Erika Hoffman is an English actress known for portraying Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes from series two onwards.[1] When the Brush Strokes series ended, she joined fellow cast member Howard Lew Lewis in the Channel 4 comedy series Chelmsford 123, where she played Gargamadua.
Career
editIn 1986, she played Anna, a 19-year-old pregnant German girl, in the Only Fools and Horses episode "From Prussia with Love". In the ITV comedy Room at the Bottom, she played secretary Nancy, alongside James Bolam and Richard Wilson.
In the Yorkshire Television 1986 comedy Home To Roost, she played April, a charity worker, alongside John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. She also appeared in a minor role in Just Good Friends. She appeared in the 1990s soap opera Machair, playing Charlotte Van Agten. Hoffman appeared on stage and in television films such as Last Days of Patton and as "The Lady" in To Play the King.[2]
Filmography
editTelevision
editYear | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1984 | Minder | Faith | Episode: "The Second Time Around" |
1984 | No Place Like Home | Sandra | 2 episodes |
1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Girl at picnic | Episode: "Sleeps Six" |
1984 | Just Good Friends | Karina | Episode: "Special" |
1985 | Jenny's War | Gerta | 4 episodes |
1986 | Hilary | Lois | Episode: "Over the Hill?" |
1986 | Only Fools and Horses | Anna | Episode: "From Prussia with Love" |
1986 | Fairly Secret Army | Nurse | Episode: "I've Got a Job for You" |
1986 | Home to Roost | April | Episode: "Plastic Dreamworld" |
1986 | The Last Days of Patton | Young Beatrice | Television film |
1986 | Lytton's Diary | Stephanie | Episode: "The Miracle Man" |
1986–1988 | Room at the Bottom | Nancy / Secretary | 7 episodes |
1987–1991 | Brush Strokes | Lesley | 26 episodes |
1988 | Chelmsford 123 | Gargamadua | 6 episodes |
1988 | Tales of the Unexpected | Suzie Anderson | Episode: "Mr. Know-All" |
1989 | Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage | Mrs. Topless | Television film |
1992 | Casualty | Helen Holloway | Episode: "Silent Night" |
1993 | To Play the King | The Lady | 4 episodes |
1994 | Machair | Charlotte Van Agten | 2 episodes |
1995 | The Final Cut | Princess | |
1996 | The Bill | Receptionist | Episode: "Black Money" |
References
edit- ^ Sullivan, Jim; Jones, Mike (30 September 2021). Lovely Jubbly: A Celebration of 40 Years of Only Fools and Horses. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-3307-3.
- ^ "Erika Hoffman". IMDb. Retrieved 14 October 2022.