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Born | 1975 (age 48–49) Richmond upon Thames, England |
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Occupation | Actress |
Margaret Alice Cabourn-Smith (born 1975) is an English comedy actress and podcaster with appearances on Catastrophe , The IT Crowd , Psychoville , Peep Show , Fresh Meat, Motherland , Daddy Issues and Cheaters .
Her TV work includes playing regular characters on Miranda , Katy Brand's Big Ass Show , Lab Rats , In and Out of The Kitchen and Father Figure .
She played Crimson in Disney Channel's The Evermoor Chronicles . [1]
Her radio work includes many of The Penny Dreadfuls' plays, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme . [2] The Now Show , Sarah Millican's Support Group, The Maltby Collection , [3] [4] Bigipedia , Newsjack , Dilemma, Another Case of Milton Jones , Life in London, The Headset Set and 1966 and All That . She was also one of the team captains on the comedy podcast Do The Right Thing .
Stage work includes Di & Viv & Rose at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Spike (Watermill Theatre and national tour), Angus, Thongs & Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012) and Gutted (Assembly Rooms, 2010)
She writes for online magazine Standard Issue. She is married to comedy writer and actor Dan Tetsell.
In July 2021, she appeared as Leyla in BBC Radio 4's The Archers . [5]
Her podcast Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith, where she interviews funny people such as Sue Perkins, Dolly Alderton, Rosie Jones, Nish Kumar, Elizabeth Day, and Sarah Millican about unrequited love started in 2022 and has had over a million downloads.
It was listed in The Guardian as one of the best podcasts of all time. [6]
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Reeson Wayne "Reece" Shearsmith is an English actor, writer and comedian. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. He has had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End.
Sarah Jane Millican is an English comedian, writer and presenter. Millican won the comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In February 2013 she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and in the same year she married fellow comedian Gary Delaney. Her first book, How to Be Champion, was published in 2017. Millican has performed on various tours, mainly across the United Kingdom, over the years.
The Penny Dreadfuls are a British sketch comedy troupe consisting of comedians Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck, often supported by Margaret Cabourn-Smith. The troupe are best known for writing and performing The Brothers Faversham and The Penny Dreadfuls Present..., comic plays on BBC Radio 4.
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Carrie Quinlan is a British actress and comedy writer, known for her work in theatre, television and radio. She is best known for John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, and played the lead in Agendum on BBC Radio 4.
Dan Tetsell is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now, Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
John David Finnemore is a British comedy writer and actor. He wrote and performed in the radio series Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, and John Finnemore's Double Acts, and frequently features in other BBC Radio 4 comedy shows such as The Now Show. Finnemore has won more Comedy.co.uk awards than any other writer, and two of his shows appear in the top ten of the Radio Times' list of greatest ever radio comedies.
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Dolly Alderton is a British journalist, author and podcaster. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times. Her memoir Everything I Know About Love won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards, and adapted into a BBC/Peacock eponymous television drama series.
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