Harriet Amelia Thorpe was born on 8 June 1957 and is an English actress.
15 Facts About Harriet Thorpe
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Harriet Amelia Thorpe was born on 8 June 1957 in Hampstead, London.
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Harriet Thorpe is the daughter of Gillian, a writer, and Edward Thorpe, an actor and writer.
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Harriet Thorpe studied dance at the Royal Ballet School and afterwards attended Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 1979.
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Harriet Thorpe appeared in the 1990s British television sitcom The Brittas Empire, playing Carole Parkinson, the receptionist who was prone to depression and fits of emotion who permanently kept her children with her in drawers under her desk, and would sometimes be seen feeding them or washing their clothes.
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Harriet Thorpe starred in a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link as Madame Morrible, in which she was voted off in the first round.
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Harriet Thorpe played Fleur in Absolutely Fabulous, an eccentric and somewhat odd work-colleague.
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Harriet Thorpe played Beverley Osman in the BBC children's comedy drama No Sweat, starring boyband North and South.
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Harriet Thorpe made a guest appearance in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Elizabeth.
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Harriet Thorpe worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre, in London's West End and two Shakespeare seasons at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
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Harriet Thorpe was in the original revival cast of Cabaret as Fraulein Kost at the Lyric Theatre in London on 22 September 2006.
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Harriet Thorpe played her final performance on 27 March 2010, and was replaced by Julie Legrand.
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Harriet Thorpe returned to the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park to play the parts of Lottie Childs and Patricia Fodor in Timothy Sheader and Stephen Mear's revival of Crazy For You, for which she was nominated for the 2012 Theatregoers' Choice Awards [1].
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Harriet Thorpe returned to Wicked to play Madame Morrible from Monday 22 April 2013 until Saturday 16 November 2013, in place of Louise Plowright who withdrew from the role due to illness.
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Harriet Thorpe is an ambassador for Walk the Walk, the UK's largest grant-making breast cancer charity, and the UK's Diversity In Media Awards.