Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley is a British actor and writer.
She appears in several audio plays based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor’s companion Gemma Griffin in Terror Firma. She also portrayed the sister of Davros in the I, Davros mini-series.
She was born in Liverpool and trained at RADA. Her film and television work has included The Last Hangman, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), Holby City and Doctors. In 2009, she starred in the latest BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids. More recently, she played Sheila Adrar in Channel 4's adaptation of Any Human Heart, Miss Abbot in the long-awaited new film adaptation of Jane Eyre directed by Sin Nombre's Cary Fukunaga and Harriet Gollop in ITV's adaptation of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher starring Paddy Considine.
She wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Pramface, which explored the consequences of reality television and labelling people as chavs.
Her radio plays have included The Elizabethan Beauty Law[1] (which starred Annette Badland as Queen Elizabeth), The Cenci Family (nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award) for BBC Radio 4 and Salome[2] (which starred Ian Brooker, Florence Hoath and Kenneth Cranham) for BBC Radio 3.
In 2007 she voiced the Mantasphid Queen in the Doctor Who animated adventure The Infinite Quest. She is currently commissioned to write the screenplay for "Clovis Dardentor", a film adaptation of Jules Verne's Clovis Dardentor.
[edit] Big Finish Productions
Hopley’s work for Big Finish Productions includes:
- Terror Firma – actor
- Night Thoughts – actor
- The Veiled Leopard - actor
- The Goddess Quandary - actor
- Scorpius - actor
- Fear – actor
- Conversion - actor
- Telos - actor
- Wildthyme at Large - actor
- The Devil in Ms Wildthyme - actor
- I, Davros: Innocence - actor
- I, Davros: Purity - actor
- I, Davros: Guilt - actor
- Land of Wonder - actor
- Dark Shadows: Kingdom of the Dead - actor
- Short Trips: The Centenarian - writer
- Short Trips: Snapshots - writer
- Short Trips: Defining Patterns - writer
- Dark Shadows: The Carrion Queen - writer and actor
