---
name: "Sadie Shimmin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sadie-shimmin"
fi1m_id: "sadie-shimmin"
imdb_id: "nm0793708"
tmdb_id: 1240508
wikidata_id: "Q138240101"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T15:00:17.873559+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."
---

# Sadie Shimmin

## Identity

Sadie Shimmin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sadie-shimmin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sadie-shimmin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0793708
- **TMDB ID:** 1240508
- **Wikidata ID:** Q138240101
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138240101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1240508

Actor. Born 1 January 1957 in Dartford.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1957, Dartford
- **Active:** 1983–2008
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 2000s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138240101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1240508

## Coming up

- *The Education of Jane Cumming* (2026-12-02), as Ann Woods

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Wallander*](https://film.one/tv/wallander.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Sadie Shimmin is an English actress. She was born in 1957 in Dartford, Kent.

She played Lisa Holgersson in the television series *Wallander* (2008–2010). Other credits include Miss Plunkett in *Mr Selfridge* (2014–2016), Salome in *The Nativity* (2010), Meg Mahoney in *Call the Midwife* (2016), and the Head of Faculty in *A Discovery of Witches* (2018). She has appeared in multiple episodes of *Coronation Street* (2008–2016) and *EastEnders* (1992–2018), as well as in *Prime Suspect* (1991), *Blackadder* (1983), *Casualty* (1986), *Wire in the Blood* (2002), *Silk* (2011), *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010) and *Waking the Dead* (2001).

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com, curtisbrown.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Wallander* (2008), Fi1m 76, as Lisa Holgersson — [page](https://film.one/tv/wallander.md)
- *Blackadder* (1983), Fi1m 84, as Young Crone — [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *The Education of Jane Cumming* (2026), as Ann Woods
- *Borne* (2023), as Marie
- *Sink* (2018), as Marion
- *A Discovery of Witches* (2018), series, as Head of Faculty
- *Cuffs* (2015), series, as Shirley
- *Walter* (2014), as Romney's Widow
- *Jamaica Inn* (2014), series, as Yellan
- *Call the Midwife* (2012), series, as Meg Mahoney — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/call-the-midwife.md)
- *Silk* (2011), series, as Angie Lloyd — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/silk.md)
- *Upstairs Downstairs* (2010), series, as Matron
- *Wallander* (2008), series, as Lisa Holgersson — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/wallander.md)
- *William and Mary* (2003), series, as Marsha
- *Wire in the Blood* (2002), series, as Mrs Perry
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, as Commissioner Gale Sullivan
- *Prime Suspect* (1991), series, as Mrs. Williams — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/prime-suspect.md)
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Brenda Westbrook — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Blackadder* (1983), series, as Young Crone — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/blackadder.md)
- *Insight* (1978), as Film student

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