Rebecca Cordingly (born 1 November 1977), known professionally as Beth Cordingly,[1] is an English actress, known for her appearances in series The Bill, Dead Set, The Burning Girls and Emmerdale.
Cordingly made her first major television appearance in the soap opera, Family Affairs as troubled teenager Sara Warrington;[6] a lapdancer who blew most of her wages on cocaine. She left the soap after a year to play the lead in Noël Coward's Semi-Monde at the Lyric Theatre, West End. The play was directed by Philip Prowse and produced by Thelma Holt.[7] She then played Rose, a cabinet secretary reporting to Derek Jacobi's Major Merton, in Two Men went to War, a film starring Kenneth Cranham and Leo Bill.
In 2002, she joined The Bill as PC Kerry Young.[8][6] After her departure from the show when her character was murdered in 2004, ITV made an hour-long spin off called Kerry's Story that aired on ITV3. In 2023, Cordingly shared her memories of her time on The Bill during a three-part interview for The Bill Podcast,[9] where she was interviewed by her friend and former co-star Natalie Roles.[10]
In 2005, she played Vienna Keen, an exotic dancer, in BBC's Funland, and in 2007, she played Naomi in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, a call girl who has a threesome together with the show's main protagonist, Hannah, played by Billie Piper.[11]
Cordingly has an MA in creative writing from Birkbeck, University of London.[17] In 2009, her short story "Marianne and Ellie" was selected by Sarah Waters to be published in an anthology of short stories, Dancing with Mr. Darcy. In 2012, she won the Litro magazine Double Dutch short story competition for her short story about Amsterdam, "The Bike Ride".[1]
