Nia Roberts

Roberts big break came in 1998 when she appeared in Solomon a Gaenor opposite Ioan Gruffudd With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish the movie won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 72nd Academy Awards Her subsequent Welshlanguage credits include Fondue Rhyw a Deinosors Newes of the Weeke Y Palmant Aur Glan Hafren the longrunning soap opera Pobol y Cwm and S4Cs gangster drama Y Pris Roberts Englishlanguage television credits include the comedy series Dr Terribles House of Horrible the drama Border Café and several singleepisode appearances in primetime British shows such as The Bill and Casualty Roberts has starred in two films directed by her husband Marc Evans Snow Cake 2006 a drama focused on the friendship between a highfunctioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident and Patagonia 2009 a drama set in Y Wladfa Argentina In 2009 Roberts also starred as registrar Mary Finch in Crash a hospital drama commissioned by BBC Wales and produced by Tony Jordan In 2010 Roberts gueststarred in the twopart Doctor Who Series 5 episode The Hungry EarthCold Blood More bigscreen productions followed She appeared in Hattie Daltons Third Star 2010 and in Vertigo Films The Facility 2012 an atmospheric microbudget horror film about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong In 2014 Roberts appeared in the fourth episode of Y Gwyll Hinterland a highly acclaimed noir detective series shot in both Welsh and English