Cast & creator
Olwen May
Best known for Slow Horses, Vera, Shameless
Olwen May is an English actress and theatre director, known for Happy Valley (2014), Whoops! (2013), and Inspector George Gently (2007). She played D.C. Joyce Malone in Coronation Street (1960) during the investigation of Frank Foster's alleged rape of Carla Connor. She has also directed several plays. She lives in West Yorkshire with her partner, Kevin Doyle.
9
film credits
14
television credits
23
1992–2023 · acting roles
7.2
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (23)
Showing 23 of 23 credits
Slow Horses
Park Receptionist
2022
Vera
Helen Allenby
2011
Shameless
Social Worker
2004Shameless
Mary Twill
2004
Waterloo Road
Defence Barrister
2006
Halo
Jade
2022
A Touch of Frost
Doctor
1992
Miss Scarlet
Ms. Willoughby
2020
Brassic
Margaret
2019
Life on Mars
Mavis Witham
2006
The Bay
DC Lou McClaren
2019
A Very British Scandal
Dora
2021
The Body Farm
Kay Warner
2011
My Son the Fanatic
Prostitute
1997
The Trial of Lord Lucan
W.P.C.
1994
Whoops!
Mary Hickson
2014
The Royal
Sheila
2003
Care
Rebecca
2018
Red Sky at Night
Vera
2023
Florence Nightingale
Mother Mary Clare
2008Kinder
Susan
2018
Seeing Red
Harriet
2000