The character of Mrs. Cole, played by Amelda Brown, is an interesting one to debate. The head of the orphanage that once housed one Tom Riddle - the child who would grow up to become Voldemort - even admitted that she knew something was wrong with the boy. She sensed a darkness within him and noticed that when he took a disliking to something or someone, they tended to meet with misfortune shortly afterwards. Could she have done more to stop him? Should she? We'll let you decide.
Brown, a classically trained actor, has flitted from role to role throughout her career, seemingly choosing to work once or twice in a number of stage and television shows instead of committing to any single one for the long term. She holds the interesting distinction of appearing eight times in British police drama "The Bill" between 1990 and 2010, playing a different character each time!