
Acting
Wendy Nottingham
Acting
Biography
Wendy Nottingham is a British actress whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly available in major sources. She has been active since 1987, making her earliest screen credit as an applicant at a hairdressing salon in Hidden City (1987), and has since accumulated over 50 film and television credits. Notably, she has appeared in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Secrets & Lies (1996), Babel (2006), and Atonement (2007). Her most notable film credits include Elaine Clifford in Notes on a Scandal (2006), Helen Lenoir in Topsy-Turvy (1999), Mrs. Jarvis in Atonement (2007), Ivy in Vera Drake (2004), a Glum Wife in Secrets & Lies (1996), Madame Homais in Madame Bovary (2014), Laura in The Children Act (2017), Charlotte's Maid in Ammonite (2020), Mrs. Cordoza in The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021), and Conrad Earp's Secretary in Asteroid City (2023). On television she is best known as Mary in Peaky Blinders (2016, 5 episodes), with additional credits in The Borgias (2013), A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), Extras (2006), Agatha Christie's Marple (2008), Inspector Lewis (2008), Spooks (2008), EastEnders (2009), Holby City (2014), Lawless (2013), and Casualty (1990–2010). In theatre she appeared in Machinal (West End, 2024), Abigail's Party (Hampstead Theatre), Curtains (Rose Theatre Kingston, 2018), and Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse, 2025).
Feature Films (28)

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Notes on a Scandal

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
Topsy-Turvy

It's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the first suicide of the new millennium. However, complications ensue with a busted power card, a homicidal landlord, and a very pregnant neighbor.
Dead on Time

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Asteroid City

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
The Short & Curlies

Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.
Housewife, 49

This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Vera Drake

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Atonement

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Babel

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Secrets & Lies

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Mary Reilly
Television & Series (13)

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
The Bill

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Lewis

Looks can be deceiving. Peter Kingdom seems to have everything — a man of some standing in the seaside town of Market Shipborough, he dresses well and has all the trappings of success. Why, then, does he wander along the beach and stare out to sea for hours at a time? Despite Peter's thriving legal practice, he must deal with his dysfunctional family (which includes his unstable sister) and his grief over his missing half-brother and law partner, Simon.
Kingdom

Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.
The Wimbledon Poisoner

The Peter Principle is a BBC television show about the Aldbridge Branch of the fictional County & Provincial Bank. It originally aired in the late 1990s and is now a part of the PBS program lineup at some PBS stations, which call it The Boss. The program takes its name from the Peter Principle, that In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.







