Nia Roberts

Known for ActingBorn 1972-07-05 (age 54)Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Still: Here/Now

The Crown

To Provide All People

Bang

Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family

The White Princess

Doctor Who

Midsomer Murders

Washington

Hidden

Sometime Else

Third Star

Steeltown Murders

Cashback

Cashback

Dr Terrible's House of Horrible

Last Summer

Making Love

Tree on a Hill

Red Rose

The Museum

The Theory of Flight

Still Waters

The Return of the Yuletide Kid

Under Milk Wood

Playhouse Presents

A Wonderful Christmas Time

The Feast

Solomon & Gaenor

Just Jim

The Light in the Hall

Patagonia

Bridgend

The Facility

Little Munchkin

Calon Gaeth

Border Cafe