Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944 – 5 March 2026) was an English actress from Suffolk.

KNOWN FOR

Midsomer Murders
2001
Casualty
1996
The Crown
2019
Play for Today
1976
Crown Court
1973
Screen Two
1990
Endeavour
2023
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1996
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1983
Van der Valk
1973
Daytime Live
1989
Dalgliesh
2021

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
83
2023
The Burning Girls
as Joan Hartman
2023
Endeavour
as Madame Belasco
2021
Smyrna
as Filio Williams
2021
Dalgliesh
as Lady Lavinia
2020
Rebecca
as Granny
2019
The Crown
as Princess Alice
2015
RSC Live: Henry V
as Queen Isobel
2013
Lucan
as Susan Maxwell-Scott
2013
RSC Live: Richard II
as Duchess of Gloucester
2013
Lucan
as Susie Maxwell-Scott
2011
Windsor Castle: After the Fire
as Narrator
2009
Casualty
as Maureen
2006
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
as Ernestine Carter
2006
Eleventh Hour
2004
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Edith Piaf (segment "Piaf")
2004
Can't Stop Breathing
as Daisy
2004
Bella and the Boys
as Mrs. Rogers
2004
He Knew He Was Right
as Lady Milborough
2001
Midsomer Murders
as Mary Mohan
2000
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
as Alice Brewer
2000
Arabian Nights
as Miriam
1997
Shooting Fish
as Dylan's Headmistress
1997
McCallum
1997
Ain't Misbehavin'
as Clara Van Trapp
1996
Giving Tongue
as Hilda Jacob
1996
Surviving Picasso
as Olga Picasso
1996
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Anouk Khoori
1996
Casualty
as Eileen Jarvis
1996
Testament: The Bible in Animation
as Sarah (voice)
1995
Johnny and the Dead
as Sylvia Liberty
1994
The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
as Elspeth Cost
1992
The Big Battalions
as Martha Hoyland
1992
Love Hurts
1990
Circles Of Deceit
as Helen
1990
A Curious Suicide
as Betsey McCullough
1990
Chillers
as Betsey McCullough
1990
Screen Two
as Helen
1989
Murder on the Moon
as Louise Mackey
1989
Daytime Live
1989
The Dark Angel
as Madame de la Rougierre
1988
The Master Builder
as Aline Solness
1988
Blind Justice
as Katherine Hughes
1987
The Dark Angel
as Madame de la Rougierre
1987
Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
as Letizia Bonaparte
1986
Lady Jane
as Princess Mary
1986
Seal Morning
as Miriam Spencer
1984
To Catch a King
as Irene Neumann
1984
Piaf
as Édith Piaf
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1983
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
1983
Eureka
as Helen McCann
1983
The Captain's Doll
as Evangeline
1983
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Lady Macbeth
1982
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Elisabeth Moulton-Barrett
1981
Antony & Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
1981
The Search for Alexander the Great
as Olympias
1978
The Devil's Crown
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
1977
Marie Curie
as Marie Curie
1976
The Other Woman
as Kim
1976
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Magdalena
1976
Play for Today
as Kim
1975
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Miss Prescott
1975
Edward the Seventh
as Princess Dagmar
1975
Edward the Seventh
as Dowager Empress Dagmar
1973
The Black Dog
as Orianda
1973
Van der Valk
1973
Van der Valk
as Elly
1973
Crown Court
as Juliet Tomlin
1973
Country Matters
as Orianda Crabbe
1973
Oranges and Lemons
as Anne Sewell
1972
The Asphyx
as Christina Cunningham
1972
Stocker's Copper
as Alice Stocker
1972
Antony and Cleopatra
as Charmian
1972
On Call
as Jean
1972
Callan
1972
The Edwardians
as Alice Hoatson
1972
The Sextet
1972
Armchair Theatre
as Jean
1972
Love and Mr Lewisham
as Miss Heydinger
1971
Jason King
1971
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Emily Shaw
1970
Performance.
as Mrs. Farrell (uncredited)
1970
Crescendo
as Lillianne