Biography
A trainee at the Bristol Old Vic in the 1970s, Ellie Haddington is an actress who has become more prolific and more in demand with each passing year. She first came to attention playing Josie Clarke in Coronation Street from 1995-1996 and played governor Joy Masterton in Bad Girls a decade later. She was Professor Docherty in the 2007 Doctor Who episode Last of the Timelords and played Carol Porter in Sky's sitcom The Cafe in 2011-2013. She memorably played Hilda Pierce in several episodes of Foyle's War from 2003 to 2015 and Fanny Biggetywitch in the BBC's Dickensian in 2016. Most recently she is the long suffering mother to Anna Maxwell Martin's character in Motherland and played Agatha Chudleigh in Ripper Street, as well as Mrs Esposito in 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
Filmography
Cast Credits

The Rumour
Character:
TV • 2025

Revert
Character: Mum
MOVIE • 2025

Plebs: Soldiers of Rome
Character: Phaedra
MOVIE • 2022

Operation Mincemeat
Character: Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley
MOVIE • 2022

Crime
Character: Avril Lennox
TV • 2021

Limbo
Character: Beatrice
MOVIE • 2020

Enola Holmes
Character: Miss Gregory
MOVIE • 2020

Surge
Character: Joyce
MOVIE • 2020

Guilt
Character: Sheila Gemmell
TV • 2019

Years and Years
Character: Dr. Moss
TV • 2019

Motherland
Character: Marion
TV • 2017

Their Finest
Character: Catrin's Landlady
MOVIE • 2017

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Character: Mrs. Esposito
MOVIE • 2016

The Musketeers
Character: Josette
TV • 2014

Spies of Warsaw
Character: Madame Dupin
TV • 2013

Ripper Street
Character: Agatha Chudleigh
TV • 2012

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Character: Princess Puffer
TV • 2012

The Café
Character: Carol Porter
TV • 2011

Death in Paradise
Character: Barbara Michell
TV • 2011

Little Crackers
Character: Nellie
TV • 2010