Nia Roberts

Nia Roberts

  • Birthday: 1972-07-05
  • Place of birth: Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

Little Munchkin

2011

As Mrs. Jones

Patagonia

2010

As Gwen

Solomon and Gaenor

1999

As Gaenor Rees

The Feast

2021

As Glenda

Bridgend

2015

As Thomas' Mother

Making Love

2000

As Costanza

Just Jim

2015

As Mum

Still: Here/Now

2003

As Self

To Provide All People

2018

As Midwife

The Facility

2012

As Katie Strong

Third Star

2010

As Chloe

Last Summer

2018

As Sandra Davies

Calon Gaeth

2006

As Miriam

Cashback

2004

As Woman at the Till (uncredited)

Cashback

2007

As Woman at the Till

Under Milk Wood

2014

As Rosie Probert

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