Beatie Edney

Born: 1962-10-23

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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as Heather MacLeod
Released: 1986-03-07

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle...

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In the Name of the Father

as Carole Richardson
Released: 1993-12-12

A 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 MacLeod
Released: 2000-09-01

Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the...

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

as Mrs. Brummegan
Released: 2008-03-07

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is...

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A Handful of Dust

as Marjorie
Released: 1988-06-24

English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit...

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Save the Cinema

as Mrs. Griffiths (Beehive Woman)
Released: 2022-01-14

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales,...

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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

as Natalia
Released: 1994-11-24

A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination...

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Mister Johnson

as Celia Rudbeck
Released: 1990-09-08

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who...

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Mesmer

as Marie Antoinette
Released: 1994-08-25

A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used...

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Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

as Joan Sims
Released: 2006-03-16

Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a...

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Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

as Tina
Released: 1988-05-01

Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most...

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Diary of a Mad Old Man

as uncredited
Released: 1987-03-18

In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law...

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The Affair

as Esther
Released: 1995-10-14

A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a...

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A Day at the Beach

as Winnie
Released: 1970-05-01

Bernie 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 Gradgrind
Released: 1994-04-29

Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London...

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Nyet!

as Liz
Released: 2019-03-17

When Boris and Olga arrive at the port of Dover with precious cargo, the border authorities,...

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Just Another Secret

as Anneliese
Released: 1989-01-01

An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at...

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Wild Flowers

as Sadie
Released: 1990-03-15

At her daughter's funeral, a woman remembers her family's shame when she fell in love with...

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National Theatre Live: Small Island

as uncredited
Released: 2019-06-27

Embark 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 Kusters
Released: 1989-05-25

In the harbor of Rotterdam, an action group called "Redpeace" discovers illegal weapon...

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Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

as Kate Manning
Released: 1998-01-27

Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard...

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Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-02

In this award-winning documentary, directors Masri and Chamoun focus on the women who played a...

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The Biographer

as Lynne Morton
Released: 2002-09-01

Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.

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MacGyver

as Natalia
First aired: 1985-09-29

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs Hemmings
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mary Cavendish
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Inspector Morse

as Deborah Burns
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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Lewis

as Justine Skinner
First aired: 2007-02-18

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned...

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Star Wars: Andor

as Judge
First aired: 2022-09-21

The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became...

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A Touch of Frost

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-12-06

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...

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Poldark

as Prudie Paynter
First aired: 2015-03-08

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest -...

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The Coroner

as Judith Kennedy
First aired: 2015-11-16

High-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up...

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Prime Suspect

as Susan Covington
First aired: 1991-04-07

Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

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Van der Valk

as Cassie Davids
First aired: 2020-06-01

Set against the backdrop of the city of Amsterdam, Piet Van der Valk and his team investigate a...

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Hotel Babylon

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-01-19

Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen...

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Messiah

as Grace Eccleshall
First aired: 2001-05-26

Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.

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Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

as Lyla Milburn
First aired: 2001-09-04

If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

as Annabella
First aired: 1996-11-17

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's...

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Time for Murder

as Pippa Millington
First aired: 1985-11-09

Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...

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My Uncle Silas

as Ellen
First aired: 2001-10-28

In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in...

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Year of the Rabbit

as Mrs McHenry
First aired: 2019-06-10

Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound...

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Lost Empires

as Nancy Ellis
First aired: 1986-10-24

Lost Empires is a 1986 television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel of the same name, and...

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The Dark Angel

as Maud Ruthyn
First aired: 1989-01-04

Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a...

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Hard Times

as Louisa Gradgrind
First aired: 1994-04-29

Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London...

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