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Role

Actress

Date of birth

07/12/1966

Place of birth

Maidstone, Kent, England, UK

Tamsin Greig

Biography

Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig is an English actress, narrator and comedian. She 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. Other roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy-drama series Love Soup, Debbie Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers, Miss Bates in the 2009 BBC version of Jane Austen's Emma, and Beth Hardiment in the 2010 film version of Tamara Drewe. In 2020, Greig starred as Anne Trenchard in Julian Fellowes' ITV series Belgravia. Greig is also an acclaimed stage actress; she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2007 for Much Ado About Nothing, and was nominated again 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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Shaun of the Dead

8.0

Acting

Role: Maggie

Arthur Christmas

7.1

Acting

Role: Additional Voicesvoice

Official Secrets

7.4

Acting

Role: Elizabeth Wilmshurst

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

6.6

Acting

Role: Lavinia Beech

Tamara Drewe

6.2

Acting

Role: Beth Hardiment

Pure

6.8

Acting

Role: Liaison Officer

Days of the Bagnold Summer

6.6

Acting

Role: Astrid

Miranda

5.4

Acting

Role: Receptionist

Breaking the Bank

4.8

Acting

Role: Penelope

My Happy Ending

6.2

Acting

Role: Nancy

National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night

8.0

Acting

Role: Malvolia

This Is the Sea

6.1

Acting

Role: (voice)

So This Is Romance?

5.0

Acting

Role: Carmen

Cuckoo

3.8

Acting

Role: Simon

Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth

4.4

Acting

Role: Jenny

Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War

7.4

Acting

Role: Narrator in introduction (voice)

Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

7.4

Acting

Role: Tirzah Garwood

Supercharged

N/A

Acting

Role: Dorothy Astor

Black Books: The Only World Where Failure Feels Like Freedom

Growing up, I spent the long, sunny afternoons of my summer vacations in bookstores, devouring whatever literary treasures that manage to catch my eye. No phones, no distractions—just the satisfying weight of a book in hand and the quiet murmurs of the old shopkeeper in the background. Oh, and the air conditioning was always just a bit too strong. Back then, life was simpler, and leisure meant walking into a dusty little shop and losing yourself in the pages of a book, rather than checking your