Sally Bretton

Acting

Sally Bretton

Born 1980-04-23 · Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Sally Davis, known professionally as Sally Bretton, is an English actress. She is best known for appearing as Lucy Adams in the long-running BBC television sitcom Not Going Out since 2007, and as Martha Lloyd in the BBC1 crime drama Death in Paradise between 2016 and 2017, a role she reprised in the spin-off Beyond Paradise in 2023.

Acting credits

Outlaw poster
5.4

A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.

Outlaw

2007

Open Wide poster
NR

A drama teacher starts work in a notorious prison with a classroom of hardened criminals and comes into conflict with the prison dentist after becoming romantically involved with the wrong woman

Open Wide

2005

Green Wing Special poster
10.0

Feature length special doubling as the finale of the show. Alan and Joanna are on the run after a crime spree and the HR staff begin to riot. Meanwhile Caroline overhears Mac telling Guy his tragic news, and begins to think about whether she made the right decision with her love life.

Green Wing Special

2007

An Ideal Husband poster
7.5

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery, that is.

An Ideal Husband

2018

Peaches poster
9.0

Frank leaves college and faces a Summer of discontent.

Peaches

2000

Goodbye Charlie Bright poster
5.9

Following Charlie Bright and his friends over one hot summer on the South London housing estate where they live. With Tommy about to join the army and Francis having fallen in love, friendships and loyalties are tested as the friends drift in their own directions.

Goodbye Charlie Bright

2001

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NR

When Mrs. Wright loses her beloved son in a car accident, the experienced and cynical journalist, Tammy, trains her rookie colleague, Niall, on how to approach Mrs. Wright for an interview for a tribute they will prepare for her son in The Examiner. When Niall knocks on Mrs. Wright's door, she surprisingly welcomes him in and invites him in for a cup of tea and a rest - a totally unexpected reaction. Later Tammy knocks on the door looking for Niall and Mrs. Brown's motives are disclosed.

A Fitting Tribute

2007

Can You Hear Me Thinking? poster
8.5

Real life husband and wife Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this Screen One film as the parents of teenage boy diagnosed with schizophrenia

Can You Hear Me Thinking?

1990

Jubilee poster
NR

Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes clear they have differing motivations for being there.

Jubilee

2009

Swan poster
NR

Ian has achieved such a high level of British citizenship that he is to be transformed into a swan. We follow Ian and his wife Donna in their preparations for this transformation.

Swan

2020

Sean Lock: Rogue Landlord poster
NR

A host of British actors and comedians have teamed up with Shelter to help spread the word about our campaign. Sean Lock, Mike Fielding, Oliver Chris and Sally Bretton star in a short film about the danger posed by rogue landlords. Despite the amusing script and characters, the horrifying conditions shown in the film are the sad reality for thousands of people in this country.

Sean Lock: Rogue Landlord

2011