Judy Parfitt

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Judy Parfitt (b. November 7 circa 1935, Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is an English theatre, film, and television actress, who began her career on stage in 1954.

In 1987, she played the mother of Clive Durham for Merchant Ivory's Maurice. She is also gave a heartfelt and moving performance as Kathy Bates' domineering former employer in Dolores Claiborne (1995), who is dying in present-time, but seen as a vibrant, glowing woman in flashback sequences. Arguably she gave the best performance of Lady Catherine de Bourgh on film in Pride and Predjudice (1980 BBC TV mini-series).

She has also appeared in American films and TV, most notably as Dr. Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston)'s mother on ER.

She was married to British actor Tony Steedman, who died in 2001; they apparently had no children.

[edit] Films and TV

Funland (2005 TV series) (2005) - Mercy Woolf
Asylum (2005) - Brenda Raphael
The Aryan Couple (2004) - Rachel Krauzenberg
The Long Firm (2004 TV serial) - Lady Ruth Thursby
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile (2004) - Miss Van Schuyler
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) - Maria Thins
Hearts of Gold (2003 TV film) - Isobel John
ER - Isabelle Corday (2002)
Murder in Mind (TV series) Mercy (2001) - Margaret Collins
The Hunt (2001 TV movie)
Falling Through (2000) - Ambassador
Midsomer Murders (TV series) Death's Shadow (1999) - Angela Wentworth
Ever After (1998) - Queen Marie
Berkeley Square (1998 TV mini-series) - Lady Harmonsworth
The Ruby Ring (1997 TV film) - Mrs. Puxley
Wilde (1997) - Lady Mount-Temple
Holding the Baby (TV series) Episode #1.7 (1997) - Margaret
September (1996 TV movie) - Verena
Goodbye My Love (1996)
Element of Doubt (1996) - Genevieve
Heavy Weather (1995 TV film) - Lady Constance Keeble
Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Vera Donovan
Loving (1995 TV film) - Mrs. Tennant
The Lifeboat (1994 TV series) - Lady Myers Lloyd
The Return of the Borrowers (1993 TV film) - Mrs. Platter
The Alleyn Mysteries (TV series) The Nursing Home Murder (1993) - Lady O'Callaghan
Medics (TV series) Episode #3.5 (1993) - Elizabeth Hoyt
Silent Cries (1993) - Beryl Stacton
Eye of the Storm (1993 TV mini-series) - Martha
The Blackheath Poisonings (1992 TV film) - Harriet Collard
Midnight's Child (1992 TV film)
The Gravy Train Goes East (1991 TV mini-series) - Hilda Spearpoint
King Ralph (1991) - Queen Katherine
The Gravy Train (1990 TV mini-series) - Hilda Spearpoint
Getting It Right (1989) - Lady Stella Munday
Murder, She Wrote (TV series) From Russia... with Blood (1989) - Peggy Brooks
Act of Will (1989 TV movie) - Alicia Drummond
Dark Obsession (1989) - Lady Crewne
The Charmings (TV series) - Queen Lillian White
Maurice (1987) - Mrs. Durham
The Charmer (1987 TV serial) - Alison Warren
Mr Pye (1986 TV mini-series) - Miss Dredger
Covenant (1985 TV film) - Renata Beck
Deceptions (1985 TV film)
Bon Voyage (1985 TV film) - Lola Widmeyer
The Chain (1984) - Deidre
Champions (1984) - Dr. Merrow
The Jewel in the Crown (1984 TV miniseries) - Mildred Layton
A Tale of Two Cities (1980 TV mini-series) - Madame Defarge
Pride and Predjudice (1980 BBC TV mini-series) - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Death of a Princess (1980 TV movie) - Elsa Gruber
Malice Aforethought (1979 TV movie) - Julia Bickleigh
Secret Orchards (1979 TV movie) - Muriel Perry
Rumpole of the Bailey (TV series) Rumpole and the Honourable Member (1978) - Anna Aspen
BBC2 Playhouse (TV series) The Mind Beyond: Stones (1976) - Anne Reeve
The Unborn (1976 TV film)
Crown Court (TV series) (1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1982 TV series) - Pauline Fanshaw (1975); Mrs Gillian Forrest Q.C.
Galileo (1975) - Angelica Sarti
Shoulder to Shoulder (1974 TV mini-series) - Lady Constance Lytton
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1974 TV film) - Red Queen
The Protectors (TV series) Lena (1973) - Lena Haydon
Play for Today (TV series) Edward G: Like the Filmstar (1973)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series) The Argument (1972)
The Edwardians (1972 TV mini-series) - E. Nesbit
Shadows of Fear (TV series) The Death Watcher (1971) - Emmy Erikson
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970) - Jenny Bannerman
Villette (1970 TV series) - Lucy Snowe
Hamlet (1969) - Gertrude
Journey to the Unknown (TV series) Do Me a Favour, Kill Me (1969) - Faith Wheeler
The Avengers (TV series) Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40? (1968) - Loris
Escape in Time (1967) - Vesta
The White Elephant (1964) - Brenda Paterson
Bullseye (1962) - Miss Ellis
Dixon of Dock Green (TV series) The Attack (1968) - Mary Dewar
You Just Walk Away (1965) - Nancy Wills
A Woman Named Julie (1963) - Julie Gordon
Angel Pavement (1967 TV film) - Lilian Matfield
Adam Adamant Lives! (TV series) Black Echo (1967) - Ireyna
The Saint (TV series) The Persistent Patriots (1967) - Anne Liskard
The Man in Room 17 (TV series) First Steal Six Eggs (1966) - Yvonne
David Copperfield (1966 TV series) - Rosa Dartle
Z Cars (TV series) But the Crying... (1965) - Christine Haines
The Whole Truth... (1964) - Mrs. Palmer
Information Received (1962) - June Clifford
The Wednesday Play (TV series) Tomorrow, Just You Wait (1965) - Dorothy Gorbet
Out of the Unknown (TV series) Time in Advance (1965) - Marie
Common Ground (1965 TV film)
Undermind (TV series) The New Dimensions (1965) - Marion Gordon
A Man Called Harry Brent (1965 TV series) - Jacqueline Dawson
Public Eye (TV series) But the Joneses Never Get Letters (1965) - Marion Hordern
The Odd Man (TV series) Portrait of Caroline (1963) - Lisa Kapp
Hide and Seek (1963) - Chauffeur