Pippa Haywood

Pippa Haywood is an English actor who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked steadily on television since the mid-1980s. She is best known as Helen Brittas, the long-suffering wife in the sitcom The Brittas Empire. She is also known as the hot-tempered human resources director Joanna Clore in Green Wing, a role that won her the 2005 Rose d’Or for Best Female Comedy Performance. Her other television credits include Detective Superintendent Julie Dodson in Scott & Bailey, as well as Bodyguard, Bridgerton and Midsomer Murders. On stage she has appeared at the National Theatre and the Royal Court, in plays such as House & Garden and Private Lives. Her film work includes Supernova (2020) with Colin Firth.