Diana Hardcastle is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 actress who has appeared largely in television roles. She appeared in episodes of Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...

, Inspector Lynley and Taggart

Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...

. She played recurring roles in the series First Among Equals

First Among Equals (TV series)

First Among Equals is a ten-part miniseries based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV in 1986....

and Fortunes of War

Fortunes of War (tv series)

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet...

.

She is married to the actor Tom Wilkinson

Tom Wilkinson

Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson, OBE is a British actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for his roles in In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton...

, with whom she has two children. In 2011, Hardcastle and Wilkinson portrayed real life husband and wife Joe

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. was a prominent American businessman, investor, and government official....

 and Rose Kennedy in the mini series The Kennedys.

Filmography

Year	Title	Roles	Notes
1982	East Lynne	Wilson	TV movie
1983	Reilly, Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of...	Anna	TV miniseries Miniseries A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a television show production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...
1984	Charlie	Ainsworth's secretary	TV miniseries
1984	The House	Mrs. Janek	TV movie
1985	Love Song	Philippa Jameson Hatchard	TV movie
1986	Screen Two	Judith Walters	1 episode
1986	First Among Equals First Among Equals (TV series) First Among Equals is a ten-part miniseries based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV in 1986....	Louise Fraser	TV miniseries 9 episodes
1987	Fortunes of War Fortunes of War (tv series) Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet...	Edwina Little	TV miniseries 3 episodes
1988	That's Love That's Love That's Love is a British television sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, lawyer Donald and designer Patsy .-Plot:...	Patsy	1988-1992 18 episodes
1992	Boon Boon (TV series) Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV...	Kate Newsome	1 episode
1993	Punchdrunk	Vikki Brown	6 episodes
1993	Resnick: Rough Treatment	Claire Millinder	TV movie
1996	The Tide of Life	Rona Birch	TV miniseries
1997	Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...	Barbara Lessiter	1 episode
1997	Bugs Bugs (TV series) Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers...	Elaine Harman	1 episode
1999	The Bill	Ruth Watts	1 episode
1999	Taggart Taggart Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...	Mariah Strange	1 episode
2003	Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...	Pam Wilkinson	1 episode
2004	If Only	Claire
2004	A Good Woman A Good Woman (film) A Good Woman is a 2004 drama film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde...	Lady Plymdale
2004	Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007...	Crystal	1 episode
2005	Chromophobia	Mrs. Wharton
2006	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...	Deborah Proctor	1 episode
2008	Doctors	Pam Philips/Penny Healey-Henderson	2 episodes
2010	Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...	Mary Bradburn	2 episodes
2011	The Kennedys	Rose Kennedy	TV miniseries 8 episodes