Liza Goddard

Liza Goddard

Maxine Mallet

Most recently Liza has appeared in Casualty and starred in the national tour of The Croft. Other recent national tours include Noises Off and A Passionate Woman. Liza’s many stage appearances include the national tours of Relatively Speaking opposite Robert Powell, The Smallest Show on Earth, BlackCoffee, Go Back for Murder, Dry Rot and Star Quality.

Theatre includes: Communicating Doors, Season’s Greetings, If I Were You, Snake in the Grass, Life and Beth, Life Of Riley, all written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn. Liza played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, went on to play Mrs Erlynne in the UK tour of Lady Windermere’s Fan and has now completed the hat trick by appearing as Mrs Cheveley in Bill Kenwright’s production of An Ideal Husband. Liza also starred in The Grass is Greener, Murder by Misadventure and Single Spies opposite Robert Powell, followed by Edge of Darkness, The Constant Wife and She Stoops to Conquer. Further stage appearances include Mansfield Park at Chichester Festival Theatre, Arms and the Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, Who’s On The Menu Tonight, The Case of the Oily Levantine, Let’s Do It Yourway, The Flip Side, Blithe Spirit, The Signs of the Times (with Kenneth Moore at the Vaudeville), No Sex Please, We’re British  (Strand Theatre), The Hard Shoulder  (Aldwych), See How They Run (Shaftesbury), Wife Begins at Forty  (Ambassador’s) and a play written for her by NC Hunter, One Fair Daughter.

Liza made her first major impact on the small screen as Clancy in Skippy, then as Victoria in Take Three Girls. A sequel to this award-winning series was made in 1982, entitled Take Three Women. She then starred in Holding On and The Upchat Line before playing April in the hugely popular series The Brothers. Other TV appearances include Casualty, Wild West, Grandpa in my Pocket, Midsommer Murders, Zip and Hollow, Yes, Honestly, Wodehouse Playhouse, Queen of a Distant Country, Murder at the Wedding, Brendon Chase, Pig in the Middle (three series), Roll Over Beethoven (two series), Seal Morning, Tales of the Unexpected, Just His Luck, Phillippa Vale in Bergerac and Mrs Jessop in Woof.

Liza also co-starred with Ben Kingsley in Shostakovitch and with Richard Burton in Wagner.