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 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.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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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.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.