Angela Curran

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1976–present

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| television = Doc Martin
This Is Jinsy
The Job Lot
Waffle the Wonder Dog

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Angela Curran is an English actress, known for Death at a Funeral (2007), Jane Eyre (2011) and The Danish Girl (2015).

Life and career

In 2003, Curran had her own one woman show, Happy Talk, broadcast on Radio 3.{{Cite web |url=https://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/F3250.html |title=ANGELA CURRAN |publisher=Spotlight |access-date=12 May 2017}}

She appeared as security guard Janette in 18 episodes of the ITV sitcom The Job Lot which aired in 2013.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-actor-russell-tovey-star-new-itv-sitcom260412/ |title=Gay actor Russell Tovey to star in new ITV sitcom |last=Reid Smith |first=Tris |publisher=Gay Star News |access-date=12 May 2017 |archive-date=30 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730000316/https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-actor-russell-tovey-star-new-itv-sitcom260412/ |url-status=dead }} Curran's television and film work includes Doc Martin as Caitlin Morgan, Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Calendar Girls (2003) as May, Emmerdale as Babs Mowbray, The Iron Lady (2011) and Mike Leigh's Naked (1993), Secrets & Lies (1996), Vera Drake (2004) as a prisoner, Agatha Christie's Poirot “The Hollow” as Frances Simms, (2011) and Mr. Turner (2014).{{Cite web |url=https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-restoration-of-nell-gwyn/cast |title=The Restoration of Nell Gwyn |publisher=Park Theatre |access-date=12 May 2017}}

Curran worked on several occasions with Victoria Wood, including on an episode of Dinnerladies in 1999 and in the TV film Eric and Ernie{{Cite web |url=http://www.memorabletv.com/tv/eric-ernie-bbc-2-jan-1-2011-daniel-rigby-bryan-dick/ |title=Eric and Ernie (BBC-2 Jan 1, 2011, Daniel Rigby, Bryan Dick) |date=8 June 2016 |access-date=2017-10-17}} in 2011.

In 2016, Curran appeared in The Restoration of Nell Gwyn at Park Theatre (London).{{Cite web |url=http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-the-restoration-of-nell-gwynn-at-park-theatre/ |title=Review: The Restoration of Nell Gwyn at Park Theatre |last=Clark |first=Ed |publisher=Exeunt Magazine |access-date=13 May 2017}}

As of 2018, Curran has played Mrs Hobbs in the CBeebies show Waffle the Wonder Dog. Curran appeared in an episode of Coronation Street in 2019,{{Cite web |url=https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1138796/Coronation-Street-spoilers-Roy-Cropper-ring-mum-Wayne-Hayes-Corrie-watch-ITV |title=Coronation Street spoilers: Roy Cropper exits following secret family bombshell |last=Johnson |first=Amy |date=2019-06-11 |website=Express.co.uk |language=en |access-date=2019-07-27}} as well as an episode of Doctors as Hannah Homewood in May 2021.{{cite news |last1=Timblick |first1=Simon |title=Doctors spoilers: Will Valerie Pitman QUIT her job? |url=https://www.whatsontv.co.uk/events/doctors-spoilers-valerie-pitman-quit-job/ |access-date=5 May 2021 |work=What's on TV |publisher=Future plc}}

Filmography

= Television series =

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1977–1979 \|Play for Today \|Sandra / Rita / Woman in window \|(3 episodes)
1979 \|The Mill on the Floss \|Prissy Jakin \|(2 episodes)
1990 \|Close to Home \|Jenny \|Series 2
1999 \|Dinnerladies \|Customer \|(1 episode)
2000 \|Where the Heart Is \|Pub Landlady \|(3 episodes)
2004 \|Foyle's War \|Nurse Jenny Wright \|('A War of Nerves' - Series 3)
2005 \|Emmerdale \|Babs Mowbray \|(1 episode)
2005, 2010, 2021 \|Doctors \|Marie Williams / Mrs Janet Davies / Hannah Homewood \|(4 episodes)
2005, 2011 \|Casualty \|Cora Ryder / Janice Simons \|(2 episodes)
2006 \|Dream Team 80's \|Ruthie Glover \|(2 episodes)
2008 \|Holby City \|Jennifer Tennyson \|(1 episode)
2009, 2017, 2019 \|Doc Martin \|Caitlin Morgan \|(11 episodes)
2011 \|This Is Jinsy \|Jinsy Player \|(8 episodes)
2013–2015 \|The Job Lot \|Janette \|(All 18 episodes)
rowspan="2"\|2013 \|Vera \| Verger (uncredited) \|1 episode
Man Down \|Vicar \|(1 episode, Christmas Special)
2016 \|Marley's Ghosts \|Mrs Busby \|(1 episode)
2017 \|Hospital People \|Geraldine \|(3 episodes)
2018–2020 \|Waffle the Wonder Dog \|Mrs Hobbs \|(46 episodes)
2019 \|Coronation Street \|Alice Parrott \|(1 episode)
2025 \|EastEnders \|Norma \|Current
2025 \|Beyond Paradise \|Angela Palmer \|(1 episode)

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Year

! Title

! Role

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1977–1979

|Play for Today

|Sandra / Rita / Woman in window

|(3 episodes)

1979

|The Mill on the Floss

|Prissy Jakin