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Please help me remember dark haired British actress!

188 replies

5hell · 10/01/2022 12:41

I know MN is fab at this sort of detective work, so here goes...

She's maybe 40's, slightly husky voice, sharp dark bob with fringe. I can picture her smartly dressed and saying something like "for f*/k sake (insert man's name)". more likely TV than film I think.

Reason being I attended a new yoga class and thought I knew the teacher, but I think she just looks & sounds exactly like this actress, but now I want to know who she is! Grin

OP posts:
Owlink · 10/01/2022 14:13

Amelia Bullmore

KissedintheDark · 10/01/2022 14:14

Dot Cotton a few years back.

MrsAntonioConte · 10/01/2022 14:15

I want to suggest Isy Suttie from Peep Show but I don’t remember her voice

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@JaneyJimplin - it's a childhood nickname that stuck. I knew her mum. Pooky is one of my 'steps' to Kevin Bacon😊.

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Frances Barber?

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Anna Wilson Jones?

Incywinceyspider · 10/01/2022 14:18

Gillian Kearney?

TheSpiral · 10/01/2022 14:19

Older than you aid but you might be remembering her younger - Harriet Walter?
digiguide.tv/celebrity/Harriet+Walter/4213/

ChicCroissant · 10/01/2022 14:19

Dawn French (not sure about the yoga aspect though!)

diddl · 10/01/2022 14:19

Barbara Flynn?

Jamnotjelly · 10/01/2022 14:21

Emily Mortimer?

Havilland · 10/01/2022 14:21

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Havilland · 10/01/2022 14:22

Emo Phillips.

HunkyPunk · 10/01/2022 14:24

If it’s a from a few years ago, I think Diana Rigg in The Avengers is your girl! Apparently they discovered after her death that her computer password was ‘fuck off’! On the other hand I doubt her saying ‘for fuck’s sake, Steed’ would have got past the censors in the sixties Grin

melmos · 10/01/2022 14:25

The actress in bancroft?

Luhou · 10/01/2022 14:26

Keeley Hawes?

Ceebeegee · 10/01/2022 14:31

Olivia Williams?

Thelikelylass · 10/01/2022 14:32

Nicola Walker.

Please help me remember dark haired British actress!
jesuistot · 10/01/2022 14:33

Nanny plum

Frankie2008 · 10/01/2022 14:34

Magenta Devine? (RIP)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47473388

iklboo · 10/01/2022 14:36

If it’s a from a few years ago, I think Diana Rigg in The Avengers is your girl!

And she's Rachael Stirling's mum. I think it maybe Rachael as I think I remember her saying 'for fuck's sake, Andy' in The Detectorists.

PigWhisperer · 10/01/2022 14:36

Kristen Scott Thomas?

tbtf · 10/01/2022 14:37

Can I add the lovely funny Dawn O'Porter? Not an actress but she's got the bob

Havilland · 10/01/2022 14:39

@tbtf

Can I add the lovely funny Dawn O'Porter? Not an actress but she's got the bob
Wasn’t she outed as being a horrible school bully? Apologies if that’s the wrong person.