Caroline Quentin was born in Reigate, Surrey, to Kathleen Jones and her husband Fred, a Royal Air Force pilot.
21 Facts About Caroline Quentin
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Caroline Quentin was educated at the independent Arts Educational School, in Tring, Hertfordshire, and appeared locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival.
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Between 1992 and 1998, Caroline Quentin appeared as Dorothy in all 42 episodes of the sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
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From 1997 until 2000, Caroline Quentin starred alongside Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek playing investigative journalist Maddie Magellan, who uses Jonathan's mind to solve murder mysteries.
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Caroline Quentin appeared in the television film Hot Money, which was based on the true story of the theft of hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Bank of England.
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ITV has produced five series of the police drama Blue Murder, in which Caroline Quentin plays against type in the main role DCI Janine Lewis.
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Caroline Quentin appeared as Heather Babcock in an episode of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, in 2010.
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Caroline Quentin returned to present a second series of the show in 2013.
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Caroline Quentin starred in the Comedy Central series Big Bad World where she played the role of Jan, the mother of the main character Ben.
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Caroline Quentin played the role of Mrs Bumble in Dickensian.
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In 2020, Caroline Quentin participated in the eighteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
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Caroline Quentin became the fourth celebrity to be voted off on 22 November 2020.
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In May 2023 Caroline Quentin was featured in the BBC coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, showing viewers around the garden of her home near Tiverton, Devon.
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In July 1996, Caroline Quentin released a single, a cover of the Exciters' hit "Tell Him", with her Men Behaving Badly co-star Leslie Ash under the name of "Caroline Quentin and Ash".
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Caroline Quentin received an Ian Charleson Award commendation for her Masha in The Seagull at the Oxford Theatre Company in 1991.
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At the British Comedy Awards in 2004, Caroline Quentin won the "Best Comedy Actress" award for her performance in Von Trapped.
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Caroline Quentin was married to comedian Paul Merton from 1990 until their 1998 divorce.
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Caroline Quentin met Sam Farmer in 1998 on the set of Men Behaving Badly, where he was a runner.
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Caroline Quentin's daughter Rose is an actress, and has appeared alongside her mother.
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Caroline Quentin has coeliac disease and is the patron of Coeliac UK.
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Caroline Quentin is president of the charity Campaign for National Parks.