Gina Bellman

Gina Bellman is a New Zealand-born British actress who moved to Britain as a child and began her screen career in 1982 with an episode of Into the Labyrinth, followed by a short stint in Grange Hill. She became a household name with the lead in Dennis Potter's drama Blackeyes, and is best known as Jane Christie in the BBC sitcom Coupling. Her television work also includes Waking the Dead, Jonathan Creek and Jekyll, the Steven Moffat serial in which she co-starred with James Nesbitt. Her films include King David (1985), Secret Friends, Leon the Pig Farmer and Silent Trigger (1996). She played the grifter Sophie Devereaux in Leverage, a role that brought her a Saturn Award nomination, and reprised it in Leverage: Redemption. She has also narrated poetry for an interactive anthology and appeared on stage at the National Theatre.