Nia Roberts
Known For
Acting
Born
1972-07-05 in Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales, UK
Biography
Roberts' big break came in 1998, when she appeared in Solomon a Gaenor opposite Ioan Gruffudd. With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish, the movie won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards. Her subsequent Welsh-language credits include Fondue, Rhyw a Deinosors!, Newes of the Weeke, Y Palmant Aur, Glan Hafren, the long-running soap opera Pobol y Cwm, and S4C's gangster drama Y Pris. Roberts' English-language television credits include the comedy series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, the drama Border Café, and several single-episode appearances in prime-time British shows such as The Bill and Casualty. Roberts has starred in two films directed by her husband, Marc Evans: Snow Cake (2006), a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident; and Patagonia (2009), a drama set in Y Wladfa, Argentina. In 2009, Roberts also starred as registrar Mary Finch in Crash!, a hospital drama commissioned by BBC Wales and produced by Tony Jordan. In 2010, Roberts guest-starred in the two-part Doctor Who Series 5 episode The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. More big-screen productions followed: She appeared in Hattie Dalton's Third Star (2010) and in Vertigo Films' The Facility (2012), an atmospheric, micro-budget horror film about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. In 2014, Roberts appeared in the fourth episode of Y Gwyll (Hinterland), a highly acclaimed noir detective series shot in both Welsh and English.
Most Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Stacey Purdy
Doctor Who
as Ambrose
The Crown
as Silvia Millward
Still Waters
as Eve Davies
Cashback
as Woman at the Till
The White Princess
as Catherine Woodville
Hidden
as Elin Jones
Red Rose
as Shelley Royston
The Museum
as Della Howells
The Light in the Hall
as Eve Davies
Steeltown Murders
as Karina Bethell
Washington
as Martha Washington
Border Cafe
as Naomi Sykes
Bang
as Linda Jenkins
Cashback
as Woman at the Till (uncredited)
Tree on a Hill
as Margaret Lewis
Making Love
as Costanza
The Feast
as Glenda
Third Star
as Chloe
Solomon & Gaenor
as Gaenor Rees