Ellen Thomas

In 2005 Ellen filmed Trial and Retribution (ITV); Casualty (BBC); The Marchioness Disaster (YTV); recorded Silver Street (BBC Radio Birmingham); Clare in the Community and features in Basic Instinct 2.  Theatre credits include Tiata Delights 06 (Tiata Fahodzi); Blest Be the Tie (Royal Court); The Vagina Monologues (national tour); Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Bitter Herb (Bristol Old Vic); Amen Corner (Tricycle/Nottingham); Sisters (Channel 4 Sitcom Festival, Riverside Studios); Criminals in Love (Contact); Leonara’s Dance (Black Theatre Co-operative); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Almeida Theatre); The American Clock and Fuente Ovejuna (both at the National Theatre); Echo in the Bone (The Women’s Playhouse Trust at the Lyric Hammersmith); and Twelfth Night (Birmingham Rep). Television credits include fourth series of Teachers (Channel 4); Lenny Henry In Pieces and Lenny Henry Christmas Show (BBC); Holby City (BBC); The Bill (ITV); The Jury (Granada); Buried Treasure (LWT); William & Mary, Hidden City, Never Never (Channel 4); Active Defence (Granada); Where There’s Smoke (Carlton); Ultraviolet (Channel 4); the regular character of Diane Simmons in London Bridge, Holding On (BBC); Kavannagh QC III, Ruth Rendell’s Simisola, Beck (BBC); three series of Cardiac Arrest (BBC); The Lenny Henry Show (BBC); French & Saunders (BBC); Hallelujah Anyhow (BBC). Other Film credits include South West Nine; the award-winning Wonderland; Some Voices, Secret Laughter of Women and Breaking and Entering. Ellen was nominated for Best Actress in EMMA Awards 2003 & 2004, Screen Nation 2003 and Black Media Awards 2002.

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