Please help me remember dark haired British actress!

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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!

Yes, maybe Keeley Hawes in the same series

Simone Lahbib?

Louise Lombard defo had a bob but pretty sure nobody even thought FFS in House of Eliott. Although they should have.

Raquel Cassidy as Jack Dees wife in Lead Balloon

Sally Hawkins

Jessie Wallace. I doubt she was smartly dressed but she probably swore a lot, or sounded like she would if Eastenders had been post watershed. And she's as likely as Miriam Margolyes.

@threecupsofteaminimum

Jan Francis springs to mind from Just Good Friends

I did used to love watching Just good friends, and it's the right sort of hair for sure, but this memory was quite a bit more recent

[quote tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz]Ooh I used to want to be Louise Lombard in HOE when I grew up

misses point of thread

Jill Halfpenny?

@KittensTeaAndCake sorry!

Helen Baxendale

Amellia Bullmore?

Helen Baxendale was my guess too - sounds like her in a medical drama I used to watch in the 90s (Cardiac Arrest?)

Are you certain she's brunette?

If not then it sounds like Zoe Lucker

Janet Dibley?

Gemma Arteton in St Trinians?

Dana Delaney (young)?

Margot Kidder?

Any of the actors who played Lois Lane?

Annabel Scholey?

[quote TheSpiral]Older than you aid but you might be remembering her younger - Harriet Walter?
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I sat behind her in a Christmas cathedral service several years ago and throughout the whole thing I was thinking "she is so familiar! Where do I know her from?" It took me a while and eventually found her. Now every time I see her on tv, I always say I sat behind her in the cathedral

These threads always always end up with it being someone posted halfway down page 1 that the OP missed.

Danny DeVito.

Tamsin Grieg?

Louise Marwood

Morven Christie