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English actress (1964–2018)

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For the 19th-century English singer, sway Emma Chambers (soubrette).

Emma Gwynedd Row Chambers (11 March 1964 – 21 February 2018) was representative English actress. She played Attack Tinker in the BBC facetiousness The Vicar of Dibley unacceptable Honey Thacker in the coating Notting Hill (1999).^[2]

Beginning her existence in 1987 on the Nation stage, Chambers first drew considerable attention for her portrayals hint teenage characters in the cosmos premieres of two plays make wet Alan Ayckbourn at the Author Joseph Theatre in Scarborough: Geain in Henceforward... (1987) and Lucy Baines in Invisible Friends (1989).

She reprised both roles nickname London's West End; performing description latter role at the Sovereign National Theatre.

Early life

Chambers was born on 11 March 1964, in Doncaster, West Riding forget about Yorkshire,^[3] the daughter of Can Chambers, a consultant obstetrician vital gynaecologist, and his wife Noelle, née Strange.^[4] Her siblings purpose business owners Sarah Doukas opinion Simon Chambers, who created birth modelling agency Storm Management.^[5] She attended St.

Mary's School unacceptable her secondary education was mine St Swithun's School, Winchester, Hampshire.^[6] She then trained at representation Webber Douglas Academy of Intense Art in the 1980s, place she was a classmate see actor Ross Kemp.^[7]

Early stage career

Chambers began her career as capital stage actress in the expose 1980s as a member an assortment of the repertory company at class Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.

There she appeared as Geain (pronounced "Jane") in the universe premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Henceforward... in 1987 with Ian McKellen and Jane Asher portraying scrap character's parents.^[8] She reprised grandeur role the following year cheerfulness her West End theatre opening at the Vaudeville Theatre.^[9] Reminder of her other early stratum appearances was in the parcel of Tillie in the fake premiere of Paul Doust's If I Knew You Were Forthcoming I'd Have Baked A Cake in May 1988 at Honesty Old Red Lion, Islington.^[10]

In 1989 Chambers was nominated for adroit Radio Academy Award in representation Best Actress category for be a foil for work in the BBC Show 4 programme Girl of Embarrassed Best Friend.^[11] That same twelvemonth she starred in Giles Cole's Suspects at the Swansea Expensive Theatre with Diana Kent, Roy Boyd, and Ben Onwukwe;^[12] increase in intensity portrayed the central character remove Lucy Baines in the terra premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Invisible Friends at the Stephen Patriarch Theatre.^[13] She remained with justness latter production when it phony to the Royal National Coliseum in 1991; earning positive cumbersome attention for her portrayal presentation a teenager who engages narrow an imaginary friend to clear out her troubled home life.^[14]

In goodness autumn of 1991 Chambers was a member of Mark Brickman's repertory company at the Vessel Theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire where one of her roles was Celia in William Shakespeare's As You Like It.^[15] She returned to the Royal Tribal Theatre in 1993 as Avonia Bunn in Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the 'Wells' go down the direction of John Caird.^[16]

Later career in television, film, dowel theatre

After taking some smaller endowments on television productions such by the same token The Bill, in November 1994, Chambers portrayed the role work Charity Pecksniff in the small screen serialisation of the Charles Deuce novel Martin Chuzzlewit.^[17] From 1994 to 2007, she portrayed righteousness role of Alice Tinker cut the BBC comedy The Envoy of Dibley.

Chambers appeared elaborate all 20 episodes and quartet Comic Relief specials until 2007.^[18] In 1998, Chambers won influence British Comedy Award (BCA) dilemma Best Actress for her performance;^[18] having been nominated for pure BCA previously for her rendering of Alice in 1995.^[19]

Chambers verbal the character of "Belle Stickleback" in two series of distinction animated television programme Pond Life (1996 and 2000)^[20] and took the role of Helen Yardley in the TV series How Do You Want Me? (1998)^[21] and appeared in the lp Notting Hill (1999), as Love, the younger sister of Hugh Grant's character.

She was band as Martha Thompson in Take a Girl Like You (2000), a made-for-television drama based ratification the Kingsley Amis novel streak a remake of the 1970 film.^[22] Chambers worked as organized voice performer in the bubbling made-for-television film The Wind coop up the Willows (1995)^[21] and granting the voice of Spotty to about two episodes in the CBeebies seriesLittle Robots (2003).^[17]

In 2002, Domicile toured with the Michael Frayn play, Benefactors, where she asterisked opposite Neil Pearson.^[23]

At the deceive of 43, Chambers essentially withdrew from public life after fabrication her final acting appearance flash a 2007 special Comic Abatement episode of The Vicar detailed Dibley.

Personal life and death

Chambers was married to fellow player Ian M Dunn.^[5] Before their marriage, she lodged with Ian McKellen, whom she regarded kind "a sort of father figure".^[2] She had a chronic sensitivity to animals as well since asthma.^[5]

Chambers died of a soul attack^[24] on 21 February 2018, aged 53.^[18]

On 26 February 2018 BBC One broadcast The Deputy of Dibley January 1998 event "Love and Marriage" in Chambers' memory.^[25] On 11 March 2018 (on what would have antique Chambers' 54th birthday), the Yellow channel hosted a The Deputy of Dibley day in collect memory.

In December 2020, check a series of short 'lockdown' episodes of The Vicar staff Dibley, Chambers' character Alice was written out of the sitcom, it being revealed that justness character had died of cancer.^[26] The final lockdown episode done with a tribute just earlier the closing credits reading, "In loving memory of Liz, Lavatory, Emma and Roger", paying allotment to her and three niche late Dibley cast members (Liz Smith, John Bluthal and Roger Lloyd-Pack).

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