Acting
Sep 18, 1980
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Martha Howe-Douglas
Acting
Biography
Martha Howe-Douglas (born 19 September 1980) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for TV series Horrible Histories (2009–2013), Yonderland (2013–2016) and Ghosts (2019–). She also starred in films such as Nativity! (2009) and Bill (2015). From 2006 until 2007, she played receptionist Donna Parmar in the BBC daytime soap opera Doctors. In 2009, she landed one of the main multi-role parts on a new children's TV history sketch show programme, CBBC's Horrible Histories where over five years/series, she played numerous characters including the queens Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots and Victoria. In 2011, she appeared in The Proms, in a special live "Horrible Histories Big Prom Party" performance. In 2013, she appeared as 33-year-old Debbie Maddox in Sky1's series Yonderland. Other acting roles have included appearing in The Armstrong & Miller Show (2009) on BBC One. In 2018, she appeared in EastEnders as Annie Pritchard. In 2019, Martha Howe-Douglas appeared in the new BBC One comedy series Ghosts. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Martha Howe-Douglas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (10)
A desperate-for-work actor auditions for Shakespeare's Henry IV Part II, and is forced to perform increasingly ridiculous characters by two good cop/bad cop directors.
Shakespeare’s Wart
Horrible Histories Prom was a free family concert showcasing the original songs from the British television series Horrible Histories, along with classical music. It was held on 30 July 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and was that year's children's entry in the BBC's annual Proms series.
Horrible Histories’ Big Prom Party
What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.
Bill
Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
Nativity!
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
King of Thieves
The Office Christmas specials are the two-part series finale episodes of the British mockumentary comedy television series The Office.
The Office: The Christmas Special
It’s Christmas at Button House, and Mike is determined to make it perfect for his family. Alison is also determined to deliver the best Christmas ever for the living and the dead, although the latter aren’t filled with festive cheer. Christmas just isn’t that much fun when you’re deceased. But when Julian is confronted with past wrongs, he has a revelation that could help the ghosts rediscover the real message of Christmas
Ghosts: The Ghost of Christmas
Kitty thinks Santa has come early when a visitor is spotted in the grounds of the house as Alison and Mike - with the ghosts’ help - learn that they have more to offer this Christmas than they realised.
Ghosts: He Came
Television & Series (8)
Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
Doctors
Drama following WPC Gina Dawson, the first Woman Police Constable to join Brinford Constabulary, a fictional police force in the West Midlands, in 1956. The show focuses on WPC Gina Dawson's struggle to gain acceptance in the male-dominated police station whilst having to deal with the sexist attitudes that were commonplace at the time.
WPC 56
A bored young mum steps through a portal and discovers a world of incompetent knights, monks who are incapable of lying, and a race of people intent on firing the cleverest amongst them into the sun.
Yonderland
A woman suspects her husband of having an affair. After following several lines of enquiries far more unravels including a streak of violence below the surface.
Doctor Foster
Based on the best-selling children's books and liberally splattered with guts, blood and poo, a group of British comedians offer an anarchic and unconventional take on some of history's most gruesome and funny moments, with topics including the Stone Age, the Middle Ages, the Egyptians and the Romans, among others.
