Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Margaret M. Greigis an English actress. She played Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing. She currently stars in two sitcoms: as Beverly Lincoln in the transatlantic sitcom Episodes, and 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth12 July 1966
dead inside trapped
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
america somehow work
I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
families
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
children trying women
A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
entropy home sets
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
amazed badly cleaner job people work
I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
became clear future plays rehearsals school science seem
Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'll go to the fridge and think, 'I'll see what I can put together,' and I'll combine beetroot and sausage and prawns with goat's cheese sprinkled on top and think, 'I like that they're all slightly pink. It looks fine and... actually, it is fine.'