Siobhan Redmond

Siobhan Redmond ( ; born 27 July 1959) is a Scottish actress, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and known for various stage, audio, film, and television roles such as Anne Marie in Two Doors Down.

Early life Redmond was born in the Tollcross area of Glasgow, the second-eldest of three children to Charlotte Redmond, a drama teacher, and John Redmond, a university lecturer. She attended the Sunshine School of Dance and Park School for Girls in Glasgow's West End.

Redmond studied at the University of St Andrews, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in English. At university, she has said to have been "discovered" by playwright Liz Lochhead while performing in a student Mermaids society production written by Marcella Evaristi. Redmond also completed a course in massage and undertook a postgraduate year at the Bristol Old Vic.

Career She began appearing on television in the early 1980s, firstly in the sketch show There's Nothing to Worry About! in 1982. She featured in two series of Alfresco in 1983 and 1984, but her first major television success was as George Bulman's assistant Lucy McGinty in Bulman (1985–1987). She played, among other roles, Maureen Connell in Between the Lines (1992–1994); Shona Spurtle in The High Life (1994–1995); Madame Sin in In the Red BBC TV adaptation of the novel (1998); Janice Taylor in Holby City (2000–2002), Sharon in The Smoking Room (2004–2005); Maeve Brown in EastEnders; clinical psychiatrist Pru Plunkett in Midsomer Murders; and Ailsa in Shoebox Zoo. She also appeared on radio including in the 2002 BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and as Jean Brash in BBC Radio 4's McLevy series.

Redmond is also a stage actress. In 2003, she starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom she appeared as Maria in Twelfth Night in 2007. She played Titania/Hippolyta for Shakespeare's Globe in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in its summer 2008 season.

In 2004, Redmond starred in the BBC TV series Sea of Souls as twin sisters Carol and Helen. Redmond appeared in the "Gingers for Justice" sketch on The Catherine Tate Show in 2005, and then again in 2006. In 2007, she joined The Bill as Crime Scene Examiner Lorna Hart, and in 2010, played one of the leads in David Greig's play Dunsinane, reprising her role for the BBC Radio 3 adaptation on 30 January 2011.

On 26 June 2014, it was announced that Redmond would play a new incarnation of the Rani, a villainous character in the long-running series Doctor Who, originally portrayed on television by Kate O'Mara, who had died earlier that year. Redmond's version of the Rani is featured in BBC-licensed audio dramas by Big Finish Productions including The Rani Elite (2014) and Planet of the Rani (2015).

In November 2014, Redmond joined Alun Armstrong and William Gaunt in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Exit the King at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.

In 2018, Redmond appeared in three episodes in Series 3 of Unforgotten as Derran Finch, and in 2019, she appeared in the Acorn TV series Queens of Mystery as Jane Stone.

In January 2020, Redmond played the role of the Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge in the ITV series Grantchester.

In 2021, Redmond starred in the BBC Scotland comedy pilot Beep alongside Lois Chimimba and Paul Higgins. She played Liz, a woman visiting her comatose husband on their anniversary, the programme exploring their dysfunctional family's dynamics.

In November 2022, Redmond joined the cast of Two Doors Down as Colin's new partner Anne Marie.

She appeared as Grey in the 2023 BBC comedy Rain Dogs.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1986 Half Moon Street Institute Secretary Duet for One Totter's wife 1994 Captives Sue Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Midwife 1995 Latin for a Dark Room Maria McKillop Short film 1997 Karmic Mothers – Fact or Fiction? Jeanie Short film 1999 Beautiful People Kate Higgins 2013 Mission Carolyn Black Short film 2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass Bumalig Hightopp 2018 The Party's Just Beginning Liusaidh's Mum 2:Hrs Lena Eidelhorn 2019 Dark Sense Amelia Watkins 2020 Ghost Light Woman in the Wings Short film Fare Well (voice) Short film 2021 Creation Stories Barbara McGee 2025 One Night in the Bath Kim Post-production Hogmany Heather Short film. Post-production

Television Year Title Role Notes 1982 There's Nothing to Worry About! Various characters Episodes 1–3 1983–1984 Alfresco Series 1 & 2; 13 episodes 1984 End of the Line Gail Episode 4: "Sweet Nothings" 1985–1987 Bulman Lucy McGinty Series 1 & 2; 20 episodes 1986 Taggart Judy Morris Series 2; episodes 1 & 2: "Knife Edge: Parts One & Two" 1988 Turn on to T-Bag Scoop Shuttleworth Episode 5: "Pyramids" The Play on One Clare Lafferty Series 1; episode 4: "The Dunroamin' Rising" Casting Off Gillian Comedy series 1989 Hard Cases Liz Norton Series 2; episode 1 Look Back in Anger Helena Charles Television film 1990 The Gravy Train British Wife Mini-series; episode 1 1991 4 Play Janet Cording Series 2; episode 5: "Ball on the Slates" Casualty Betty Jones Series 6; episode 12: "Pressure! What Pressure?" 1992 The Bill Sylvia Hannah Series 8; episode 34: "Trial and Error" The Advocates Janie Naismith Series 2; episodes 1–3 1992–1994 Between the Lines DS Maureen Connell Series 1–3; 35 episodes 1994 Rab C. Nesbitt Presenter Series 4; episode 5: "Eorpa" 1994, 1995 The High Life Shona Spurtle Pilot (1994), and episodes 1–6 (1995) 1995 Sorry About Last Night Julie Cordova Television film Screen Two Joyce Series 12; episode 4: "Nervous Energy" 1996 A Relative Stranger Alison Fraiman Television film 1997 Throwaways Mother Mini-series Wokenwell Cheryl Cappler Episode 1 Screen One Jean Brodie Special episode 6: "Deacon Brodie" 1998 In the Red Ms. Sin Mini-series; episodes 1–3 1999 Every Woman Knows a Secret Jess Episodes 1–3 2000–2002 Holby City Janice Taylor Series 3 & 4; 49 episodes 2002 Ed Stone Is Dead Angela Episode 10: "City of Angels" 2004 Sea of Souls Carol Fleming / Helen Reid Series 1; episodes 1 & 2: "Seeing Double: Parts 1 & 2" Shoebox Zoo Alisa the Adder (voice) Series 1; episodes 1–13 2004–2005 The Smoking Room Sharon Series 1 & 2; 13 episodes 2005 The Afternoon Play Donna Cline Series 3; episode 2: "The Trouble with George" The Catherine Tate Show Ginger Refuge Lady Series 2; episode 1: "Ginger Bigotry" 2006 Midsomer Murders Pru Plunkett Series 9; episode 8: "Last Year's Model" New Tricks Christine Gascoine Series 3; episode 1: "Lady's Pleasure" EastEnders Maeve Brown 3 episodes 2007 The Lift Christabel Television film The Bill CSE Lorna Hart Series 23; 13 episodes 2007–2015 Nina and the Neurons Ollie the Smell Neuron (voice) Series 1, 3 & 7–11; 55 episodes 2009 Boy Meets Girl Psychiatrist Mini-series; episode 3 Theatre Live! Mary Episode 1: "Mind Away" 2010 Taggart Chief Supt. Karen Campbell Series 27; episodes 1–4 & 6 2012 Benidorm Hazel Series 5; episode 5 The Town Kate Nicholas Mini-series; episode 1 2013 Bob Servant Independent Dr. Walker Mini-series; episode 5: "The Debate" Doctors Carrie Garland Series 14; episode 219: "Tea for Three" Case Histories Mary Mackie Series 2; episode 2: "Nobody's Darling" 2015 Code of a Killer Joy Blakefield Mini-series; episode 2 2017 The Replacement Beth Mini-series; episodes 1–3 Clique University Dean Series 1; episode 6 2018 Lovesick Janie Witter Series 3; episode 5: "Martha" Unforgotten Derran Finch Series 3; episodes 4–6 2019–2021 Queens of Mystery Jane Stone Series 1 & 2; 12 episodes 2020 Grantchester Andrea Shaw Series 5; episode 1 The Nest Sheriff Mini-series; episode 5 2021 Beep Liz Television film Midsomer Murders Ronnie Everett Series 22; episode 1: "The Wolf Hunter of Little Worthy" 2022 Inside No. 9 Matilda Series 7; episode 3: "Nine Lives Kat" The Scotts Cynthia Series 2; episode 4 Two Doors Down Anne-Marie Series 6; 4 episodes 2023 Rain Dogs Grey Episodes 7 & 8: "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" and "This Is Not an Exit" Sister Boniface Mysteries Miss Fitz D'Arcy Series 3; episode 1: "The Star of the Orient" 2025 Death in Paradise Francesca Bower Series 14; episode 4CasualtySandra EvansSeries 40; episode 3

Theatre Year Title Role Company Director Notes 1982 Tickly Mince Various Merryhell at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow review by Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead and Tom Leonard 1983 The Pie of Damocles Various Merryhell at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow review by Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Tom Leonard and James Kelman 1990 A Midsummer Night's Dream Titania Renaissance Theatre Company Kenneth Brannagh play by William Shakespeare King Lear Goneril Renaissance Theatre Company Kenneth Brannagh play by William Shakespeare 1998 Perfect Days Barbs Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh John Tiffany play by Liz Lochhead 2003 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean Brodie Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Muriel Romanes Jay Presson Allen's dramatisation of the novel by Muriel Spark 2006 Mary Stuart Elizabeth Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow Vicky Featherstone David Harrower's adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's tragedy 2011 Dunsinane Gruach National Theatre of Scotland / Royal Shakespeare Company Roxana Silbert play by David Greig 2014 Exit the King Marguerite Ustinov Studio, Bath Laurence Boswell play by Eugène Ionesco 2016 Thon Man Molière Madeleine Béjart Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh Tony Cownie play by Liz Lochhead 2026 The High Life: The Musical Shona Spurtle National Theatre of Scotland / Dundee Rep Andrew Panton musical by Johnny McKnight

Honours Redmond was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her alma mater, the University of St Andrews, in 2000. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to drama.