Jill Halfpenny
Acting
Biography
Jill Halfpenny is a British stage, film and television actress, best known for playing roles in British soap operas "Coronation Street" and "EastEnders" as well as television series' such as "Waterloo Road" and "In The Club".
Born: July 15, 1975
Place of Birth: Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Known For
Inside No. 9
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Inspector George Gently
Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.
The Omid Djalili Show
The Omid Djalili Show was a British sketch comedy/stand-up comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. Writing by Omid Djalili, Will Smith, Roger Drew, Ian Stone, Ricky Grover with script editor Steve Punt. The theme tune is a piece of Salsa music called "Amor Verdadero", performed by the Afro-Cuban All Stars. It was first broadcast on 17 November 2007 in the network's primetime Saturday night slot. It is also broadcast in Australia on ABC1, in Denmark on DR2, in Estonia on ETV2 in 2010, in Israel on yes stars Comedy, in Germany on WDR and in Portugal on RTP2. The second series was recorded late 2008, and was first broadcast on 20 April 2009 at 10.35pm on BBC One. The show was axed in 2010.
Shameless
The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help and find it in Steve, a young middle class lad who falls for Fiona, the oldest sibling, and increasingly finds himself drawn to this unconventional and unique family. Anarchic family life seen through the eyes of an exceptionally bright fifteen year old, who struggles to come of age in the context of his belligerent father, closeted brother, psychotic sister and internet porn star neighbors.
The Long Shadow
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Death in Paradise
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
Humans
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Vera
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Three Girls
The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities directly responsible for protecting them, and how they eventually made themselves heard.
Lightfields
The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.
Filmography
as Eve Riser
as Self - Narrator
as Self - Narrator
as Emma Barnett
as DCI Ann Fletcher
as Sian Gregson
as DS Sam Bradley
as Doreen Hill
as Roisin
as Kate
as Jodie
as Sam Mensah
as Flora Wilson
as Lara ‘Liplock’ Anderson
as Peggy Van Rhys (voice)
as Jennifer Robertson
as Julie Winshaw
as Jill Drummond
as Diane
as Jennie
as Martha Felwood
as Suzy
as Naomi Walker
as Maggie Warnock
as Herself
as Cora Davidson
as Herself
as Izzie Redpath
as Roxy Benson
as Jackie Holroyd
as Self
as Tina
as Tara Connolly
as Kelly
as Self
as Mitzi Wyler
as Brittany
as Self
as Kate
as Lisa Collett