Jemma Churchill

Training at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama , she left to play a borstal girl in Mai Zeterrling's feature film Scrubbers at 18. Brought up in TV studios and on film sets as her parents, Pauline Yates and Donald Churchill were well known actor/writers. Donald wrote over 30 plays for television and Pauline worked extensively and perhaps is best known as Reggie's wife in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin staring Leonard Rossiter. Working in London primarily she also has family bases in Liverpool / North West where she regularly films. Most recently seen as Barnaby's Nanny in the uplifting Christmas feature film Nativity Rocks directed by Nativity films creator and Coventry champion, Debbie Isitt for Mirrorball Films. She worked on Sky's Curfew and Agatha Raisin and is known primarily for playing Matron Ramsay in BBC's Call The Midwife. Jemma also played cruel Nanny Lyons ( yes , another Nanny!) in Upstairs Downstairs for the BBC filmed in Cardiff. She has many connections with