
Nia Roberts
Born
July 5, 1972 (53 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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.

Tree on a Hill
Margaret Lewis · (6 episodes)
2023

Steeltown Murders
Karina Bethell · (4 episodes)
2023

Sometime Else
Therapist
2021

The Feast
Glenda
2021

The Museum
Della Howells · (12 episodes)
2021

Washington
Martha Washington · (3 episodes)
2020

The Return of the Yuletide Kid
Philipa
2019
To Provide All People
Midwife
2018

Last Summer
Sandra Davies
2018

Hidden
Elin Jones · (8 episodes)
2018

Bang
Linda Jenkins · (14 episodes)
2017

The White Princess
Catherine Woodville · (1 episode)
2017

The Crown
Silvia Millward · (1 episode)
2016

Just Jim
Mum
2015

Bridgend
Thomas' Mother
2015

A Wonderful Christmas Time
Penny
2014

Under Milk Wood
Rosie Probert
2014

The Facility
Katie Strong
2012

Little Munchkin
Mrs. Jones
2011

Patagonia
Gwen
2010

Third Star
Chloe
2010

Cashback
Woman at the Till
2007
Calon Gaeth
Miriam
2006

Doctor Who
Ambrose · (2 episodes)
2005

Cashback
Woman at the Till (uncredited)
2004
Still: Here/Now
Self
2003

Border Cafe
Naomi Sykes · (8 episodes)
2000

Making Love
Costanza
2000

Solomon & Gaenor
Gaenor Rees
1999

Midsomer Murders
Stacey Purdy · (1 episode)
1997