
Wendy Nottingham
Biography
Wendy Nottingham is a British actress whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly available in major sources. She has been active since 1987, making her earliest screen credit as an applicant at a hairdressing salon in Hidden City (1987), and has since accumulated over 50 film and television credits. Notably, she has appeared in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Secrets & Lies (1996), Babel (2006), and Atonement (2007). Her most notable film credits include Elaine Clifford in Notes on a Scandal (2006), Helen Lenoir in Topsy-Turvy (1999), Mrs. Jarvis in Atonement (2007), Ivy in Vera Drake (2004), a Glum Wife in Secrets & Lies (1996), Madame Homais in Madame Bovary (2014), Laura in The Children Act (2017), Charlotte's Maid in Ammonite (2020), Mrs. Cordoza in The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021), and Conrad Earp's Secretary in Asteroid City (2023). On television she is best known as Mary in Peaky Blinders (2016, 5 episodes), with additional credits in The Borgias (2013), A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), Extras (2006), Agatha Christie's Marple (2008), Inspector Lewis (2008), Spooks (2008), EastEnders (2009), Holby City (2014), Lawless (2013), and Casualty (1990–2010). In theatre she appeared in Machinal (West End, 2024), Abigail's Party (Hampstead Theatre), Curtains (Rose Theatre Kingston, 2018), and Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse, 2025).
Filmography

Lawless
2013 · 9.5

Extremely Dangerous
1999 · 9.0

Peaky Blinders
2013 · 8.5
The Peter Principle
1997 · 8.0

Dead on Time
1999 · 8.0

Extras
2005 · 7.8

Spooks
2002 · 7.7

The Borgias
2011 · 7.6

Atonement
2007 · 7.6

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006 · 7.6

Secrets & Lies
1996 · 7.6

Lewis
2007 · 7.6

Mr. Malcolm's List
2019 · 7.4

The Last Letter from Your Lover
2021 · 7.3

Vera Drake
2004 · 7.2

Babel
2006 · 7.2

A Young Doctor's Notebook
2012 · 7.1

Kingdom
2007 · 7.1

Notes on a Scandal
2006 · 7.1
Hell Bent for Leather
2007 · 7.0

Ammonite
2020 · 6.9

The Bill
1984 · 6.8

Good Boy
2023 · 6.8

Topsy-Turvy
1999 · 6.6

The Children Act
2018 · 6.6

Asteroid City
2023 · 6.5

The Short & Curlies
1987 · 6.4

Farming
2018 · 6.2

Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
1997 · 6.1

Bigga Than Ben
2008 · 6.0

Housewife, 49
2006 · 6.0

Lynley
2025 · 5.9

Mary Reilly
1996 · 5.8

Madame Bovary
2015 · 5.7

Tumbledown
1988 · 5.7

Hidden City
1987 · 5.4

Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
2014 · 5.3

The Wimbledon Poisoner
1994 · 4.0

Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009 · 4.0
Bonded
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