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
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
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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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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.