Nia Roberts

Born: 1972-07-05

Roberts' big break came in 1998, when she appeared in Solomon a Gaenor opposite Ioan Gruffudd. With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish, the movie won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards. Her subsequent Welsh-language credits include Fondue, Rhyw a Deinosors!, Newes of the Weeke, Y Palmant Aur, Glan Hafren, the long-running soap opera Pobol y Cwm, and S4C's gangster drama Y Pris. Roberts' English-language television credits include the comedy series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, the drama Border Café, and several single-episode appearances in prime-time British shows such as The Bill and Casualty. Roberts has starred in two films directed by her husband, Marc Evans: Snow Cake (2006), a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident; and Patagonia (2009), a drama set in Y Wladfa, Argentina. In 2009, Roberts also starred as registrar Mary Finch in Crash!, a hospital drama commissioned by BBC Wales and produced by Tony Jordan. In 2010, Roberts guest-starred in the two-part Doctor Who Series 5 episode The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. More big-screen productions followed: She appeared in Hattie Dalton's Third Star (2010) and in Vertigo Films' The Facility (2012), an atmospheric, micro-budget horror film about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. In 2014, Roberts appeared in the fourth episode of Y Gwyll (Hinterland), a highly acclaimed noir detective series shot in both Welsh and English.


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as Woman at the Till
Released: 2007-01-17

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night...

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Bridgend

as Thomas' Mother
Released: 2015-01-22

Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide...

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Cashback

as Woman at the Till (uncredited)
Released: 2004-08-01

Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night...

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Third Star

as Chloe
Released: 2010-06-01

James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal...

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The Feast

as Glenda
Released: 2021-11-19

A wealthy family hosts a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly...

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Last Summer

as Sandra Davies
Released: 2018-06-07

During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise,...

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Making Love

as Costanza
Released: 2000-02-11

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters...

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Under Milk Wood

as Rosie Probert
Released: 2014-06-01

An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan...

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Just Jim

as Mum
Released: 2015-09-25

In a small Welsh town where people talk to themselves we meet Jim, a lonely teenager who is...

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The Facility

as Katie Strong
Released: 2012-06-23

A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly...

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Solomon & Gaenor

as Gaenor Rees
Released: 1999-04-30

A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so...

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The Return of the Yuletide Kid

as Philipa
Released: 2019-12-14

The Christmas Kid stars Craig Roberts (Red Oaks, Submarine,) in a warm-hearted comedy from...

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Patagonia

as Gwen
Released: 2010-06-10

Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her...

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A Wonderful Christmas Time

as Penny
Released: 2014-11-06

A young man and young woman, both who have recently gone through break-ups, become friends over...

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Doctor Who

as Ambrose
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Midsomer Murders

as Stacey Purdy
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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The Crown

as Silvia Millward
First aired: 2016-11-04

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime...

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The White Princess

as Catherine Woodville
First aired: 2017-04-16

The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster...

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Bang

as Linda Jenkins
First aired: 2017-09-10

Loner Sam's life is transformed when he comes into possession of a gun and starts to break the...

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Hidden

as Elin Jones
First aired: 2018-01-07

DI Cadi John and DC Owen Vaughan try to solve a case involving Mali Pryce, a young woman whose...

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The Museum

as Della Howells
First aired: 2021-05-30

Trace the self-destructive fall of Della Howells, Museum Director in her 40s who begins a...

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Steeltown Murders

as Karina Bethell
First aired: 2023-05-15

The hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot area in 1973 and the...

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Border Cafe

as Naomi Sykes
First aired: 2000-07-18

Comedy drama series from Preston Front writer Tim Firth. Set in the fictional town of Hale Point...

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Tree on a Hill

as Margaret Lewis
First aired: 2023-11-19

Laced with humour and a touch of the absurd, this is a story with Margaret and Clive Lewis at...

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Washington

as Martha Washington
First aired: 2020-02-16

The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men...

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