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Year: 2002/03
Type: Action Drama Series
Character: Beth Dow
Episodes: The Killing House [Series 1] and Mad Dogs, What in the name of god [Series 2]
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Synopsis: Action drama series about the elite SAS Red Troop led by Sergeant Henno Garvie [Ross Kemp]. Liz played Beth, the younger sister of Red Troop SAS trooper Jamie Dow[Jamie Draven]. Beth and younger brother Peter turn to Jamie for help when their step-father Conrad becomes violent.
Year: 2002
Type: Comedy Drama Series
Character: Lorraine
Episodes: "Bridging the gap" and "Heavy Metal"
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Synopsis: Following on 15 years after the original series ended, the new series managed to bring back all bar one of the original series characters. Liz played Lorraine, secretary to Neville at Nevenda Homes.
Year: 2002
Type: Prime-time Medical Drama Series
Character: Mandy
Status: Aired ITV1 2002. Not available on dvd.
Episodes: Episode 1 of Series 4
Find out more : "Always and Everyone" section of the Michael Kitchen site
Synopsis: Liz made a one scene appearance as Mandy, the girlfriend of junior Doctor Danny Barton [James Murray].
Year: 2003
Type: Comedy Drama Series
Character: Eileen
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Episodes: 7, 8, 9 and 11 of Series 3
Synopsis: "Hugely successful comedy drama following the chaotic lives of a group of perpetually juvenile teachers, whose specialist subjects include beer-drinking, kebab-eating and ineptness with members of the opposite sex." - Channel 4 website.
Liz played Eileen, the "fit dinnerlady", who is introduced in Episode 7. PE teacher Brian [Adrian Bower]fancies her and asks his friend Simon [Andrew Lincoln] to ask her out for him, but she dates Simon instead. She makes brief appearances in Episodes 8 and 9, where Brian is trying to forget her but is failing miserably. In episode 11, Brian finally gets a date with Eileen after he sticks up for her when Bob is whinging about the canteen food.
Year: 2004
Type: Contemporary Drama Series
Character: Paula Roberts
Status: Shown on BBC1 September/October 2004. A dvd release was planned for R2 in 2007 but was dropped from the schedules.
Synopsis from the BBC Press Office:
"Told through the eyes of hopeless romantic Gary Scant (Paul Nicholls), the six-part serial charts his journey with his earthy working class friends and family as he tries to comprehend the mysteries of the human heart.
The supporting cast includes: Ben Miles, Roy Barraclough, Kaye Wragg, Chris Gascoyne, Karl Collins and newcomer Liz White.
Close to his mates and family, happy with his long-term girlfriend Mel (Wragg), life seems almost perfect for painter and decorator Gary Scant.
But when a night out with the lads from football takes an unexpected turn, Gary's comfortable notions about true love are shattered.
This sets him on a quest to find his soul mate - and a love that demands no compromise.
Joining him on this journey is his close friend Paula (White), the only person who truly understands him."
Year: 2004
Type: Crime Drama Series
Character: Vicki Swift
Episodes: "Lonely" - Episode 4 of Series 2
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Synopsis from the ABC website:
"When Diane Cooper, a child minder is found stabbed in the neck at her home there is a pool of urine at the top of the stairs. DCI Janine Lewis (Caroline Quentin) tracks down Diane's sister Natalie (Lisa Millet) who tells her Dianne, stole her fiancé, Will (Dean Andrews). A new detective, Vicki Swift (Liz White) teams with Shap (Nicholas Murchie) and they discover that Diane recently went speed dating.
Shap and Vicki interview Bob (Ralph Ineson) and Matilda Unwin (Maggie O'Neill), the parents of 12-year-old Fergus, the child Diane was looking after on the day she was murdered. It turns out Fergus wet himself. At last the team has a witness. But Fergus's parents explain that he can't help them. He is autistic and refuses to communicate with anyone.
DI Richard Mayne (Ian Kelsey) discovers that Will had a restraining order preventing him from contacting Diane. Will shrugs it off and claims he hadn't seen Diane for months, but both Bob and Larry (Kevin Doyle), Diane's landlord, suggest he was pestering her. Then Richard informs Janine that Will's car has been run off the road - someone has tried to kill him. Janine now has two crimes to solve."
Year: 2004
Type: Film
Character: Pamela Barnes
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Find out more: Official website
Synopsis from imdb.com:
"Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel."
When Pamela Barnes suffers complications after her illegal abortion, she's admitted to hospital where the doctors question her mother to find out what really happened.
Year: 2006/07
Type: Time-travelling Crime Drama series!
Character: Annie Cartwright
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Find out more: BBC1 Official website | BBC America website | Bravo website
Synopsis: Award winning series from the BBC starring John Simm as policeman Sam Tyler who after being hit by a car in 2006, is thrown back in time to 1973...or is he?! Liz appeared in both series of the show as Annie Cartwright, Sam Tyler's main confidant in 1973. In the first series Annie was a WPC, the second series saw her promoted to WDC.
Year: 2006
Type: Contemporary Drama
Character: Eileen Harper
Episodes: Episode 1 of Series 1
Status: Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK
Synopsis from the BBC1 website: "Angela Quinn (Jane Horrocks) is a mum of three. She's looking for some extra-marital excitement, outside her safe, but boring, marriage to Arthur (Daniel Ryan). She finds friend and neighbour Peter Harper (Shaun Dooley) only too happy to oblige.
Together, they indulge in breakfast sessions of sex, chocolate and escapism from the struggle and monotony of family life.
But a driving accident in the street, involving Angela's lover, throws her emotions into turmoil and leaves her family devastated.
Peter knocks down Angela's daughter, who ends up in a coma. She pulls through but is left in a wheelchair. Peter denies any blame, and a court finds him not guilty of dangerous driving. But he admits to Angela he was distracted while driving past her house by thinking of their intimacy.
Angela ensures Peter is punished by telling his wife Eileen (Liz White) about their affair. Eileen chucks him out, while Arthur stands by Angela."
Year: 2006
Type: Crime Drama Series
Character: Laura Morris
Episodes: Episode 2 of Series 2
Status: Aired on ITV1 Autumn 2006. Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Synopsis from the Granada Ventures website:
Vincent is employed by cheating husband, Paul Hewitt, who fell for honey trap
Laura, as she seduced and drugged him before running off with his wedding ring.
Vincent turns the tables and honey traps Laura.
Fairytales: The Empress's New Clothes
Year: 2008
Type: Comedy/Drama
Character: Shannon
Status: Aired January 08 on BBC1. Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Find out more: BBC NI official website
Synopsis from the official website:
"A young couple move from their idyllic country home to a new town, changing their lives in ways they never imagined.
Shannon has been busy raising the couple's two children and has started to feel frustrated with her life. Stuck at home, she regularly loses herself in her favourite soap, Empire State, and her favourite character, ruthless businesswoman Meredith McQueen.
Shannon's husband, Jake, is the new chef at the local hip restaurant, Arbel's, and she is stunned to find that her idol, Empire State actress Michaela Carr, is a regular there. Despite the controlling nature of Michaela's entourage, Shannon and Michaela strike up an unlikely friendship.
When Michaela's on- and off-screen rival, Shekeelia Shah, is rumoured to be attending the Silver Sphere Awards Ceremony that Michaela is going to, Michaela and her entourage are determined to outshine her. Michaela has to be wearing "the dress" and Shekeelia has to be red-carpet road kill.
Shannon spots Shekeelia sneaking into the new designer clothes emporium and informs Michaela and the entourage. She then hatches a plan to win an exclusive deal with the new designers. They will design "the dress" for Michaela and nobody else. What nobody realises is that the new "designers" are fakes who are selling market-stall items as designer one-offs. They've been had – but will any of these fashionistas be able to tell the difference?"
Year: 2008
Type: Crime Drama Series
Character: Jess Mercer
Status: Aired on ITV1 March/April 08. Out on Region 2 DVD in the UK.
Find out more: ITV1 Official website
Synopsis:
John Mercer[Andrew Buchan] is an ex-Special Forces soldier serving a double life-sentence for murdering his Aunt and Uncle who'd subjected his sister Jess to years of physical abuse. He's released from prison early to work as a hitman [fixer] for the shadowy former policeman Lenny Jameson[Ptere Mullen]. Lenny's team also includes Callum [Jody Latham], a petty thief, and Rose [Tamzin Outhwaite]. The Fixer is an action-packed, high-octane series that asks whether operating outside the usual parameters of the law - under the pretext of protecting it - can ever be justified.
New Town Killers
Year: 2008
Type: Film
Character: Alice
Status: Premiered at London Film Festival October 08
Find out more: Richard Jobson website
Synopsis:
Thriller written and directed by Richard Jobson and starring Dougray Scott and Alistair MacKenzie.
"A tale of two Edinburgh bankers who kill for kicks, choosing their victims from the lowest rung of society: junkies, rent boys and alcoholics"
Year: 2008
Type: Classic Crime Drama
Character: Jennifer Fortescue
Status: Due to air in England sometime in 2009. Premiers in Ireland on RTE1 in November.
Find out more: ITV Marple website.
Synopsis: First in the new series of 'Marple' with Julia Mckenzie in the title role. In this story the murders are following the pattern of the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence".
