Teresa Churcher (born 7 January) is an English actress whose film credits include Gosford Park, Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, Being Julia, Creation and The Woman in Black.
Churcher was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Churcher graduated with a Drama Diploma (honours) and the award for Most Promising Student from a London drama school in the mid-1990s. She began her career on the London stage playing Olga in Three Sisters, Agnes in Agnes of God and Sue Murray in The Truth Game.
Television roles followed in Casualty and Kavanagh QC before Churcher landed the lead role in the ITV drama Bomber. Her performance gained her positive reviews and the part of Bertha, the 'naughty' kitchen maid, in Robert Altman's Gosford Park, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award. Film roles followed in Being Julia, as Charlotte in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, in Creation and The Woman in Black. Churcher has continued to appear in television shows such as Spooks, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Last Detective, Holby City and Garrow's Law, as well as the television films of Ballet Shoes, Colditz and Belonging, amongst others.
Churcher returned to the stage in 2009 to play the lead role of Jane in The Girls of Slender Means at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, gaining a Stage Award for Acting Excellence nomination.
2016
as Stern Maid
2015
as Bank Worker
2015
2015
as Hannah Morbury
2014
as Passenger
2014
as Helen
2013
as Mrs. Piggott
2013
as Elizabeth Jones
2013
as Daughter
2012
as Janet Colter
2009
as Mrs. Tarling
2009
as Mrs. Davies
2009
as Nurse Anne
2008
as Clara
2007
as Governess
2005
as TV Journalist
2005
as Charlotte
2004
as DC Sinclair
2004
as Cynthia
2003
as Jane
2002
as Self (uncredited)
2002
as Sarah
2001
as Bertha
2000
as Ruth
1995
as Fern Lambert