# Andrea Mason (actress)

Andrea Mason (born 1968) is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of W.P.C. Debbie Keane in The Bill between 1995 and 1998. She has also made guest appearances in other television series including Clocking Off and William and Mary, as well as portraying various characters in Holby City, Doctors and Emmerdale on various occasions.

## Career

Mason began her acting career in 1994, and her first credited role was as Laurie Henderson in the CITV children's television series Three Seven Eleven, and later that year appeared in the television film The Whipping Boy. In 1995, she played a receptionist in an episode of in the crime drama She's Out, before joining the cast of the ITV police procedural television series The Bill as W.P.C. Debbie Keane, a role she went on to play for the next three years. Following her departure, she appeared in an episode of Holby City in 1999.
During the early 2000s, she made various guest appearances in an array of television shows and films including Eisenstein (2000), Doctors (2001), Always and Everyone (2002), and William Mary (2003), as well as making a further appearance in Holby City as Mia Goodall. In 2004, she appeared in an episode of Coronation Street, before securing the role of Lesley Shooter in the crime drama In Denial of Murder. In 2006, she appeared in episodes of Wire in the Blood and a further episode of Doctors.
In 2012, Mason returned to Doctors, and went on to appear in the medical drama on a further two occasions in 2017 and 2023, the latter of which was in the guest role of Frankie Sharp. She has also appeared in WPC 56, DCI Banks and Casualty, as well as two stints in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. In 2019, she appeared on The Bill podcast to discuss her experiences.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Three Seven Eleven | Laurie Harrison | 1 episode |
| 1994 | The Whipping Boy | Molly | Television film |
| 1995 | She's Out | Receptionist | 1 episode |
| 1995–1998 | The Bill | Debbie Keane | Main role |
| 1999 | Holby City | Mia Goodall | Episode: "Never Judge a Book..." |
| 2000 | Eisenstein | Elena | Film |
| 2001 | Doctors | Carol Boyd | Episode: "Giving Up" |
| 2002 | Always and Everyone | Sarah da Costa | Episode: "The Last Will and Testament of Robert Kingsford" |
| 2003 | Holby City | Beth Waller | Episode: "Wonderland" |
| 2003 | William and Mary | Ella Patterson | 1 episode |
| 2004 | Coronation Street | Jordanna James | Guest role |
| 2004 | In Denial of Murder | Lesley Shooter | Main role |
| 2006 | Wire in the Blood | Linda Ignatieff | Episode: "Time to Murder and Create" |
| 2006 | Doctors | Gina Santander | Episode: "The Man of the Family" |
| 2012 | Doctors | Sheila Foster | Episode: "Entente Cordiale" |
| 2013 | WPC 56 | Gladys Campbell | Episode: "Sink or Swim" |
| 2014, 2022 | Emmerdale | Prosecution Barrister / Saskia's Barrister | Recurring role |
| 2015 | DCI Banks | Kelly | Episode: "Buried: Part 2" |
| 2017 | Doctors | Gwyneth Pearson | Episode: "Tough Love" |
| 2022 | Casualty | Ellen Dawn | Episode: "Judgement Call" |
| 2023 | Doctors | Frankie Sharp | Recurring role |
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## Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1993 | Volpone | Molly | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| 1993 | Othello | Celia | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| 1994 | The Hairy Ape | Aunt | Bristol Old Vic |
| 2001 | The Relapse | Abigail | Royal National Theatre |
| 2009 | Harvest | Mam / W.A.C. | Rho Delta |
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