Debra J. Gillett is an English actress who has appeared in productions including The Witches, Chimera, Truckers, Casualty, Just William, Dalziel and Pascoe, Spooks, Doctor Who, Soul Music, and Cranford.
Career Gillett's stage work includes Limehouse (2017). In 2018 she played The Nurse ("a cartoonish delight") in Patrick Marber's adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Royal National Theatre, and was a "sympathetic" Queen Charlotte in Adam Penford's adaptation of The Madness of George III at the Nottingham Playhouse.
She played Nurse Fay in a 1997 Radio 3 production of Loot by Orton, repeated in 2017.Loot, BBC Media Centre notice accessed 4 April 2025.
Personal life Gillett married playwright Patrick Marber in 2002 and they have three children.
Filmography
Film +YearTitleRoleNotes1990The WitchesWaitress1991Riff-RaffSinger1991Young Soul RebelsJill2000BreathtakingJulie2006Notes on a ScandalLorraine2014A Small Family BusinessPoppy McCracken2016Bridget Jones's BabyDaisy2018National Theatre Live: The Madness of George IIIQueen Charlotte
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1991ChimeraJulieEpisode #1.11991G.B.H.Sylvia3 episodes1991CasualtyReporterEpisode: "Judgement Day"1991Stay LuckyReceptionistEpisode: "Poetic Justice"1992TruckersGrimma12 episodes1992Between the LinesMary ShibdenEpisode: "Lies and Damned Lies"1993Screen TwoPat McVurrichEpisode: "The Long Roads"1995The BillNinaEpisode: "Expert Witness"1995Eleven Men Against ElevenJennyTelevision film1995Just WilliamPeggyEpisode: "William and the Old Man in the Fog"1995Coogan's RunMaudEpisode: "The Curator"1996Wales PlayhouseAlisonEpisode: "A Skip Day in Splott"1997Soul MusicSusan Sto Helit7 episodes1997Mr. White Goes to WestminsterKathTelevision film2001Cold FeetGeorginaEpisode #4.22002Dalziel and PascoeSonia Wingate2 episodes2004–2005SpooksDebra Langham / Psychologist3 episodes2005Footprints in the SnowValTelevision film2006Doctor WhoRita ConnollyEpisode: "The Idiot's Lantern"2007–2009CranfordMrs Johnson6 episodes2011The Many Faces of...Mrs JohnsonEpisode: "Dame Judi Dench"2014Call the MidwifeMrs HarperEpisode #3.52021Inside No. 9PennyEpisode: "Last Night of the Proms"
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