Nicola Pagett (born as Nicola Mary Scott, 15 June 1945) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Elizabeth Bellamy in the 1970s TV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.

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In 1995, while appearing in What The Butler Saw at the National Theatre, she began behaving erratically and was ultimately diagnosed as having acute bipolar disorder. During this time she developed an obsession with Alastair Campbell, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief press secretary, and, according to Adam Boulton, Alastair Campbell used this obsession to distract attention from negative headlines about the 1998 Labour Party Conference. She subsequently chronicled her experiences with bipolar disorder in a 1998 book entitled Diamonds Behind My Eyes.