Beth Goddard

 Elizabeth Jane "Beth" Goddard  (born 1st January 1969) is a British actress.

She grew up in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and attended Clacton County High Schooland the Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, Kent, from 1986 to 1989.

She met her husband, Philip Glenister, best known for his role as Gene Hunt in TV drama Life on Mars, at a birthday party of Jamie Glover in 1997. They married in 2006. The couple have two daughters, Millie and Charlotte, born in 2002 and 2005 respectively.

Goddard played Belinda Ashton in the ITV detective drama Lewis, broadcast in March 2008. Goddard also starred as Suze Littlewood in the comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme. She appeared alongside her husband in the third series of BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes. In this episode the couple shared an on screen kiss.

One of her first television roles was as unscrupulous yellow journalist Clare Moody in a 1994 episode of the ITV drama Cracker. Her character was involved in reporting on the crimes committed by serial killer Albie Kinsella (Robert Carlyle), who targeted her for supposedly writing the controversial TRUTH page about the Hillsborough disaster and showing no remorse for it, even continuing to use fabricated information to print stories for more profit. Albie ultimately killed her character with a letter bomb.[ 1 ]

Credits

 * Agatha Christie's Poirot "The Case of the Missing Will" (Violet Wilson) 1993
 * Peak Practice TV Series (Leanda Sharpe) (1993-95)
 * Cracker TV Series (Clare Moody) 1994
 * A Business Affair (Student) 1994
 * Degrees of Error TV Series (Anna Peirce) 1995
 * The Perfect Match TV drama (Mandy) 1995
 * Beautiful Thing (Brewery Official) 1996
 * Karaoke (mini) TV Series (Woman on Phone) 1996
 * Bugs (series 2): A Cage for Satan TV Series (Cassandra Newmann) 1996
 * Bugs (series 2): Bureau of Weapons TV Series (Cassandra Neumann) 1996
 * Ellington TV Series (Kelly Logan) 1996
 * Sunnyside Farm TV Series (Wendy) 1997
 * Thornapple (TV) (Mirabel Davenport) 1997
 * Roger Roger (TV) (Melanie) 1998
 * Tilly Trotter (TV) (Ellen Ross) 1999
 * Gimme Gimme Gimme TV Series (Suze Littlewood) 1999
 * The Scarlet Pimpernel (mini) TV Series (Suzanne De Tourney) 1999
 * The Last Seduction II (Murphy) 1999
 * Big Bad World TV Series (Kath Shand) 1999
 * Daylight Robbery (mini) TV Series (Harriet Howell) 2000
 * A Touch of Frost TV Series (Helen Fox in episode Line of Fire) 2000
 * Take Me (mini) TV Series (Kay Chambers) 2001
 * Daylight Robbery 2 (mini) TV Series 2001
 * The Eustace Bros. TV Series (Melissa Garvey) 2003
 * Frances Tuesday (TV) (Bishop) 2004
 * Vital Signs (Maddy McCartney) 2006
 * The Sarah Jane Adventures: "Eye of the Gorgon" (Sister Helena) 2007
 * Lewis "The Great and the Good" (Belinda Ashton) 2008
 * Agatha Christie's Poirot "Appointment with Death" (Sister Agnieszka) 2008
 * Ashes to Ashes Series 3 Episode 2 (Elaine Downing) 2010
 * New Tricks Series 7 episode 2 (Paula Symes) 2010
 * Midsomer Murders "Dark Secrets" (Selina Stanton) 2011
 * Casualty (Hannah Fleet) 2011
 * X-Men: First Class (Mrs. Xavier - cameo) 2011
 * Edge of Tomorrow (Secretary - Judith) 2014
 * Silent Witness One of Our Own (Trish Fallon) 2015