Patricia Hodge

Hodge made her West End debut under the watchful eye of Bob Fosse in Pippin at The National Theatre and has starred in classics like Look Back In Anger and A Little Night Music. Hodge has received three Olivier Award nominations and won the 2000 Olivier Award for her performance in Money at The National Theatre. Best known recently for playing Penny, the hilarious middle-class mother in the BAFTA-nominated television series Miranda (BBC One), Hodge has also enjoyed an illustrious career on the small screen. Her numerous TV roles have seen her star in iconic shows like Downton Abbey, Rumpole Of The Bailey Hodge and more recently the Golden Globe nominated A Very English Scandal.

In 2018, Patricia Hodge portrayed Ursula Thorpe, the mother of Hugh Grant's Jeremy Thorpe, in the BBC drama A Very English Scandal. She later joined the cast of All Creatures Great and Small as Mrs. Pumphrey in 2021, succeeding the late Diana Rigg. Her stage credits during this period include starring opposite Nigel Havers in Noël Coward's Private Lives, directed by Christopher Luscombe, and portraying Mrs. Malaprop in a 2025 production of The Rivals at London's Orange Tree Theatre, celebrating the play's 250th anniversary. In recognition of her contributions to drama, Hodge was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2017.