The Biography

Wendy Nottingham is a British actress whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly available in major sources. She has been active since 1987, making her earliest screen credit as an applicant at a hairdressing salon in Hidden City (1987), and has since accumulated over 50 film and television credits. Notably, she has appeared in three Best Picture Oscar nominees: Secrets & Lies (1996), Babel (2006), and Atonement (2007). Her most notable film credits include Elaine Clifford in Notes on a Scandal (2006), Helen Lenoir in Topsy-Turvy (1999), Mrs. Jarvis in Atonement (2007), Ivy in Vera Drake (2004), a Glum Wife in Secrets & Lies (1996), Madame Homais in Madame Bovary (2014), Laura in The Children Act (2017), Charlotte's Maid in Ammonite (2020), Mrs. Cordoza in The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021), and Conrad Earp's Secretary in Asteroid City (2023). On television she is best known as Mary in Peaky Blinders (2016, 5 episodes), with additional credits in The Borgias (2013), A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012), The Crimson Petal and the White (2011), Extras (2006), Agatha Christie's Marple (2008), Inspector Lewis (2008), Spooks (2008), EastEnders (2009), Holby City (2014), Lawless (2013), and Casualty (1990–2010). In theatre she appeared in Machinal (West End, 2024), Abigail's Party (Hampstead Theatre), Curtains (Rose Theatre Kingston, 2018), and Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse, 2025).