1. Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke was born on 14 December 1972 and is an English actress, comedian and writer.
37 Facts About Miranda Hart
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Miranda Hart has won three Royal Television Society awards, four British Comedy Awards, and four BAFTA nominations for her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda.
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Miranda Hart appeared as Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne in the BBC drama series Call the Midwife and made her Hollywood debut in the action comedy film Spy.
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In 2017, Miranda Hart presented the Royal Variety Performance in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, making her the first solo female presenter in 105 years.
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Miranda Hart is from an aristocratic background, but does not consider herself upper class, stating that her aunt and uncle live in Lullingstone Castle.
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Miranda Hart was privately educated at Downe House, an independent boarding school for girls near Thatcham, Berkshire.
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Miranda Hart was a classmate and friend of the sports presenter Clare Balding, who was head girl.
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Miranda Hart attended the University of the West of England, Bristol, graduating with a 2:1 in political science.
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Miranda Hart then completed a postgraduate course in acting at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.
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Miranda Hart continued to play the part until the production of Miranda in 2009.
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Miranda Hart earned a British Comedy Award nomination for her role as Teal in two series of the BBC television comedy sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, which ran from January 2006 to August 2007.
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Miranda Hart presented a BBC spoof programme looking back over 2009 called 2009 Unwrapped with Miranda Hart.
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In 2014, she announced that her sitcom Miranda Hart would come to an end after two final episodes due to air in December 2014.
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Miranda Hart appeared as guest host of Have I Got News for You in October 2009, December 2010 and again in December 2011.
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Miranda Hart scaled down one of the Alps with Bear Grylls in a show with him in March 2013.
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Miranda Hart has appeared on the Graham Norton Show 8 times, on 10 May and 3 December in 2010,29 April 2011,19 October 2012,20 December 2013,24 October 2014,8 May 2015, and 11 October 2024.
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In January 2013, Miranda Hart appeared on Room 101 along with Reggie Yates and John Craven.
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In 2012, Miranda Hart began to appear in the BBC One drama Call the Midwife, playing the character of "Camilla 'Chummy' Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne".
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In December 2013, Miranda Hart appeared in David Walliams' film adaptation of his book Gangsta Granny.
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In December 2017, Miranda Hart took part in Celebrity Send To All in the third series of Michael McIntyre's Big Show.
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Miranda Hart made a cameo appearance as a loan officer in the 2007 comedy film Magicians which featured David Mitchell and Robert Webb, both stars of the long running television series Peep Show.
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In 2013,12 in a Box was released, a feature film in which Miranda Hart plays a small role that was originally made in 2007.
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In 2020, Miranda Hart played "harmless chatterbox" Miss Bates in the Jane Austen adaptation film Emma.
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Miranda Hart has presented comedy specials for the network alongside Jon Holmes.
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Miranda Hart performed in Alecky Blythe's 2006 play Cruising at the Bush Theatre.
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Miranda Hart was among the performers at the Diamond Jubilee concert held outside Buckingham Palace on 4 June 2012.
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Miranda Hart embarked on her first tour in 2014, titled My, What I Call, Live Show, performing in arenas in the UK and Ireland.
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Miranda Hart was the second contestant to be voted off the third series of Comic Relief does Fame Academy in 2007.
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Miranda Hart starred as a judge on both series two and three of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, alongside other guest judges including Kelly Brook, Rufus Hound and Louie Spence in 2010 and 2011.
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Miranda Hart took part in a Red Nose Day edition of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011, which she won.
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Miranda Hart co-presented Sport Relief 2012, which concluded with her and fellow comedian David Walliams dancing semi-naked to ABBA's "Dancing Queen".
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Miranda Hart donated a signed Miranda script to be auctioned in aid of Comic Relief.
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Miranda Hart's memoir, titled I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You, was released on 10 October 2024.
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Miranda Hart is a Christian; she once said to fellow theist Victoria Coren Mitchell, "It's scary to say you're pro-God".
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In October 2024, Miranda Hart revealed through her book I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You and on The One Show that she had recently married.
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Miranda Hart listed 10 keys to living well, which she says emerged after much research and have helped her 'live a life of joy and meaning and fulfilment in a way I never have before.
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In 2010, Hart won the Best Comedy Performance award from the Royal Television Society for her performance in Miranda and was nominated for best comedy writing.