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Phoebe Sarah Nicholls is an English film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her roles as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited and as the mother of John Merrick in The Elephant Man.
Birth Name
Sarah Phoebe Nicholls
Born
Sunday, 07 April 1957
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Widow Clicquot | 2024 | |
| Anatomy of a Scandal | Tuppence Whitehouse | 2022 |
| Chloe | Tiggy | 2022 |
| A Very British Scandal | Helen Whigham | 2021 |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Mrs. Wain / Mrs Wain | 2021 |
| The Empty Man | Nurse Allerton / Nurse | 2020 |
| The Man | Janice | 2019 |
| Mari | Margot | 2019 |
| Traitors | Frippy Symonds | 2019 |
| Berlin, I Love You | Capucine | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Widow Clicquot | 2024 | |
| Anatomy of a Scandal | Tuppence Whitehouse | 2022 |
| Chloe | Tiggy | 2022 |
| A Very British Scandal | Helen Whigham | 2021 |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Mrs. Wain / Mrs Wain | 2021 |
| The Empty Man | Nurse Allerton / Nurse | 2020 |
| The Man | Janice | 2019 |
| Mari | Margot | 2019 |
| Traitors | Frippy Symonds | 2019 |
| Berlin, I Love You | Capucine | 2019 |
| Finding Your Feet | Janet | 2018 |
| Chubby Funny | Aunty Jane | 2017 |
| Transformers: The Last Knight | Aunt Helen | 2017 |
| Starfish | Tom's Mother | 2016 |
| Doctor Thorne | Countess de Courcy | 2016 |
| Three Women Wait for Death | Miranda | 2016 |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Mrs Wintertowne | 2015 |
| Fortitude | Doctor Allerdyce | 2015 |
| Loving Miss Hatto | Mrs. Hatto / Mrs Hatto | 2012 |
| The Scapegoat | Charlotte | 2012 |
| Endeavour | Caroline Bryce-Morgan | 2012 |
| Downton Abbey | Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire | 2010 |
| The Road to Coronation Street | Mrs Simpson | 2010 |
| Clapham Junction | Natasha | 2007 |
| The Trial of Tony Blair | Cherie Blair | 2007 |
| Inspector Lewis | Caroline Croft | 2006 |
| The Brief | Sally Graydon | 2004 |
| Hawking | Isobel Hawking | 2004 |
| Prime Suspect: The Last Witness | Shaw | 2003 |
| New Tricks | Annie Banks | 2003 |
| Foyle's War | Amanda Reece | 2002 |
| MI-5 | Janet Wheeler | 2002 |
| Shackleton | Emily Shackleton | 2002 |
| The Miracle Maker | Old Woman / Mary | 2000 |
| I'm Alan Partridge | Karen Colman | 1997 |
| FairyTale: A True Story | Polly Wright | 1997 |
| Midsomer Murders | Laura Smythe-Webster | 1997 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Empress of Lilliput | 1996 |
| Persuasion | Elizabeth Elliot | 1995 |
| Kavanagh QC | Jackie Jarvis | 1995 |
| Heart of Darkness | The Intended | 1994 |
| 4 Play | Annabel in 'Tell Me More' | 1989 |
| Maurice | Anne Durham | 1987 |
| Ruth Rendell Mysteries | May Thrace | 1987 |
| Gentry | Susannah | 1987 |
| Screen Two | Sarah / Louie Jermy / Elizabeth Elliot | 1985 |
| Ordeal by Innocence | Tina Argyle | 1984 |
| Pictures | Babs | 1983 |
| Party Party | Rebecca | 1983 |
| Bouncing Back | 1983 | |
| The Missionary | Deborah Fitzbanks | 1982 |
| Brideshead Revisited | Cordelia Flyte / Lady Cordelia Flyte | 1981 |
| Blade on the Feather | Christabel Cavendish | 1980 |
| The Elephant Man | Merrick's Mother | 1980 |
| Tales of the Unexpected | Carol | 1979 |
| Secret Orchards | Stella | 1979 |
| Telford's Change | Jean | 1979 |
| Bless Me, Father | Nurse Owen | 1978 |
| Alternative 3 | Harry's Girlfriend | 1977 |
| Prometheus: The Life of Balzac | Augustine de Berny | 1975 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Geraldine | 1974 |
| Van der Valk | Treesje | 1972 |
| Women in Love | Winifred Crich | 1969 |
| Our Mother's House | Gerty / Gertie | 1967 |
| Dr. Terror's House of Horrors | Carol Rogers (segment "Creeping Vine") / Carol Rogers (segment 2 "Creeping Vine") | 1965 |
| The Pumpkin Eater | Elizabeth / Younger Elizabeth | 1964 |
