Fay Ripley

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Fay Ripley (born 26 February 1966) is an English actress and cookbook writer.

She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1990).

In 80 Days, her first professional role was in the chorus of a pantomime version of Around the World.

Ripley's early film and television appearances were limited, so she supplemented her income by working as a children's entertainer and selling menswear door to door.

Ripley's first major film role as Karen Hughes in Mute Witness (1995), after her scenes as a prostitute were cut from Frankenstein (1994). Ripley was cast in Jenny Gifford's debut role in the ITV series Cold Feet in 1996.

Ripley's character was expanded when a series was launched in 1998, with her role as a supporting actor in the pilot episode.

She appeared on the show for three years before deciding to pursue more varied roles and spend more time with her family.

She appeared in the fifth series as a guest.

Ripley played a variety of leading roles in comedies and dramas including Green-Eyed Monster (2001), I Saw You (2002), and Dead Gorgeous (2002).

Each role received critical acclaim.

She appeared in Bon Voyage, an ITV drama, before taking time away from acting following the birth of her second child.

In 2009, Ripley returned to television, as human resource manager Christine Frances in the ITV comedy drama Monday Monday, and Nicola Perrin with Martin Clunes in BBC One's Reggie Perrin. Ripley has published three recipe books since 2009, Fay's Family Food, 2009, What's For Dinner? Fay Makes It Simple in 2014 and 2012, but Fay Makes It Easy in 2014.

She is married to actor Daniel Lapaine, with whom she has two children—a daughter and a son—and is an advocate for a number of charities and causes.

Early life

Ripley was born in Wimbledon, southwest London, to Bev(erley) William Deacon Ripley and Tina Ripley (née Forster) on February 26, 1966. Her father was a successful businessman, and the son of Greater London Councilman Sydney William Ripley, J.L., whose family owned a printing firm that made movie posters - and her sister, the 1960s pop singer Twinkle's mother, and her mother, an antiques dealer, were both successful businessmen. Ripley was two years old and both married, so Ripley spent her childhood in Surrey between two families.

She was the only child from her parents' marriage, but she had several half-brothers and sisters from their new marriages. She lived in several Surrey towns, including Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Esher, and Cobham. Despite her family's Protestant faith, her father wanted her to have a good education, so she was taken to several Catholic convent schools around the county. One of those was St Maur's Convent School in Weybridge, which she shared with Liza Tarbuck. Ripley did not feel challenged academically at the school and later called the institution mediocre.

Ripley loved drama lessons at school, owing to Susan Ford's encouraging words. "Well done," she told Ford, "I was 15 years old when she said, 'Well done,' and she was an excellent drama coach, and she was simply brilliant." She was a strong woman. Those women make your lives change. You should always remember them. There was something about her. "She made me feel really well about myself as a 15-year-old teen." Ripley, a child who aspired to become a nurse, has embraced acting.

Her father wanted to send her to a finishing school in Switzerland, but Ripley later transferred to a local state college in Surrey, where she obtained A-levels in communication studies, art, and drama. Ripley performed her own small shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe during her time at the college. She appeared at the 1983 festival in an effort to "bring Brecht to the masses."

Ripley, who had completed her A-levels, applied for admission to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. It took her three attempts before she was accepted into an acting school at the age of 20. Ripley lived in Streatham, South London, during a period she described as "horrible and penniless." She sold menswear timeshares on Kensington High Street and Oxford Street, as a receptionist at a health club, and "Miss Chief the Clown" was a children's entertainer for five years. Ripley, the Miss Chief, was a magician performer and painted faces at children's parties. When she was able to get a mortgage on her first flat, she was able to say clown as her occupation.

Personal life

In 1983, Ripley met English actor James Purefoy when the two were starring in Romeo and Juliet's eponymous role. Ripley was 27 years old when they began an 11-year relationship. She was single for five years before being introduced to Australian actor Daniel Lapaine at a party hosted by mutual friends. Neither of them was concerned about dating and so they drifted apart.

They began dating and marrying in October 2001 in Tuscany, Italy, after meeting again on separate holidays in New York. In October 2002, Ripley gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter. In October 2006, she gave birth to her first child.

Ripley is a patron of several charities and causes. In 2007, she participated in What's Going to take?, a Women's Aid initiative to raise concerns of domestic assault against women. In October 2008, she visited Tanzania with ActionAid to raise funds for children in need of assistance. Ripley visited community projects implemented by ActionAid in Bagamoyo and Mkuranga while visiting the country. Ripley was already sponsoring a child and had been invited by ActionAid to attend a visit, but she had to cancel due to time conflicts with her work.

Ripley also co-founded a "Climate Action Now" demonstration with writer Rebecca Frayn and actress Rula Lenska in 2008, protesting government support for the then-planned third runway at Heathrow Airport.

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Career

In 1990, Ripley graduated from drama school. She appeared in Osatko in the chorus of Around the World in 80 Days at the Liverpool Playhouse in the 1990-1991 pantomime season for the first time. She had ten lines in Japanese. Medea's production came to an end of the year. "It was just my second job, and I took it seriously," Ripley said, "It was only my second job, and I took it all seriously, especially in my Greek sarong and my torch of fire, having to burble in tongues."

Ripley's early television and film career was portrayed by minor characters as prostitutes or mistresses; in what was to be her film debut, she shot two scenes as a prostitute in the film Frankenstein (1994), directed by Kenneth Branagh. Her character was strangled by the creature in the first scene (played by Robert De Niro's stand-in). De Niro himself appeared in the second scene, but Ripley's character was lying dead in a mortuary throughout. Ripley purchased a dress for the premiere, despite being ecstatic when Branagh sent her a note apologizing for removing her scenes from the final film.

In the low-budget film Mute Witness (1995), directed by Anthony Waller, Karen Hughes, the sister of a mute character who believes she sees a murder. A Daily Record columnist said that Ripley's dramatic scenes were not as good as her comedic ones after Mute Witness's British television premiere in 1999. She appeared in an episode of Channel 4's One for the Road in 1995 and made her last theatre appearance in the Bush Theatre's Indifferent Red, a cast member.

She appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's Frontiers and served as a club barmaid in Dennis Potter's penultimate television series Karaoke in 1996. She appeared in the comedy film Roseanna's Grave (Paul Weiland, 1997), as a woman whose nanny is accused of stealing from her, and a two-part episode of the Kevin Whately series The Broker's Man as a police officer. Ripley's appearance in The Broker's Man was one of the few times on which she appeared as a police officer, but she has turned down opportunities to play a character that conducts post-mortem examinations or investigates murders when she could be appearing in more realistic and comedic roles.

Ripley auditioned for Granada Television's Cold Feet, a television pilot about three couples' lives in Manchester, in 1996. She assumed she was reading for Rachel, the "new, pretty one," and was surprised to learn she was looking for Jenny, the "northern housewife." She sang of an inelegant approximation of a local Manchester accent in the audition. The producers' reaction to the role was refreshing from those actresses who were deemed as too "finger-wagging." Ripley won the role and appeared in the film alongside John Thomson and James Nesbitt. Ripley worked on her character's voice after the pilot received an award, so the ITV's director of programmes ordered a series of Cold Feet, so she concentrated on improving her character's voice and imitating their speech. In the first episode (broadcast in 1998), Jenny's supporting role from the pilot episode was given a bigger part in the series; in the first episode (broadcast in 1998), she gives birth to her first child. Ripley had never experienced childbirth and had imitated birth scenes from other television shows at that time. "Fay Ripley has a more reminiscent of Elaine in Seinfeld than of any other British woman," an independent review of the first series in November 1998.

At the British Comedy Awards 1999, Ripley's appearance in the first series earned her a nomination for Best TV Comedy Actress. She was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in the third series (2000), in which her husband distinguishes her husband and dates another man (played by Ben Miles). Ripley revealed to the producers that she would not be able to spend five months in Manchester away from her home in London and want to spend more time with her partner, partially because she would not want to spend more time with her husband and wanted to spend more time with her husband, which she would otherwise not be able to do. Jenny was either killed off or have her lose a limb, according to her. Bullen refused, instead describing a plot in which Jenny moves to New York. Ripley appeared in the final episode of (2003) as a guest.

Ripley appeared in the British dogme film The Announcement, as well as playing lead female character Grace Bingley (opposite Paul Rhys) in the Granada television pilot I Saw You, which used many of the same production staff as Cold Feet. Ripley was "fully scatty, tousled, and self-sufficient" in the role, according to David Belcher of The Herald, and Joe Joseph of The Times complimented her comedic timing. In 2002, Ripley returned to I Saw You for a three-episode miniseries. She thinks I Saw You, which she co-starred with her husband Daniel Lapaine, on the television show she is most proud to have worked on.

Ripley began to play more prominent characters in the BBC drama The Green-Eyed Monster, which was broadcast in September 2001, Deanna's first role was as a housewife in Deanna. By visiting a coroner, she researched her person, a murderer. "Ripley did a good job of exorcising Jenny Gifford's ghost," Gareth McLean wrote about her appearance, "to an extent, the insane desperation and needy malevolence were sparked." Donna Massey played domestic violence in Danny Brocklehurst's The Stretford Wives in 2002. Ripley was initially unwilling to play another character from Manchester so soon after leaving Cold Feet, but she changed her mind after reading the script. She did not investigate spousal abuse to portray her character, a woman trying to bring up her two children in a run-down house when her husband was detained because she did not find it difficult to "find out what it is like to be afraid and want to protect your children."

Ripley appeared as Rose Bell in the ITV postwar period drama Dead Gorgeous (2002), as Helen McCrory. Meg appeared in the ITV version of the Meg and Mog children's books for the first year, before appearing Jill in the third series of the BBC One sitcom Bedtime in 2003. In 2004, Ripley's first on-screen collaboration with Martin Clunes culminated, when she played Jane White in the CBBC's version of Fungus the Bogeyman. In the year after, she appeared as a guest advisor in the BBC television series Hustle, a role that received accolades from The Times.

Ripley appeared as child abductor Linda Holder in the two-part ITV drama Bon Voyage, starring Ben Miles, Rachael Blake, and Daniel Ryan in 2006. She was given the opportunity to act as an antagonist without having to audition, and she loved it because she wanted to be an antagonist. She liked the style of Canadian filmmaker John Fawcett in directing the thriller because it was different from other British thrillers, which she thought were poorly shot. Ripley filmed the role in Canada in the waning weeks of her second pregnancy, so her character was dressed in baggy clothing to mask her bump. Her pregnancy brought about dramatic changes to the script; originally, she was supposed to walk through a wood, fall off a cliff, and "die a gruesome death." Thomas Sutcliffe of The Independent and Gareth McLean of The Guardian both said that Ripley's pregnancy was poorly disguised. Brian McIver of the Daily Record praised Linda's portrayal of her as "scary but sympathetic" in acknowledging the whole cast's performance.

Ripley's last television performance appearance before 2009 was Bon Voyage. She appeared on panel shows and talk shows during her time as a host. Nicola Perrin, Nicola Perrin's eponymous character on the BBC One sitcom Reggie Perrin, appeared on television screens in 2009. She was hired because she had previously worked with Clunes and writer Simon Nye. "I practically hung off Martin's coat-tails and wished for the best" as the series was Ripley's first studio sitcom, she approached the role with apprehension; she told The Independent on Sunday, "I just hung off Martin's coat-tails and prayed for the best." In the original series, Ripley compared Nicola to Reggie's housebound wife Elizabeth, noting that the modern woman needed a career and independence from her husband due to changes in culture. She played her role in the second series in 2010, after which the series was cancelled.

In 2009, Ripley appeared in an ITV comedy drama series in which Ripley plays Christine Frances, an alcohol human resource manager in a supermarket head office that shifts from London to Leeds. She chose the role because it was different from those she had previously played.

Ripley hosted Sofa Melt, a channel 4 chat show based on Trisha, during her time on Cold Feet. The show lasted for a single series of 60 episodes that premiered in 1999. Stewart Hennessey, a critic from Glasgow, praised Ripley's presentation as "completely without any intelligent merit whatsoever." It's just ridiculous because the people on it are obnoxious. Set the video and perform it at parties. "It was the most frightening thing I've ever done," Ripley said of the show retrospectively. She made a short film promoting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for the BBC's Big Read series in 2003, and she appeared in a Blighty documentary film My Brilliant Britain in 2009.

She appeared on Top Gear's Reasonably Priced Car segment in 2004, where she addressed her car history with host Jeremy Clarkson. She ran a time of 1:53 on her celebrity lap of the Top Gear test track, marking her 38th on the Suzuki Liana lead board. She appeared on The National Lottery's big advertising campaign the same year, playing "Lady Luck" alongside a unicorn voiced by Graham Norton. She appeared alongside Martin Clunes in a series of advertisements for Tesco Direct in 2008, and Mark Addy has appeared in a number of commercials for Tesco's various brands.

Ripley also announced that she would be writing a cookbook about family dishes in 2007. "I want to help people prepare healthy food for their children," she said, "I want to help people prepare healthy food for their children." "I want to help people prepare good food for their children," she said, "I want to help them make healthy food for their children." In April 2009, Fay's Family Food, an imprint of Penguin Books, was published by Michael Joseph, who was selected as a "summer read" by Marie-Claire Digby of The Irish Times. What's For Dinner, Ripley's second book, published in April 2012. She has declined offers from television production companies to create her own cookery book since the first book's publication. In November 2016, a Ripley visitor appeared on The One Show with Alex Jones. In January 2017, she co-started an episode with Angela Scanlon. Grime & Punishment on C5 is currently narrates Ripley.

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