Caroline Quentin
| Caroline Quentin | |
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| Born | June 11 1961  Reigate, Surrey, England |
Caroline Quentin née Jones, (born June 11, 1961, in Reigate, Surrey) is an award-winning English actress.
Biography
Career
Quentin has had an extensive television and acting career and has become a very well-known actress. Her early work included appearing on the stage when she was in the chorus of the original cast of Les Misérables. Quentin became well-known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for many years.
In July 1996, Quentin released a single, a cover of
Quentin has also appeared in the 2001 telemovie Hot Money, which was based on the true story of the theft of hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Bank of England. In 1998 came the first sitcom to be built around Quentin herself, Kiss Me Kate. At the British Comedy Awards in 2004, Quentin won the "Best Comedy Actress" award for her performance in Von Trapped and in the same year, she started the major role of Maggie Mee in the popular drama Life Begins, which returned for a third series in 2006.
ITV has also commissioned a third series of Blue Murder, in which Quentin plays the main character, DCI Janine Lewis. The pilot aired in the UK on 18th May, 2003. [1]
She has also appeared in various series such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and the BBC Radio 4 improvisational comedy series The Masterson Inheritance.
Personal life
Quentin married comedian Paul Merton in 1990, but they separated in 1997 and were divorced in 1998. She married Sam Farmer on September 8, 2006 in Tiverton, Devon. They met in 1999 on the set of Jonathan Creek, where Farmer was a runner. They have two children, Emily (born 1999) and William (born 2003). Caroline has a home in Walberswick in Suffolk.
Selected filmography
- Men Behaving Badly (1992 - 1998)
- Jonathan Creek (1997 - 2000)
- Hot Money (2001)
- Von Trapped (2004)
- Footprints in the Snow (2005)
- Life Begins (2004 - 2006)
- Blue Murder (2003 - 2006)
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