#JULIA SAWALHA SERIES#
#JULIA SAWALHA TV#

Chloe Fairbanks (1 episode, 1990)ġ989: Press Gang. Veronica Head (1 episode, 1992)ġ991: Second Thoughts. Joanna Whymark (1 episode, 1994)ġ992: Absolutely Fabulous. Mercy Pecksniff (6 episodes, 1994)ġ994: Lovejoy. Nina Raymond (Ophelia)ġ994: Martin Chuzzlewit. Lydia Bennet (6 episodes, 1995)ġ995: In the Bleak Midwinter. Hannah Grayshot (22 episodes, 1995–1998)ġ995: Pride and Prejudice. Teresa (1 episode, 1996)ġ996: French and Saunders (1 episode, 1996)ġ995: Faith in the Future. The Jailer's Daughterġ996: Tales from the Crypt. Helen Steel (1 episode, 1997)ġ996: The Wind in the Willows. Dolly Nightingale (3 episodes, 1997)ġ997: McLibel!. Saffron 'Saffy' Monsoonġ997: Ain't Misbehavin'.

Emmaġ998: Absolutely Fabulous: Absolutely Not! (V). Wise Manġ999: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (TV). Catherine Parrġ999: The Flint Street Nativity (TV). Janet Wilson (21 episodes, 2000–2001)ġ999: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (TV). Carla Borrego (7 episodes, 2001–2004)Ģ000: Time Gentlemen Please. Maria MasonĢ003: Hornblower: Loyalty (TV). Jessie Brown (5 episodes, 2007)Ģ004: Bob Monkhouse's Comedy Heroes (TV) (voice). 'Hammer'), a main character in the Xbox 360 video gameĢ008: Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series). She provided the voice acting for Sister Hannah (a.k.a.

#JULIA SAWALHA SERIES#

She then returned to acting in two successive BBC costume dramas as Jessie Brown in 2007 series Cranford, followed by Lark Rise to Candleford in 2008. After a two-year break, she was back on screen in May 2007, competing in the BBC dog training celebrity reality show The Underdog Show. She also appeared in the pilot of BBC 1's A Taste of my Life presented by Nigel Slater. In 2006, she participated in the third series of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? tracing her family's roots, which are Jordanian Bedouin on her father's side, and French Huguenot on her mother's. She returned for a series between 2003-2004. The following year, she became the Alan Davies co-star in Jonathan Creek after Caroline Quentin left, appearing in a Christmas Special ('Satan's Chimney'). She has also joined acclaimed actor Ioan Gruffudd in the internationally successful TV/DVD adaptations of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, as the captain's wife Maria.

#JULIA SAWALHA TV#

She also played the much put-upon PA to 'Zak' in Argos TV adverts during 2002-2004, along with Richard E.

instinct!!') in the first series of the British sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. In 2000, she appeared as Janet, the Australian barmaid ('Built for bar work it's instinct. She also voiced Ginger in DreamWorks/Aardman's Chicken Run. She starred in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennet, co-starring opposite Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. In 1994 she played Mercy (Merry) Pecksniff in the BBC production of Martin Chuzzlewit.įrom 1992 to 2005 Sawalha played strait-laced daughter Saffron Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous alongside Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. From 1991-94, she starred in the ITV family comedy Second Thoughts and continued with her character, Hannah (Lynda Bellingham's daughter), in the British Comedy Award-winning Faith in the Future (1995–98). The on-screen chemistry between the two leads was reflected off-screen, as she and co-star Dexter Fletcher has a relationship for several years. She first gained attention for her starring role in the Bafta award-winning ITV teenage comedy/drama Press Gang which ran from 1989 to 1993. Sawalha made her debut in the 1982 BBC mini series Fame is the Spur and in 1988 played a small role in Inspector Morse on the episode 'Last Seen Wearing'. She was born into an acting family: her father Nadim is an actor who appeared in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and The Living Daylights, while her sister Nadia starred in the soap EastEnders and is now a television presenter and chat show host. She is of Jordanian, English, and French Huguenot ancestry. She was named after her grandmother, a Jordanian businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise. Sawalha was born in London, the daughter of Roberta and actor Nadim Sawalha. She currently plays Dorcas Lane in the BBC's costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford. Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress best known for her roles as Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in Press Gang and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 television miniseries of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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