Name
Nia Roberts
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1972-07-05 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan T...
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Richard is assigned public service after crashing his homemade aircraft, leading him to me...
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A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horr...
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A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to...
- 2010 Patagonia as Gwen
- 2007 Cashback as Woman at the Till
- 2000 Making Love as Costanza
- 1999 Solomon & Gaenor as Gaenor Rees
- 2011 Little Munchkin as Mrs. Jones
- 2012 The Facility as Katie Strong
- 2014 Under Milk Wood as Rosie Probert
- 2010 Third Star as Chloe
- 2015 Bridgend as Thomas' Mother
- 2015 Just Jim as Mum
- 2004 Cashback as Woman at the Till (uncredited)
- 2006 Calon Gaeth as Miriam
- 2014 A Wonderful Christmas Time as Penny
- 2018 To Provide All People as Midwife
- 2018 Last Summer as Sandra Davies
- 2019 The Return of the Yuletide Kid as Philipa
- 2021 The Feast as Glenda
- 2003 Still: Here/Now as Self
- 2021 Sometime Else as Therapist
- 1999 The Theory of Flight as Checkout Girl
- 2026 Our Town as Mrs. Webb
- 2021 The Museum ( 12 episodes ) as Della Howells
- 2005 Doctor Who ( 2 episodes ) as Ambrose
- 2000 Border Cafe ( 8 episodes ) as Naomi Sykes
- 2023 Steeltown Murders ( 4 episodes ) as Karina Bethell
- 2018 Hidden ( 8 episodes ) as Elin Jones
- 2023 Tree on a Hill ( 6 episodes ) as Margaret Lewis
- 2017 Bang ( 14 episodes ) as Linda Jenkins
- 2016 The Crown ( 1 episode ) as Silvia Millward
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Stacey Purdy
- 2020 Washington ( 3 episodes ) as Martha Washington
- 2017 The White Princess ( 1 episode ) as Catherine Woodville
- 2025 Still Waters ( 6 episodes ) as Eve Davies
- 2022 The Light in the Hall ( 6 episodes ) as Eve Davies
- 2022 Red Rose ( 6 episodes ) as Shelley Royston
- 2001 Dr Terrible's House of Horrible ( 1 episode ) as Dr Rowan Latimer
- 2012 Playhouse Presents ( 1 episode ) as Eleanor
