Matilda Ziegler

About Matilda Ziegler

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: July 23, 1964
Birth Place:  Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1987–present
Spouse(s): Louis Hilyer (2004–present)
Children: Evie Hilyer Faye Hilyer Herbie Hilyer

Matilda Ziegler

Matilda Ziegler was born on July 23, 1964 in  Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom, is Actress. Matilda Ziegler was born on July 23, 1964 in Ashford, Kent, England as Matilda F. E. Ziegler. She is an actress, known for Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), EastEnders (1985) and In Suspicious Circumstances (1991). She has been married to Louis Hilyer since July 2004. They have three children.
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Popular As Matilda Ziegler
Occupation Actress
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born July 23, 1964 ( Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom)
Birthday July 23
Town/City  Ashford, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

🌙 Zodiac

Matilda Ziegler’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Matilda Ziegler was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

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Biography/Timeline

1987

Ziegler's first screen role remains her best known. In her early twenties, during 1987–89, she appeared on EastEnders, playing the scheming Donna Ludlow, the illegitimate daughter of series regular Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth). After trying to reunite with her mother and being immediately rejected by her, Donna contended with prostitution, an attempted gang rape, a heroin addiction and finally suicide (dying of a heroin overdose). The final death scenes of Ziegler's character, who had choked to death on her own vomit, have been hailed as one of the most powerful anti-drug images ever screened on the programme.

1989

After leaving EastEnders in April 1989, Ziegler went on to star in the ITV sitcom Mr. Bean, where she played various characters, especially a four episode stint as Irma Gobb, the title character's long suffering girlfriend.

1999

Other television credits include Harbour Lights (1999), acting alongside Nick Berry, who also played her love interest, Simon Wicks, in EastEnders; Where the Heart Is (2000); Holby City (2003); Casualty; An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1998), and the ITV police drama, The Bill (2003), among others. She also played roles in the films Decadence (1994), Jilting Joe (1998) and City Slacker (2012).

2001

Ziegler has appeared in many stage productions, including Twelfth Night for the Royal Shakespeare Company (2001); the theatrical version of Mr. Bean; Women Laughing at the Royal Court Theatre; Volpone, Inadmissible Evidence and Machinal, all at the National Theatre; Featuring Loretta and The Memory Of Water—both at the Hampstead Theatre. She also starred as Sheila Birling in Stephen Daldry's award-winning production of An Inspector Calls at the Aldwych Theatre and for the production's Australian tour, along with Lady Sneerwell in Deborah Warner's 2011 The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre.

2002

She also performed in an BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of P. G. Wodehouse's Meet Mr Mulliner in 2002. In 2015 Ziegler directed Norwich School's production of "The Cherry Orchard".

2003

Ziegler played Ruth, wife of car salesman Toni, in the BBC sitcom Swiss Toni (2003–04). She also appeared in the BAFTA Television Award-winning drama, Sex Traffic (2004). In 2005, she played Christine Miller in the fourth series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and in 2007, she guest-starred in the BBC Birmingham/BBC One medical drama Doctors. She played the part of Pearl Pratt, in the BBC adaptations of Lark Rise to Candleford in 2008–11.

2004

In July 2004, Ziegler married actor Louis Hilyer. The couple have two daughters, Evie (b. 1997) and Faye (b. 2000), and one son, Herbie (b. 2005). Ziegler and Hilyer first met while appearing in the London production of an Stephen Daldry production, The Great Pretenders. Since then, they have worked together on several projects, including the Daldry-directed Inspector Calls and television's Harbour Lights. Ziegler is Associate Director at Norwich School.

2013

She appeared in one episode of Outnumbered, and one episode of Death in Paradise (2013). In 2015, she appeared in an episode of Foyle's War, and Episode 6, Series 4 of Call the Midwife.

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