Elizabeth Heery (born 1961) is a British actress, screenwriter and novelist. As an actress and author she works under the name Elizabeth Morton and is known for playing

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'' Since 2016, she has been an ambassador for the

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in Richmond. She trained at the Guildhall School of Drama and The Royal Court Young Writers Group. She is a short story writer and has written for

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and BBC Films and TV. In 2018, she secured a two book deal with Ebury Press, an imprint of

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. Her novel ''A Liverpool Girl'' was published in 2019, followed by in August 2020, ''A Last Dance in Liverpool''. Both books reached Number 1 and Number 3 respectively in ''

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''s Heatseekers Charts. August 2020 she secured a book deal with

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for two more Liverpool sagas. ''Angel of Liverpool'' was published in 2021 and was a number 3 Heatseeker, People’s Friend Recommendation and reached the Top 10

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bestsellers. ''The Girl From Liverpool'' was published July 2022 and also made Top 10 Booksellers Heatseekers chart and No 5 Amazon Historical Romance Bestsellers. Elizabeth narrates all her books for audio. In 2022, ''Angel of Liverpool'' was shortlisted for RoNA Best Saga award. In August 2022 she received a three book deal from Pan for her ‘Orphans of The Living’ trilogy.

Life and education

Heery was educated at Seafield Convent School in

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. She studied at the Guildhall School of Drama. She is married to actor

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The couple have two sons, Louis Davison who is an actor, starring in Netflix Vikings Valhalla, and Joel Davison, also an actor and a musician. She also has a step-daughter, actress

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Career

Television and film

Heery's first TV role under the name Morton was playing Papagena in BBC sci-fi series ''The Tripods''. As well as playing a regular in ITV series ''

'' and '' Watching'', she starred in BBC's ''

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'', playing Hester Goswell, and was in seasons four and five of London's ''Burning'', playing Helen Field. She guest starred in British TV series ''Spender'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Dear John''. In 1988 she starred in Philip Ridley's film ''The Universe of Dermot Finn'', which was officially selected for

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. In 1995, she starred in

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's BBC film ''Rich Deceiver'', playing Gabriella de Courtney. On

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, she played Miss Jessel in the film ''The Haunting of Helen Walker''. She was in

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's ''Life Force'',

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's ''Lords of Discipline'', and Alan Clark's ''Billy the Kid'' and ''The Green Baize Vampire''. She appeared as herself in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary film, ''

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''.

Stage and Audio

She is a voice actor known for the film ''

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'', starring

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and her work with Big Finish audio drama. In 2016, she voiced Mary Westerna in ''

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'', starring

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. In 2015, she voiced the role of Teldak in ''The Waters of Amsterdam'', starring

, and Stella Preston in ''The Avengers, the Lost Episodes''. She was a member of

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's company at

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, alongside actors

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and

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. She was in the original casts of Howard Goodall's ''Girlfriends'' and ''The Hired Man''. She played Linda in the second cast of ''Blood Brothers'' in the West End directed by Bill Kenwright.

Writing

Heery began using her birth name for writing after winning The London Writer's Competition sponsored by

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. She was a member of The

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Young Writers Group and took up a bursary at ITV on the New Writer's Initiative scheme. She has written for the

drama series ''Brief Lives''. and episodes of BBC ''

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'', C4 Film Series '' Coming Up'', BBC Brief Encounters mentored by Andrew Davies, and

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''Topsy and Tim''. She is a short story writer, having been shortlisted and won prizes in 2016 Margery Allingham CWA writer's award, 2012 Bath Short story award, Exeter Short story award, Trisha Ashley Award, Fish short story award 2015. In 2012, she formed Twotreeisland films and won first prize in Southend-On-Sea film festival for the film ''Beached''. She wrote the plays ''Feeding the Troll'', which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, ''Clip'' which ran at Battersea Arts Centre, ''First Kiss'' and ''Lauren The Brave'' at the Landor Theatre, and ''Sophie in Wonderland'', which was produced by Theatre 503. She has written two books; ''A Liverpool Girl'' was published in 2019 and ''A Last Dance in Liverpool'' was published in 2020. Two more books will follow published by PanMacMillan. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/morton-moves-ebury-pan-mac-two-sagas-1215907

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, Elizabeth 1961 births Living people British actresses British women writers Actresses from Liverpool British stage actresses