Emma Cunniffe
{{short description|English actress (born 1973)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Emma Cunniffe
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|7|3|df=y}}
| birth_place= Chester, England
| occupation = Actress
| spouse = {{marriage|Rufus Jones|2008}}
}}
Emma Cunniffe (born 3 July 1973) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Early life
Cunniffe was raised in Frodsham, Cheshire and attended Frodsham High School.{{cite news |last1=Flint |first1=Rachel |title=Frodsham born Emma Cunniffe will be performing in Ibsen's ground-breaking play A Doll's House this February |url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/frodsham-born-emma-cunniffe-performing-5197246 |access-date=5 February 2022 |publisher=Cheshire Live |date=23 July 2013}} She was in the local Frodsham panto group whilst growing up and was once in a pantomime with Gary Barlow. Originally it was dance she was into, until she went to theatre school at the age of 13 and fell in love with drama. {{cite web |title=Frodsham's Emma Cunniffe - Playing in a Doll's House |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/frodsham-39-s-emma-cunniffe-playing-in-a-doll-s-7093720 |website=Great British Life |date=7 February 2011 |access-date=5 February 2022}}
Career
Her television credits include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates (Chrissie in 'Safe as Houses', 1996), The Lakes (BBC 1997, 1999), "Biddy" in a TV adaptation of Great Expectations, All the King's Men, Clash of the Santas, alongside Robson Green and Mark Benton, Clocking Off (BBC), and Flesh and Blood with Christopher Eccleston.{{cite web|title=Emma Cunniffe |work=Drama Faces |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/emma_cunniffe.shtml |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623124153/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/emma_cunniffe.shtml |archivedate=23 June 2006 }}
She played DS Tina Murray in New Tricks (S3:E4 Diamond Geezers, 2006.). She also appeared in the sixth series Doctor Who episode "Night Terrors", alongside the Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith. She appeared in the BBC documentary The Genius of Mozart as Constanze, Wolfgang's wife. In 2009, she played Carol Boynton in the ITV adaptation of Appointment with Death, in series 11 of Agatha Christie's Poirot. In mid-2014, she played DS Hawthorn in Coronation Street, investigating the circumstances of the attack on and subsequent death of Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) and on 5 January 2015, she played Kenzie Calhoun's mother, Ailsa in Waterloo Road
On stage, she won the UK Theatre Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in The Master Builder in 2000.{{cite web|title=UK Theatre Awards Previous Winners|url=http://www.uktheatre.org/awards/previousawards.aspx|website=1999|publisher=UK Theatre Association|accessdate=11 March 2015|archive-date=22 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222045516/http://www.uktheatre.org/awards/previousawards.aspx|url-status=dead}} Her other stage work includes Tales from Hollywood, Losing Louis at the Trafalgar Studios in London and in 2006 Women Beware Women for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She was nominated for "what's on stage" award in 2011 for her role as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible at Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park.
In 2015 she appeared as Mabel Grayson in the BBC TV series Father Brown episode 3.9 "The Truth in the Wine". The same year, she appeared as the eponymous monarch in the RSC's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne.{{cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/queen-anne/cast-and-creative |title=Cast and creative | Royal Shakespeare Company |accessdate=2015-11-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202055919/http://www.rsc.org.uk/queen-anne/cast-and-creative |archivedate=2 December 2015 |df=dmy-all }} In September 2019, she appeared in four episodes of Doctors as Dr Janet Fielding.
Personal life
Cunniffe lives in London. She married Rufus Jones in 2008 {{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Sarah |title=Emma Cunniffe: In the closet |url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/180066/Emma-Cunniffe-In-the-closet |access-date=5 February 2022 |publisher=Express |date=6 June 2010}} but the pair subsequently divorced.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1996
| Cuts | Karen | rowspan="2" | TV film |
| 1997
| The Ruby Ring | Noreen/Nellie |
| 1998
| Barmaid | |
| rowspan="5"|1999
| Biddy | rowspan="2" | TV film |
| Underground
| Caz |
| Dreaming of Joseph Lees
| Red-Haired Girl | |
| Tube Tales
| Drained Young Woman | rowspan="9" | TV film |
| All the King's Men
| Peggy Batterbee |
| rowspan="2"|2000
| Vanessa |
| Innocents
| Sharon Peacock |
| rowspan="2"|2001
| Kathy Enfield |
| Love or Money
| Samantha |
| rowspan="3"|2002
| The Cry | Christine Rearden |
| Plain Jane
| Jane |
| Flesh and Blood
| Cath Broughton |
| rowspan="2"|2004
| Rabbit on the Moon | Tania Bower | |
| Undone
| Laura | Short film |
| 2005
| Claire Connolly | rowspan="2" | TV film |
| 2008
| Alice |
| 2014
| MOTH (Man of the House) | Ruth | Short film |
| 2016
| Ettie | Uncredited |
| 2020
| |
| 2021
| Mrs. Filcher | TV film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"|1994
| Woof! | Minicab Girl | Episode: "Get Me to the Church" |
| Cracker
| Sarah Jennings | Episode: "The Big Crunch" |
| rowspan="3"|1995
| Nurse | Episode: "Second Thoughts" |
| Dangerfield
| Penny Noakes | Episode: "The Norfolk Holiday" |
| The Bill
| Annie Barlow | Episode: "A Quiet Night In" |
| rowspan="5"|1996
| Vanessa | Series 2 |
| A Touch of Frost
| Michelle Robins | Episode: "Paying the Price" |
| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
| Chrissie | Episode: "Safe as Houses" |
| Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's...
| Avril | Episode: "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way" |
| Life After Birth
| Alison | Series regular, 6 episodes |
| 1997
| Karen Spillings | Episode: "Exit Lanes" |
| 1997–1999
| Emma Kavanagh | Series regular, 13 episodes |
| 1998
| Cheryl Slayburn | Episode: "A Blast from the Past" |
| 2002
| Kim Anderson | Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2004
| The Genius of Mozart | Mini-series, 3 episodes |
| Silent Witness
| Rosa Christie | Episode: "Body 21" |
| rowspan="2"|2006
| D.S. Tina Murray | Episode: "Diamond Geezers" |
| Holby City
| Hazel Keel | Episode: "Just Another Day" |
| 2007
| John and Karen | Karen | TV short |
| rowspan="5"|2008
| Camilla | Episode: "Nightmare in Chechnya" |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot
| Carol Boynton | Episode: "Appointment with Death" |
| Place of Execution
| Ruth Hawkin | Mini-series, 3 episodes |
| Casualty
| Karen Clarkson | Episode: "Someone's Lucky Night" |
| Midsomer Murders
| Sally Fielding | Episode: "Blood Wedding" |
| 2009
| The Bill | Maggie Reaney | Episode: "Fall Out" |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Casualty | Detective Inspector Joanne Collins | Episode: "Boys Will Be Boys" |
| Doctor Who
| Claire | Episode: "Night Terrors" |
| 2012
| Good Cop | Eva Bays | Mini-series, 1 episode |
| rowspan="4"|2013
| Emma Beckett | Mini-series, 2 episodes |
| Jo
| Anabelle | Episode: "Place Vendôme" |
| Southcliffe
| Annie Gould | Mini-series, 3 episodes |
| Moving On
| Louise | Episode: "Hush Little Baby" |
| 2014
| D.S. Hawthorn | Recurring role, 13 episodes |
| rowspan="5"|2015
| Mrs. Mabel Grayson | Episode: "The Truth in the Wine" |
| Waterloo Road
| Ailsa Calhoun | Recurring role, 2 episodes |
| Inspector George Gently
| Anita Magath | Episode: "Gently Among Friends" |
| Holby City
| Elaine Owen | Episode: "Spiral Staircases" |
| Lewis
| Bryony Willet | Episode: "One for Sorrow" |
| 2016
| Reverend Melissa Ackers | Episode: "Habeas Corpus" |
| 2017
| Janet | rowspan="2" | Recurring role, 4 episodes |
| 2019
| Doctors | Dr. Janet Fielding |
| rowspan="3"|2020
| Jess Fisher | Episode: "Deadhead" |
| Endeavour
| Rosemary Prince | Episode: "Raga" |
| Roadkill
| Sydney | Mini-series, 4 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|2021
| Laura Machin | Episode: "The Ghosts of 221B" |
| Agatha Raisin
| Fran Tamworthy | Episode: "Kissing Christmas Goodbye" |
| The Mezzotint
|Mrs Filcher |Television film |
| 2023
| Doctors | Episode: "A Matter of a Moment"{{cite news |last1=Timblick |first1=Simon |title=Doctors spoilers: Sid Vere makes a SURPRISE discovery! |url=https://www.whattowatch.com/spoilers/doctors-spoilers-sid-vere-makes-a-surprise-discovery |access-date=25 October 2023 |work=What to Watch}} |
Theatre credits
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0192209}}
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Category:English television actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:Actresses from Chester
Category:Actors educated at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts