Diana Kent

Diana Kent is an English actress known for Heavenly Creatures, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), One Day (2011) and for the ITV drama series Belgravia (2020).

Career

Film Year Title Role Notes 1986 The Happy Valley Christmas Party Guest TV movie 1991 Palmer (1991 film)|Palmer Miss Roberts TV movie 1994 Heavenly Creatures| Hilda Hume 1997 The Wings of the Dove| Merton's Party Companion 1999 Runaway Bride| Hula Girl 2000 Billy Elliot| Tutor 2 2001 Morlang| Ellen Morlang 2005 Brothers of the Head| Laura Ashworth 2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People| Rachel Petkoff 2009 Margaret| Margaret King 2011 One Day| Mrs Cope 2011 Turnout| Sophie's Mother 2011 The Awakening| Harriet Cathcart 2014 A Long Way Down| Hope 2015 Suite Française| Madame Michaud 2020 The Voice of Sin| Sophie Morris Japanese film 2021 The Last Letter from Your Lover'' Older Jennifer

Television Year Title Role Notes 1989 - 1996 Screen Two Alison Hanratty / Night Nurse TV series 1990 Capital City Barbara Episode: "A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing" 1991 Waterfront Beat Hazel Episode: "E.P.O.S. 1991 Bergerac Diana Episode: "Warriors" 1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot Zoe Havering Episode: "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge" 1991 Paul Merton: The Series TV series 1994 Seaforth Diana Stacey TV mini-series, 6 episodes 1995 Goodnight Sweetheart Jayne Mansfield TV series 1995 - 1996 The Vet Patrica Lennox TV series 1995 - 2010 The Bill Ruth Pearce / Sue Tolliver TV series 1997 The Beggar Bride Ffiona Ormerod TV series 1998 Close Relations Dierdra TV series 2000 Jason and the Argonauts Polymele TV series 2000 Heartbeat Jennifer Bennet Episode: "Gabriel's Last Stand" 2001 Band of Brothers Mrs. Lamb Episode: "Carentan" 2001 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Mrs. Nickleby 2004 Murder City Ellen Vasseur Episode: "Big City Small World" 2004 Midsomer Murders Anne Heldman Episode: "The Fisher King" 2004 - 2018 Holby City Blanche Valentine / Barbara Armstrong TV series 2005 Elizabeth I Lady Essex TV mini series 2007 Silent Witness Marie Williams TV series 2008 Messiah: The Rapture Helen Waite TV mini series 2011 Casualty Jennifer Mayer TV series 2011 The Jury Registrar TV series 2012 World Without End Rose TV series 2012 Titanic Eleanor Widener TV mini series 2014 The Missing Penny TV series 2013 M.I.High Margery / Jemima Thursday TV mini series 2013 Whitechapel Jacqui Brierley TV mini series 2014 Undeniable Isobel Hendrie TV series 2014 The Missing Penny TV series 2015 Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery Helena TV series documentary 2018 Father Brown Lady Rose Episode: "The Dance of Death" 2019 Mother Father Son Charlotte TV series 2020 Belgravia The Duchess of Richmond TV series

Theatre Year Title Role Writer Director Notes 1991 Les Liaisons Dangereuses M. de Merteuil Pierre Choderlos de Laclos David Leveaux Ambassadors Theatre, London 1992 An Inspector Calls Sheila J. B. Priestley Stephen Daldry Royal National Theatre, London 1998 Robert Zucco Elegant Lady Bernard-Marie Koltes James McDonald Royal Shakespeare Theatre, London 1999 Talk of the City Daphne Terry John-Bates Stephen Poliakoff Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2000 Arcadia Hannah Tom Stoppard Rupert Goold Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury 2001 The Prisoner's Dilemma Floss David Edgar Michael Attenborough Royal Shakespeare Company, London 2001 Love in a Wood Lady Flippant William Wycherley Tim Supple Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2003 Caligula Caesonia Albert Camus Michael Grandage Donmar Warehouse, London 2005 Phaedra's Love Phaedra Sarah Kane Anne Tipton Bristol Old Vic, Bristol & Barbican Centre, London 2007 Lovely and Misfit Miss Fenway Tennessee Williams Anna Ledwich Fishwick Productions 2008 Breaking the Silence Eugenia Lorae Parry Esther Richardson Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham 2008 Carousel Miss Mullins Rodgers and Hammerstein Lindsey Posner Stanhope Productions 2009 All My Sons Kate Keller Arthur Miller Walter Meierjohann Leicester Curve Theatre, Leicester 2011 The Heresy of Love Madre Marguerita Helen Edmundson Nancy Meckler Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon 2014 Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Tyrone Eugene O'Neill Tony Cownie Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh 2015 Tomcat Caroline James Rushbrooke Kate Hewitt Southwark Playhouse, London