Julia Swift

Actress

Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Biography

Julia Swift was born in July 1956 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Fainthearted Feminist (1984), Dick Turpin (1979) and The Sailor's Return (1978). She has been married to David Bamber since July 1982. They have two children.

Filmography

7.5

Midsomer Murders

Angie Blunstone

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

6.3

Performance

Harriet

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

8.0

The Duchess of Duke Street

Hotel Guest

In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

7.4

Dick Turpin

Wimple

Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

6.5

Ladies in Charge

Vicky Barton

Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift. After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.

4.1

The History Man

Becky Pott

The History Man is a four-part 1981 British television drama miniseries written by Christopher Hampton, based on Malcolm Bradbury's 1975 novel of the same title. Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.

7.8

The Royal

Mrs. Blackwood

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.

N/A

Salad Days

Asphynxia

A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.

9.0

Broken Glass

Harriet

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg against the backdrop of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany.

4.3

Song of Songs

Sarah Cohen

Devoutly religious Ruth returns from Israel to care for her dying mother, but when she tries to bring her estranged brother David back into the fold, in accordance with her mother's wishes, the result is a startling journey into the darkest realms of sexual obsession: a forbidden game under the guise of religious law. Dark, ambiguous and distinctly adult, this study of belief and desire, set in the cloistered world of London's Orthodox Jewish community, thoughtfully explores the links between faith and violence, denial and longing.

N/A

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Grusha

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.

6.2

The Sailor's Return

Annie

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.

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