Pippa Haywood

Philippa Pippa Haywood is an English actress who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Haywood was born in Hatfield Hertfordshire She has an extensive television career which includes portraying the much putupon Helen Brittas in the BBC One comedy series The Brittas Empire 19911997 Julie Chadwick in the 2007 BBC Two comedy Fear Stress Anger and the hottempered sexmad human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing 20042006 for which she won the best comedy female performance award at the 2005 Rose dOr television festival in Lucerne Switzerland She has also done many dramatic roles including Jenny Thorne in the 1988 ITV drama serial The One Game and Mrs Upjohn in the 2008 Agatha Christies Poirot episode Cat Among the Pigeons In 2002 Haywood was a guest star in the last episode of the first series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries In 2007 she played the role of Veronica Gray in the first episode of the second series of Lewis and also had a guest role in a 2009 episode of Kingdom and portrayed the disgraced Miss Bunting in several episodes of the first series of Mr Selfridge 2013 Since 2012 she has played one of the lead roles Harriet on the BBC One drama Prisoners Wives and costarred as Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson on the ITV drama series Scott Bailey In 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV adaptation of EF Bensons Mapp and Lucia as Susan Wyse In 2015 Haywood took over the role of Helen Golightly in the longrunning BBC Radio 4 comedy Clare in the Community The character was previously played by Liza Tarbuck Haywood has also worked in film and theatre Recent stage credits include House Garden Private Lives A Midsummer Nights Dream The Winters Tale Requiem and Landscape with Weapon at the National Theatre She was then playing the lead role in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs On December 18th 2016 she starred in Midsomer Murders with Hugh Dennis