1. Annette Badland is best known for her roles as Charlotte in the BBC crime drama series Bergerac, Margaret Blaine in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, Mrs Glenna Fitzgibbons in the first season of Outlander, Babe Smith in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Dr Fleur Perkins on the ITV mystery series Midsomer Murders, and as Mae Green in the Apple TV+ comedy-drama Ted Lasso.
Annette Badland was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1993 for her performance as Sadie in Jim Cartwright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; a role she reprised in the 1998 film adaptation Little Voice.
Annette Badland trained in acting at East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, working in "rep" at Southwold Summer Theatre during her time there.
Annette Badland joined the cast of Jim Cartwright's play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which centres on a shy young woman from Lancashire who expresses herself through song, at the Aldwych Theatre from October 1992 through February 1993.
In 2006, Annette Badland worked with The Peter Hall Company on two productions at the Theatre Royal in Bath, England.
Annette Badland went on to work with Hall again in 2007 in a production of Noel Coward's The Vortex at London's Apollo Theatre.
In 2018, Annette Badland signed on to work with The Globe Theatre in London in their production of Blanche McIntyre's The Winter's Tale, which was broadcast live to theatres in October of that year, and Matt Hartley's Eyam, based upon the true story of a Derbyshire village that voluntarily quarantined themselves during an outbreak of the Black Plague.
In September 2019, Annette Badland was made a patron of The Old Rep Theatre in Birmingham.
Annette Badland guest-starred as a nurse in both BBC's period drama Nanny and Thames Television's crime series Minder.
Later that year, Annette Badland guest-starred on an episode of BBC Two's satirical mini-series The Old Men At The Zoo, which was based upon Angus Wilson's dystopian novel of the same name.
From 1985 to 1986, Annette Badland starred as Christine in ITV's sitcom Troubles and Strife, which revolved around the effect a new young vicar had on the town's women.
Annette Badland went on, the next year, to co-star in the PBS mini-series A Little Princess, based upon Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel and a series one episode of the BBC's sitcom You Must Be the Husband.
From 1990 to 1991, Annette Badland featured as multiple characters in BBC One's children's series Happy Families, which was based upon a set of books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.
Annette Badland guest-starred in a four-episode stint on BBC's Manchester based comedy Making Out early in 1991 and three episodes of the BBC One children's programme Archer's Goon in 1992.
Annette Badland featured in two separate episodes, one in 1991 and one in 1993, of the family sitcom 2point4 Children.
Annette Badland appeared in director Andy Wilson's mini-series The Mushroom Picker and director Carol Wiseman's mini-series Goggle Eyes.
Between 1993 and 1995, Annette Badland starred as the nurse in BBC's comedy, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith, which was presented as a look into comic and journalist Lewis-Smith's mind while he was in a coma.
In 1995, Annette Badland was featured in three episodes of BBC's BAFTA nominated children's program Jackanory, which featured celebrities reading bedtime stories for younger audiences.
Between 1995 and 1996, Annette Badland starred as Dolly Buckle in the BBC's drama Black Hearts in Battersea, an adaptation of Joel Aiken's novel of the same name.
In 1999, Annette Badland guest-starred for the fourth time on ITV's long-running police procedural The Bill.
That same year, Annette Badland guest-starred on the series two premiere of BBC's medical drama Holby City, TNT's made-for-TV movie A Christmas Carol opposite Patrick Stewart, and ITV's Alan Bleasdale penned mini-series Oliver Twist.
In three episodes broadcast between 1999 and 2000, Annette Badland portrayed Aunt Glenda in BBC's dramatic comedy series Microsoap.
Annette Badland featured in her first episode of BBC's medical drama Doctors in the series one episode "A Woman's Right to Choose".
Annette Badland went on to star in the made-for-TV film The Gentleman Thief and feature in Hallmark's two-part-mini series The Lost Empire.
Annette Badland's next television role, in 2002, was a guest spot on BBC's family drama Born and Bred.
Annette Badland followed this appearance with two made for television movies.
Between 2002 and 2005, Annette Badland co-starred in BBC's Cutting It, a drama series set in a Manchester, England hair salon.
Annette Badland was showcased in an Agatha Christie's adaptation in 2003, this time portraying Mrs Spriggs in the episode "Five Little Pigs" in the series nine premiere of ITV's Poirot.
Annette Badland began the year by portraying Einstein's nurse in an episode of BBC Two's documentary series Horizon entitled "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony".
Annette Badland then featured in the series two premier of ITV's comedy Kingdom, opposite Stephen Fry, Channel 4's Coming Up, opposite Imelda Staunton, and made-for-TV film Summerhill.
Annette Badland portrayed the sharply conservative Ethel Tonks in BBC's All the Small Things alongside Sarah Lancashire, Neil Pearson, Sarah Alexander and Bryan Dick.
In 2010 Annette Badland featured in her fourth stint on BBC's Doctors in the series twelve episode "Love Thy Neighbour" and the pilot episode of Sky One's Little Crackers, a series of autobiographical shorts written by and starring some of Britain's top comedians.
From 2011 to 2015 on The Sparticle Mystery, Annette Badland appeared in four episodes as DoomsDay Dora and eight episodes as HoloDora.
Annette Badland appeared as Ursula, from 2012 to 2014, in the CBBC science fiction series, Wizards vs Aliens.
Annette Badland went on to star in an episode of Sky One's Playhouse Presents entitled "Snodgrass", which imagined what would have happened if John Lennon had left The Beatles prior to becoming famous.
On 12 December 2013, it was announced that Annette Badland would appear as a regular in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, playing Babe Smith.
Annette Badland made her first on-screen appearance in the episode broadcast on 31 January 2014.
In 1998, Annette Badland co-starred in the SAG nominated drama Little Voice as the friend of Little Voice's mother Mari.
In 2005, Annette Badland lent her voice to the Walt Disney's animated feature Valiant, about a WWI carrier pigeon who joins the Royal Homing Pigeon Corps, alongside Ewan McGregor and Tim Curry.
Annette Badland went on to feature in Tim Burton's fill-length film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, thriller The Kovak Box, and the drama Almost Adult.
In 2009, Annette Badland signed on for a role in Jam, the first short film from three eighteen year old filmmakers, which was financed through crowdfunding after attracting the attention of the public and celebrities.
Annette Badland began her radio career in 1992 with a role in David Halliwell's comedy Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs for BBC Radio 3.
From 2000 to 2003, Annette Badland was a regular on BBC Radio 4 Extra's comedy Smelling of Roses before being cast in the six-part BBC Radio 4 radio drama Rolling Home, which centred on a group of people living in caravans.
In 2004, Annette Badland starred in BBC Radio 4's play The Pool, which focuses on a Londoner's adventures while stuck in Liverpool for the day, opposite Peter Wright, The Diary of a Nobody opposite Stephen Tompkinson, and Bumps and Bruises, which focuses on an unqualified woman attempting to run an antenatal class opposite Penelope Wilton.
Annette Badland then took over the role of Hazel Woolley, the "bad seed" adopted daughter of Jack Woolley in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers, featured in the radio adaptation of an adaptation of George MacDonald's children's novel At the Back of the North Wind, and starred as Mrs Yeobright in BBC Radio 4 Extra's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native.
In 2006 Annette Badland starred in BBC Radio 4's River's Up alongside Peter Corey.
Annette Badland later guest-starred in an episode of Sebastian Baczkiewicz's dark fantasy-adventure radio program Pilgrim, a series of tales that followed the adventures of main character and immortal being William Palmer.
Annette Badland went on to perform as a reader for series one, episode five of Jenny Eclair's short story vignette series Little Lifetimes in an episode entitled "The Viewing".