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George Gently

Character: Cora Davidson

Episode #2.1 - Gently with the innocents

3 March 2009 - BBC1

Blue Murder

Character: Sgt Jackie Holroyd

Episode #4.3 - Crisis Management

17 December 2007 - ITV

 

Jackie is an Army mechanic with the Alexandria Battery and when a body is found at the Cranham Edge Barracks where she is based, she and her son Ben (played by Richard Fleeshman) find themselves caught up in a murder investigation.

 

The Omid Djalili Show

Character: herself

17 November 2007 - BBC1

 

Djalili portrays a desperate actor bothering Jill when she's enjoying a drink in a pub with some friends... It finishes with a wonderful headbutt!

 

Waterloo Road

Character: Izzie Redpath

BBC

 

 

Waterloo Road's page

 

Episode #1.1 (9 March 2006)

Episode #1.2 (16 March 2006)

Episode #1.3 (23 March 2006)

Episode #1.4 (30 March 2006)

Episode #1.5 (6 April 2006)

Episode #1.6 (13 April 2006)

Episode #1.7 (20 April 2006)

Episode #1.8 (27 April 2006)

 

Episode #2.1 (17 January 2007)

Episode #2.2 (25 January 2007)

Episode #2.3 (1 February 2007)

Episode #2.4 (8 February 2007)

Episode #2.5 (15 February 2007)

Episode #2.6 (22 February 2007)

Episode #2.7 (1 March 2007)

Episode #2.8 (29 March 2007)

Episode #2.9 (5 April 2007)

Episode #2.10 (12 April 2007)

Episode #2.11 (19 April 2007)

Episode #2.12 (26 April 2007)

 

Waterloo Road is set in the chaotic world of a failing northern comprehensive school. Every day is a battle for acting head teacher Jack Rimmer and his disillusioned staff. Can the arrival of hard-nosed public school idealist Mr Treneman really turn things around? Or would these troubled teens benefit more from the sympathetic approach of his colleague and sparring partner Kim Campbell?

The lives and loves of the teachers, parents and pupils become inextricably intertwined in this gritty, engaging and ultimately uplifting drama, in which those who can, teach, and those who can't have a lot to learn…

 

Shameless

Character: Roxy Ball

 

 

Episode #3.5 (31 January 2006) - Channel 4

 

On the day that Kev should be happily celebrating his 35th birthday, his mother throws herself from her balcony. He's stricken with shock and grief, and to add to his woes the last person he expects to see again at her funeral is Roxy - his ex-wife - who's straight out of prison. Veronica is fuming and to make matters worse, Kev fails to come home after the wake. Thinking he's turned his mother's flat into a bachelor pad, Veronica storms round there... only to be greeted by a naked Roxy.

She is heartbroken and resolves to leave Kev once and for all. It seems nothing more could go wrong in Kev's complicated life, that is until Roxy drops the bombshell that they once had a child together. Kev is torn between the idea of having a child and the feeling that this is just Roxy's latest scheme to try and win him back. However, she soon shows her true colours when Kev refuses to succumb to her advances. Realising that Roxy is far from the reformed character she claims to be, Kev finds her at Veronica's house just in the nick of time.

Carol, meanwhile has found herself a new gentleman-friend, Norman Owens. He seems to be a perfect gent and exactly what she's been searching for, until he joins the family for breakfast, in the nude. It seems he has more liberal views about sex than the rest of them. Fatherhood has had a positive effect on Lip, but while he and Mandy get closer, Veronica is convinced it's over between her and Kev. That is, until they get some special news they've been waiting for...

 

The Catherine Tate Show

Character: Gina

 

Episode #2.2 (28 July 2005) - BBC

 

Watch Jill's appearance

 

EastEnders (101 episodes)

Character: Kate Mitchell / Kate Morton

BBC

 

 

The EastEnders' page

 

Barbara

Character: Kirsty

 

 

Episode 04#04 - Kirsty (16 March 2003)

 

Whether she likes it or not the out-spoken, no-nonsense Yorkshire woman Barbara (Gwen Taylor) has become the agony aunt, problem-solver for her extended family. Her husband, Ted ('Sam Kelly'), has the most amazing of adventures whilst driving his cab everyday whilst her outrageous son-in-law, Martin (Mark Benton), seems to investigate the most bizarre news stories for the local television station. Even at work she can't escape as she gets it in one ear from the other receptionist, Doreen (Madge Hindle), whose husband becomes involved in the most perverse of activities and in the other from her sister Jean (Sherrie Hewson) who positively enjoys relating her latest sexual conquests. Through it all Barbara struggles vainly on hoping one day for a quieter life!

 

Watch an extract of Jill in Barbara

 

Breezeblock

Character: Gayle

 

Surreal BBC 3 sitcom about the dysfunctional Breeze family. The family has an array of bad habits and character flaws. They live in a bleak Newcastle tower block where the Stairmonster lurks and strange things happen in the lift.

Filming Locations: Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

Episode 01#02 - Higher (11 March 2002)

Ralph summons up the courage to go out and befriends Stan and Peggy Quince (Alan Bird and Jean Heywood), the lonely old couple from the top floor who have moved into the lift in order to meet people. Carol becomes an expert on etiquette after being taken out for a posh lunch by Mr Shield. Billy starts work as a gigolo and falls in love with his first client Fay (Kate Graham), a weird woman who keeps sheep.

 

Episode 01#03 - Saturday, Sinday (18 March 2002)

Eric is arrested for stabbing a pal during a drunken night at the club. Ralph gets nicked, too, for giving the police lip and is humiliated by the sergeant (Denise Welch). Carol and her colleagues play strip hopscotch with Mr Shields in order to avoid stocktaking. Billy falls in love with Paul (Daymon Britton), a gay youngster who Uncle Tommy found at church. Ralph and Iris go off to the pleasure beach, where Ralph gets an autograph from soccer legend Pop Robson.

 

Episode 01#04 - Kid (25 March 2002)

Eric finds a 1973 postcard from Uncle Tommy to Iris and convinces Ralph that he may not be his father, leading to a showdown at the pub. Meanwhile, Iris gets a job at Poundslasher, Billy refuses to sleep with a pensioner, and Carol plays tie-and-tease at work.

 

Episode 01#05 - Unspeakable (1 April 2002)

Ralph gets caught getting up to mischief with a boiler suit on a building site and is humiliated by the police. Then he catches Mr Shields indulging in his overalls fetish with Carol. Meanwhile, Eric takes an interest in cookery in a bid to spice up his sex life.

 

Episode 01#06 - Wet (8 April 2002)

Ralph lands a menial job as a trolley collector, and Carol upsets Mr Shields by dating her old art teacher. Jayne Middlemiss appears in vintage footage of a 1936 game show.

 

Dalziel and Pascoe

Character: Tara Connolly

 

Episode 06#02 - Home Truths (5 November 2001) - BBC

 

Supt. Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murders, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly differing personalities.

 

Coronation Street

Character: Rebecca Hopkins

ITV

The Coronation Street Page

 

Command Approved

2000

 

On patrol in the South Seas, British Type-23 frigate HMS Monarch receives a distress call from the merchant vessel Corona, which has been carrying gold bullion and is under attack from pirates. Responding to the call, the Captain and crew of HMS Monarch find themselves drawn into a struggle against the megalomaniac ambitions of a despotic warlord. With the lives of hostages at stake, the crew HMS Monarch races against the clock to save them... and themselves.

 

Peak Practice

Character: Kelly

Carlton

 

 

 

Episode 08#04 - Wood for the Trees (5 October 1999)

Andrew's relationship with Dawn is threatened when her son falls dangerously ill.

 

Episode 08#05 - Buying Time (12 October 1999)

Sam puts his job at The Beeches on the line when he become emotionally involved with a patient.

 

Episode 08#09 - The First Stone (16 November 1999)

Sam's attempts to help an overweight patient lead to a crisis when his request for an operation is refused.

 

Episode 08#10 - Hearts and Minds (23 November 1999)

Joanna is thrown into turmoil when Martin asks her to leave Cardale.

 

Episode 08#11 - Not Waving But Drowning (30 November 1999)

Sam is forced to reassess his skills as a doctor after the visit of an old friend ends in tragedy.

 

Episode 08#12 - Moving On (7 December 1999)

Relations between Andrew and Dawn finally reach breaking point; meanwhile, Andrews struggles to persuade his best friend Ronnie that he has a serious illness.

 

Episode 08#13 -New Beginnings (14 December 1999)

Joanna is caught in the middle of a family crisis after giving a teenage gymnast some devastating news.

 

Dangerfield

Character: Shelley

 

Episode 06#12 - Tying the Knot (19 November 1999) - BBC

 

The life and times of a small-town family practitioner and police surgeon. DI Cramer and Dr Paige are preparing for their wedding day, until he notices a suspicious face from the past.

 

The Lakes

Character: Tina

 

Episode 01#01

1998 - BBC

 

Lovable rogue Danny Kavanah pushes his long suffering parents over the edge when he loses all his social security money on a horse race. Locked out of the family home, Danny decides on a fresh start and escapes the dole queues of Liverpool to the unspoiled beauty of the Lake District. But the story has only just begun. A dingy high-rise in Liverpool, a schoolgirl called Lucy and a tragedy at the boating lake all affect Danny's fate.

 

 

 

Touching Evil II

Character: Annie Jordan

1998 - United

 

Touching Evil is a crime drama following the exploits of a crack squad on the Organised & Serial Crime Unit, a rapid response police force that serves the entire county.

 

Episode 02#05

Annie Jordan (Jill Halfpenny) kidnaps the child she says was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme. Suspecting links to an international paedophile ring, Taylor (Nicola Walker) and Rivers (Shaun Dingwall) pose as a childless couple in a sting to nab the ringleaders. Meanwhile, Creegan (Robson Green) is becoming smitten with Annie.

 

Episode 02#06

While tracking an international paedophile ring, Creegan (Robson Green) finds his own children targeted in a revenge attack by a distraught father (John Duttine) who blames Creegan for his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Taylor (Nicola Walker) goes undercover to a kid-for-sale orphanage in Albania, risking her job when she returns with a little girl. As the drama reaches its climax, Creegan's affair with Annie Jordan (Jill Halfpenny) comes to a tragic end.

 

Heartbeat/Classic Heartbeat

Character: Mitzi Wyler

 

Episode 07#20 - Local Knowledge (25 January 1998) - Yorkshire TV

 

Constable Nick Rowan is a English Policeman in the 1960's who decides to be reassigned to the same small village where he was evacuated to during World War II as a child. There, he patrols the countryside as a part of a small attachment in the area dealing with the various events and problems that come up while at same time keeping a eye on Claude Greengrass, the local rogue.

In this episode, Nathaniel Clegghorn believes his farm is haunted and has sent for paranormal investigators to authenticate it so that he can arrange guided tours for a fee. Greengrass thinks that is a brilliant idea and produces a couple of "ghostly manifestations" himself. An old acquaintance of Oscar Blaketon and the police, Jimmy Turpin, is back in Aidensfield and Blaketon warns sergeant Rowan that he might be up to something. He is, but gets his daughter Mitzi and her husband Johnny Wyler to do the dirty work. Nick Rowan has got a new job with the Royal Mounted Police and he and his family prepare to leave for Canada. PC Bradley takes over his position as village bobby in Aidensfield. Neil Bolton is tired of working at the hospital and has a look at Kate Rowan's old practice in Aidensfield.

 

Catherine Cookson - The Round Tower

Character: Rosie Cotton

 

1998 - Festival films

 

Set in mid-1950's England, this story tells of the wealthy, socially upwardly-progressive Ratcliffe family. Their youngest daughter, seventeen-year-old Vanessa, feels alienated from her selfish parents, who are more interested in their eldest daughter's upcoming marriage into one of their town's old families. An old friend of the family, who is himself trapped in a loveless marriage, makes love to Vanessa one night, and she becomes pregnant, but won't reveal who the father is. Her parents are sure it is an employee of the Ratcliffe's, Angus Cotton, who hotly denies this and quits his job to go and start his own business. Vanessa ends up leaving home, and when Angus hears of the poor conditions she's living in in a Newcastle skid-row neighbourhood, he offers to marry her and she excepts.

 

Birds of a Feather

Character: Brittany

 

Episode 07#06 - Rising Damp (30 juin 1997) - Alomo

 

The Bill

Character: Lisa Collett

 

Episode 13#03 - Man Trap (9 January 1997) - Thames

 

Police drama set in London. A young intruder is found dead in a council flat, having been electrocuted. A check on the occupant of the flat, Alan Reed, shows he is a single parent who is short of money and finding it hard to cope with work and his children. The dead boy's brother shows up at Sun Hill, and accuses Reed of murder, informing them that he had been a frequent visitor to the flat demanding money.

  

Byker Grove

Character: Nicola Dobson

 

 

1989-1992 - Zenith

Series 1 to 4

 

Byker Grove follows the lives and relationships of a group of young people who are members of a youth club.

 

Calendar Girls - Noel Coward Theatre, London (28th July - 17th October 2009) -  Character: Cora

Surviving Spike - Assembly, George Street, Edinburgh (31st July - 25th August 2008) - Character: Norma Farnes

Surviving Spike - Theatre Royal, Windsor (5th February - 16th February 2008) - Character: Norma Farnes

Uncle Vanya - Birmingham Repertory Theatre (23rd March - 14th April 2007) - Character: Sonya

Jack and the Beanstalk - Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (11th December 2006 - 20th January 2007) - Character: Mother Nature

Cinderella - Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (December 2005 - January 2006) - Character: Fairy Godmother

The Bodies - Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2005) - Character: Thérèse Raquin

Chicago - Adelphi Theatre, London West End (2005) - Character: Roxy Hart

Noir - Northern Stage/Live Theatre - Character: Alison

1984 - Northern Stage/Live Theatre (2002) - Character: Julia

Cooking With Elvis - National tour (2001) - Character: Jill

Studs - Hull Truck - Character: Mandy

Jumping the Waves - Arc Teeside

The Sound of Music - Sheffield Crucible (13th December 1996 - 18th January 1997) - Character: Liesl

Like a Virgin - Hull Truck (30th January - 29th June 1996) - Character: Angela

Jack and the Beanstalk - Hemel Hemstead

Much Ado About Nothing - Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Character: Beatrice

Stepping Out - Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Character: Mavis

Dancing in Lughnasa - Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Character: Chrissie

Fathers and Sons - Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Character: Fenichka

Steaming - Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art - Character: Josie

Sweeney Todd and the Silver Chair - Newcastle Playhouse

The Secret Annexe - St Edmund Campion School, Gateshead (July 1989) - Character: Anne Frank

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Jill has been the voice for several ads: Sunday Times, Royal Air Force, BBC Children in Need, Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire puddings and Home-style chips, Ford Fiesta 2006, Coco Pops straws, Morrisons.

 

Fat Man's Warning

Channel 4

Narrator - 29 April 2007

 

Freaky Eaters

BBC3

Narrator - March 2007

 

Angels Without Wings - Lord Lawson Of Beamish School

Narrator

September 2006

 

Britain's Next Top Model

Living TV

Narrator

 

Dunblane: A Decade On

8 March 2006 – Five

Documentary to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic deaths of the 16 children and their teacher in a Scottish school. This documentary features an exclusive interview with one of the teachers who gives her account of what happened that day

 

Run for Home

BBC Radio 4

By Carol Willis. Director Polly Thomas.

 

Recently widowed Marie and her estranged daughter Joni decide to train for the Run for Life. Marie has no idea that the good cause she is supporting will become so directly relevant to her and her loved ones.

 

Marie....Brigit Forsyth

Joni....Jill Halfpenny

Luke....Rod Matthew

Jack....Kevin Doyle

 

 

There’s Me, David, Chelsea, Charlene, Scott and Bianca

BBC Radio 4

13 August 2001

 

By Pam Leeson. Directed by Susan Roberts

 

Lee lives in Salford with his mum and five brothers and sisters. Life is very busy for him - looking after the kids, arguing with his girlfriend, and climbing the house roof to escape. Then Jeannie, a girl from across the street, disappears. With Daniel Hanbridge and Jill Halfpenny.

 

Article about this radio play

 

Who me?

BBC Radio 4

A three-part satire on the fickle world of instant celebrity by Janey Preger. With Charlie Hardwick, Jill Halfpenny, Fenella Woolgar and Trevor Fox. Directed by Wils Wilson.

 

14 March 2001

Susan Brown thinks of herself as pretty ordinary, but she doesn't realise quite how ordinary until she reaches the national finals of Today's Woman magazine's Mrs Average competition.

 

21 March 2001

Susan Brown beats off the competition in the national final and is crowned Britain's Mrs Average 2001, becoming an overnight cult senstation.

 

28 March 2001

Susan discovers that life is tough at the top, and just as she finds that she needs a friend, her 15 minutes of fame are over. But can she go back to her old life? Will she ever be ordinary again?

This Morning

6 February 2008

ITV Living

Watch the video

 

BBC Breakfast

31 January 2008

 

Cooking the Books

31 December 2007

 

Strictly Come Dancing It Takes Two

18 December 2007

see Videos

 

Strictly Come Dancing Series 5

part of the public - 7 December 2007

see Videos

 

GMTV

 April 2007

 

This Morning

4 April 2007

 

Loose Women

3 April 2007

 

Seven Stories from Seven Stories

Jill read out the story ‘The Interview’ by Adele Geras (Sunday 24th September 2006)

  

The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live

20 May 2006

 

The Paul O'Grady Show

Episode #4.15 (14 April 2006)

 

Davina

Episode #1.6 (29 March 2006)

 

Richard & Judy

22 March 2006

 

Loose Women

Episode #11.12 (14 March 2006)

 

GMTV

8 March 2006

See the video

 

The Wright Stuff

22 February 2006

 

The Sound of Musicals

January 2006

 

GMTV

17 May 2005

 

The Paul O'Grady Show
Episode #2.32 (26 April 2005)

 

Today With Des and Mel

09 March 2005

 

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
Episode #2.6 (6 March 2005)

 

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

Episode #5.3 (26 February 2005)

 

Celebrate The Sound Of Music

1 January 2005

 

Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

Episode dated 16 November 2004

Episode #2.1 (17 October 2005) 

Episode #3.7 (18 October 2006)

 

Strictly Come Dancing

Episode #2.2 (30 October 2004)

Champion of Champions (22 December 2004)

Episode #3.1 (15 October 2005)

Episode #4.3 (21 October 2006)

 

Strictly Ice Dancing

26 December 2004

 

EastEnders: Christmas Party

23 December 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_BqvJfbrs

 

Richard & Judy

13 December 2004

 

Today with Des and Mel

22 November 2004 

 

This Morning 

25 October 2004

Jill discussed her current storyline in EastEnders and leaving the programme.

 

Inside Soap Awards 2004

28 September 2004 

 

GMTV

30 July 2004

 

Making It at Holby

23 March 2004

 

EastEnders: Christmas Party

December 2003

 

Chris Moyles' Afternoon Show (Radio One)

04 December 2003

 

 

 

T4

30 November 2003

 

Children in Need

21 November 2003

 

Richard & Judy

27 May 2003