Hall's first high-profile role was as Romey Sullivan in the television drama
Queer as Folk (1999–2000), in which she played one half of a lesbian couple who conceive a baby with the help of their gay best friend. In 2001 she appeared in the award-winning TV drama
Men Only as Katie, the wife of Mac (
Marc Warren). Roles in
Always and Everyone (2000–01),
Serious and Organised (2003) and an adaptation of
D.H. Lawrence's
Sons and Lovers (2003) followed. Hall played Ellie Simm, the girlfriend of main character
Tom Quinn in
Spooks from 2002 to 2003. In 2004 Hall starred in the second episode of the seventh series of
Midsomer Murders ("Bad Tidings") as Cassie Woods, a school friend of
Cully Barnaby. In 2005 Hall joined the main cast of
Waking the Dead as Felix Gibson, replacing
Holly Aird in the cast as the resident team pathologist, but the character lasted only one series. Subsequent roles included
BBC dramas
Rome (2005–2007) and
True Dare Kiss (2007). In 2014, Hall appeared in the BBC daytime soap
Doctors as
Toni Macpherson. Also in 2014, she appeared as Lady Macbeth in
Macbeth at The Mercury Theatre, Colchester. In 2016, Hall appeared in the
Black Mirror episode "
Hated in the Nation" and as DI Nina Ryman in “Flight: Parts 1 and 2” S19:E3&4 of
Silent Witness. In 2017 she played Cindy Watson (editor of
The Weatherfield Gazette) in
Coronation Street (a role she later reprised in February 2020), and also appeared in rival soap
EastEnders in 2019 playing the role of Dr Elinor Waters. Her most recent roles have been as Cat Barling in BBC drama
Casualty, and a brief cameo appearance in an episode of
Killing Eve. ==References==