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Known For

Acting

Born

September 16, 1955 (age 70)

Place of Birth

Chatham, Kent, England, UK

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Janet Ellis

Biography

Janet Michell Ellis, MBE is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, The Butcher's Hook and How It Was.

Filmography

2024TVRomesh Ranganathan's Parents' Eveningas Self 2024TVYour Kitchen: 60 Years of Fads and Gadgetsas Herself 2024TVThe 1970s: Those Were the Daysas Self - Broadcaster 2023FilmTalking Doctor Whoas Self (archive footage)2022FilmKids' TV: The Surprising Story 2017TVRichard Osman's House of Gamesas Self 2016FilmDarcey Bussell: My Life on the BBCas Self 2011TVCelebrity Antiques Road Tripas Self - Participant 2009FilmThe Man Behind the Masqueradeas Narrator 2009TVLet's Dance for Comic Reliefas Self 2008TVBargain Hunt Famous Finds 2007TVThe Alan Titchmarsh Showas Self 2006TVCelebrity Masterchef 2005TVCome Dine with Me 2003FilmThe Curse of Page 3as Narrator 2001TVWaking the Deadas TV Reporter 1999FilmLingerie: The Industry Exposedas Narrator 1998FilmB.P. Confidentialas Self 1994TVReady, Steady, Cookas Self - Contestant 1985FilmFrederick Douglass: An American Lifeas Julia Griffith 1980FilmDoctor Who: The Horns of Nimonas Teka 1979TVBlankety Blank 1975TVThe Sweeneyas Susie 1963TVDoctor Whoas Teka