Pauline Moran
Birthday: Born in 1947-08-26 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pauline Moran (born 26 August 1947) is an English actress, presenter, and astrologer, best known for her role as Miss Lemon in the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot. She has also been a professional astrologer since 1987. Although primarily a stage actress, Moran has appeared in films such as The Good Soldier (1981), The Woman in Black (1989), Byron (2003), and A Little Chaos (2014), as well as the 1983 television series The Cleopatras. From 1965 to about 1970, she played bass guitar in the all-female band The She Trinity.
TV Credits
Bugs
Character: Juliet
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films....
The Storyteller
Character: Queen
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends....
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Miss Lemon
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
Byron
Character: Mrs Curtin
Byron revolutionized English poetry and died a hero. He became famous overnight when the poetic record of his adventures abroad was received with rapture. This rich historical drama explores the true identity of the wild poetic genius who broke every taboo in the book. Byron's affairs and his unconventionality, however, were always destined to bring him down....
The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Antoinette de Mauban
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia....
Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Miss Petowker
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle....
The Cleopatras
Character: Cleopatra Berenike
The Cleopatras is a 1983 BBC Television historical drama serial created and written by Philip Mackie. Set in Ancient Egypt during the latter part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the eight-part series follows the lives of a series of queens belonging to the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt, culminating in its final active ruler Cleopatra VII. Intended to be the I, Claudius of the 1980s, The Cleopatras met with a decidedly negative critical reaction, and was regarded and portrayed as a gaudy farce. I...
Supernatural
Character: Mary Lawrence
Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed....
Shadow of the Noose
Character: Ruby Ray
Shadow of the Noose is a 1989 BBC One legal drama miniseries starring Jonathan Hyde as real-life English barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall. The eight-episode serial depicts Marshall Hall's high-profile, controversial cases, earning him the nickname 'The Great Defender', while also exploring his personal struggles, particularly those related to his unhappy first marriage....
Movie Credits
The Woman in Black
Character: Woman in Black
A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister....
The Good Soldier
Character: Maisie
A romantic tragedy about two turn-of-the-century couples - one American, one British - who regularly vacation together at a spa in Germany....
Afternoon
Character: The Teacher
A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed....
The Trespasser
Character: Helena
Adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel this tells the romantic story of Siegmund and Helena. Siegmund, an orchestral violinist who is married with three children, has tutored Helena for several years and they've fallen in love but he will not leave his wife or consummate their passion physically. Helena arranges for them to go on an idyllic holiday to the Isle of Wight, hoping that will convince Siegmund to break away from his marriage and they can be together....
A Little Chaos
Character: Ariane
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV....
Byron
Character: Mrs. Curtain
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years...
The Storyteller: The Luck Child
Character: Queen
Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child and attempts to do away with him. But those blessed with luck cannot be undone....