Background
Cowper also played Lucy Hacker, the daughter of Jim Hacker, in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy series Yes Minister, although only in one episode.
Cowper also played Lucy Hacker, the daughter of Jim Hacker, in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy series Yes Minister, although only in one episode.
In the mid-1980s she took the part of Clare France in After Henry on British Broadcasting Corporation radio and also appeared on television as Jim Hacker"s daughter in Yes Minister. Cowper was Clare France, the youngest of the female triumvirate in the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 comedy After Henry, which also starred Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson. Whilst Scales and Sanderson reprised their roles in the later television version, Cowper was considered too old to play a teenager on screen and the role went to Janine Wood.
She featured in two episodes of Only Fools and Horses — "Tea for Three" and "The Frog"s Legacy" — as Trigger"s niece Lisa, and also appeared in Bachelor Father.
In her early teens, Cowper made an uncredited appearance in Alfred Hitchcock"s Frenzy (1972) and played Rowan Morrison in the horror film The Wicker Manitoba (1973). She appeared in an episode of Law & Order: United Kingdom in 2014 as Hope Corday.