Tamsin Greig Quotes

Tamsin Margaret Mary Greig is an English actress and comedian. She played Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books, Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing, Beverly Lincoln in the British-American sitcom Episodes and Jackie in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner. Other roles include Alice Chenery in BBC One's comedy drama 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. 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. She is married to the actor Richard Leaf and has three children.



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✵ 12. July 1966
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Famous Tamsin Greig Quotes

“It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.”

About what people thought her Archers character Debbie Aldridge looked like.
From an interview with the Telegraph, "Seriously funny."

“I did used to like trampolining, but I’m probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I’ve had three children.”

About what she used to do in her spare time.
From an interview with the Independent on Sunday, "Green Goddess."

“In as much as any invisible, unbelievable, unknowable fictional character is, yes.”

When asked if Debbie Aldridge (her Archers character) is now part of her life.
From an interview on the Green Wing "microsite"

Tamsin Greig Quotes

“Greig, currently hot in the TV comedy Green Wing, has a dark, brittle glamour that isn't quite beauty (there's a disconcerting touch of Edwina Currie about her) and suggests an incipient unhappiness lurking beneath the ready wit.”

About her performance as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, by Charlie Spencer in The Telegraph. After reading the part about Edwina Currie, she refused to read any more of the article.
Criticism, A review of her as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing

“It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!”

About her forthcoming marriage to Richard Leaf (1997).
From the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340067/bio

“On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.”

When asked about her heritage and striking nose
From the Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340067/bio

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