Tamsin Greig
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Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig (born 12 July 1966) is an English actress and comedian.
She played Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books, Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Beverly Lincoln in the British-American sitcom Episodes.
She currently stars as Jackie in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
Other roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama Love Soup, Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers, Miss Bates in the 2009 BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma, and Beth Hardiment in the 2010 film version of Tamara Drewe.
Greig is also an acclaimed stage actress; she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2007 for Much Ado About Nothing, and was nominated again in 2011 and 2015 for her roles in The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
She is married to the actor Richard Leaf and has three children.
Early life
Greig was born in Maidstone, Kent, the second of three sisters. Her father, Eric, worked as a colour chemist creating dyes, and her mother, Ann, was enthusiastic about amateur dramatics. Her maternal grandfather was a Polish Jew. The family moved to Kilburn when she was three.
She went to Malorees Junior School, followed by Camden School for Girls later graduating with a first-class BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from the University of Birmingham in 1988. After graduating, she worked at the Family Planning Association and continued doing temporary work until 1996. She also spent some time at a secretarial college.
Personal life
Greig lives in a flat in Kensal Green, having moved back to the area in 1996 to be with her dying father. She became a Christian at this time, despite being brought up as an atheist. Greig is also a vegetarian.
Since 1997 she has been married to actor Richard Leaf, whom she met at a wrap party of Neil Gaiman's 1996 miniseries Neverwhere, and has three children.
She is a supporter of the National Health Service, giving her backing to a rally organised by pro-NHS protest group NHS Together. She also supports more practical teaching of Shakespeare in British schools, supporting the RSC's "Stand Up For Shakespeare" manifesto. Greig was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on that issue.
Career
She began acting professionally in early 1990. Greig is known for both dramatic and comedic roles. Greig, who has issues with corpses, may have issues with comedy roles.
Greig has been playing Debbie Aldridge in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers since 1991. Debbie's character developed as her other appearances increased, but her appearances in the program decreased, and her character Debbie spends the majority of her time in Hungary.
In five episodes of Absolute Power's second series of Charles Prentiss's former lover Gayle Shand, who now runs a rival company, she also does radio work, narrating the Radio 4 comedy Warhorses of Letters and guest-starring in five episodes.
In an episode of People Like Us (2000), Greig appeared in a number of supporting roles, most notably as Lamia in Neverwhere (1996) and The Mother. Fran Katzenjammer appeared in the sitcom Black Books, her first major role in the show "Black Books," which had three seasons beginning in 2000. Fran was a friend of Bernard's main character and the couple owned "Nifty Gifty" next door, which was located next door to his bookshop.
Dr. Caroline Todd, the lead character in Channel 4's comedy drama series Green Wing, was always embarrassed surgical registrar. In the 2005 Royal Television Society Awards, she received her "Best Comedian Award" for her performance. In an appearance at The Secret Policeman's Ball, she also appeared as Caroline.
Alice Chenery, a lovelorn woman working on a department store perfume counter, was a main character written for her by David Renwick, who appeared in a episode of Jonathan Creek in 2005. In May 2005, she appeared as a nurse in "The Long Game," a BBC show "Alive" by a nurse.
Greig appeared in Edith Frank's appearance in The Diary of Anne Frank on the BBC in January 2009. She appeared in Jane Austen's Emma, also in 2009. In 2010, she appeared in the two-part mini-series Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
She appeared in the BBC/Showtime sitcom Episodes in 2011 alongside Matt LeBlanc and Green Wing co-star Stephen Mangan. Greig and Mangan, a husband-and-wife writing pair, and they are on tour in America to work on an adaptation of their popular series. Greig also stars in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner as Jackie Goodman, the mother of a North London Jewish family.
She appeared in the 2012 BBC series White Heat. In 2013, she appeared in The Guilty, a three-part series on ITV, in which she plays DCI Maggie Brand, who investigates the disappearance of a young child who went missing five years ago. She appeared in the Inside No. 92 in 2014. "Last Gasp" is the 9th episode on the show.
In 2015, the fourth season of Episodes premiered, and a seven-episode fifth season, starring Greig and Matt LeBlanc, was shot in London.
Greig will narrate The Secret Life of the Zoo in October 2018, taking over from Olivia Colman.
Greig has been nominated for her television appearance by the BAFTA. In 2005 and Episodes in 2015, she was nominated for Best Comedy Performance for Green Wing and Best Female Comedy Performance for Friday Night Dinner.
Greig performed Beatrice in a much acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing, for which she received a Laurence Olivier Award and Constance in King John as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works season, between 2006 and 2007. Although the win itself was unexpected, her acceptance speech was extremely well received, boasting that she was so excited that she had wet her dress. The address was apparently completely revised. On stage, when she was told not to tell her mother that she wetting her dress, she told the host that her mother was dead before granting her prize to her "dead mother." She has been nominated for "Best Shakespearean Performance" in Much Ado About Nothing, becoming the first woman to win the award and being named for "The FRANCO Best Actress in a Play" in the Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Awards.
She co-starred with Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, and Ken Stott in the UK premiere of Yasmina Reza's The God of Carnage (Le Dieu du carnage) translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Matthew Warchus in March 2008. In 2009, the play was named winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. She co-starred in Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth in 2008, the first sci-fi film.
In November 2008, she appeared in Gethsemane, a new play by David Hare that toured the United Kingdom. Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick Theatre in London, which had only existed for a limited season until October 10, 2010. She appeared in Rupert Friend, Gemma Arterton, and Harry Lloyd, and Jamie Lloyd directed the play. In a play for her role, she received the 2011 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. Diane's appearance in The Little Dog Laughed earned her her second Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. Hilary, the central figure in Jumpy at the Royal Court in London, was transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in October 2011. Varia in Longing, William Boyd's latest play based on two short stories by Chekov, appeared at the Hampstead Theatre in March 2013. Greig appeared in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Playhouse Theatre in London until May 2015. She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical in March 2015.
In October 2016, she returned to the Hampstead Theatre to perform Empty in The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, including a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner. In February 2017, she returned to the Royal National Theatre to play Malvolia in a new performance of Twelfth Night at the Olivier Theatre. In October 2017, she gave a "polished...magnific" appearance in James Graham's Labour of Love at the No.l Coward Theatre, London.
Greig appeared in the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as a cameo. She appeared in Richard E. Grant's 2009 film Cuckoo and in Tamara Drewe (2010), she worked with Roger Allam and Gemma Arterton. Greig received a British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the latter role. She co-starred in 2015's comedy-drama The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, as well as in the release of Breaking the Bank starring Kelsey Grammer.