Flaminia Cinque

Flaminia Cinque is an English actress.

She is known for films such as Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday, Leap Year, What a Girl Wants, Made in Italy and the television programmes: Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Toast of Tinseltown, Drop the Dead Donkey EastEnders, Casualty, and Doctors. Her voice roles include Lillian Gopher and Merv Wombat in Gophers!, Flamingo in Tinga Tinga Tales and Ester in the children's animated television series Thomas & Friends.

Cinque, along with actor Vincenzo Nicoli, has appeared in The Knot, Leap Year, Holy Cannelloni, and Brothers of Italy.

Early life Cinque studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Career She began her acting career in 1988 after graduating from college. Winner of the Peter Ackerman Comedy Prize in 1988 for her stage performances of Mae West in Happy as a Sandbag and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, she worked with Sir Peter Hall for the first of four times in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo in London's West End and took over the leading role when Julie Walters had to pull out of the production.

She has played the open air amphitheatre at Epidavros in Greece in Lysistrata and the New Victory Theatre, Broadway, New York in More Grimm Tales. She was invited to join the Comedy Store Players in 2000.

She was part of the original cast of David Hare's The Permanent Way at the National Theatre in London UK, which toured to Sydney, Australia and played Conchalla in the first UK production of Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss at the Almeida Theatre, in London, UK.

Her television appearances include Any Human Heart, Ultimate Force, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The Bill, EastEnders, Doctors and New Tricks.

Cinque played three characters in the program Casualty for 3 different episodes. She portrayed Rita in the BBC miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt.

Her film appearances include Mr. Bean's Holiday, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Show Dogs, What a Girl Wants, Leap Year Made in Italy, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday and The Knot. She appeared in the BBC Radio 4 Program All the Young Dudes as Maria, which ran from 2001 to 2002.

Cinque appeared in the 2022 action film Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday as Mrs. Zuzzer, with Scott Adkins, and the 2011 action film Attack the Block, with Jodie Whittaker, Nick Frost and newcomer John Boyega. She also appeared as Mamma Rosa in the charming and hilarious comedy "Holy Cannelloni", written and directed by Carolina Giammetta.

She joined the voice cast of Thomas & Friends as the voice of Ester in the UK & US dubs, respectively. She also narrates books for the Live Streaming Service "Bookstreamz.com".

Personal life From 1997, she was the London Correspondent/translator and presenter for the Bandini Committee (an outfit which awards rookie Formula 1 drivers in the name of the legendary F1 driver Lorenzo Bandini who lost his life at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix of 1967).

Flaminia also sat for the esteemed Portuguese born artist Paula Rego several times, including for the picture "Lush", which was part of the "Dog Woman" series, and as the Dancing Hippo in the tribute to Fantasia for the 100 year celebration of cinema held at the Southbank.

Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes 1992 Road Trip Beautiful Italian Short film 1996 Candysack Italian Marilyn Monroe Impersonator (voice) Direct-to-video 2000 Room to Rent Margreta 2000 Chicken Run Additional Chicken (voice) Uncredited 2003 What a Girl Wants Caterer 2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Corset Lady 2006 Wednesday Janice Short film 2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday Hotel Maid 2007 Cake Giulina Short film 2010 Leap Year Carla 2012 Tezz Passenger #5 2012 The Knot Mrs. Fernandez 2016 Worst Fears Janice Direct-to-videoSegment #2: "Wednesday" 2018 Show Dogs Spa Manager 2018 Brothers of Italy Maddalena Petrucco Short film 2019 Thomas & Friends: Digs and Discoveries Ester (voice) UK/US versions 2019 Holy Cannelloni Mamma Rosa Short film 2020 Made in Italy Deli Owner 2022 Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday Mrs. Zuzzer

Television YearTitleRoleNotes 1990 Gophers! Lillian Gopher, Merv Wombat (voices) 4 episodes 1996 Drop the Dead Donkey Marika Episode: "The Graveyard Shift" 1997 Sunnyside Farm Conchita Episode: "He's Heavy, He's My Brother" 1997 Mr. White Goes to Westminster Pizza Delivery Woman Television movie 1998 The Bill Olivia Episode: "A Rainy Night in Sun Hill" 1999 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Kate Episodes: "The Lake of Darkness: Parts 1 & 2" 2000 Blue Murder Carla Television movie 2002 TLC Gasman's Patient Episode: "Agency Nurse" 2005 Casualty Beth Mather Episode: "Secrets That We Keep" 2005 Waking the Dead Rebecca Fairclough Episodes: "Undertow: Parts 1 & 2" 2006 Ultimate Force Mrs. Guggenheim Episode: "Charlie Bravo" 2008 Doctors Deidre Hunter Episode: "Big Momma" 2011 Tinga Tinga Tales Flamingo (voice) 4 episodes 2013 Doctors Inez De la Candia Episode: "Whose Closet Is It Anyway?" 2015 Casualty Elaine Buono UncreditedEpisode: "A Child's Heart: Part 1" 2015 Suspicion Toni Episode: "Edge of Insanity" 2015 Obsession: Dark Desires Hannah Television documentary seriesEpisode: "Cross Your Heart & Hope To Die" 2016 Doctors Rita Holswell Episode: "Not Educating Rita" 2016 The Moonstone Italian Mother Episode: "#1.1" 2017 Man in an Orange Shirt Rita Television movie 2017 The Pact Fatima Television movie 2018 EastEnders DC Allingham Episode: "29 June 2018: Part 1" 2019–2021 Thomas & Friends Ester, Dame Bella Canto (voices) UK/US versions 2020 Doctors May James Episode: "Tough Choices" 2020 Alex Rider Housekeeper at Friend Mansion Episode: "Episode 3" 2020 Trickster Narrator 8 episodes 2020 A Short Film About Serial Killing Narrator Unknown episodes 2020 Wuthering Heights Zillah 2 episodes 2022 Toast of Tinseltown Phyllis Willis Episode: "Doctor Grainger" 2022 Doctors Janette Draper Episode: "Letherbridge, We Have a Problem" 2022 Midsomer Murders Mama Cignoni Episode: "A Grain of Truth" 2023 Coronation Street Isabella Benvenuti 10 episodes 2024 Brassic Mrs. Calvo Episode: "That Night"

Video games YearTitleRoleNotes 1997 Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror Additional Voices (voice)