Geraldine Cowper (born 23 June 1958) is an English actress who is best known for playing Lisa in Only Fools and Horses and Rowan Morrison in the 1973 horror film The Wicker Man and Rosie Miller in EastEnders. In the mid-1980s she took the part of Clare France in After Henry on BBC radio and also appeared on television as Jim Hacker's daughter in Yes Minister.
Career Cowper was Clare France, the youngest of the female triumvirate in the BBC Radio 4 comedy After Henry, which also starred Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson. Whilst Scales and Sanderson reprised their roles in the later television version, Cowper was considered too old to play a teenager on screen and the role went to Janine Wood.
Cowper also played Lucy Hacker, the daughter of Jim Hacker, in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister, although only in one episode. She featured in two episodes of Only Fools and Horses – "Tea for Three" and "The Frog's Legacy" – as Trigger's niece Lisa, and also appeared in Bachelor Father. In her early teens, Cowper made an uncredited appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972) and played Rowan Morrison in the horror film The Wicker Man (1973).
Just as David Spinx, her on-screen EastEnders partner, had small roles in the series prior to playing Keith Miller, Cowper had briefly played Lindsay, the mother of a schizophrenic youth named Matt, in April 2002. She appeared in an episode of Law & Order: UK in 2014 as Hope Corday.
Filmography +YearTitleRoleNotes1972FrenzySpectator at Opening RallyUncredited1973 The Wicker Man Rowan Morrison1982The Return of the Soldier Ward Nurse
Television +YearTitleRoleNotes1971Bachelor Father Jo9 episodes1975–1977Play for TodayVarious3 episodes1976BBC2 PlayhouseAlison FisherEpisode: "The Mind Beyond: Double Echo"1977General Hospital Lynn TysonEpisode: "The Breakthrough"1979Dick TurpinLucyEpisode: "The Champion"Telford's ChangeJenny Bell8 episodes1980Enemy at the DoorJenny GloverEpisode: "From a View to a Death"Yes MinisterLucy HackerEpisode: "The Right to Know"Little Lord Fauntleroy MellonTV film1985Late Starter Bargirl1 episode1986–1987Only Fools and Horses Lisa2 episodes: "Tea for Three" and "The Frog's Legacy"1988–2000The BillVarious9 episodes1993Rab C. NesbittSylvieEpisode: "Rich"1997Trial & RetributionAnn Taylor2 episodes2002–2006EastEndersAnne Lindsay/Rosie Miller2002–2015Casualty Eileen Price/Lorraine Wells3 episodes2009Locked Up AbroadPaulineEpisode: "Barbados: Busted and Pregnant"2014Law & Order: UKHope CordayEpisode: "Hard Stop"
Personal life Cowper is the older sister of actress Nicola Cowper and the twin sister of the late Jackie Cowper, who was also an actress.
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