Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig is an English actress, known for both dramatic and comedic roles.
28 Facts About Tamsin Greig
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Tamsin Greig played Fran Katzenjammer in the Channel 4 sitcom Black Books, Dr Caroline Todd in the Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing, Beverly Lincoln in British-American sitcom Episodes and Jackie Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner.
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In 2020, Greig starred as Anne Trenchard in Julian Fellowes' ITV series Belgravia.
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Tamsin Greig won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2007 for Much Ado About Nothing, and was nominated in 2011 and 2015 for her roles in The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
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Tamsin Greig was born in Maidstone, Kent, the second of three sisters.
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Tamsin Greig went to Malorees Junior School, followed by Camden School for Girls later graduating with a first-class BA in Drama and Theatre Arts from the University of Birmingham in 1988.
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Tamsin Greig has had a long-running part as Debbie Aldridge in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers since 1991.
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Tamsin Greig appeared in a number of supporting parts, notably as Lamia in Neverwhere and The Mother in an episode of People Like Us.
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Tamsin Greig's performance won her "Best Comedy Performance" in the 2005 Royal Television Society Awards.
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Tamsin Greig appeared as Caroline in an appearance at The Secret Policeman's Ball.
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Tamsin Greig starred in the BBC comedy drama series Love Soup, as Alice Chenery, a lovelorn woman working on a department store perfume counter, in a role specifically written for her by David Renwick, whom she met in 2003 when she appeared in an episode of Jonathan Creek.
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Tamsin Greig appeared in the role of Edith Frank in the BBC's January 2009 production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Tamsin Greig played Beth in the 2012 BBC series White Heat.
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Tamsin Greig is the lead in The Guilty in the three-part series on ITV in 2013, playing DCI Maggie Brand who investigates the death of a young child who went missing five years previously.
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In October 2018 it was confirmed that Tamsin Greig would narrate The Secret Life of the Zoo, taking over from Olivia Colman.
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Tamsin Greig has received three BAFTA nominations for her TV work.
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Tamsin Greig was nominated for Best Comedy Performance for Green Wing in 2005, and for Best Female Comedy Performance for Friday Night Dinner in 2012 and Episodes in 2015.
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Tamsin Greig won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for "Best Shakespearean Performance" in Much Ado About Nothing, becoming the first woman to win the award, and was nominated for "The FRANCO'S Best Actress in a Play" in the Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Awards.
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Tamsin Greig was starring in The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane at the Garrick Theatre in London, which did run a limited season until 10 April 2010.
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Tamsin Greig starred alongside Rupert Friend, Gemma Arterton and Harry Lloyd, and the play was directed by Jamie Lloyd.
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Tamsin Greig won the 2011 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a play for her portrayal.
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Tamsin Greig previously performed in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Playhouse Theatre, London, until May 2015.
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Tamsin Greig made a cameo appearance in the 2004 comedy Shaun of the Dead.
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Tamsin Greig starred with Richard E Grant in the 2009 film Cuckoo, and with Roger Allam and Gemma Arterton in Tamara Drewe.
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Tamsin Greig co-starred in 2015's comedy-drama The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and in the 2016 release of Breaking the Bank, opposite Kelsey Grammer.
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Tamsin Greig became a Christian at this time, despite being brought up as an atheist.
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Tamsin Greig is a supporter of the National Health Service, giving her backing to a rally organised by pro-NHS protest group NHS Together.
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Tamsin Greig was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on that issue.