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Nia Roberts is a Actor British born on 5 july 1972 at Brecon (United-kingdom)

Nia Roberts

Nia Roberts
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 july 1972 (51 years) at Brecon (United-kingdom)

Nia Roberts (born 5 July 1972), is a Welsh actress. She is married to director Marc Evans.

Biography

The youngest of three girls, Roberts was born and brought up in Brecon, Powys. Her first language is Welsh, and she attended Brecon's Welsh-medium primary school Ysgol-y-Bannau from 1975 to 1983. Her family were active members of the Brecon Little Theatre amateur dramatics group, and aged seven she first trod the boards. Five years later, she landed her first television role as the lead girl in "The Farm", a 30-minute Jackanory play for BBC1.

After gaining ten GCSE's and three A Levels, she also joined the National Youth Theatre of Wales. She then studied acting at Birmingham University, where she passed with distinction.


Career
Roberts' big break came in 1998 when she was cast in the Paul Morrison-directed Solomon a Gaenor, opposite Ioan Gruffudd. Roberts turned up to the audition wearing hiking boots and an old baggy jumper that came down to her knees, having just returned from a two-month trip to South America. With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish, it won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the 72nd Academy Awards.

Her subsequent Welsh-language credits included: Fondue, Rhyw a Deinosors!, Newes of the Weeke, Y Palmant Aur, Glan Hafren and the long-running soap opera Pobol y Cwm. She followed these roles in 2007 when she played Kirsti O'Shea in S4C's gangster drama Y Pris. Roberts early career also included forays into English language television appearing in comedy series Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, drama Border Café and several single episode appearances in prime-time British shows such as The Bill and Casualty.

Roberts starred in two of her husband's directed-films, Snow Cake in 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 in 2009, a drama set in Y Wladfa, Argentina. 2009 also saw Roberts star in the BBC Wales commissioned, Tony Jordan produced hospital drama Crash! as registrar Mary Finch.

In 2010, she guest starred in the two part Doctor Who Series 5 episode, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. More big screen productions followed with Roberts cast in Hattie Dalton's Third Star (2010) which she followed with the role of Katie 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 she appeared in the fourth episode of Y Gwyll (Hinterland), a dual-language production shot in both the Welsh and English languages.


Personal life
Married to director Marc Evans, the couple are resident in Cardiff, and have a daughter Edith.

Best films

Solomon and Gaenor (1999)
(Actress)

Usually with

Sean Ellis
Sean Ellis
(2 films)
Marc Evans
Marc Evans
(2 films)
Craig Roberts
Craig Roberts
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nia Roberts (9 films)

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Actress

Patagonia
Patagonia (2010)
, 1h59
Directed by Marc Evans
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Matthew Rhys, Duffy, Nia Roberts, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Matthew Gravelle, Marco Antonio Caponi
Roles Gwen
Rating65% 3.288453.288453.288453.288453.28845
Gwen and Rhys are a Welsh-speaking couple living in Cardiff where Rhys works as a photographer and Gwen is employed as a historical interpreter at a local Welsh cultural centre. Gwen is also an aspiring actress and although she periodically attends auditions, she has yet to be hired for a theatrical part. The couple's inability to conceive a child has caused increasing tension between them. Hoping to reinvigorate their relationship, the pair decide to travel together to southern Argentina where Rhys has been commissioned to photograph the historic Welsh chapels in Patagonia, a vast windswept landscape which was a destination for Welsh immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While there, they are served by their local Welsh-Argentine guide, Mateo.
Third Star
Third Star (2010)
, 1h32
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, JJ Feild, Tom Burke, Eros Vlahos, Hugh Bonneville, Nia Roberts
Roles Chloe
Rating72% 3.6464453.6464453.6464453.6464453.646445
After celebrating his 29th and - as everyone including himself knows - last birthday, James, a young man terminally ill with cancer, sets out on a last hiking trip with his three best friends, Davy, Bill and Miles. Their destination is James's favourite beach at Barafundle Bay, on the Pembrokeshire coast.
Cashback
Cashback (2006)
, 1h34
Directed by Sean Ellis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Striptease
Actors Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Marc Pickering, Keeley Hazell
Roles Woman at the Till
Rating70% 3.5490053.5490053.5490053.5490053.549005
Ben, an aspiring artist, develops insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Suzy. To take his mind off Suzy and to occupy the extra waking hours he has recently gained, Ben begins working at a local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he meets colourful co-workers. Among them is his colleague Sharon, with whom he soon develops a mutual crush.
Cashback
Cashback (2004)
, 18minutes
Directed by Sean Ellis
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Shaun Evans, Michelle Ryan, Marc Pickering, Nick Hancock
Rating75% 3.7991653.7991653.7991653.7991653.799165
Ben, an aspiring artist, develops insomnia after a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Suzy. To take his mind off of Suzy and to occupy the extra waking hours he has recently gained, Ben begins working at a local Sainsbury's supermarket, where he meets colourful co-workers. Among them is his colleague Sharon, with whom he soon develops a mutual crush.
A Day Out
A Day Out (2001)
, 9minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Nia Roberts, Richard Harrington
Rating72% 3.629153.629153.629153.629153.62915
Making Love, 1h47
Directed by Ricky Tognazzi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Actors Hans Matheson, Mélanie Thierry, Lee Williams, Gabriel Byrne, Ricky Tognazzi, Peter Vaughan
Roles Costanza
Rating70% 3.539583.539583.539583.539583.53958
Prague, fin des années 60. L'histoire d'amour d'un homme avec une femme, d'un homme avec le violon.
Solomon and Gaenor, 1h45
Directed by Paul Morrison
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones, Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch
Roles Gaenor Rees
Rating67% 3.3939653.3939653.3939653.3939653.393965
A young Orthodox Jew (Ioan Gruffudd) in 1911 South Wales tries to make his living by peddling fabrics door to door in the South Wales Valleys, but to do so he decides he must hide his ethnicity. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young Gentile woman (Nia Roberts) with a strong-willed father (William Thomas) and a violently anti-Semitic brother (Mark Lewis Jones). The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn he is Jewish. Shortly afterwards, the couple become caught up in anti-Jewish disturbances; they are forced to flee and become separated.