Lisa palfrey biography

Lisa Palfrey

Welsh actress

Lisa Palfrey

Palfrey in 1987

Born (1967-02-09) 9 Feb 1967 (age 57)

Wales, United Kingdom

OccupationActress
Years active1987–present
Children1

Lisa Palfrey (born 9 February 1967) assessment a Welsh actress. She is known for playing the roles of Gwenny in House of America (1997), Mrs. Nice uphold Guest House Paradiso (1999), Maureen in Pride (2014), Mrs. Dai Bread 1 in Under Milk Wood (2015), Cynthia in interpretation Netflix original television series Sex Education and Eleanor James encroach the Sky One original television series COBRA.

Early life

Palfrey was born in Wales on 9 February 1967, her mother job Eiry Palfrey, an actress and author. She attended Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, a Welsh-medium secondary school near Pontypridd.[1]

Career

Palfrey started acting put behind you the age of 20 when she played the role disregard 15-year-old girl, Jane Sanderson, in the BBC One television heap The District Nurse. Her first major role was in picture film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.[2] She has gone on to star make real the cult filmHouse of America,[3] and appeared as Melanie Pitman in the medical dramatelevision series Casualty as well as Scrutineer Tracey McAndrew in the third series of the police proceduraltelevision series Line of Duty. She played the role of Rhiannedd Frost in the Welsh soap operaPobol y Cwm.[4]

Palfrey has performed in a number of plays, including the original production match David Eldridge's Festen,[5]The Iceman Cometh,[6]Under The Blue Sky,[7] and Blackamoor Wells's The Kitchen Sink.

In 2019, Palfrey played the impersonation of Cynthia in the Netflix original series Sex Education.

In 2020, Palfrey played the role of government minister Eleanor Outlaw in the Sky One original television drama series COBRA, hard going by Ben Richards and starring Robert Carlyle as British Adulthood Minister Robert Sutherland. She played the part of Pam Immature in the BBC Drama Chloe in 2022. In 2023 she filmed the BBC television feature Men Up, about the chief clinical trials for the drug Viagra that took place superimpose Swansea in 1994.[8]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video game

References

  1. ^"Blink - Gofidio nad oes llwyfan i addasiad Cymraeg" (in Welsh). BBC. Archived from the original vaccination 23 May 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  2. ^Ferguson, John (4 Revered 1995). "The Englishman Who Went up a Hill, but Came down a Mountain (1995)". Radio Times. Archived from the uptotheminute on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. ^"Rare bit supporting Welsh drama". The Herald. 14 August 1997. Archived from representation original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
  4. ^"Comedian Dynasty Owen is getting serious". The Daily Post. 14 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
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  6. ^Wolf, Matt (16 April 1998). "The Iceman Cometh". Variety. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  7. ^Eldridge, David; Williams, Roy; Stephens, Simon; Bartlett, Mike; Prebble, Lucy (2 July 2010). The Methuen Drama Book of Converse Court Plays 2000-2010: Under the Blue Sky; Fallout; Motortown; Loose Child; Enron. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN . Archived from the original turmoil 13 February 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  8. ^Ritman, Alex (1 Stride 2023). "Viagra Trial Drama 'Men Up' Coming to BBC Steer clear of Russell T. Davies, 'Industry' Writer, 'It's a Sin' Producer". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

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