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Tamsin Greig (born 23 February 1967) (pronounced "Gregg", IPA pronunciation: ) is a British actor, probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing.
Career
She has a long-running part as Debbie Aldridge in the BBC radio soap opera The Archers and guest starred in five episodes of the second series in the radio version of Absolute Power, playing Gayle Shand, a rival to Prentiss McCabe and Charles Prentiss's former lover.
In 2000, she appeared in her first major role in the sitcom Black Books, playing Fran Katzenjammer, a neurotic who owned, "Nifty Gifty," a type of gift shop or new-age shop in the first series, but became unemployed, and eventually became worse at everything she tried as the series went on. This trend of neurotic characters seems to have continued into her other roles.
In 2004 she appeared in the movie Shaun of the Dead (With Dylan Moran, who also appeared in Black Books) and in 2005 she appeared as a nurse in 200,000 AD, in an episode of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who entitled The Long Game, both of which also featured Simon Pegg, the writer and star of Shaun of the Dead.
She has also appeared in Series 1 (2004) and Series 2 (2006) Channel 4 comedy drama series, Green Wing, as Dr. Caroline Todd, a constantly embarrassed surgical registrar.
Most recently she has starred in the BBC comedy drama series Love Soup (2005), as Alice Chenery, a lovelorn woman working on a department store perfume counter, in a role specifically written for her by David Renwick.
She has also made a guest appearances on Woman's Hour on 28 September 2005, and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on 31 March 2006.
She is also a stage performer. Between 11 May and 12 October 2006 she will play Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and between 27 July and 10 October she is playing Constance in King John, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works project. So far, Much Ado About Nothing has received much acclaim from critics.
She lists Smack the Pony and Cannon and Ball as her biggest comedy influences. Her agents are Sally Hope Associates.
Personal life
Greig grew up in Camden and is of Scottish and Jewish ethnicity.
She graduated with a degree in drama from the University of Birmingham but spent some time at the Family Planning Association in an administrative role, and also spent some time at a secretarial college.
According to an interview with the Sunday Times, she converted to Christianity at the age of 30.
She is married to actor Richard Leaf, who she met on the set of the 1996 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and has three children.
Before she became a mother, she was keen on parachuting and trampolining.
She has stated that she is often mistaken for Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of the band Texas, for the impressionist Ronni Ancona and for comedian Sue Perkins.
External links
- Sally Hope Associates Tamsin Greig's agents.
- Tamsin Greig page at the BBC's Archers site
- Tamsin Greig - Drama Faces Biography of Tamsin Greig on the BBC Drama Faces website.
- Green Wing "microsite" at Channel4.com
- Black Books "microsite" at Channel4.com
- Love Soup "microsite" at www.bbc.co.uk
- Cheese Makes You Dream A Short film starring Tamsin Greig and Dudley Sutton.
- The eyebrows have it Sunday Times interview from 19 March 2006
- Woman's Hour interview, 28 September 2005.
- Knowing Me, Knowing You, An article by Tamsin Greig, written for The Guardian on 6 November 2004.
- RSC Website review of Much Ado About Nothing staring Tamsin Greig as Beatrice.
- RSC Website review of King John staring Tamsin Greig as Constance.
- Sunday Times Review of Much Ado About Nothing.
1967 births | Living people | British radio actors | British television actors | British stage actors | Doctor Who actors | Green Wing actors | Neverwhere actors
"Tamsin Greig"