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Tamsin Greig is a British actress. She has a long-running part as Debbie Aldridge in the BBC radio soap opera The Archers but is probably best known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing. Greig also guest starred in three episodes of the radio version of Absolute Power.

In 2004 she appeared in the movie Shaun of the Dead
and in 2005 she appeared in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who in the episode The Long Game both of which also featured Simon Pegg. Most recently she has starred in the BBC comedy drama series Love Soup, as Alice Chenery, a role specifically written for her by David Renwick.

She graduated in drama from the University of Birmingham. She has worked for the Family Planning Association in admin. She has a Scottish and Jewish ethnic heritage. When she was 30, she found Christianity, saying in an interview with the Sunday Times on the 19th March 2006, entitled : "When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it’s all about artifice and manipulation. But we’re living in a world where God doesn’t really have an influence, unless it’s fundamentalists, so I’ll always be an outsider because of my faith. And when you think about it, faith and acting are all about stories, so the two are not mutually exclusive."

She has stated that she is often mistaken for Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of the band Texas, for the impressionist Ronni Ancona and for comedian Sue Perkins.

She is married to actor Richard Leaf, who she met on the set of the 1996 adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and has three children.

She is also a stage performer. In April 2006 she is playing Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works project.

She lists Smack the Pony and Cannon and Ball as her biggest comedy influences.

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