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
beyond life slightly vehicle
I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
flee interested life suppose
I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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.
bag behind broken funny gag heart interested life pain shows soon step truth underneath
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.
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.
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'