Ashley McGuire

Ashley McGuire is a British actress, known for her roles as Big Mandy in the BBC comedy series This Country , Vicky Houghton ^[1] in the BBC One series This Is Going to Hurt , Shakira in the Channel 4 comedy series Man Down and Bev Slater on the BBC soap opera EastEnders .

Life and career

McGuire attended Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. ^[2] McGuire has portrayed various TV roles, including Malory Towers , Coronation Street , Dead Boss , Small Axe , Decline and Fall , It's a Sin and Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After. ^[3] She has also appeared as Shakira in Man Down , "Big" Mandy Harris in This Country and Bev Slater in EastEnders . ^[4]

Her stage work includes Home by Nadia Fall (2012 and 2013), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (2015) and Top Girls (2019) by Caryl Churchill, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2015), and The Suicide by Suhayla El-Bushra (2016), all at the Royal National Theatre. ^[2] Susannah Clapp, a theatre critic for The Observer , wrote about McGuire's portrayal of Falstaff in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse (2014): "A magnificent Falstaff... she is glorious. A one-person vindication of the all-female enterprise. If it were needed." ^{[5] [6]}

Stage

Year	Theatre	Play	Role	Ref.
2006	Battersea Arts Centre	Saved or Destroyed		[7]
2008 2009 2010	Canal Café Theatre Pleasance, Edinburgh Pleasance, Inner London	I'll Always Think of You That Way	Alison	[8]
2010	Soho Theatre	Fatal Light	Maggie	[9]
2011	Theatre Uncut	Housekeeping	Joan	[10]
2012 2013	National Theatre	Home	Sharon	[11]
2014	Donmar Warehouse	Henry IV	Falstaff	[12] [13]
2015	National Theatre	Our Country's Good	Dabby Bryant	[14] [15]
2015	National Theatre	An Oak Tree		[16]
2015	National Theatre	Light Shining in Buckinghamshire	Vagrant	[17]
2016	National Theatre	The Suicide	Sarah and Margaret Thatcher	[18] [19]
2016	Lyric Hammersmith	Shopping and F***ing	Brian	[20]
2017	Bush Theatre	Hir	Paige	[21] [22]
2019	National Theatre	Top Girls	Dull Gret	[23]

Filmography

Year	Category	Title	Role
2001	TV series	The Savages	Frightening girl
2001	TV series	Casualty	Julie
2003	TV series	Murphy's Law	Maid
2004	Feature film	England Expects	Dawn
2004	TV series	EastEnders	Carol
2005	Feature film	Gypo	Penny
2007	Feature film	Ruby Blue	Debbie
2008	Feature film	Caught in a Trap	Prison inmate
2009	TV series	The Bill (series 24)	Stella Tanner
2009	Feature film	Harry Brown	Community WPC
2010	Feature film	Baseline	Susan
2010	Feature film	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Death Eater #9
2010	TV series	Miranda	Meals on Wheels lady
2010	TV series	Law & Order: UK (series 4)	Simone Lewis
2011	Feature film	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Death Eater #9
2011	TV series	Coronation Street	Ginny Portis
2012	Feature film	The Grind	Linda
2012	TV series	Dead Boss	Slasher
2012	TV series	Trollied	Millionth customer
2012	TV series	4Funnies	Cheryl
2013	TV series	Derek	Shelley
2013	TV series	The Job Lot	Dawn Carter
2013	TV series	The IT Crowd	Homeless lady
2013	TV series	Obsession: Dark Desires	Stalking neighbour
2013–2017	TV series	Man Down	Shakira
2014	Feature film	Gold	Rosie
2014	TV series	In the Club	Annette Harris
2014	Feature film	The Riot Club	Police officer 2
2014	Feature film	Chewing Gum Blap	Mary
2014	Short	Counting Backwards	Flo Brown
2015	Feature film	Hector	Chiropodist
2016	Feature film	David Brent: Life on the Road	Mo
2016	Feature film	Bridget Jones's Baby	Midwife
2017	Short	Double Act	Casting Director
2017	TV series	Decline and Fall	Lady Circumference
2017–2020	TV series	This Country	Mandy Harris
2018	Short	Relativity	Mrs Ryder
2018	Short	Little Shit	Mum
2018	Feature film	Solo: A Star Wars Story	Lodge Human Trainer (uncredited)
2018	TV series	Wanderlust	Janet Malherbe
2018–2019	TV series	EastEnders	Bev Slater
2019	Feature film	The Hustle	Policewoman
2019	Feature film	Eternal Beauty	Jean (uncredited)
2019	Feature film	The Gentlemen	Maureen
2020–2024	TV series	Malory Towers	Matron Kathleen
2020	TV film	Small Axe – Alex Wheatle	Cook
2020	TV series	Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After	Mayoress
2021	TV series	It's a Sin	Lorraine Fletcher
2021	TV series	Angela Black	Judy
2022	TV series	This Is Going to Hurt	Ms Vicky Houghton
2023	Feature film	Northern Comfort	Esther
2023	TV series	The Change	Bernadette

References

1. "Meet the cast of BBC One's This Is Going to Hurt". Radio Times. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
2. "Ashley McGuire". www.nationaltheatre.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
3. "Meet the cast of Sky One's Jack in the Beanstalk: After Ever After". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
4. Allcock, Beth (20 September 2018). "EastEnders: Hayley Slater's mum Bev's real identity exposed by fans as Ashley McGuire makes shock Walford entrance". OK! . Reach plc. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
5. "Donmar Warehouse all female Henry IV 'commendable'". BBC News. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
6. "Ashley McGuire - Wireless Theatre". www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
7. Millward, Tom (8 June 2016). "Donmar Warehouse Autumn/Winter Season 2014-2015". London Theatre Guide. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
8. Web, UK Theatre. "I'll Always Think Of You That Way (Play) archive [PLAY]". UK Theatre Web. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
9. "Theatre review: Charged 1 at Soho Theatre". British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
10. Woddis, Carole (2011). "Theatre Uncut Reviews". Reviews Gate. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
11. Hutton, Dan (28 August 2013). "Shifting perspectives". Exeunt Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
12. "Henry IV review – a welcome change from male-dominated Shakespeare". The Guardian. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
13. Shenton, Mark (8 June 2016). "Henry IV - RSC 2014". London Theatre Guide. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
14. "Review: Our Country's Good, National Theatre ✭✭✭". British Theatre. 27 August 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
15. "Our Country's Good (National Theatre, Olivier) | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
16. "an oak tree at Temporary Theatre in front of the National 2015". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
17. Hitchings, Henry (23 May 2015). "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire theatre review: vision of English". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
18. "Review: National Theatre presents The Suicide - disability arts online". www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
19. Gurtler, Camilla (17 April 2016). "Review: The Suicide, National Theatre". A Younger Theatre. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
20. Yates, Peter (12 July 2019). "Shopping And F***ing at The Lyric Hammersmith – Review". London Theatre 1. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
21. "Hir, Bush Theatre review – transgender home is sub-prime". theartsdesk.com. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
22. "Hir - Review". www.theamerican.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
23. "A handsome revival of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls at the National Theatre, London". www.ft.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2021.

External links

• Ashley McGuire at IMDb