Michele Austin is a British actress best known for her role as PC
Yvonne Hemmingway on
ITV's ''
The Bill
''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983.
The programme focused o ...
'', for which she won the
Screen Nation award for best television actress in 2005.
Early life and career
She studied acting at
Rose Bruford College
Rose Bruford College (formerly Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance) is a drama school in the south London suburb of Sidcup. The college has degree programmes in acting, actor musicianship, directing, theatre arts and various discipl ...
in
Sidcup
Sidcup is an area of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, bordering the London Boroughs of Bromley and Greenwich. Before the creation of Greater London in 1965, it was in the ...
. As well as her role as PC Hemmingway in the ITV series ''The Bill'', she played the character Marsha Harris twice in 2001. Austin had roles in
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design ...
's films ''
Secrets & Lies'' (1996) and ''
Another Year'' (2010). She also has a small role in ITV's 2008 teen drama ''
Britannia High
''Britannia High'' is a British musical drama television series co-produced by Granada Television and Globe Productions for the ITV network. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatr ...
'' as Mrs Doris Troy, the landlady of the main characters, in the comedy ''
Never Better
''Never Better'' is a British television sitcom which started on BBC Two from 10 January to 14 February 2008. It stars Stephen Mangan as recovering alcoholic Keith Merchant and Kate Ashfield as his suffering wife Anita. The series is written by F ...
'' and as a nurse in BBC's ''
Outnumbered'' that aired on 30 August 2009.
In December 2010, she appeared in the British
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, a role which she reprised in February 2016. Prior to this she played Miss Meg Tyler in 1993. On 12 February 2013 she played the part of Estelle in an episode of ''Death in Paradise'' on BBC1.
In 2016, she appeared in the BBC series ''
''.