---
name: "Edwina Currie"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edwina-currie"
fi1m_id: "edwina-currie"
imdb_id: "nm0192956"
tmdb_id: 1220172
wikidata_id: "Q1660170"
roles: []
born: "13 October 1946"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T17:19:47.789970+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Edwina Currie

## Identity

Edwina Currie

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edwina-currie
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edwina-currie
- **IMDb ID:** nm0192956
- **TMDB ID:** 1220172
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1660170
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina_Currie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1660170, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220172

Actor. Born 13 October 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 13 October 1946, Liverpool, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina_Currie, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1660170, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192956/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220172

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Have I Got News for You*](https://film.one/tv/have-i-got-news-for-you.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Edwina Currie is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician. She was Conservative Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997 and served as Junior Health Minister from 1986 until her resignation in 1988.

Currie has made numerous television appearances as herself, including on the panel show *Have I Got News for You* in 1991 and 1993. She has also appeared on programmes such as *Screen One* (1990) and various panel and reality series. She is the author of six novels and several works of non-fiction.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Have I Got News for You* (1990), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/tv/have-i-got-news-for-you.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *When News Goes Horribly Wrong* (2018), as Broadcaster & Former Politician
- *Pilgrimage: The Road to Istanbul* (2018), series, Actor
- *ITV Exposure* (2011), series, Actor
- *James May's Toy Stories* (2009), series, Actor
- *Bargain Hunt Famous Finds* (2008), series, Actor
- *Celebrity Mastermind* (2003), series, Actor
- *Justice in Wonderland* (2000), as Edwina Currie
- *Mr White Goes To Westminster* (1997), Actor
- *Another Audience with Freddie Starr* (1997), Actor
- *Style Challenge* (1996), series, Actor
- *Screen One* (1989), series, as Edwina Currie

## Gallery

- ![Edwina Currie visits the Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff on Sea, Essex as part of Southend Libraries Book Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-29402a71d01d.jpg) Edwina Currie visits the Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff on Sea, Essex as part of Southend Libraries Book Festival. — © Rob Welham BA, freelance photographer, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Edwina_Currie_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Edwina Currie](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-b7bf8fc31ad7.jpg) Edwina Currie — NHS Confederation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Edwina_Currie_%2814164689567%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ann Widdecombe at Edwina Currie's Book Club,Nightingale House April 2010](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-e9683b27946c.jpg) Ann Widdecombe at Edwina Currie's Book Club,Nightingale House April 2010 — Brian Minkoff-London Pixels, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Widdebookclub.jpg/1280px-Widdebookclub.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Manchester Pride 2016 parade, Deansgate, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, August 2016](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-7bcda638a121.jpg) Manchester Pride 2016 parade, Deansgate, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, August 2016 — Ardfern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Manchester_Pride%2C_August_2016_%2835%29.JPG/1280px-Manchester_Pride%2C_August_2016_%2835%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![James May and Edwina Currie](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-0018ad166ec0.jpg) James May and Edwina Currie — Karen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/May_and_Currie_%283817959897%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Edwina Currie and resident at Nightingal House, London, 2009](https://film.one/media/person/6776768/gallery-8ab905457a9e.jpg) Edwina Currie and resident at Nightingal House, London, 2009 — Brian Minkoff- London Pixels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Edwina_currie_nightingale_house.jpg/1280px-Edwina_currie_nightingale_house.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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