Actress Honeysuckle Weeks has been found safe and well after being reported missing.

The Foyle's War star disappeared on Thursday night.

The 36-year-old had last seen in Graylingwell Drive, Chichester, at 9pm.

She was reported missing an hour later, Sussex Police said.

Detectives issued a missing persons appeal after her recent behaviour – and her disappearance – concerned her family and friends.

However on Friday night Sussex Police announced she had been found "safe and well".

A force spokesman said: "Honeysuckle was found safe and well at a relative's address in London at about 7.45pm on Friday (July 29).

"Her relative contacted police to notify them of her appearance.

"She remained with police as of 10.45pm, prior to being returned to West Sussex.

"We're very grateful to everyone who expressed their concern for Honeysuckle and assisted in our appeal to help find her."

Weeks, from the village of Petworth, had recently finished working on shooting Lewis for ITV and Sky mystery The Five.

The actress is best known for her portrayal of the character Samantha Stewart in the wartime drama Foyle's War, starring in the ITV show from 2002 to 2010 and appearing again in 2013 and 2015.

She has also appeared in TV favourites The Bill, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Death In Paradise.

Weeks married hypnotherapist Lorne Stormonth-Darling in a Buddhist ceremony in the Himalayas in 2005 and the couple have a child, Wade, who was born in 2011.