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Season 2, Episode 5
Paul Whitehouse appears as Sam's dad in the comedy sketch show, while Elaine Figgis turns to the internet to find her perfect partner
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16x9
audio-description
Movie/Drama
Sketches
Cast & Crew
Catherine Tate
(Actor)
.. Various characters
Paul Whitehouse
(Actor)
.. Sam's dad
Derren Litten
(Writer)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
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.
Paul Whitehouse
(Actor)
.. Sam's dad
Born:
May 17, 1958
in
Cardiff
Best Known For:
The Fast Show.
Early-life:
Born on May 17, 1958, in Cardiff. He spent his first four years in the Rhondda Valley before his family moved to Enfield in north London. His father worked for the coal board, his mother however was an opera singer. He was a punk while a student at the University of East Anglia, where he met Charlie Higson, but dropped out after a year and moved back to London. He worked for Hackney Council and then became a plasterer.
Career:
Whitehouse and Higson later moved in together on a London housing estate where they met Harry Enfield. When the latter's comedy character Stavros took off in the late 1980s, the pair were asked to write for him. Whitehouse also wrote for Vic Reeves, and took inspiration for other characters from the people he worked with in the building trade. He and Higson later devised the award-winning Fast Show. Since then he's been dubbed the world's greatest actor by friend and fan Johnny Depp. Other projects include Jumpers for Goalposts, Happiness, Help, Kevin and Perry Go Large, Harry and Paul, and Bellamy's People.
Quote:
'I love what I do and get really well paid for it. I haven't got any grand design for my career, but I do put a lot of effort into it.'
Trivia:
He supports Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Derren Litten
(Writer)
Geoffrey Perkins
(Producer)
Gordon Anderson
(Director)
