Flaminia Cinque

Flaminia Cinque is an English actress who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and began her career in 1988, the year she won the Peter Ackerman Comedy Prize for stage performances as Mae West in Happy as a Sandbag and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She worked in London's West End with Peter Hall on The Rose Tattoo, taking over the lead when Julie Walters withdrew, and later appeared in the first cast of David Hare's play The Permanent Way at the National Theatre. Her films include The Knot (2012), Made in Italy (2020), Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022), in which she played Mrs. Zuzzer, and Attack the Block (2011). On television she has appeared in Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Casualty and Doctors, and she voices Ester in Thomas & Friends.