Toyah Willcox

Acting

Toyah Willcox

Born 1958-05-18 · Kings Heath, Birmingham, England, UK

Toyah Ann Willcox is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and TV presenter. In a career spanning more than 40 years, she has had eight top 40 singles, released over 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and 10 feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.

Acting credits

28 Years Later poster
6.6

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

28 Years Later

2025

Quadrophenia poster
7.0

Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.

Quadrophenia

1979

Lies We Tell poster
5.3

A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.

Lies We Tell

2018

Jubilee poster
6.0

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Jubilee

1978

Urgh! A Music War poster
7.5

Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. Among the artists featured in the movie are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Magazine, The Go-Go's, Toyah Willcox, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, X, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, Steel Pulse, Surf Punks, 999, UB40, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Police. These were many of the most popular groups on the New Wave scene; in keeping with the spirit of the scene, the film also features several less famous acts, and one completely obscure group, Invisible Sex, in what appears to be their only public performance.

Urgh! A Music War

1981

Slade: It's Slade poster
4.5

With special guests and stories and from those who where there, see, hear and feel the music from first-hand accounts of the Glam Rock Kings of the 1970s: Slade.

Slade: It's Slade

1999

The Grand Knockout Tournament poster
6.8

The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on 19 June 1987. It followed the format of It's a Knockout, a slapstick TV gameshow which was broadcast in the UK until 1982. The event was staged on the lakeside lawn of the Alton Towers stately home-cum-theme park.

The Grand Knockout Tournament

1987

The Tempest poster
5.8

Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.

The Tempest

1979

No artwork available
NR

Reaching a crossroads in his personal life, university lecturer Martin Dawson decides to retreat into the arms of his parents, Len and Joan. On a weekend break at a cottage in the countryside, however, his parents' constant bickering, nitpicking and long conversations about nothing lead the already stressed out Martin to a rather sinister conclusion... A comedy based on the successful stage play Weekend Breaks by John Godber.

Last Laugh 2017

Heckle poster
4.0

A stand-up comedian encounters a seemingly-insane heckler who becomes his stalker. This is a heckle on a whole new level..

Heckle

2020

Swiperight poster
NR

A group of young women on their way to a dance competition in rural Connecticut are targeted by a vengeful serial killer.

Swiperight

2020

Lorca and the Outlaws poster
3.8

Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...

Lorca and the Outlaws

1984

Invasion: Planet Earth poster
5.2

On the same day that Tom Dunn finds out that he is to become a father again, the people of Earth become plagued with terrifying visions of the end of the world. When a gigantic, all-consuming alien mothership launches a ruthless attack, chaos and destruction follow. The ultimate war for Planet Earth is about to begin...

Invasion: Planet Earth

2019

The Ghosts of Borley Rectory poster
4.8

Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.

The Ghosts of Borley Rectory

2021

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde poster
6.2

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1980

Give Them Wings poster
8.5

'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.

Give Them Wings

2021

Anchoress poster
5.9

A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

Anchoress

1993

1976: Summer of... Heat poster
NR

Documentary looking at the heatwave of 1976. The longest driest spell on record led to drought, water rationing and forest fires. As the country sweltered, tensions rose.

1976: Summer of... Heat

2006

30 Years in the TARDIS poster
7.9

A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.

30 Years in the TARDIS

1993

Glitter poster
NR

'I want to be so famous that I'm a household name all over the world.' In her dreams Sue finds a way to sing on Top of the Tops. An episode of the BBC drama series Second City Firsts.

Glitter

1976

The Ebony Tower poster
NR

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship.

The Ebony Tower

1984

Aaaaaaaah! poster
4.3

Alpha Male Smith and his Beta, Keith, move to take over a local community. They hook up with restless Female, Denise, igniting a deadly feud in which emotions run high and deep-seated grudges resurface amongst the tribe. Are we not men? Or are we simply beasts?

Aaaaaaaah!

2015

The Quatermass Conclusion poster
4.2

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

The Quatermass Conclusion

1979

Weightless poster
NR

On a deserted East Sussex beach, a sixty-two-year-old woman struggles to face down her inner demons as she makes her way into the water.

Weightless

2023