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Annette Badland

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Annette Badland is an English actress known for a wide range of roles on TV, radio and film. She has played Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2005), Doomsday Dora in The Sparticle Mystery (2011), Birdie Henshall in the drama series Cutting It (2002), Mavis in season 6 of Skins (2007), Ursula Crowe in children's science fiction/fantasy series Wizards vs. Aliens (2012), and Babe Smith in soap opera EastEnders (1985). Badland plays Hazel Woolley in BBC Radio The Archers.

Her training took place at East 15 Acting School, London. She has appeared in many television roles including Bergerac (1981) (1981-1984), two episodes of the sitcom series 2point4 Children (1991), Making Out (1989), Summerhill (2008), Lace (1984), Jackanory (1965), Archer's Goon (1992), The Demon Headmaster (1996), A Little Princess (1986), The Worst Witch (1998), The Queen's Nose (1995) and Coronation Street (1960), as well as an early appearance in series one of Hale and Pace (1986) in a number of sketches. In 1989, Badland also appeared in The Rough and the Smooth (1989). She played the recurring villain Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen a.k.a. "Margaret Blaine" in the 2005 series of Doctor Who. She also provides commentary on the Doctor Who Complete Series One Box Set, on the episodes "World War Three" and "Boom Town" as a Slitheen.

In 2006 she put in an appearance at Larkhall Prison for the eighth series of ITV1 drama Bad Girls (1999). She played Angela Robbins, a disturbing inmate who was suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

She has also appeared in many films including Jabberwocky (1977), Out of Order (1987), Beyond Bedlam (1994), Captives (1994), Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995), Little Voice (1998), Beautiful People (1999), Honest (2000), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and appeared in the TV adaptations of Gulliver's Travels (1996) as the farmer's wife, and A Christmas Carol (1999) as Mrs Fezziwig. Badland has performed in several radio dramas including BBC Radio 4's Rolling Home (2001), Smelling of Roses (2003) and an adaptation of George MacDonald's novel At the Back of the North Wind; lead role as DC Gwen Danbury in An Odd Body on BBC Radio 4 Extra. In 2005 she took over the role of Hazel Woolley, the "bad seed" adopted daughter of Jack Woolley in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers, and in 2008 appeared in the radio serial The Way We Live Right Now as Tilly Carbury.

Badland was also the presenter of BBC's You and Me in the early 1990s and appeared in the British comedy Three and Out released on 25 April 2008. She also played the sharply conservative Ethel Tonks in the BBC's All the Small Things (2009) (April/May 2009) alongside Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Sarah Alexander and Bryan Dick. In 2009 she appeared in Casualty (1986) as a disturbed mother who was always worrying about her daughters.

She has made her debut at the Royal Exchange Theatre, in Manchester, as Madame Arcarti in Blithe Spirit.

In 2010, Badland performed in Caryl Churchill's Far Away at the Bristol Old Vic.

On 5 July 2010 she appeared as a Verger in Doctors (2000). In 2012, Badland appeared as Ursula in the new CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens. She was also in BBC's Cutting It, for 4 series.

In the CBBC hit show The Sparticle Mystery, Badland played DoomsDay Dora and HoloDora. She appeared in four episodes as DoomsDay Dora and eight episodes as HoloDora.

In August 2013 it was announced that Badland would play the role of Mrs FitzGibbons in the Starz television series Outlander (2014).

On 12 December 2013, it was announced that Badland would appear as a regular in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, playing Babe Smith. She made her first on-screen appearance in the episode broadcast on 31 January 2014. On 18 September 2016, it was announced that Badland had been axed from the serial by new executive producer, Sean O'Connor, with the character making her final appearance on 9 February 2017.
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Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, AnnaSophia Robb, Julia Winter, Jordan Fry, and Philip Wiegratz in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
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Ted Lasso (2020)
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Terence Alexander, Sean Arnold, Annette Badland, Deborah Grant, Lindsay Heath, Celia Imrie, David Kershaw, Geoffrey Leesley, Thérèse Liotard, Nancy Mansfield, Tony Melody, John Nettles, Cécile Paoli, John Telfer, and Mela White in Bergerac (1981)
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Amelia Shankley in A Little Princess (1986)
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  • Neil Dudgeon and John Nettles in Midsomer Murders (1997)
    Midsomer Murders
  • John Pickering in Mercy (2022)
    Mercy
  • Night of the Broken (2022)
    Night of the Broken
  • Henry House
  • Dylan Llewellyn in Big Boys (2022)
    Big Boys
  • Inside No. 9 (2014)
    Inside No. 9
  • Ted Lasso (2020)
    Ted Lasso
  • Emilia Fox in Silent Witness (1996)
    Silent Witness
  • Getting Better (2021)
    Getting Better
  • Whitstable Pearl (2021)
    Whitstable Pearl
  • Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
    The Crown
  • Samuel Barnett in The Act (2020)
    The Act
  • Kit Harington in Criminal: UK (2019)
    Criminal: UK
  • Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger in C.B. Strike (2017)
    C.B. Strike
  • Angela Lonsdale, Eva Alexander, and Tom Frederic in Doctors (2000)
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    • August 26, 1950
    • Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
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    She acted in Arnold Wesker's play, "The Kitchen," at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Lorraine Ashbourne, Christopher Fulford, Dimitri Andreas, Sam Beazley, Ewan Hooper, Teddy Kempner, Dermot Kerrigan, and Timothy Kightly in the cast. Stephen Daldry was director.

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    Trained at the East 15 Acting School on the outskirts of London.

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