Michele Austin
{{short description|British actress|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{use British English|date=May 2013}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Michele Austin
| image = Michele Austin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 3 (cropped) 2.jpg
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| caption = Austin at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
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| education = Rose Bruford College
| known_for = {{ubl|The Bill|Hard Truths}}
| occupation = Actress
| years_active= 1996—present
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Michele Austin is a British actress. She best known for her role as Yvonne Hemmingway on ITV's The Bill, for which she won the Screen Nation Award for Best Television Actress,{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4426062.stm|title= Hotel Rwanda star scoops honour|date=10 November 2005|publisher=BBC News|access-date=22 January 2010}} and for her portrayal of Chantelle in Hard Truths, for which she won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actress.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/awards/national-society-film-awards-1236265555/|title=National Society of Film Critics Award Winners: 'Nickel Boys' and 'A Real Pain' Among Top Honorees|website=Variety|date=January 4, 2025|author=Andrés Buenahora|access-date=January 4, 2025}}
Career
Austin studied acting at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup.{{cite news|url=http://www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/tm_objectid=14887084&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=michele-fits-the-bill-----name_page.html|title=Michele fits The Bill ...|last=Porter|first=Cedric|date=19 November 2004|work=Uxbridge Gazette|access-date=22 January 2010|location=United Kingdom}}
As well as her role as PC Hemmingway in the ITV series The Bill, she played the character Marsha Harris twice in 2001. Austin had roles in Mike Leigh's films Secrets & Lies (1996) and Another Year (2010). She also has a small role in ITV's 2008 teen drama Britannia High as Mrs Doris Troy, the landlady of the main characters, in the comedy Never Better and as a nurse in BBC's Outnumbered that aired on 30 August 2009.
In December 2010, Austin appeared in the British BBC soap opera EastEnders as Gloria MacDonald,{{Cite episode |title= Episode dated 20/12/2010 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x2pft |series= EastEnders |series-link=EastEnders |credits= Director: Tim Mercier; Executive Producer: Bryan Kirkwood; Writer: Rebecca Wojciechowski |network=BBC |station=BBC One |airdate=20 December 2010}} a role which she reprised in February 2016. Prior to this she played Miss Meg Tyler in 1993.{{Cite episode |title= Episode dated 4/03/1993 |series= EastEnders |series-link=EastEnders |credits= Director: Sue Dunderdale; Series Producer: Leonard Lewis Writer: Tony Jordan |network=BBC |station=BBC One|airdate=4 March 1993}} On 12 February 2013 she played the part of Estelle in an episode of Death in Paradise on BBC1.
In 2016, Austin appeared in the BBC series The Coroner. In 2020, she appeared in the British comedy TV series Meet the Richardsons. In 2022, she played senior midwife Tracy in the BBC screen adaptation of Adam Kay's book based on his experiences as a junior doctor, This Is Going To Hurt.{{cite web |title=Meet the cast of BBC One's This Is Going to Hurt |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/this-is-going-to-hurt-cast/}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1996
| Dionne | |
| 1999
| Park Stories | | Short film |
| 2002
| Care Worker | |
| rowspan="2"|2010
| Zadie | |
| Another Year
| Tanya | |
| 2014
| Lucy | |
| 2015
| Nipplejesus | Denise | Short film |
| rowspan="2"|2017
| Jula | Voice role |
| The Children Act
| Donna | |
| 2019
| National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac | Ragueneau | |
| 2024
| Chantelle | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1994
| The Bill | Doctor | Episode: "All Along the Watchtower" |
| 1997
| The Perfect Blue | Frances | TV film |
| rowspan="3"|1998
| Applicant | Episode: "Secretaries" |
| Babes in the Wood
| Doctor | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 5" |
| Comedy Lab
| Mai Judith/Joyce Ntindi | Episode: "Homie & Away" |
| rowspan="3"|2001
| Priest | Episode: "Secrets and Flies" |
| The Bill
| Marsha Harris | Episodes: "Family Honour" & "Words of Wisdom" |
| EastEnders
| Registrar | 1 episode |
| rowspan="4"|2002
| Casualty | Rhea Yates | Episode: "Life Incognito" |
| Night and Day
| Receptionist | Episode: "Haunted" |
| Always and Everyone
| Poppy Jonston | Series 4 regular, 8 episodes |
| Doctors
| Laura Brown | Episode: "Testing Testing" |
| rowspan="2"|2003
| Trish | Episode: "The Wife of Bath" |
| Second Nature
| Nurse | TV film |
| 2003–05
| WPC Cheryl | Recurring role, 9 episodes |
| 2003–06
| The Bill | PC Yvonne Hemmingway | Series regular, 157 episodes |
| 2007
| Secret Life | Probation Officer | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| Linda | Series regular, 5 episodes |
| Britannia High
| Mrs. Troy | Recurring role, 5 episodes |
| 2008–10
| Nurse | Episodes: "The Long Night" & "The Hospital" |
| 2010
| Midwife | Episode: "St Hospitals" |
| 2010–16
| Gloria MacDonald | Recurring role, 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Cherie Maskell | Episode: "A Guilty Mind" |
| Holby City
| Suzanna Stables | Episode: "Shame" |
| 2013
| Estelle Du Bois | Episode: "A Dash of Sunshine" |
| 2015
| Kaye Bawden | Mini-series, 3 episodes |
| 2016
| Maggie Fordham-Bryce | Episode: "Life" |
| rowspan="2"|2018
| Doctors | Monica Perry | Episode: "Unchained" |
| Dark Heart
| Annie Webb | Recurring role, 4 episodes |
| 2020–22
| Dani Julian | Series regular, 20 episodes |
| 2021
| Alice | Episode: "Nobody's Perfect" |
| rowspan="2"|2022
| Tracy | Series regular, 7 episodes |
| The Other One
| Angela | Series 2 regular |
| 2023
|Camilla Wells | 6 episodes |
| 2025
|Jen Minter | Series 7; episode 4: "Plaything" |
=Stage=
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| Year
!Title !Roles !Notes |
|---|
| 2019
| The Hunt | Hilde |
| 2023
| rowspan="2"|The Effect | rowspan="2"|Dr. Lorna James |
| 2024
| The Shed |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0042475|Michele Austin}}
{{National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress}}
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Category:Black British actresses
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