Phoebe Nicholls

Phoebe Nicholls

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
BirthdayApr 7, 1957
BiographyPhoebe Sarah Nicholls (born 7 April 1957) is an English actress. She is most notable for her roles as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (1981), and as the mother of John Merrick in The Elephant Man (1980). Other credits include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Women in Love (1969), Van der Valk (1977), Bless Me, Father (1979), Persuasion (1995), Kavanagh QC (1995), Gulliver's Travels (1995), Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1997), Shackleton (2002), Hawking (2004), The Brief (2004), Spooks (2006), The Trial of Tony Blair (2007), Lewis (2007), Prime Suspect (2003), Midsomer Murders (2003), Lewis, Foyle's War (2003), Second Sight, Downton Abbey (2012), Fortitude (2015), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015), Doctor Thorne (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Eric (2024), and The Sandman (2025).

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Brideshead Revisited
Ended

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as Cordelia Flyte
Doctor Thorne
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as Countess de Courcy
Eric
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as Anne Anderson
Fortitude
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Fortitude

as Margaret Allerdyce
Traitors
Ended

Traitors

as Frippy Symonds

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