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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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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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.
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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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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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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.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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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 that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.
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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.