Cast & creator
Janet Ellis
Best known for Doctor Who, Ready, Steady, Cook, Come Dine with Me
Janet Michell Ellis, MBE is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, The Butcher's Hook and How It Was.
Movies
9
film credits
Series
19
television credits
Career
28
1958–2024 · acting roles
Credit score
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (28)
Showing 28 of 28 credits
Series
★ 7.9
Doctor Who
Teka
1963
Series
★ 8.0
Ready, Steady, Cook
Self - Contestant
1994
Series
★ 5.2
Come Dine with Me
2005
Series
★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
TV Reporter
2001
Series
★ 7.5
Blue Peter
1958
Series
★ 6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
2011T
Series
★ 4.5
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
2007
Series
★ 6.1
Richard Osman's House of Games
Self
2017
Series
★ 8.1
The Sweeney
Susie
1975
Series
★ 6.1
Celebrity Masterchef
2006
Series
★ 6.6
Celebrity Gogglebox
2019
Series
★ 5.2
Blankety Blank
1979
Series
★ 6.7
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
Self
2009
Series
★ 10.0
Jigsaw
Janet
1979B
Series
Blue Peter Flies the World
1971B
Series
Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
2008
Series
★ 1.0
Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening
Self
2024
Series
★ 8.0
The 1970s: Those Were the Days
Self - Broadcaster
2024
Movie
Kids' TV: The Surprising Story
2022
Movie
★ 6.0
Talking Doctor Who
Self (archive footage)
2023
Movie
★ 4.7
Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
Teka
1980T
Movie
★ 6.0
The Curse of Page 3
Narrator
2003
Movie
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
2016
Movie
The Man Behind the Masquerade
Narrator
2009
Movie
Lingerie: The Industry Exposed
Narrator
1999
Movie
Frederick Douglass: An American Life
Julia Griffith
1985
Series
★ 7.0
Your Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads and Gadgets
Herself
2024
Movie
B.P. Confidential
Self
1998