1. Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers was an English actress.
20 Facts About Emma Chambers
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Emma Chambers played Alice Tinker in the BBC comedy The Vicar of Dibley and Honey Thacker in the film Notting Hill.
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Emma Chambers reprised both roles in London's West End; performing the latter role at the Royal National Theatre.
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Emma Chambers was born on 11 March 1964, in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, the daughter of John Emma Chambers, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and his wife Noelle, nee Strange.
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Emma Chambers's siblings are business owners Sarah Doukas and Simon Chambers, who created the modelling agency Storm Management.
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Emma Chambers attended St Mary's School and her secondary education was at St Swithun's School, Winchester, Hampshire.
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Emma Chambers then trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in the 1980s, where she was a classmate of actor Ross Kemp.
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Emma Chambers began her career as a stage actress in the late 1980s as a member of the repertory company at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
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Emma Chambers reprised the role the following year for her West End theatre debut at the Vaudeville Theatre.
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In 1989 Emma Chambers was nominated for a Radio Academy Award in the Best Actress category for her work in the BBC Radio 4 programme Girl of My Best Friend.
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Emma Chambers remained with the latter production when it moved to the Royal National Theatre in 1991; earning positive critical attention for her portrayal of a teenager who engages with an imaginary friend to escape her troubled home life.
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Emma Chambers returned to the Royal National Theatre in 1993 as Avonia Bunn in Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the 'Wells' under the direction of John Caird.
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Emma Chambers appeared in all 20 episodes and four Comic Relief specials until 2007.
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In 1998, Emma Chambers won the British Comedy Award for Best Actress for her performance; having been nominated for a BCA previously for her portrayal of Alice in 1995.
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Emma Chambers was cast as Martha Thompson in Take a Girl Like You, a made-for-television drama based on the Kingsley Amis novel and a remake of the 1970 film.
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Emma Chambers worked as a voice performer in the animated made-for-television film The Wind in the Willows and provided the voice of Spotty for two episodes in the CBeebies series Little Robots.
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In 2002, Emma Chambers toured with the Michael Frayn play, Benefactors, where she starred opposite Neil Pearson.
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At the age of 43, Emma Chambers essentially withdrew from public life after making her final acting appearance in a 2007 special Comic Relief episode of The Vicar of Dibley.
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Emma Chambers had a chronic allergy to animals as well as asthma.
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Emma Chambers died of a heart attack on 21 February 2018, aged 53.