Erika Hoffman

Erika Hoffman is an English actress known for portraying Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes from series two onwards.[1] When the Brush Strokes series ended, she joined fellow cast member Howard Lew Lewis in the Channel 4 comedy series Chelmsford 123, where she played Gargamadua.

Career

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In 1986, she played Anna, a 19-year-old pregnant German girl, in the Only Fools and Horses episode "From Prussia with Love". In the ITV comedy Room at the Bottom, she played secretary Nancy, alongside James Bolam and Richard Wilson.

In the Yorkshire Television 1986 comedy Home To Roost, she played April, a charity worker, alongside John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. She also appeared in a minor role in Just Good Friends. She appeared in the 1990s soap opera Machair, playing Charlotte Van Agten. Hoffman appeared on stage and in television films such as Last Days of Patton and as "The Lady" in To Play the King.[2]

Filmography

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Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1984 Minder Faith Episode: "The Second Time Around"
1984 No Place Like Home Sandra 2 episodes
1984 Oxbridge Blues Girl at picnic Episode: "Sleeps Six"
1984 Just Good Friends Karina Episode: "Special"
1985 Jenny's War Gerta 4 episodes
1986 Hilary Lois Episode: "Over the Hill?"
1986 Only Fools and Horses Anna Episode: "From Prussia with Love"
1986 Fairly Secret Army Nurse Episode: "I've Got a Job for You"
1986 Home to Roost April Episode: "Plastic Dreamworld"
1986 The Last Days of Patton Young Beatrice Television film
1986 Lytton's Diary Stephanie Episode: "The Miracle Man"
1986–1988 Room at the Bottom Nancy / Secretary 7 episodes
1987–1991 Brush Strokes Lesley 26 episodes
1988 Chelmsford 123 Gargamadua 6 episodes
1988 Tales of the Unexpected Suzie Anderson Episode: "Mr. Know-All"
1989 Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage Mrs. Topless Television film
1992 Casualty Helen Holloway Episode: "Silent Night"
1993 To Play the King The Lady 4 episodes
1994 Machair Charlotte Van Agten 2 episodes
1995 The Final Cut Princess
1996 The Bill Receptionist Episode: "Black Money"

References

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  1. ^ Sullivan, Jim; Jones, Mike (30 September 2021). Lovely Jubbly: A Celebration of 40 Years of Only Fools and Horses. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-3307-3.
  2. ^ "Erika Hoffman". IMDb. Retrieved 14 October 2022.