Beth Goddard
Known for: Acting
Elizabeth Jane "Beth" Goddard (born 1969) is a British actress. She grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and attended Clacton County High School and the Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, Kent, from 1986 to 1989. She met her husband, Philip Glenister, best known for his role as Gene Hunt in TV drama Life on Mars, at a birthday party of Jamie Glover in 1997. They married in 2006. The couple have two daughters, Millie and Charlotte, born in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Goddard played Belinda Ashton in the ITV detective drama Lewis, broadcast in March 2008. Goddard also starred as Suze Littlewood in the comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme. She appeared alongside her husband in the third series of BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes. In this episode the couple shared an on screen kiss. One of her first television roles was as unscrupulous yellow journalist Clare Moody in a 1994 episode of the ITV drama Cracker. Her character was involved in reporting on the crimes committed by serial killer Albie Kinsella (Robert Carlyle), who targeted her for supposedly writing the controversial TRUTH page about the Hillsborough disaster and showing no remorse for it, even continuing to use fabricated information to print stories for more profit. Albie ultimately killed her character with a letter bomb
Filmography
Series
Midsomer Murders
Wendy Smythe-Webster
1997
Series
Midsomer Murders
Selina Stanton
1997
Series
Outlander
Lady Louisa Dunsany
2014
Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Violet Wilson
1989
Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Sister Agnieszka
1989
Series
Call the Midwife
Pamela Dobson
2012
Series
Casualty
Hannah Fleet
1986
Series
A Touch of Frost
Helen Fox
1992
Series
Endeavour
Barbara Batten
2013
Series
Peak Practice
Leanda Sharpe
1993
Series
Lewis
Belinda Ashton
2007
Series
New Tricks
Paula Symes
2004
Series
The Bill
1984
Film
Edge of Tomorrow
Secretary - Judith
2014
Series
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Sister Helena
2007
Series
Performance
Waitress
1991
Series
The Gold
Shirley
2023
Series
Cracker
Clare Moody
1993
Series
The Serpent Queen
Antoinette de Bourbon
2022
Series
Bugs
1995
Series
Code of Silence
Helen Redman
2025
Series
Ashes to Ashes
Elaine Downing
2008
Film
Queen of the Desert
Aunt Lascelles
2015
Series
Becoming Elizabeth
Joan Denny
2022
Series
Manhunt
Cathy Rook
2019
Series
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Sara Polson
1994
Series
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Suze Littlewood
1999
Series
Murder in Suburbia
Sally Taylor
2004
Series
Des
Frances
2020
Film
A Street Cat Named Bob
Hillary
2016
Series
Daylight Robbery
Harriet Howell
1999
Series
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Lady Suzanne Foulkes
1999
Series
Tilly Trotter
Ellen Ross
1999
Series
Crooked House
Mrs Glanville
2008
Series
Vital Signs
Maddy McCartney
2006
Series
Take Me
2001
Film
Beautiful Thing
Brewery Official
1996
Series
Big Bad World
1999
Ellington
Kelly Logan
1996
Degrees of Error
Anna Peirce
1995
Series
Frances Tuesday
Bishop
2004
Sunnyside Farm
1997
The Eustace Bros.
Melissa Garvey
2003
Film
Top Girls
Waitress / Kit / Shona
1991
Film
The Last Seduction II
Murphy
1999
Film
X-Men: First Class
Mrs. Xavier
2011
Film
A Business Affair
Student
1994
Film
The Dead Peasants Society
Claire Symmons
2007
Film
Tu£sday
2008
Film
Tu£sday
Helen
2008
The Perfect Match
Mandy
1995
Film
Low Level Panic
Celia
1994
Film
According to Beryl
Queenie
2001