Pippa Haywood

Pippa Haywood is an English actress who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked widely in television, film and theater. Her comedy work includes the put-upon Helen Brittas in The Brittas Empire, which ran from 1991 to 1997, and Joanna Clore, the hot-tempered human resources director in Green Wing, a performance that brought her a Rose d'Or award in 2005. She has also taken dramatic parts in Chimera, Prisoners' Wives, Scott & Bailey and Bodyguard. On stage she has appeared at the National Theatre in plays including Private Lives and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and she played the lead in Wanderlust at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Her films include Supernova (2020), as the sister of Colin Firth's character, and Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018).