British Actresses You Should Know: Michelle Gomez

Michelle Gomez is a Scottish actress who feels as though she’s been everywhere of late, but whose career actually dates back several decades. The fact that she’s finally getting her much-deserved moment in the spotlight is a testament to her ability as a chameleon-like character actress, as well as her breakthrough role in iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who in which she played a groundbreaking female version of the show’s iconic villain.

After hanging up her sonic umbrella, Gomez has gone on to snag buzzy roles in shows like Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Flight Attendant, so many viewers may not be aware of her many comic performances in shows like Green Wing and Bad Education.

Here’s a look at several of Gomez’s most notable – and awesome – roles, in roughly chronological order.

Green Wing

An often bizarre satirical comedy, Green Wing revolves around the staff of the fictional East Hampton Hospital, but it doesn’t actually feature any medical stories. Instead, it follows the frequently soap opera-esque relationships between the characters, primarily the on-again, off-again romance between surgical registrar Caroline Todd (Tamsin Grieg) and the endearing, but often enigmatic Dr. Macartney (Julian Rhind-Tun), who never even gets a first name.

Gomez plays the hilarious and often disturbed Sue White, the Scottish liaison officer whose job is to listen to the problems of the East Hampton staff. But since Sue is mean, insensitive, unsympathetic and hates basically anyone who isn’t Mac, this goes about as well as you’d expect, and her treatment of her clients runs the gamut from simple rudeness to psychological torture.