| Name |
Nia Roberts |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Welsh |
| Date of Birth |
5-July-1972 |
| Place of Birth |
Brecon, Powys, Wales |
| Famous for |
Acting |
Nia Roberts is a Welsh actress. Her big break came in 1998 when she was cast in the Paul Morrison-directed Solomon a Gaenor, opposite Ioan Gruffudd. Roberts turned up to the audition wearing hiking boots and an old baggy jumper that came down to her knees, having just returned from a two-month trip to South America. With dialogue in Welsh and Yiddish, it won Best Film at the 2000 Verona Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in the 72nd Academy Awards. Her subsequent Welsh-language credits included: Fondue, Rhyw a Deinosors!, Dr Terribles House of Horrible, Border Café, Newes of the Weeke, Y Palmant Aur, Glan Hafren and Pobol y Cwm. She recently played Kirsti O'Shea in S4C's Sopranos-by-the-sea, Y Pris. In 2009, she starred in the BBC Wales commissioned, Tony Jordan produced hospital drama Crash! as Registrar Mary Finch.
In 2010, she guest starred in the two part Doctor Who Series 5 episode, The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood. She also starred in two of her husband's directed-films Snow Cake in 2006, a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident, and Patagonia in 2009, a drama set in Y Wladfa, Argentina. Roberts is set to play the role of Katie in Vertigo Films' Guinea Pigs, an atmospheric, micro-budget horror film about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. The film also stars Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Chris Larkin, Steve Evets, Oliver Coleman, Skye Lourie, Jack Doolan and Amit Shah and is scheduled for release in 2012 in the UK.
