Leila Hoffman
Birthday: Born in 1934-06-11 in Hackney, London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Leila Hoffman (née Rothstein) (born 11 June 1934 in Hackney) is an English comedian, actress and writer. Hoffman starred in BBC Three sitcom, How Not to Live Your Life as Dot Treacher, the widowed neighbour. She has also appeared in several online BBC comedy sketches with the group This is Wondervision.
TV Credits
Flowers
Character: Nana
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children....
Doctor Who
Character: Mrs Rossiter
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Bad Education
Character: Olive Mollinson
Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire....
EastEnders
Character: Freda
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough....
Beyond Paradise
Character: Maud Bernberg
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected....
Speechless
Character: Prudence
Maya DiMeo is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with special needs. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves and searches for just the right person to give JJ his “voice.”...
I Hate Suzie
Character: Grinny
Suzie Pickles, a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her emerges in an extremely compromising position....
How Not to Live Your Life
Character: Mrs. Treacher
Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say....
Not Going Out
Character: Old Lady
Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, middle-class citizen Tim is always there to stop Lee from getting in trouble, or not? Mayhem is never far away with cleaner Barbara who has never done an honest day's work in her life....
Movie Credits
A Kind of Kidnapping
Character: Doris
A young, broke couple kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage....
Roger Roger
Character: Lady
Minicab boss Sam has his work cut out controlling a wayward bunch of drivers...
Edvard
Character: Maid
Set in 1902, this is the story of the artist Edvard Munch and his stormy affair with Tulla Larsen, the inspiration behind some of his most famous paintings....
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
Character: Innkeeper
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem....
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again
Character: Alice
We join Ben a year on as he is getting used to life without his beloved Gran. With the memory of their daring Crown Jewel heist still fresh in his mind, he is stunned to learn another spate of thefts are beginning to occur - with all the clues pointing to The Black Cat, better known to Ben as Granny!...
EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford
Character: Mrs Lambert
With the second marriage of Ricky and Bianca fast approaching, their two children, Tiffany and Liam set out to film a video diary gift for their wedding. As EastEnders’ biggest stars, including Pat Evans, Ian Beale, Janine Butcher and Phil Mitchell, provide their own memories of the sometimes happy couple, Tiffany has a mystery to solve: why is Carol Jackson determined to miss Bianca’s big day? Meanwhile, determined to enjoy a romantic Valentine’s Day, Ricky and Bianca stroll through the streets...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Character: Augusta Longbottom (uncredited)
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame....
Prevenge
Character: Dan's Mum
Ruth is a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It's her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth's actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father....
Walter
Character: Old Lady
DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his former colleague was murdered, while tracking down another officer who has gone so far undercover that nobody knows where he (or she) is....
The Midnight Gang
Character: Nelly
When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself on the miserable children's ward of St Hugo's Hospital, where he is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter and wicked matron. But things aren't as bad as they seem and Tom is soon to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!...
The Fools on the Hill
Character: Ellen Townsend
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary....
The Witches
Character: Lady #2
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?...
Magnolia
Character: Mad Alice
Ex-cons Paul, Dino and Terry are very good at being friends, but aren't so good at making money. Their decorating business is on the ropes and with Paul under pressure to abandon a sinking ship, will their firm - and their friendship - be able to survive?...
Shoot the Revolution
Character: Woman at TV Station
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?...
Bad Tidings
Character: Evelyn
Grumpy home-security expert Neil feuds with his neighbour Scott, who insists on keeping his Christmas lights illuminated all-year-round. Their tit-for-tat argument culminates in Neil triggering a power-cut across the entire street on Christmas Eve. But when the local crime family decide to rob every house on the street that night, and the pair must set aside their differences to defeat them....