Lizzie Hopley BA (Hons) is an actress, writer and RSC practitioner who was born in Liverpool and trained at Manchester University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she graduated with a Diploma in 1996. Her first screen appearance was in the TV movie 'The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies' (1998) alongside Tony Haygarth followed by 3 episodes in the series 'Pure Wickedness' (1998). After minor roles in 'In Defence' (2000), 'Life As We Know It' (2001) and 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)' (2001) she began an association with 'Doctor Who'. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor's companion Gemma Griffin in 'Terror Firma' (2005) and then portrayed Yarvell, the sister of Davros, in the 'I, Davros' (2006) Podcast mini-series. As well as this she voiced the Mantasphid Queen in the animated story 'The Infinite Quest' (2007). In addition, she has written several audio and short stories for Big Finish, including for their 'Class', 'Torchwood' and 'Short Trips' series and has written and appeared in over 80 audio plays based on the series. She also, and most recently, provides the voice of the TARDIS in audiobook 'Doctor Who: I TARDIS : Memoirs of an Impossible Blue Box by Steve Cole (2024).
As an actress, her notable TV and film work includes Series 3 of 'Brassic' (2021), 'Little Boy Blue' (ITV 2017)), 'Luther' (BBC 2013), Cary Fukunaga’s 'Jane Eyre' (2011), 'Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman' (2005) with Timothy Spall, 'The Thirteenth Tale' (2013) with Vanessa Redgrave and 'The Day of the Triffids' (2009) with Dougray Scott and Eddie Izzard. Recent theatre work includes an international tour of 'Tis Pity She’s a Whore' with Cheek by Jowl. and she recently finished at the RSC in their 'Roaring Girls' Season.
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| Lizzie Hopley as Mistress Gallipot in The Roaring Girl in 2014. Photo by Helen Maybanks |
As a writer, her sitcom pilot 'Green', won Pozzitive Television's' Funny Dot Comp 2021 and her TV series 'Bloody Betty' is in development with Showem Entertainment. Her radio plays include 'Salome' (Drama on 3), 'The Elizabethan Beauty Law' (Radio 4) and 'The Cenci Family' (starring Sally Hawkins, nominated for a Sony Academy Award and a Richard Imerson 1st play award). Her debut theatre play 'Pramface', which explored the consequences of reality television and labelling people as chavs, was awarded the Plat de Jour at Edinburgh Festival 2005. Lizzie has said, "I had never come across the term before, I had heard chav and chavette, but never pramface. Then one day I was reading one of the gossip magazines and it called Natasha Hamilton, who used to be in Atomic Kitten, a pramface, and I thought what does that mean?" Lizzie then took a year out in 2017 to work full time as a comedian to create a blog: 'Diary of a Stand Up Virgin'.
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| In Pramface |
She also wrote 'Jam', a short film starring Stephen Fry, Annette Badland, Frank Skinner, Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. In 2020, she wrote the short film "Mr Fairhurst", the story of a PE teacher in lockdown. She was recently commissioned to write the screenplay 'Killing Clovis Dardentor', an updated film adaptation of Jules Verne's 'Clovis Dardentor' for www.buyacredit.com. She has 43 books on Goodreads with 5855 ratings and her most popular book is 'The Pearl Locket'.
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