Sally Davis (born 23 April 1980), known professionally as Sally Bretton, is an English actress. She is best known for appearing as Lucy Adams in the long-running BBC television sitcom Not Going Out since 2007, and as Martha Lloyd in the BBC1 crime drama Death in Paradise between 2016 and 2017, a role she reprised in the spin-off Beyond Paradise in 2023.
She has featured in the TV programmes Absolute Power, Green Wing and The Office. In 2008, she played Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe.
Early life
Bretton trained in London at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and worked as a drama teacher at Top Hat Stage and Screen School. She chose the professional name Bretton as a Sally Davis was already registered with actors' union Equity.
Personal life
Bretton and her husband, Lee, a photographer, have three daughters. She grew up in a small town in Hertfordshire and as of 2015 resided near Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
Radio
Awards
Nominated
2002 – Manchester Evening News Theatre AwardsBest Actress (Theatre) – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?