Erika Hoffman
Erika Hoffman (born c. 1965) is an English actress. She appeared as Lesley Bainbridge in the BBC comedy Brush Strokes from series 2 onwards, when she took over the role from Kim Thomson. When the Brush Strokes series ended, she joined fellow cast member Howard Lew Lewis in the Channel 4 comedy series Chelmsford 123 (series 1) where she played Gargamadua. She also appeared in the Minder episode, Second Time Around.
In 1986, she played Anna, a 19-year-old pregnant German girl, in the Only Fools and Horses episode "From Prussia With Love". In the ITV '80s comedy Room at the Bottom, she played sexy secretary Nancy, alongside James Bolam and Richard Wilson. In the Yorkshire Television 1986 comedy Home To Roost (Series 2, Episode 3, ’Plastic Dreamworld’), she played April, a charity worker, alongside John Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. Also a quick appearance in Just Good Friends (Christmas special). She appeared in the 1990s soap opera Machair, playing Charlotte Van Agten. Hoffman appeared on stage and in television films such as Last Days of Patton and as a Princess Di character, known as The Lady, in "The House of Cards Trilogy: To Play The King".[1]