Phillipa Haywood (6 May 1961) (usually credited as Pippa Haywood) is an English actress best known for her roles in The Brittas Empire and Green Wing.
Her first on-screen appearance was in the 1980s sitcom Home James, proceeding to getting bit roles in shows and movies such as Brush Strokes and the ITV serial The One Game before she ended up being picked to play Helen Brittas in The Brittas Empire. Haywood is featured in almost every episode of the sitcom with the exception of "Playing with Fire", with the explanation that her character had gone away on holiday. Additionally, she also shows up in an episode of the Spin-Off Get Fit with Brittas.
Haywood is also best known for playing the sex-crazed Joanna Clore in Green Wing, a role for which she won the "best comedy female performance" award for at the 2005 Rose d'Or television festival.
In addition to her bit roles in TV shows such as My Family, Poirot, and Bodyguard (UK 2018), Haywood has featured in several theatre plays and has done voice-over work for the Big Finish line of Big Finish Doctor Who.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Film- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) — Mrs. Long
- Four Kids And It (2020) — Bookshop Owner
TV Shows
- She-Wolf of London, episode "The Wild Hunt" (1990)— Betty Biddles
- The Brittas Empire, 51 episodes (1991-97) — Helen Brittas
- The House of Eliott, 1 episode (1992) — Clara Rhoades
- Budgie the Little Helicopter, 39 episodes (1994-96) — Mrs. Kitchen
- Jonathan Creek, episode "Danse Macabre" (1998) — Lorna Claithorne
- Goodnight Sweetheart, episode "Pennies from Heaven" (1998) — Mrs. Kate Flanagan
- The Bill, 5 episodes:
- "Under the Grill" (1998) — Sergeant Strong
- "Hitting Home" (2001) — Saffron James
- 2 episodesshow list (2003) — Celia Barrett
- "Unforgiven" (2009) — Trudy Vincent
- Mike & Angelo, episode "Taking the Plunge" (2000) — Tiara Thickerton-Plank
- Dalziel and Pascoe, 4 episodesshow list (2000) — ACC Rebecca Fenning
- Holby City, episode "The Real Thing" (2000) — Siân Wooldridge
- My Family, episode "Much Ado About Ben" (2000) — Doreen
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, episode "Missing Joseph" (2002) — Juliet Spence
- Green Wing, 18 episodes (2004-06) — Joanna Clore
- New Tricks, episode "Buried Treasure" (2007) — Jackie Small
- Marple, episode "Ordeal by Innocence" (2007) — Mrs. Price
- Lewis, episode "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea" (2008) — Veronica Gray
- Lost in Austen, 1 episode (2008) — Frankie
- The Wrong Door, 6 episodesshow list (2008) — Lady Libido
- Poirot, episode "Cat Among the Pigeons" (2008) — Mrs. Upjohn
- Kingdom, 2 episodes (2009) — Mrs. Anderson
- Scott & Bailey, 11 episodes (2012-16) — DSI Julie Dodson
- Mr Selfridge, 7 episodes (2013) — Miss Bunting
- CASUAL+Y, episode "Falling: Part Two" (2014) — Peggy Raeburn
- Mapp and Lucia, 3 episodes (2014) — Susan Wyse MBE
- Silent Witness, 4 episodesshow list (2015) — Justine Greenwood
- Porridge, 5 episodesshow list (2016-17) — Governor Hallwood
- Midsomer Murders, episode "The Village That Rose from the Dead" (2016) — Andrea Craven
- Death in Paradise, episode "Murder on the Day of the Dead" (2018) — Charlotte Hamilton
- Stath Lets Flats, episode "A Completely Football" (2018) — Antonia
- Bodyguard, 5 episodes (2018) — Chief Superintendent Lorraine Craddock
- Agatha Raisin, episode "The Curious Curate" (2019) — Reverend Grace Lancing
- Plebs, episode "The Paedos" (2019) — Antonia
- Father Brown, episode "The Queen Bee" (2020) — Eileen Slither
- Bridgerton, episode "Swish" (2020) — Mrs. Colson
- Feel Good, 4 episodes (2020-21) — Felicity
- Magpie Murders, 6 episodes (2022) — Claire Jenkins/Clarissa Pye
- Trigger Point, 1 episode (2022) — Dr. MacAndrew
