Beatie Edney
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beatrice "Beatie" Edney (born 23 October 1962) is an English television actress. Born in London, she is the daughter of actress Sylvia Syms, and sister of Benjamin Edney and a cousin of musician Nick Webb. Edney first came to audiences' attention as Heather MacLeod in the 1986 film Highlander, the first film in the Highlander series. She returned to the role again in the 2000 film Highlander: Endgame. In 1987 Edney performed the title role in the TV production of 'The Dark Angel' with Peter O'Toole. In 1990, she appeared in the Bruce Beresford directed film Mister Johnson alongside Pierce Brosnan and Edward Woodward. Her many television appearances include a leading role in the TV series Lost Empires, based on the novel by J.B. Priestley, with Colin Firth in 1986. She has also appeared in episodes of Rosemary & Thyme, A Touch of Frost, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Lewis (TV series), Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Wallander (2009). In 1994, she played the role of Louisa Gradgrind in the television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. In 1995, she had a starring role in the Channel 4 sitcom Dressing For Breakfast. In 2012 she played Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George III, in a revival at the Apollo Theatre.
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In the Name of the Father
as Carole RichardsonA small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub...
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Highlander: Endgame
as Heather MacLeodImmortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the...
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
as NataliaA close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination...
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
as Mrs. BrummeganLondon, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is...
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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
as TinaBiography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most...
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A Handful of Dust
as MarjorieEnglish aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit...
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The Affair
as EstherA black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a...
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Mister Johnson
as Celia RudbeckIn 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who...
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Mesmer
as Marie AntoinetteA biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used...
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Save the Cinema
as Mrs. Griffiths (Beehive Woman)The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales,...
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A Day at the Beach
as WinnieBernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What...
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Hard Times
as Louisa GradgrindCharles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London...
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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
as Joan SimsKenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a...
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The Biographer
as Lynne MortonDramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.
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Just Another Secret
as AnnelieseAn American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at...
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National Theatre Live: Small Island
as uncreditedEmbark on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the...
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Trouble in Paradise
as Ann KustersIn the harbor of Rotterdam, an action group called "Redpeace" discovers illegal weapon...
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Bosses From Hell
as uncreditedJohn Cleese training video about bosses.
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
as uncreditedIn this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law...
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Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
as Kate ManningFollows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard...
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Nyet!
as LizWhen Boris and Olga arrive at the port of Dover with precious cargo, the border authorities,...
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Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon
as uncreditedIn this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and Chamoun focus on the women who played a...
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Wild Flowers
as SadieAt her daughter's funeral, a woman remembers her family's shame when she fell in love with...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mary CavendishFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs HemmingsFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...
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MacGyver
as NataliaHe's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...
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Star Wars: Andor
as JudgeIn an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference...
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Inspector Morse
as Deborah BurnsInspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...
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A Touch of Frost
as uncreditedJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...
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Lewis
as Justine SkinnerInspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned...
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Van der Valk
as Cassie DavidsSet against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a...
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The Coroner
as Judith KennedyHigh-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up...
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Poldark
as Prudie PaynterBritain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest -...
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Prime Suspect
as Susan CovingtonHighly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Hotel Babylon
as uncreditedHotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen...
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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes
as Lyla MilburnIf Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former...
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Year of the Rabbit
as Mrs McHenrySet in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound...
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Messiah
as Grace EccleshallCrime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as AnnabellaThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's...
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Time for Murder
as Pippa MillingtonWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
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My Uncle Silas
as EllenIn 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in...
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Hard Times
as Louisa GradgrindCharles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London...
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Lost Empires
as Nancy EllisIn 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the...
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The Dark Angel
as Maud RuthynMaud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a...
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