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Season 2, Episode 2
Ex-EastEnders star Jill Halfpenny and sitcom actor Brian Murphy guest star in the sketch show, featuring Catherine Tate as an assortment of bizarre characters
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Movie/Drama
Sketches
Cast & Crew
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Jill Halfpenny
(Actor)
.. Gina
Brian Murphy
(Actor)
.. Neville
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Derren Litten
(Writer)
More Information
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.
Jill Halfpenny
(Actor)
.. Gina
Born:
July 15, 1975
in
Gateshead
Best Known For:
Playing Kate in EastEnders.
Early-life:
Born July 15, 1975, in Gateshead. She doesn't come from a theatrical background - her dad was a builder and her mum a classroom assistant - and says she has no idea where her love of acting came from. But she's been doing it from an early age; she attended classes at First Act Theatre in Gosforth and began appearing in Byker Grove, alongside Ant and Dec, at the age of 13.
Career:
After quitting Byker Grove in 1992, Halfpenny took a break from TV for five years, eventually returning with a role in The Bill. Small parts in Birds of a Feather, Heartbeat and Peak Practice followed before she began playing Rebecca in Coronation Street in 1999. A year later, the character left Weatherfield having broken up Martin Platt's marriage to Gail. In 2002 she began a three-year stint as Kate, who married Phil Mitchell, in EastEnders. Since then Halfpenny has popped up in Inspector George Gently, Waterloo Road, Wild at Heart and Mount Pleasant. She was also Strictly Come Dancing champion in 2004 and has appeared in several acclaimed stage productions, including Calendar Girls and Legally Blonde.
Quote:
'Actors are always frustrated by the lack of versatility of the casting people who see you for roles. They do pigeonhole you.'
Trivia:
Her neice, Chelsea, is also an actress and had a three-year stint in Emmerdale.
Brian Murphy
(Actor)
.. Neville
Born:
September 25, 1933
in
Isle of Wight
Best Known For:
Playing George Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Early-life:
Brian was born on the Isle of Wight on September 25, 1933. During his national service at RAF Northwood, he met future actor Richard Briers. On leaving the RAF, Brian and Richard performed in productions by the Dramatic Society at what is now London South Bank University. Brian was also a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, with Yootha Joyce. During the 1960s and the early 1970s, Brian made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including The Avengers, Z Cars, Sez Les, Callan, and Dixon of Dock Green.
Career:
Murphy's big break came in 1974 when he began playing George Roper alongside Joyce in the sitcom Man About the House. Joyce played his long-suffering wife Mildred. The popularity of Murphy and Joyce's characters led to them starring in their own spin-off sitcom George and Mildred. The hugely popular series ran on ITV for five series until 1979 and ended after Joyce died in 1980. Murphy and Joyce also starred in a stage version of George and Mildred and a spin-off movie. Murphy went on to star in The Incredible Mr Tanner, L for Lester, Lame Ducks, One Foot in the Grave, the Booze Cruise TV movies, Last of the Summer Wine, and The Cafe.
Quote:
'I was just coming up to 40 when Man About the House fell into my lap and turned everything around.'
Trivia:
Murphy and his wife, actress Linda Regan, have talked about their careers in An Audience with Linda Regan and Brian Murphy.
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
Derren Litten
(Writer)
