Career
Her other television roles include Linda Cosgrove in Born and Bred (2002-2005), Patty Cornwell in Hollyoaks (2003-2004) and Elaine Jenkinson in Broadchurch (2013). Born in London, Childs first on-screen role was in the Upstairs, Downstairs episode, Wanted - a Good Home. She also appeared in The Prime of Mission Jean Brodie as Rose Stanley, Sense and Sensibility, The Scarlet Pimpernel and the 1982 Bergerac episode "A Perfect Recapture".
She appeared as Pompeiian citizen Caecilius"s wife Metella in "The Fires of Pompeii", in the fourth season of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s relaunched Doctor Who.
Childs was married to her Howards" Way co-star Tony Anholt, from 1990 to 1998 and toured with him, Marc Sinden and Gemma Craven in Noël Coward"s Private Lives throughout 1991 and into 1992. She starred opposite Matthew Kelly in Edward Albee"s Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Trafalgar Studios in London in March 2009.
In 2010 and 2012, she appeared in British Broadcasting Corporation One"s afternoon drama series Doctors. In 2013 she appeared in Series 1 of the highly successful Independent Television drama Broadchurch as Chief Superintendent Elaine Jenkinson, head of the Broadchurch police.
In October 2001, Tracey appeared in the Big Finish Doctor Who audiobook Colditz.
This audiobook introduced Childs as the character of Klein. In the story the Seventh Doctor and Ace are caught intruding in Colditz Castle in October 1944. Where they meet Klein, a Nazi scientist
Childs then returned to the part of Klein a further three times.
In January 2010 for a trilogy of stories featuring the Seventh Doctor. Followed in October 2012 for Unit: Dominion and finally in July 2013 for another trilogy of tales.
Audiobook performances for Big Finish Productions: Colditz A Thousand Tiny Wings Survival of the Fittest The Architects of History UNIT Dominion Persuasion Starlight Robbery Daleks Among United States