# Siobhan Redmond

Siobhan Redmond MBE (/ʃəˈvɔːn/ shə-VAWN; born 27 July 1959) is a Scottish actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and known for various stage, audio and television roles such as Anne Marie in Two Doors Down.

## Early life

Siobhan Redmond was born on 27 July 1959 in the Tollcross area of Glasgow, the second-eldest of three children to Charlotte Redmond, a drama teacher, and John Redmond, a university lecturer. She attended the Sunshine School of Dance and Park School for Girls in Glasgow's West End.
Redmond studied at the University of St Andrews, where she earned a Master of Arts in English. At university, she has said to have been 'discovered' by playwright Liz Lochhead while performing in a student Mermaids society production written by Marcella Evaristi. Redmond also completed a course in massage and undertook a postgraduate year at the Bristol Old Vic.

## Career

She began appearing on television in the early 1980s, firstly in the sketch show There's Nothing to Worry About! in 1982. She featured in two series of Alfresco in 1983 and 1984, but her first major television success was as George Bulman's assistant Lucy McGinty in Bulman (1985–1987). She played, among other roles, Maureen Connell in Between the Lines (1992–1994); Shona Spurtle in The High Life (1994–1995); Madame Sin in In the Red BBC TV adaptation of the novel (1998); Janice Taylor in Holby City (2000–2002), Sharon in The Smoking Room (2004–2005); Maeve Brown in EastEnders; clinical psychiatrist Pru Plunkett in Midsomer Murders; and Ailsa in Shoebox Zoo. She also appeared on radio including in the 2002 BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and as Jean Brash in BBC Radio 4's McLevy series.
Redmond is also a stage actress. In 2003, she starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom she appeared as Maria in Twelfth Night in 2007. She played Titania/Hippolyta for Shakespeare's Globe in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in its summer 2008 season.
In 2004, Redmond starred in the BBC TV series Sea of Souls as twin sisters Carol and Helen. Redmond appeared in the "Gingers for Justice" sketch on The Catherine Tate Show in 2005, and then again in 2006. In 2007, she joined The Bill as Crime Scene Examiner Lorna Hart, and in 2010, played one of the leads in David Greig's play Dunsinane, reprising her role for the BBC Radio 3 adaptation on 30 January 2011.
On 26 June 2014, it was announced that Redmond would play a new incarnation of the Rani, a villainous character in the long-running series Doctor Who, originally portrayed on television by Kate O'Mara, who had died earlier that year. Redmond's version of the Rani is featured in BBC-licensed audio dramas by Big Finish Productions including The Rani Elite (2014) and Planet of the Rani (2015).
In November 2014, Redmond joined Alun Armstrong and William Gaunt in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.
In 2018, Redmond appeared in three episodes in Series 3 of Unforgotten as Derran Finch, and in 2019, she appeared in the Acorn TV series Queens of Mystery as Jane Stone.
In January 2020, Redmond played the role of the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge in the ITV series Grantchester.
In 2021, Redmond starred in the BBC Scotland comedy pilot Beep alongside Lois Chimimba and Paul Higgins. She played Liz, a woman visiting her comatose husband on their anniversary, the programme exploring their dysfunctional family's dynamics.
In November 2022, Redmond joined the cast of Two Doors Down as Colin's new partner Anne Marie.
She appeared as Grey in the 2023 BBC comedy Rain Dogs.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Half Moon Street | Institute Secretary | |
| 1986 | Duet for One | Totter's wife | |
| 1994 | Captives | Sue | |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Midwife | |
| 1995 | Latin for a Dark Room | Maria McKillop | Short film |
| 1997 | Karmic Mothers - Fact or Fiction? | Jeanie | Short film |
| 1999 | Beautiful People | Kate Higgins | |
| 2013 | Mission | Carolyn Black | Short film |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Bumalig Hightopp | |
| 2018 | The Party's Just Beginning | Liusaidh's Mum | |
| 2018 | 2:Hrs | Lena Eidelhorn | |
| 2019 | Dark Sense | Amelia Watkins | |
| 2020 | Ghost Light | Woman in the Wings | Short film |
| 2020 | Fare Well | (voice) | Short film |
| 2021 | Creation Stories | Barbara McGee | |
| 2025 | One Night in the Bath | Kim | Post-production |
| TBA | Hogmany | Heather | Short film. Post-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1982 | There's Nothing to Worry About! | Various characters | Episodes 1–3 |
| 1983–1984 | Alfresco | Various characters | Series 1 & 2; 13 episodes |
| 1984 | End of the Line | Gail | Episode 4: "Sweet Nothings" |
| 1985–1987 | Bulman | Lucy McGinty | Series 1 & 2; 20 episodes |
| 1986 | Taggart | Judy Morris | Series 2; episodes 1 & 2: "Knife Edge: Parts One & Two" |
| 1988 | Turn on to T-Bag | Scoop Shuttleworth | Episode 5: "Pyramids" |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Clare Lafferty | Series 1; episode 4: "The Dunroamin' Rising" |
| 1988 | Casting Off | Gillian | Comedy series |
| 1989 | Hard Cases | Liz Norton | Series 2; episode 1 |
| 1989 | Look Back in Anger | Helena Charles | Television film |
| 1990 | The Gravy Train | British Wife | Mini-series; episode 1 |
| 1991 | 4 Play | Janet Cording | Series 2; episode 5: "Ball on the Slates" |
| 1991 | Casualty | Betty Jones | Series 6; episode 12: "Pressure! What Pressure?" |
| 1992 | The Bill | Sylvia Hannah | Series 8; episode 34: "Trial and Error" |
| 1992 | The Advocates | Janie Naismith | Series 2; episodes 1–3 |
| 1992–1994 | Between the Lines | DS Maureen Connell | Series 1–3; 35 episodes |
| 1994 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Presenter | Series 4; episode 5: "Eorpa" |
| 1994, 1995 | The High Life | Shona Spurtle | Pilot (1994), and episodes 1–6 (1995) |
| 1995 | Sorry About Last Night | Julie Cordova | Television film |
| 1995 | Screen Two | Joyce | Series 12; episode 4: "Nervous Energy" |
| 1996 | A Relative Stranger | Alison Fraiman | Television film |
| 1997 | Throwaways | Mother | Mini-series |
| 1997 | Wokenwell | Cheryl Cappler | Episode 1 |
| 1997 | Screen One | Jean Brodie | Special episode 6: "Deacon Brodie" |
| 1998 | In the Red | Ms. Sin | Mini-series; episodes 1–3 |
| 1999 | Every Woman Knows a Secret | Jess | Episodes 1–3 |
| 2000–2002 | Holby City | Janice Taylor | Series 3 & 4; 49 episodes |
| 2002 | Ed Stone Is Dead | Angela | Episode 10: "City of Angels" |
| 2004 | Sea of Souls | Carol Fleming / Helen Reid | Series 1; episodes 1 & 2: "Seeing Double: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2004 | Shoebox Zoo | Alisa the Adder (voice) | Series 1; episodes 1–13 |
| 2004–2005 | The Smoking Room | Sharon | Series 1 & 2; 13 episodes |
| 2005 | The Afternoon Play | Donna Cline | Series 3; episode 2: "The Trouble with George |
| 2005 | The Catherine Tate Show | Ginger Refuge Lady | Series 2; episode 1: "Ginger Bigotry" |
| 2006 | Midsomer Murders | Pru Plunkett | Series 9; episode 8: "Last Year's Model" |
| 2006 | New Tricks | Christine Gascoine | Series 3; episode 1: "Lady's Pleasure" |
| 2006 | EastEnders | Maeve Brown | 3 episodes |
| 2007 | The Lift | Christabel | Television film |
| 2007 | The Bill | CSE Lorna Hart | Series 23; 13 episodes |
| 2007–2015 | Nina and the Neurons | Ollie the Smell Neuron (voice) | Series 1, 3 & 7–11; 55 episodes |
| 2009 | Boy Meets Girl | Psychiatrist | Mini-series; episode 3 |
| 2009 | Theatre Live! | Mary | Episode 1: "Mind Away" |
| 2010 | Taggart | Chief Supt. Karen Campbell | Series 27; episodes 1–4 & 6 |
| 2012 | Benidorm | Hazel | Series 5; episode 5 |
| 2012 | The Town | Kate Nicholas | Mini-series; episode 1 |
| 2013 | Bob Servant Independent | Dr. Walker | Mini-series; episode 5: "The Debate" |
| 2013 | Doctors | Carrie Garland | Series 14; episode 219: "Tea for Three" |
| 2013 | Case Histories | Mary Mackie | Series 2; episode 2: "Nobody's Darling" |
| 2015 | Code of a Killer | Joy Blakefield | Mini-series; episode 2 |
| 2017 | The Replacement | Beth | Mini-series; episodes 1–3 |
| 2017 | Clique | University Dean | Series 1; episode 6 |
| 2018 | Lovesick | Janie Witter | Series 3; episode 5: "Martha" |
| 2018 | Unforgotten | Derran Finch | Series 3; episodes 4–6 |
| 2019–2021 | Queens of Mystery | Jane Stone | Series 1 & 2; 12 episodes |
| 2020 | Grantchester | Andrea Shaw | Series 5; episode 1 |
| 2020 | The Nest | Sheriff | Mini-series; episode 5 |
| 2021 | Beep | Liz | Television film |
| 2021 | Midsomer Murders | Ronnie Everett | Series 22; episode 1: "The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy" |
| 2022 | Inside No. 9 | Matilda | Series 7; episode 3: "Nine Lives Kat" |
| 2022 | The Scotts | Cynthia | Series 2; episode 4 |
| 2022 | Two Doors Down | Anne-Marie | Series 6; 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Rain Dogs | Grey | Episodes 7 & 8: "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" and "This Is Not an Exit" |
| 2023 | Sister Boniface Mysteries | Miss Fitz D'Arcy | Series 3; episode 1: "The Star of the Orient" |
| 2025 | Death in Paradise | Francesca Bower | Series 14; episode 4 |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Company | Director | Notes |
| 1990 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | Renaissance Theatre Company | Kenneth Brannagh | play by William Shakespeare |
| 1990 | King Lear | Goneril | Renaissance Theatre Company | Kenneth Brannagh | play by William Shakespeare |
| 2011 | Dunsinane | Gruach | National Theatre of Scotland / Royal Shakespeare Company | Roxana Silbert | play by David Greig |
| 2014 | Exit the King | Marguerite | Ustinov Studio, Bath | Laurence Boswell | play by Eugène Ionesco |

## Honours

Redmond was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her alma mater, the University of St Andrews, in 2000. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama.