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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.
Birth Name
Tamsin Margaret Greig
Born
Tuesday, 12 July 1966
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sexy Beast | Cecilia Logan | 2024 |
My Happy Ending | Nancy | 2022 |
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War | Tirzah Garwood | 2022 |
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel | Self / Herself | 2021 |
Romeo & Juliet | Lady Capulet | 2021 |
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Rosemary Horrocks | 2020 |
Days of the Bagnold Summer | Astrid | 2020 |
Belgravia | Anne Trenchard | 2020 |
Love Monster | Narrator (voice) / Narrator / (voice) | 2020 |
The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Mummy / Mummy (voice) | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sexy Beast | Cecilia Logan | 2024 |
My Happy Ending | Nancy | 2022 |
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War | Tirzah Garwood | 2022 |
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel | Self / Herself | 2021 |
Romeo & Juliet | Lady Capulet | 2021 |
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Rosemary Horrocks | 2020 |
Days of the Bagnold Summer | Astrid | 2020 |
Belgravia | Anne Trenchard | 2020 |
Love Monster | Narrator (voice) / Narrator / (voice) | 2020 |
The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Mummy / Mummy (voice) | 2019 |
Official Secrets | Elizabeth Wilmshurst | 2019 |
Diana and I | Mary McDonald | 2017 |
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night | Malvolia | 2017 |
Revolting Rhymes | Babysitter / Miss Maclahose / Grandma | 2016 |
Finding My Twin Stranger | Self - Narrator | 2016 |
Breaking the Bank | Penelope | 2016 |
The Brontes at the BBC | Self - Narrator | 2016 |
The Secret Life of the Zoo | Self - Narrator | 2016 |
Behold the Monkey | Narrator | 2016 |
Supreme Tweeter | Gina Agent | 2015 |
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Lavinia Beech / Lavinia Beach | 2015 |
Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's War | Narrator in introduction | 2015 |
Bing | Molly (voice) | 2014 |
The Supervet | Self - Narrator | 2014 |
Royal Cousins at War | Narrator | 2014 |
Inside No. 9 | Sally | 2014 |
Crackanory | Self - Storyteller | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
The Guilty | DCI Maggie Brand | 2013 |
Elementary | DCI Athelney Jones | 2012 |
The Last Leg | Self - Guest | 2012 |
Channel 4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows | Self | 2012 |
White Heat | Beth | 2012 |
Arthur Christmas | Additional Voices (voice) / Additional Voices | 2011 |
Friday Night Dinner | Jackie Goodman | 2011 |
Episodes | Beverly Lincoln | 2011 |
Cuckoo | Simon | 2010 |
Tamara Drewe | Beth Hardiment | 2010 |
Going Postal | Miss Cripslock | 2010 |
Emma | Miss Bates | 2009 |
The Diary of Anne Frank | Edith Frank / Edith Hollander-Frank | 2009 |
Suggs in the City | Self - Guest | 2008 |
Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth | Jenny | 2008 |
Chelsea Lately | Beverly Lincoln in 'Episodes' | 2007 |
Play It Again | Self - Narrator | 2007 |
The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | 2007 |
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall | Dr. Caroline Todd | 2006 |
The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006 |
Love Soup | Alice Chenery | 2005 |
Doctor Who | Nurse | 2005 |
The Paul O'Grady Show | Herself - Guest | 2004 |
Green Wing | Caroline Todd / Dr. Caroline Todd | 2004 |
When I'm Sixty-Four | Denny | 2004 |
Shaun of the Dead | Maggie | 2004 |
Imagine | Self | 2003 |
Ready When You Are Mr. McGill | Lianne | 2003 |
Top Gear | Self - Special Guest | 2002 |
Timeshift | Self - Narrator | 2002 |
Pure | Liaison Officer | 2002 |
Miranda | Receptionist | 2002 |
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Self - Guest | 2001 |
Happiness | Emma | 2001 |
Black Books | Fran | 2000 |
People Like Us | Sarah / Jenny | 1999 |
Loose Women | Herself | 1999 |
The Great Egyptians | Cleopatra | 1998 |
Blind Men | Valerie Marsden | 1997 |
So This Is Romance? | Carmen | 1997 |
This Is the Sea | (voice) | 1997 |
Jonathan Creek | Pam | 1997 |
Light Lunch | Self | 1997 |
Neverwhere | Lamia | 1996 |
Faith in the Future | Emma | 1995 |
Wycliffe | Dr. Hinkley | 1994 |
Blue Heaven | Prof. Wiseman | 1992 |
Secret History | Narrator | 1991 |
Children In Need | Self | 1980 |
Arena | Herself | 1975 |
Horizon | Narrator | 1964 |
Panorama | Self - Narrator (voice) | 1953 |