Elizabeth Berrington is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road, Paula Kosh in Stella, Mel Debrou in Moving Wallpaper, and Dawn Stevenson in The Syndicate. She has also featured in British television series such as The Bill, Doctor Who, The Office, Casualty, The Lakes, The Grimleys, and Rose and Maloney.
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Early life and education
Elizabeth Berrington is a graduate of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Career
Film
In cinema, Berrington has featured in many films, including the 1993 Mike Leigh film Naked, as well as his 1996 drama film Secrets & Lies, starring Brenda Blethyn and Timothy Spall.
She appeared as The Little Vampire and Nanny McPhee with Emma Thompson, and In Bruges.
Television
From 1997 to 1999, Berrington appeared alongside Emma Wray and Tony Robinson in the ITV comedy-drama My Wonderful Life. In 1999, she played Marie Antoinette in Let Them Eat Cake, starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
Berrington played a heavily pregnant woman called Anne in the 2003 Christmas special of the sitcom The Office,
In 2008 and 2009, she played Mel in Moving Wallpaper, and was in the 2008 Poirot episode "Cat Among the Pigeons".
In 2009, Berrington and actress Shirley Henderson were the stars of the ITV drama May Contain Nuts in which she played Ffion, a snobbish suburban mother. Berrington also played Nicola, a nurse, in the BBC Two comedy Psychoville. She appeared as food technology teacher Ruby Fry in the BBC TV series Waterloo Road from 2009 to 2011, departing after two series.
In 2012, she was in an episode of New Tricks, playing a murderer called Grace. From 2012 to 2013, she portrayed Paula Kosh in the Sky One comedy series Stella; in 2015, she returned for two episodes. In 2011, Berrington appeared in the BBC Christmas show Lapland as Paula, a role which she reprised in the six-part spin-off series Being Eileen, which aired from February 2013.
In August 2014, she appeared in Series 2, Episode 4 of Cuckoo as Sandra. In 2016, Berrington appeared in "Hated in the Nation", the sixth episode of the third season of the Netflix original, Black Mirror.
Stage
Berrington appeared on stage in the 2013 play The Low Road.