Nia Roberts
Biography
Roberts' big break came in 1998, when she appeared in Solomon a Gaenor opposite Ioan Gruffudd. With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish, the movie won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards.
Her subsequent Welsh-language credits include Fondue, Rhyw a Deinosors!, Newes of the Weeke, Y Palmant Aur, Glan Hafren, the long-running soap opera Pobol y Cwm, and S4C's gangster drama Y Pris. Roberts' English-language television credits include the comedy series Dr.
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Terrible's House of Horrible, the drama Border Café, and several single-episode appearances in prime-time British shows such as The Bill and Casualty.
Roberts has starred in two films directed by her husband, Marc Evans: Snow Cake (2006), a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident; and Patagonia (2009), a drama set in Y Wladfa, Argentina. In 2009, Roberts also starred as registrar Mary Finch in Crash!, a hospital drama commissioned by BBC Wales and produced by Tony Jordan.
In 2010, Roberts guest-starred in the two-part Doctor Who Series 5 episode The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. More big-screen productions followed: She appeared in Hattie Dalton's Third Star (2010) and in Vertigo Films' The Facility (2012), an atmospheric, micro-budget horror film about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong.
In 2014, Roberts appeared in the fourth episode of Y Gwyll (Hinterland), a highly acclaimed noir detective series shot in both Welsh and English.
Known for
Doctor WhoAmbrose7.6
The CrownSilvia Millward8.2
CashbackWoman at the Till7.0
Midsomer MurdersStacey Purdy7.5
The White PrincessCatherine Woodville7.7
CashbackWoman at the Till (uncredited)7.0
Third StarChloe7.0
Red RoseShelley Royston6.3
The FeastGlenda5.6
BridgendThomas' Mother5.2
Making LoveCostanza6.8
The FacilityKatie Strong4.8
Filmography
- 2026Our TownFilm: Mrs. Webb
- 2025Still WatersSeries: Eve Davies (6 episodes)
- 2023Tree on a HillSeries: Margaret Lewis (6 episodes)
- 2023Steeltown MurdersSeries: Karina Bethell (4 episodes)
- 2022Dogs in the Wild: Meet the FamilySeries: Director (3 episodes)
- 2022Red RoseSeries: Shelley Royston (6 episodes)
- 2022The Light in the HallSeries: Eve Davies (6 episodes)
- 2021Sometime ElseFilm: Therapist
- 2021The FeastFilm: Glenda
- 2021The MuseumSeries: Della Howells (12 episodes)
- 2020WashingtonSeries: Martha Washington (3 episodes)
- 2019The Return of the Yuletide KidFilm: Philipa
- 2018To Provide All PeopleFilm: Midwife
- 2018Last SummerFilm: Sandra Davies
- 2018HiddenSeries: Elin Jones (8 episodes)
- 2017BangSeries: Linda Jenkins (14 episodes)
- 2017The White PrincessSeries: Catherine Woodville (1 episode)
- 2016The CrownSeries: Silvia Millward (1 episode)
- 2015Just JimFilm: Mum
- 2015BridgendFilm: Thomas' Mother
- 2014A Wonderful Christmas TimeFilm: Penny
- 2014Under Milk WoodFilm: Rosie Probert
- 2012The FacilityFilm: Katie Strong
- 2012Playhouse PresentsSeries: Eleanor (1 episode)
- 2011Little MunchkinFilm: Mrs. Jones
- 2010PatagoniaFilm: Gwen
- 2010Third StarFilm: Chloe
- 2007CashbackFilm: Woman at the Till
- 2006Calon GaethFilm: Miriam
- 2005Doctor WhoSeries: Ambrose (2 episodes)
- 2004CashbackFilm: Woman at the Till (uncredited)
- 2001Dr Terrible's House of HorribleSeries: Dr Rowan Latimer (1 episode)
- 2000Border CafeSeries: Naomi Sykes (8 episodes)
- 2000Making LoveFilm: Costanza
- 1999Solomon & GaenorFilm: Gaenor Rees
- 1999The Theory of FlightFilm: Checkout Girl
- 1997Midsomer MurdersSeries: Stacey Purdy (1 episode)
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