Rebecca Louise Front was born on 16 May 1964 and is an English actress, writer and comedian.
28 Facts About Rebecca Front
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Rebecca Front won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for The Thick of It.
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Rebecca Front was born in Stoke Newington, London, to Sheila and Charles Rebecca Front.
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Rebecca Front's mother wrote children's books, which her father illustrated.
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Rebecca Front's father designed the title-logo on the cover of The Beatles' album Rubber Soul.
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Rebecca Front's father is Jewish and her mother is of Jewish and Welsh descent.
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Rebecca Front became involved in comedy while at St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford, where she read English and became the first female president of The Oxford Revue.
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Rebecca Front trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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In 1985, Rebecca Front teamed up with Sioned Wiliam and Jon Magnusson to take the show The Bobo Girls go BOO to Edinburgh.
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Rebecca Front made a short promotional video on energy conservation with Michael Simkins in the late 1980s.
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Rebecca Front achieved a higher profile as a result of her work with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring on the radio shows Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World and On the Hour, and the television and radio series Fist of Fun.
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Rebecca Front went on to form a close professional association with Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Doon Mackichan and Steve Coogan, who all transferred with Front to The Day Today, the television version of On the Hour.
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In recent years Rebecca Front has become a fixture on comedy panel shows on British television and radio including The News Quiz, Have I Got News for You and If I Ruled The World.
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Rebecca Front has had minor roles in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Absolute Power and Absolutely Fabulous and she has played straight acting roles in television drama, including You Can Choose Your Friends, The Rotters' Club, Kavanagh QC, Lewis and Jonathan Creek.
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Between 2006 until 2014, Rebecca Front had a recurring role as Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent on the detective drama series Lewis, the successor to Inspector Morse on ITV.
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Rebecca Front featured in the 2010 BBC comedy series Grandma's House playing the part of Simon Amstell's mother Tanya, and Just William, as the mother of William Brown and starred in the 2011 live-action 3D family comedy film Horrid Henry: The Movie as Henry's headmistress, Miss Oddbod.
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In 2012 Rebecca Front starred as the psychiatrist in the Sky Arts sketch series Psychobitches, where Rebecca Front's character offers therapy to notable women of history and the present day, including Anne Boleyn, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Shelley, Enid Blyton, Eva Braun, Mary Pickford, Edith Piaf, and Anna Nicole Smith.
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Rebecca Front plays Cox in The Wrong Mans, a six-part comedy-thriller for BBC Two.
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Rebecca Front reprised this role in December 2014 for a special two-parter.
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Rebecca Front narrated Fox Wars which was broadcast on 22 October 2013.
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Rebecca Front was eleven years old at the time and, because of the trauma she suffered, she went through a period of not wanting to attend school.
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Samantha Spiro played her mother and Rebecca Front played her headmistress, Miss Dyson.
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In January 2014, Rebecca Front appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "Let Us Prey", about a serial killer who uses medieval torture methods to dispatch their victims.
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Rebecca Front appeared in the BBC series Outnumbered, playing the headmistress at Karen's school in early 2014.
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Rebecca Front portrayed Fiona in the BBC Radio 4 series Love in Recovery.
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Rebecca Front starred in the sitcom Up the Women as Helen Bute, the antagonist for three episodes in mid-2013 and a six-episode series in 2015.
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Rebecca Front's book Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections is a collection of autobiographical stories.
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Jeremy Rebecca Front, her brother, is a writer and comic actor.