Pippa Haywood
Philippa "Pippa" Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Haywood was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much put-upon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire (1991-1997), Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress & Anger and the hot-tempered, sex-mad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing (2004-2006), for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland).
She has also done many dramatic roles, including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game, and Mrs. Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons". In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom, and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge (2013). Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles, Harriet, on the BBC One drama Prisoners' Wives, and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott & Bailey. In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia, as Susan Wyse.
In 2015, Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community. The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck.
Haywood has also worked in film and theatre. Recent stage credits include: House & Garden, Private Lives, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre. She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis.
Photos
Films (21)
Ghostwatch: The Night That Terrified Britain
2026 · Narrator (voice)
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021 · Jayney
Un Amor Memorable
2020 · Lilly
Behind the Filter
2020 · Frances
4 enfants et moi
2020 · Bookshop Owner
La Reine du crime : L'Affaire Florence Nightingale
2018 · Mabel
Porridge
2016 · Governor Hallwood
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
2016 · Mrs Long
5 Greedy Bankers
2016 · Catherine Stone
Ye Olde Dragons' Den
2013 · Deborah Meaden
8 Minutes Idle
2012 · Kathy
Tamara Drewe
2010 · Tess
Huge
2010 · Jongleurs Boss
Confessions of a Diary Secretary
2007 · Julie Jones
Green Wing Special
2007 · Joanna Clore
Like Father Like Son
2005 · Mrs. Sutton
Si seulement...
2004 · Lavinia
Love or Money
2001 · Bridget
Tangier Cop
1997 · Diana Andrews
Cuts
1996 · Cynthia Hyde-Lemon
Surviving Christmas
1996 · Helen Brittas
Séries (76)
Belzebubs
2026 · Nana (voice)
Dexter Procter
2025 · Dr Marigold
Bergerac
2025 · Margaret Heaton
Le Régime
2024 · Susan Goin
The Doll Factory
2023 · Mrs Slater
Pour Marnie
2023 · Judge Spottiswood
Peacock
2022 · Teresa
Deep Heat
2022 · Pam
Comptine mortelle
2022 · Claire Jenkins / Clarissa Pye
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Gillian Compton
Bajo ataque
2022 · Dr. MacAndrew
FBI : International
2021 · Scarlett Garretson
La Chronique des Bridgerton
2020 · Mrs. Colson
Épicurienne
2020 · Felicity
Guardaespaldas
2018 · Lorraine Craddock
Stath Lets Flats
2018 · Antonia
Requiem
2018 · Dr. Verity Satlow
Porridge
2017 · Governor Hallwood
Loaded
2017 · Pam
Henry IX
2017 · Prime Minister Oxlade
Brief Encounters
2016 · Bunny
Agatha Raisin
2016 · Reverend Grace Lancing
Tracey Ullman's Show
2016 · Claire Hollis
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · Susan Wyse MBE
Millie Inbetween
2014 · Gloria
Undeniable
2014 · DI Alison Hall
Moonfleet
2013 · Aunt Lydia
Breathless
2013 · Valerie Smallwood
Plebs
2013 · Antonia
Padre Brown, detective
2013 · Eileen Slither
Mr. Selfridge
2013 · Flora Bunting
Souvenirs de Gravity Falls
2012 · Wax Lizzie Borden (voice)
Prisoners' Wives
2012 · Harriet
Without You
2011 · Frances Shaw
Meurtres au paradis
2011 · Charlotte Hamilton
Scott & Bailey
2011 · DCI Julie Dodson
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010 · Councillor Bronwyn Matthews
Hotel Trubble
2008 · Mrs Beasley
Orgueil et quiproquos
2008 · Frankie
The Wrong Door
2008 · Various
Comedy Showcase
2007 · Mother of Fanny
Kingdom
2007 · Mrs. Anderson
Fear, Stress & Anger
2007 · Julie Chadwick
Inspecteur Lewis
2007 · Veronica Gray
Miss Marple
2004 · Mrs Price
Green Wing
2004 · Joanna Clore
New Tricks
2004 · Jackie Small
The Commander
2003 · Helen Dirkwood
Meurtres à l'anglaise
2002 · Juliet Spence
Office Gossip
2001 · Maxine
ma tribu
2000 · Doreen
Holby City
1999 · Sian Wooldridge
Roger Roger
1998 · Helen Jackson
Get Fit with Brittas
1997
Jonathan Creek
1997 · Lorna Claithorne
Inspecteur Barnaby
1997 · Andrea Craven
Grown Ups
1997 · Claire
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · ACC Rebecca Fenning
Affaires non classées
1996 · Justine Greenwood
Headhunters
1994 · Antonia Watkins
Budgie the Little Helicopter
1994 · Nancy Kitchen (voice)
Goodnight Sweetheart
1993 · Mrs Flanagan
The House of Eliott
1991 · Clara Rhoades
Chimera
1991 · Diane Rohmer
The Brittas Empire
1991 · Helen Brittas
She-Wolf of London
1990 · Betty Biddles
Capital City
1989 · Liz Armitage
Mike and Angelo
1989 · Tiara Thickerton-Plank
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Mrs Upjohn
The Return of Shelley
1988 · Dr Hall
The One Game
1988 · Jenny Thorne
Home James!
1987 · Fiona
Casualty
1986 · Peggy Raeburn
Brush Strokes
1986 · Francesca, Gillian
Boon
1986 · Dominique
The Bill
1984 · Sgt Strong, Saffron Jones, Celia Barrett, Trudy Vincent