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Acting

Jessica Hynes

Career: Active from 1995 to 2025, busiest in 2007 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 31
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Spaced
93/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

BAFTA Awards · Best Female Comedy Performance
2019 · Won
There She Goes
Source: Wikidata
BAFTA Awards · Best Female Comedy Performance
2015 · Won
W1A
Source: Wikidata

Characters

13

The characters Jessica Hynes played, best-known titles first.

Jessica Hynes as Mafalda Hopkirk

Jessica Hynes as Yvonne

Jessica Hynes as Daisy Steiner

Jessica Hynes as Edith Lyons

Jessica Hynes as Lucky

Jessica Hynes as Frankie Monroe

Jessica Hynes as Steph

Jessica Hynes as Ella

Jessica Hynes as Siobhan Sharpe

Jessica Hynes as Mary Austen

Jessica Hynes as Siobhan Sharpe

Jessica Hynes as Margaret

Jessica Hynes as Carol

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 62 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jessica Hynes Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.1, average 4.1
Crime
1.6, average 3.6
Mystery
2.2, average 3.9
Adrenaline
3.1, average 4.8

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Witty Dialogue 5
British Comedy 4
Ensemble Cast 4
Absurdist Humor 3
Quirky Characters 3
Character-Driven 3
Character-Driven Comedy 3
British Humor 3
British Sketch Comedy 2
Family Saga 2
Social Realism 2
Pop Culture Satire 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

85

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

13 titles · average score 69

Patience

67

TV show · as DI Frankie Monroe

Miss Austen

68

TV show · as Mary Austen

Death of a Unicorn

55

as Shaw

The Franchise

67

TV show · as Steph Mundun

Paddington in Peru

75

as Miss Kitts

Seize Them!

56

as Leofwine

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

73

TV show · as The Reddlehag

Life After Life

88

TV show · as Mrs Glover

The Witchfinder

74

TV show · as Old Myers

Mood

70

TV show · as Laura

Dreaming Whilst Black

69

TV show · as Drew

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse

62

as Sofie Dahl

2010s

31 titles · average score 66

Years and Years

82

TV show · as Edith Lyons

There She Goes

89

TV show · as Emily

Songbird

29

as Sara

Hooten & The Lady

67

TV show · as Ella Bond

Jack and Dean of All Trades

90

TV show · as Marv (voice)

W1A

63

TV show · as Siobhan Sharpe

Pudsey the Dog: The Movie

22

as Gail

Up the Women

69

TV show · as Margaret

One Night

78

TV show · as Carol

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!

43

as Angel Matthews

Twenty Twelve

69

TV show · as Siobhan Sharpe

Lizzie and Sarah

77

as Sarah/Ellie

2000s

26 titles · average score 64

Faintheart

40

as Cath

Son of Rambow

70

as Mary Proudfoot

British Film Forever

TV show · as Narrator

Learners

62

as Beverley

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

75

as Mafalda Hopkirk (voice)

Skins

71

TV show · as Crystal

Confetti

48

as Sam (as Jessica Stevenson)

Doctor Who

78

TV show · as Joan Redfern

According to Bex

TV show

Shaun of the Dead

77

as Yvonne

Tomorrow La Scala!

76

as Victoria (as Jessica Stevenson)

Bob & Rose

68

TV show · as Holly Vance

1990s

15 titles · average score 74

Spaced

93

TV show · as Daisy Steiner

People Like Us

82

TV show · as Sarah

The Royle Family

85

TV show · as Cheryl Carroll

Unnatural Acts

TV show

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Judith Lessiter

Asylum

63

TV show · as Martha

TV show · as Alice Timpson

TV show

Crown Prosecutor

TV show · as Jackie South

Six Pairs of Pants

TV show · Additional Writing, Writer

Swing Kids

59

as Helga

The House of Eliott

73

TV show · as Charlotte Parker