ploughman's Lunch

The Ploughman's Lunch · 1983

The Ploughman's Lunch

As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.

Carmen

Comrades

Comrades · 1987

MovieDramaHistory

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Diana Stanfield

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill · 2004

Ready When You Are, Mr McGill

MovieTV MovieDrama

Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos

Nancy McGill

Picture Friend

Picture Friend · 1985

After a drunken woman falls off a bus and is taken to hospital overnight, she starts to have disturbing memories.

Mrs Gorrie

Shadows in the Sun

Shadows in the Sun · 2009

Shadows in the Sun

A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.

Hilary Calder

Strange Weather

Strange Weather · 2015

Strange Weather

Two strangers witness a mysterious natural phenomenon that reawaken their senses and draws their fractured lives together.

Wes's Mum

Reg

MovieTV MovieDrama

In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.

Nan

The Storyteller: The True Bride

The Storyteller: The True Bride · 1988

The Storyteller: The True Bride

MovieFantasyFamily

A white lion comes to the aid of a girl being held under the cruel care of a troll.

Trollop (Voice)

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders · 1997

Midsomer Murders

SeriesCrimeDrama

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Lorna Hastings

Vikings

Vikings · 2013

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Witch

Foyle's War

Foyle's War · 2002

SeriesMysteryDrama

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

Mrs Roecastle

Shetland

Shetland · 2013

SeriesCrimeDrama

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

Mima Wilson

The Bill

The Bill · 1984

SeriesCrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

Performance

Performance · 1991

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Nanny

ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay · 1986

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Chrissie

Wallander

Wallander · 2008

SeriesDramaCrime

This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

Falling

Falling · 2026

A nun and priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.

Gertrude

Monarch of the Glen

Monarch of the Glen · 2000

Monarch of the Glen

SeriesDramaComedy

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.

The Storyteller

The Storyteller · 1988

The Storyteller

SeriesAction & AdventureFamily

The Storyteller, aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

Trollop (voice)

BBC2 Play of the Week

BBC2 Play of the Week · 1977

BBC2 Play of the Week

SeriesDramaComedy

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Emmie Watt

The Play on One

The Play on One · 1988

The Play on One

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

Sister McCabe

The Coroner

The Coroner · 2015

SeriesCrimeDrama

High-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.

Peggy Winterson

The Jim Henson Hour

The Jim Henson Hour · 1989

The Jim Henson Hour

SeriesFamilyComedy

An hour-long anthology series hosted by Jim Henson and generally included two segments. The first, MuppeTelevision, features comedy skits starring the Muppets, as well as frequent guest appearances by popular entertainers. The second often rebroadcasts original productions, primarily The StoryTeller.

The Trollop (archive audio)

Open All Hours

Open All Hours · 1976

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

Mrs Bickerdyke

The Paradise Club

The Paradise Club · 1989

The Paradise Club

SeriesDramaCrime

Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club following the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.

Grace Noonan

Takin' Over the Asylum

Takin' Over the Asylum · 1994

Takin' Over the Asylum

SeriesComedyDrama

A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.

Evelyn

Howards End

Howards End · 2017

The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

Miss Avery

Great Expectations

Great Expectations · 1999

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Camilla Pocket

Eleventh Hour

Eleventh Hour · 2006

SeriesDramaMystery

Professor Ian Hood is a former physics professor recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective and Special Agent Rachel Young is the companion bodyguard hired to protect Hood from the people who want to see his work put to an end.

Body & Soul

Body & Soul · 1993

A nun leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one of the men who work at the mill, and thus begins to feel conflict about her religious vows.

Peggy