PIP MAKES BBC ROLE HER OWN

REMEMBER the name and the face because Philippa Coulthard (above, centre) is about to blaze a path across your TV screens. The petite Brisbane-born actress with alabaster skin was with gal pals Portia Large (left and Jessica Green at the opening night of Blanc de Blanc. She has just finished filming on the BBC mini-series of Howard’s End playing Helen Schlegel, the role made famous by Helena Bonham-Carter in the 1992 film. “We just wrapped four months of filming and I was the only non-Brit. It was sort of luck because I have a UK agent and when the producers couldn’t find what they were after she put my name forward.” A star on the rise.