- Bunker
2026 Eileen
- Wicked Little Letters
2024 Mabel
- Vita & Virginia
2019 Writer
- Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017 Dorothy
- Paddington 2
2017 Madame Kozlova
- ChickLit
2016 Peggy Law
- The Crown
2016 Queen Mary
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family
2015 Catherine Maier
- Magic in the Moonlight
2014 Aunt Vanessa
- Beautiful Creatures
2013 Emmaline Duchannes
- The Scapegoat
2012 Lady Spence
- Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011 Violet Aird
- Wild Target
2010 Mother
- Psychoville Halloween Special
2010 Nurse Edwina Kenchington
- Robin Hood
2010 Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Upstairs Downstairs
2010 Original Series Creator
- Last Chance Harvey
2008 Maggie Walker
- Ballet Shoes
2008 Madame Fidolia
- Evening
2007 Nachtschwester
- Cranford
2007 Miss Deborah Jenkyns
- Ask the Dust
2006 Mrs. Hargraves
- Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006 Iris
- The Feast of the Goat
2006 Aunt Adelina
- Vanity Fair
2004 Miss Matilda Crawley
- Doc Martin
2004 Ruth Ellingham
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 Lady Tressilian
- Cold Mountain
2003 Maddy
- A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
2003 Amanda
- What a Girl Wants
2003 Jocelyn Dashwood
- The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf
2002 Narrator
- Bertie and Elizabeth
2002 Queen Mary
- The Hours
2002 Barbara in the Flower Shop
- Gosford Park
2001 Mrs. Croft
- Wit
2001 Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford
- David Copperfield
2001 Jane Murdstone
- Women Talking Dirty
2001 Emily Boyle
- Waking the Dead
2001 Abigail Dusniak
- The Sleeper
2000 Violet Moon
- Madame Bovary
2000 Marie Louise
- David Copperfield
2000 Jane Murdstone
- Easter Tales
2000 The Mourner
- The Avengers
1998 Alice
- Talking Heads 2
1998
- A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 Brightman
- Mrs. Dalloway
1997 Screenplay
- Jack & Sarah
1995 Phil
- Cold Comfort Farm
1995 Judith Starkadder
- Wolf
1994 Mary
- The Maitlands
1993 Mrs. May Maitland
- The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 Rose Benjamin
- Let Him Have It
1991 Lilian Bentley
- A Room of One's Own
1991 Virginia Woolf
- Performance
1991 Mrs Maitland
- In My Defence
1991 Emmeline Pankhurst
- The House of Eliott
1991 Creator
- Chillers
1990 Mrs Waggoner
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 Princess Dragomiroff
- Mountain Language
1988 Elderly woman
- T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
1988 Reader
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 Virginia Woolf
- Talking Heads
1988 Celia
- A Hazard of Hearts
1987 Lady Harriet's Maid
- The Vision
1987 Helen Marriner
- Roman Holiday
1987 Countess
- Breaking Up
1986 Mrs Mailer
- A Better Class of Person
1985 Nellie Osborne
- Titus Andronicus
1985 Queen Tamora
- The Burston Rebellion
1985 Kitty Higdon
- Screen Two
1985 Helen Marriner
- The Dresser
1983 Madge
- Bewitched
1983 Mrs. Rutledge
- Nelly's Version
1983 Nelly
- Shades of Darkness
1983 Mrs. Rutledge
- Oliver Twist
1982 Mrs. Mann
- Smiley's People
1982 Madame Ostrakova
- Sons and Lovers
1981 Gertrude Morel
- Sons and Lovers
1981 Gertrude Morel
- Celebrity Playhouse
1981 Stella Kirby
- She Fell Among Thieves
1978 Vanity Fair
- Equus
1977 Hesther Saloman
- Raku Fire
1977
- BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 Vanity Fair
- I Don't Want to Be Born
1976 Sister Albana
- Electra
1974 Electra
- The Lady from the Sea
1974 Ellida
- The Lady's Not for Burning
1974 Jennet Jourdemayne
- Affairs of the Heart
1974 Kate Cookham
- The Duchess of Malfi
1972 Duchess
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
1971 Titania
- Upstairs, Downstairs
1971 Creator
- Stage 2
1971 The Duchess of Malfi
- The Three Sisters
1970 Olga
- Solo
1970
- Double Bill
1969 Woman
- W. Somerset Maugham
1969 Leslie Crosbie
- Nothing's Ever Over
1968 Her
- Inadmissible Evidence
1968 Shirley
- Half Hour Story
1967 Her
- The Big Man Coughed and Died
1966 The Girl
- Five More
1966 Girl
- Fable
1965 Joan
- BBC Play of the Month
1965 Electra
- The Massingham Affair
1964 Charlotte Verney
- The Wednesday Play
1964 The Girl
- Theatre 625
1964 Eileen
- The Square
1961 The Girl
- An Age of Kings
1960 Lady
- The Lives of Animals
Elizabeth Costello
