Television and films

Voe began her on screen career in 1966, appearing in an episode of Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV & radio)

Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella entitled Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s...

. She has also appeared in Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

, London's Burning

London's Burning

London's Burning was a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.It was broadcast between 1986 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...

, Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

, Monarch of the Glen, The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

 and 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...

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Her film credits include Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves

Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars...

, Felicia's Journey

Felicia's Journey

Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...

 and Vera Drake

Vera Drake

Vera Drake is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, telling the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions...

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Theatre

Voe has worked in theatres all over the UK, including Sheffield Crucible

Crucible Theatre

The Crucible Theatre is a theatre built in 1971 and located in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. As well as theatrical performances, it is home to the most important event in professional snooker, the World Snooker Championship....

, Leicester Phoenix

Phoenix Arts Centre

Upper Brown Street is a theatre in the city centre of Leicester, England. The centre hosted live shows and films of the arthouse and world cinema genres. In 2010 it was reborn as an important music training and performance venue under a new name.- History :In the 1963 Leicester City Council ...

, Leicester Haymarket

Haymarket Theatre (Leicester)

The Haymarket Theatre was a theatre in Leicester, England, based in the Haymarket Shopping Centre on Belgrave Gate in Leicester city centre. The theatre closed at the end of 2006 and has been replaced by the Curve Theatre...

, Oxford Playhouse, Birmingham Rep

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Birmingham Repertory Theatre is a theatre and theatre company based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England...

, Manchester Royal Exchange

Royal Exchange, Manchester

The Royal Exchange is a grade II listed Victorian building in Manchester, England. It is located in the city centre on the land bounded by St Ann’s Square, Exchange Street, Market Street, Cross Street and Old Bank Street...

, West Yorkshire Playhouse

West Yorkshire Playhouse

The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England is a theatre which opened in March 1990 as part of the regeneration of the Quarry Hill area of the city...

, Nottingham Playhouse

Nottingham Playhouse

The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham, England. It was first established as a repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema. Directors during this period included Val May and Frank Dunlop.-The building:...

, Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic

The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...

, Bloomsbury, Hampstead

Hampstead Theatre

Hampstead Theatre is a theatre in the vicinity of Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park, in the London Borough of Camden. It specialises in commissioning and producing new writing, supporting and developing the work of new writers. In 2009 it celebrates its 50 year anniversary.The original theatre was...

, Lyric Hammersmith, Almeida

Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...

, Bush

Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...

, Shared Experience

Shared Experience

Shared Experience is a British theatre company. Its current joint artistic directors are Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale. Kate Saxon is an Associate Director.-Productions:*A Passage to India *Madame Bovary...

, RNT

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...

, Royal Court

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

 and Ambassadors.

Her theatre performances include:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Mother Courage
  Mother Courage
  Mother Courage is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche dating from around 1670...
  
  
• The Nightingale Sang
• The Government Inspector
• Donna Rosita
• Saturday Sunday Monday
• Medea
  Medea (play)
  Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed...
  
  
• The Winter Guest
• A Delicate Balance
• Trouble Sleeping
• Three Sisters
  Three Sisters (play)
  Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
  
  
• The Daughter-in-Law
• Marriage
• False Admissions

• Successful Strategies
• The Comedy Without Title
• Landmarks
• The Seagull
  The Seagull
  The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
  
  
• Nana
• Blisters
• The Birthday Party
  The Birthday Party (play)
  The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays...
  
  
• The Strangeness of Others
• The Deep Blue Sea
• The Kitchen
• Attempts of her Life
• Henry V
  Henry V (play)
  Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Cronicle History of Henry the Fifth and The Life of Henry the Fifth...
  
  
• The Girl With Red Hair
• The Vertical Line

Radio

Date	Title !! Role !! Director !! Station
	Dianeira		Catherine Bailey and Timberlake Wertenbaker Timberlake Wertenbaker - Biography :Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London...	BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
	A Catapult and a Lady's Spin		David Hunter	BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...  Afternoon Play Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play is a long-running drama programming strand, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. Each play lasts for 45 minutes, and roughly 190 new Afternoon Plays are broadcast each year....
	The Architects	Emma	Lu Kemp Lu Kemp She directed How to Tell The Truth by Chris Dunkley for the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough in 2003, and Almost Blue for the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith in 2005 which won The Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2005. Previously she worked with TAG Theatre Company, Glasgow on a...	BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...  Afternoon Play Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play is a long-running drama programming strand, broadcast every weekday at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4. Each play lasts for 45 minutes, and roughly 190 new Afternoon Plays are broadcast each year....
	Babel's Tower			BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...  Drama on 3

Personal life

She was born Sandra Williamson in the Shetland Islands

Shetland Islands

Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...

, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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Voe is married to actor Rex Doyle, and has three children, one of which is Candida Doyle

Candida Doyle

Candida Doyle is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984...

, member of the '90's band Pulp

Pulp (band)

Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker , Russell Senior , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....

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She is the aunt of singer Astrid Williamson

Astrid Williamson

Astrid Williamson is a Shetland born musician and songwriter.In the 1990s, Williamson obtained her degree in music from the Royal Scottish Academy and co-founded a band known as Goya Dress which consisted of Williamson, Terry de Castro, and Simon Pearson...

 and is part of a big family, she has four sisters, Laureena, Eunice, Alma and Mary, and three brothers, Eddie, Campbell and Arthur.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Dr. Finlay's Casebook Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV & radio) Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella entitled Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s...	Mrs. Cochran	1 episode – Perseus & the Gorgon
1976	How We Used to Live How We Used To Live How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds...	Lady Breen-Lowell	1 episode – For Services Rendered
1978	Within These Walls Within These Walls Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison...	Maggie	1 episode – Public Opinion
1979	Agatha Agatha (film) Agatha is a 1979 drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton, and written by Kathleen Tynan...	Therapist
1979	Flambards Flambards Flambards is a novel by the English author K. M. Peyton.The book and its three sequels are set just before, during, and after World War I...	Mrs. Masters	1 episode – New Blood
1980	Sounding Brass Sounding Brass Sounding Brass was a pioneer phone-in programme presented by Gloria Hunniford on BBC Radio 2. Listeners were invited to choose a Christmas carol or hymn while a Salvation Army band, which included the famous Chalk Farm Band, stood by in the studio to play their requests live.The brass bands had a...		1 episode – H.G. and the Exploding Orange
1980	Coronation Street Coronation Street Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...	Brenda Palin
1981	Andrina
1981	Bread and Blood	Mrs. Bawcombe	4 episodes – Meat, Birth, Childhood & Bread
1981	Screenplay Screenplay A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...	Headmistress	1 episode – Happy Since I Met You
1983	Local Hero Local Hero Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster. It was directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam....	Mrs. Fraser
1983	Play for Today Play for Today Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted...	Mrs. Bruce (1978) Miss. Hogg (1983)	2 episodes – Donal and Sally (1978) & Gates of Gold (1983)
1983		Carmen
1983		Psychologist	1 episode – Collapse
1984			TV movie
1985	Past Caring	Kath	TV movie
1985	Summer Season		1 episode – Picture Friend
1985	Open All Hours Open All Hours Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and finally with a fourth run in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973...	Mrs. Bickerdyke	2 episodes – The Housekeeper Caper & The Errand Boy Executive
1986	Comrades	Diana Stanfield
1986	Screen Two	Helen	1 episode – The Silent Twins
1986	Screenplay Screenplay A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...		1 episode – Knowing the Score
1987	Y.E.S.	Ma Venables
1987	Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV	Molly	1 episode – #2.7
1988	Ruth Rendell Mysteries	Mrs. Myrtle Cantrip	3 episodes – A Guilty Thing Surprised: Parts One, Two & Three
1988		Trollop	1 episode – The True Bride
1989	Press Gang Press Gang Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...	Amanda Swanson	1 episode – Photo Finish
1989	Erik the Viking Erik the Viking Erik the Viking is a 1989 feature film written and directed by Terry Jones. The film was inspired by Jones's children's book The Saga of Erik the Viking , but the plot is completely different. Jones also appears in the film as King Arnulf....	Ivar's Mum
1989	London's Burning London's Burning London's Burning was a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.It was broadcast between 1986 and...	Josie's Mum	2 episodes – Christmas Special (1988), #2.5 (1989)
1990	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...	Dr. Clyde	1 episode – Hostile Witness
1991	Uncle Vanya Uncle Vanya Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....	Nanny	TV movie
1992	Love Hurts Love Hurts "Love Hurts" is the name of a song, written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top 5 hit in 1975 by Jim Capaldi.The song was introduced...	Marilyn	4 episodes – Crawling from the Wreckage, Take it to the Limit, Cured, Let's Do It
1992		Roy's Mother	1 episode – The Crying Game
1992	Springing Lenin	Mrs. Shillinglaw	TV movie
1992	Salt on Our Skin	Gavin's Mother	other title – Desire
1993	Body & Soul	Peggy	6 episodes – #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4, #1.5, #1.6
1993	Naked	Bag Lady
1994	Look Me in the Eye Look Me in the Eye Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's is a New York Times bestseller by John Elder Robison, chronicling the author's life with Asperger syndrome and tough times growing up.-Story:...	Head Teacher
1994	Takin' Over the Asylum Takin' Over the Asylum Takin' Over the Asylum is a six part BBC Scotland television drama about a hospital radio station in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital. It was written by Donna Franceschild, produced by Chris Parr and directed by David Blair....	Evelyn	4 episodes – Fly Like an Eagle, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Fool on the Hill, Let It Be
1994	Immortal Beloved Immortal Beloved Immortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....	Marie Fröhlich
1995	A Village Affair A Village Affair A Village Affair is the name of a novel by prolific English romance author Joanna Trollope. The story concerns a housewife and mother who embarks on an affair with a female acquaintance. It was televised by ITV starring Sophie Ward, Kerry Fox and Nathaniel Parker ....	Mrs. Finch	TV movie
1996		Beryl	TV movie
1996	Breaking the Waves Breaking the Waves Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars...	Mother
1997		Chloe
1997	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Joyce Lawson	1 episode – The Things We Do for Love
1997	Holding On	Annie	7 episodes – #1.1, #1.2, #1.3, #1.4, #1.5, #1.7, #1.8
1999	Station
1999	Real Women II	Karen's Mother
1999	Great Expectations	Camilla Pocket
1999	Felicia's Journey Felicia's Journey Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...	Jumble Sale Woman
1999	Janice Beard 45 WPM	Mimi	other title – Janice Beard
2000		Christine Gendall
2000		Peggy Ingrams	TV movie
2002	Playing the Field Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.-Outline:...	Mrs. Powell	4 episodes – #3.1 (2000), #4.5 (2000), #4.7 (2000), #5.1(2002)
2002		Elizabeth
2003	Ready When You Are, Mr McGill Ready When You Are, Mr McGill Ready When You Are, Mr McGill is a feature length TV drama, written by Jack Rosenthal. ITV produced two versions, in 1976 and 2003. The 1976 version was the first in a series of six single television plays called "Red Letter Days" each of which showed the events in a single, special day in...	Nancy McGill	TV movie
2004	Vera Drake Vera Drake Vera Drake is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, telling the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions...	Vera's Mother
2004	Verborgen Gebreken	Mrs. Flynt	other title – Hidden Flaws
2004	Foyle's War Foyle's War Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...	Mrs. Roecastle	1 episode – Enemy Fire
2004	Monarch of the Glen	Proctor MacDonald	1 episode – #6.10
2006	Wild at Heart Wild at Heart (TV series) Wild at Heart is a current ITV television drama series about a Bristol-based vet and his family emigrating to start a game park in South Africa. The show premiered in January 2006 and has recently finished screening its sixth series...	Joan Briggs	1 episode – #1.1
2006	Eleventh Hour	Mrs. Evans	1 episode – Miracle
2006		Mrs. Cleghorn (1990) Julia Evans (1995) Maureen White (2006)	4 episodes – Victims (1990), Somebody's Husband (1990), Solid Gold Cert (1995), 404 (2006)
2006	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...	Lorna Hastings	1 episode – Four Funerals and a Wedding
2008	Faintheart Faintheart Faintheart is a 2008 film, the first to be created using input from an online site.The film was a result of a collaborative effort from Myspace, Vertigo films and Film4. The resulting group, MyMovieMashUp, sought to harness the talents of the online community and to enable them to be involved in...	Julian's Mum
2008	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...	Ruth (2004) Elizabeth Mills (2008)	2 episodes – If You Can't Do the Time (2004), Mad World (2008)
2009	Shadows in the Sun Shadows in the Sun Shadows in the Sun is a television movie starring Harvey Keitel and Joshua Jackson. It premiered on ABC Family in 2005. It was written and directed by Brad Mirman, and was filmed under the title The Shadow Dancer.-Plot:...	Hilary Calder
2010	Wallander	Betty Laurensson	1 episode – The Man Who Smiled
2010	Doctors	Alice Vale	2 episodes – Alone in the Dark: Parts One & Two

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