Josie Lawrence

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Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, 6 June 1959) is an English comedian and actress best known for her appearances with the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe, as well as the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? Manda Best in EastEnders, and Manda Best in EastEnders.

Early life

Lawrence Lawrence was born in Old Hill, Staffordshire, on June 6, 1959. Bert Lawrence and Kathleen Lawrence, née Griffin, were married in 1948 and were named after her parents. She has older twin siblings, John and Janet, who are ten years her senior (1949). They were born in Cradley Heath, where her father served for British Leyland and her mother as a dinner lady. She knew she wanted to be an actress from the age of 5, and by the time she was 16 years old, she had joined the Barlow Players in Oldbury.

She studied at Dartington College of Arts from 1978 to 1981, receiving a Bachelor of Arts honours degree.

Honours and personal life

Lawrence is single. "You're 41 and not single, not married, no kids," she explained in an interview with Jim Sweeney. "I'm so bored with it," says the author. She lives in Hackney, London. She has two cats, a long-haired ginger (Aynuk), and a black-and-white (Ayli), named after the Black Country characters Aynuk and Ayli, who are often included in Black Country parody jokes. David Attenborough "her God" as a guest on QI.

Lawrence received an honorary doctorate from Dartington College of Arts in 1994 and a doctorate from Aston University in 2006.

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Career

In a production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Half Moon Theatre in 2016, she appeared as a young child (in 2016 she became a patron of the theatre). She appeared in a play called Passionaria at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1980, starring Denise Black and Kate McKenzie, and the Kray Sisters later formed the jazz band Denise Black and the Kray Sisters.

Her comedy career began after being involved in a Donmar Warehouse production called Songs For Stray Cats and being greeted by the audience to provide lines and suggestions for improvisers performing in after-show cabaret.

In the 1993 Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith production of the musical Moll Flanders, she appeared as the title role.

Lawrence appeared Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew, both Stratford-upon-Avon and London, for which she was given a Dame Peggy Ashcroft award for Best Actress from 1994-1996. She appeared in Faust and The Cherry Orchard, as Benedick in an all-female production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe, and she appeared in Beatrice in Beatrice's Royal Exchange. Anna was the lead role of Anna in the stage musical The King and I in 2001, replacing Elaine Paige in the lead role. In 2005, she appeared alongside Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, and Celia Imrie in Wood's Acorn Antiques: The Musical's cult West End production.

Lawrence appeared in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood in Birmingham and later at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where she was the lead spymaster in the case of exposing a traitor who is leaking vital information to the Russians. Linda Marlowe at the Edinburgh Festival co-directed The Time Step, a comedy about fantasies and talent competitions, with Linda Marlowe.

Lawrence appeared in a new version of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, translated by Tom Stoppard, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in fall 2010.

Lawrence came to national attention as a regular participant on the Channel 4 improvisational comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? At its inception in 1988, the company was still in business. Lawrence's forte on Whose Line was her ability to improvise songs on the spot. She was the first female performer to appear regularly and was featured on the show until 1997, which was the last UK series to be produced in London. In 1999, she appeared in two episodes of the American version of the program.

Josie, her own short-lived comedy show on Channel 4, appeared in 1991. In Enchanted April, a British remake of Elizabeth von Arnim's novel, she appeared for the first time next year. Maggie Costello appeared in the cricketing comedy drama Outside Edge, alongside Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn in which she was named Spectacle Wearer of the Year in 1993, among her other television appearances include the comedy series Not with a Bang and Downwardly Mobile. She continued to perform in Sealed with a Loving Kiss and Lunch in the Park as part of the Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... series between 1996 and 1997. Debbie Bennett and Debbie Bennett appeared in the 1999 made-for-television film The Flint Street Nativity as both Debbie Bennett and Debbie's mother. Camilla Splintered Thing was a woman in 2000. She appeared on "Duck" in the children's television series Dog and Duck from 1999 to 2001.

Phoebe Huntley appeared alongside Peter Davison in The Complete Guide to Parenting in 2006. She has appeared in BBC 1 drama series Robin Hood as Mrs Jiniwin and Mrs Jiniwin in the 2007 ITV adaptation of The Old Curiosity Shop. Liz Jenkins, the former mother of Sid Jenkins, appeared in a episode of the 2007 E4 teens comedy/drama Skins, a role that she reprised in the second series.

Lawrence was in EastEnders from March 2009 to February 2010. Amanda Best, Minty Peterson's old flame, appeared on Sunday. In a celebrity special of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Meera Syal appeared alongside her in a celebrity special of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? On January 31, 2009, the program premiered. She has appeared on panel games QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks as a guest.

Lawrence appeared in "The Chaos Theory," a Casualty series 25, episode 3. Lawrence played Mrs Janet Haines, the head teacher of a school where sixteen students were admitted to the emergency department after taking LSD. She appeared in 2010 and was also starring Sandra, Tony Hawks' agent, in the 2010 British feature film version of Tony Hawks' best selling book Round Ireland with a Fridge, which was released on DVD in November 2010.

Louise Jameson appeared in Doctors in 2012 and has also appeared in EastEnders. Lawrence played Cathy Dayman and Shirley Carter played Shirley Carter. She appeared on one episode of the US improv series Trust Us With Your Life in 2012, which is similar to Whose Line Is it Anyway?

In the 2015 BBC Two quiz show Beat The Brain, Lawrence was the voice of "The Brain."

In series 2 of Channel 4 television series Humans, Barbara, a synthetic marriage counsellor, appeared in 2016.

In the feature film Finding Your Feet, she played the lover of a married man portrayed by former "Whose Line" castmate John Sessions in 2018.

Agnes Nutter of the Amazon Prime series Good Omens appeared in 2019.

Dr Helen Middleton appeared in Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators episode 3.5 "Thy Fury Spent" on BBC television in 2020.

Lawrence appeared in three episodes of the improvised comedy series The Masterson Inheritance from 1993 to 1995 on BBC Radio 4, alongside Paul Merton, Phelim McDermott, Caroline Quentin, Lee Simpson, and Jim Sweeney. Each episode was based on a different time period, and the plots were improvised based on suggestions from the studio audience. Lawrence produced and narrated one episode, but Jim Sweeney's official website announced it on the internet.

"Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create improvised sketches from audience suggestions," the BBC Radio 4 series The Lawrence Sweeney Mix aired from 27 February to March 2007. On January 29, 2008, Series 2 began airing.

She has appeared in three other BBC Radio 4 comedy series, including the science fiction comedy Married in 1996 and the 2006 dark comedy series Vent, as well as being involved in a Galton and Simpson Radio Playhouse 50th Anniversary compilation of Clicquot et Fils, alongside Richard Griffiths and Roger Lloyd-Pack, which first aired on December 29, 1998.

On BBC Radio 4, she appeared as 'Amanda' in the comedy series Reluctant Persuaders.

Lawrence made her debut in the long-running BBC Radio 4 show Just a Minute on January 7, 2008, and she returned in the following series.

Lawrence appeared in Agnes Nutter's book Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in December 2014. She reprised her role in the book's television production in 2019.

Lawrence has lent her voice to many audiobooks, the bulk of which were children's books. Bossy, Giggles, Trouble, Tiny, Naughty, Somersault and Neat, and four of Jacqueline Wilson's books, Secrets, The Illustrated Mum, and The Bed and Breakfast Star have all recorded several of the books in Roger Hargreaves' Little Miss series, including Bossy, Giggles, Naughty, Somersault, and Neat. In addition to Emma Thomson's Felicity Wishes, Eric Hill's Spot the Dog, Tony Bradman's Dilly the Dinosaur's Dilly the Dinosaur's Dilly the Dinosaur, Robert Ridley's Mercedes Ice and Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Room on the Broom, as well as Philip Ridley's 2005 Muffin The Mule story books for a grand CD edition Lawrence has released audiocassettes of Rosie Thomas' Sun at Midnight, Lynne Truss' Going Loco, and Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn.

Mad Dog McCree defeated her challenge in 1992-1993 on GamesMaster.

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