Michele Austin

Michele Austin, born in the UK, is a British actress who trained at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup and became familiar to television viewers as Yvonne Hemmingway on the ITV series The Bill, a part that earned her a Screen Nation Award as best television actress. Her film work includes Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies (1996) and Another Year (2010), and she appears in Hard Truths (2024) as Chantelle, a performance that won her Best Supporting Actress from the National Society of Film Critics. On the small screen she has also had parts in Britannia High, Never Better, Outnumbered, EastEnders as Gloria MacDonald, Death in Paradise, The Coroner, Meet the Richardsons and This Is Going to Hurt, where she played the senior midwife Tracy. She played Marsha Harris twice in 2001 and Miss Meg Tyler in 1993.