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Season 1, Episode 1
First edition of the comedy sketch show, featuring the comedian as an assortment of quirky and oddball characters, including a woman frightened of her own shadow, the wife of a cannibal on death row, a couple with a unique approach to parenting, an Irish nurse who will not let patients come between her and her twin passions, and a teenager who would rather be right than happy. From February 2004
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16x9
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Movie/Drama
Sketches
Cast & Crew
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Derren Litten
(Writer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Born:
May 12, 1968
in
London
Best Known For:
The Catherine Tate Show and Doctor Who.
Early-life:
Born Catherine Ford on May 12, 1968, in London, she was raised in the distinctive and iconic Bloomsbury Centre by her florist mother Josephine. Catherine has revealed that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. She attended Notre Dame High School for Girls, then the Sylvia Young Theatre School and later graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama and Royal National Theatre. She also spent a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Career:
Tate's TV career began with small parts in serial dramas Casualty and The Bill, while her comedy talent was nurtured on The Harry Hill Show, Big Train, That Peter Kay Thing and Wild West, a series she made while pregnant. As well as her critically acclaimed comedy series The Catherine Tate Show, she has also appeared in Bleak House, on the West End stage and in the US version of The Office. The comedienne acquired a new set of fans when she became Doctor Who assistant Donna Noble; she reunited with co-star David Tennant in Much Ado About Nothing in London's West End during the summer of 2011.
Quote:
Of her Doctor Who appearance, she joked: 'I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job this'll do.'
Trivia:
Tate is the patron of the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
Derren Litten
(Writer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
