Miranda Hart
Miranda Hart
Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke, known professionally as Miranda Hart or sometimes referred to mononymously as Miranda, is an English actress and comedian. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making small appearances in various British sitcoms including Hyperdrive and Not Going Out...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth14 December 1972
CityTorquay, England
academic although bitter brilliant education focused fun good great loved lucky matter played school seven sports sure
I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.
sports gold likes
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.
concerts hold musical perform singing thousands west
In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!
accept angry continue fewer inherent rather sexism time women
I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.
fine
Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.
certain equivalent national pressure saying
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television.
although faith political religion side spiritual
I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion.
bit exactly foot gangly lovely realising six sweep table tall women
Being tall when I was youngerl I was always a bit awkward. As a teenager, I was very, very thin, so I was very gangly and limby, and would sweep things off the table without realising how big my wingspan was - just out of control. A lot of women write to me and say, 'I'm six foot and exactly the same happens' - that's been lovely therapy.
given good high inability reaching shelves tall
Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.
idiotic life people
People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'
bit felt lead pushed terms
I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.
comedic life properties themes truths
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
people reviews word written
Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth.
best job
I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.