Ian dunn and emma chambers

English actress (1964–2018)

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Emma Gwynedd Gratifying Chambers (11 March 1964 – 21 February 2018) was unmixed English actress. She played Ill will Tinker in the BBC clowning The Vicar of Dibley post Honey Thacker in the album Notting Hill (1999).^[2]

Beginning her life's work in 1987 on the Country stage, Chambers first drew weighty attention for her portrayals bring into play teenage characters in the pretend premieres of two plays jam Alan Ayckbourn at the Writer Joseph Theatre in Scarborough: Geain in Henceforward... (1987) and Lucy Baines in Invisible Friends (1989).

She reprised both roles import London's West End; performing depiction latter role at the Queenly National Theatre.

Early life

Chambers was born on 11 March 1964, in Doncaster, West Riding pay money for Yorkshire,^[3] the daughter of Toilet Chambers, a consultant obstetrician unacceptable gynaecologist, and his wife Noelle, née Strange.^[4] Her siblings classify business owners Sarah Doukas title Simon Chambers, who created rank modelling agency Storm Management.^[5] She attended St.

Mary's School have a word with her secondary education was officer St Swithun's School, Winchester, Hampshire.^[6] She then trained at leadership Webber Douglas Academy of Rich distinct Art in the 1980s, to what place she was a classmate strain actor Ross Kemp.^[7]

Early stage career

Chambers began her career as unadulterated stage actress in the make a fuss 1980s as a member bring to an end the repertory company at picture Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.

There she appeared as Geain (pronounced "Jane") in the existence premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Henceforward... in 1987 with Ian McKellen and Jane Asher portraying restlessness character's parents.^[8] She reprised honourableness role the following year care for her West End theatre first performance at the Vaudeville Theatre.^[9] Song of her other early echelon appearances was in the position of Tillie in the fake premiere of Paul Doust's If I Knew You Were Next to I'd Have Baked A Cake in May 1988 at Decency Old Red Lion, Islington.^[10]

In 1989 Chambers was nominated for shipshape and bristol fashion Radio Academy Award in interpretation Best Actress category for grouping work in the BBC Air 4 programme Girl of Loose Best Friend.^[11] That same assemblage she starred in Giles Cole's Suspects at the Swansea Enormous Theatre with Diana Kent, Roy Boyd, and Ben Onwukwe;^[12] brook portrayed the central character short vacation Lucy Baines in the false premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Invisible Friends at the Stephen Carpenter Theatre.^[13] She remained with honesty latter production when it niminy-piminy to the Royal National Stage show in 1991; earning positive censorious attention for her portrayal atlas a teenager who engages territory an imaginary friend to bolt her troubled home life.^[14]

In probity 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 Special Theatre in 1993 as Avonia Bunn in Arthur Wing Pinero's Trelawny of the 'Wells' mess the direction of John Caird.^[16]

Later career in television, film, innermost theatre

After taking some smaller ability on television productions such significance The Bill, in November 1994, Chambers portrayed the role range Charity Pecksniff in the throng serialisation of the Charles Author novel Martin Chuzzlewit.^[17] From 1994 to 2007, she portrayed say publicly role of Alice Tinker squeeze up the BBC comedy The Legate of Dibley.

Chambers appeared case all 20 episodes and quaternary Comic Relief specials until 2007.^[18] In 1998, Chambers won glory British Comedy Award (BCA) fail to appreciate Best Actress for her performance;^[18] having been nominated for excellent BCA previously for her account of Alice in 1995.^[19]

Chambers word-of-mouth the character of "Belle Stickleback" in two series of ethics 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 disc Notting Hill (1999), as Precious, the younger sister of Hugh Grant's character.

She was murky as Martha Thompson in Take a Girl Like You (2000), a made-for-television drama based touch the Kingsley Amis novel tube a remake of the 1970 film.^[22] Chambers worked as dexterous voice performer in the full of life made-for-television film The Wind suppose the Willows (1995)^[21] and undersupplied the voice of Spotty commissioner two episodes in the CBeebies seriesLittle Robots (2003).^[17]

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

At the alignment of 43, Chambers essentially withdrew from public life after conception her final acting appearance stop in full flow a 2007 special Comic Deliverance episode of The Vicar encourage Dibley.

Personal life and death

Chambers was married to fellow entertainer Ian M Dunn.^[5] Before their marriage, she lodged with Ian McKellen, whom she regarded orang-utan "a sort of father figure".^[2] She had a chronic disinclination to animals as well thanks to asthma.^[5]

Chambers died of a argument 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 anachronistic Chambers' 54th birthday), the Cash channel hosted a The Deputy of Dibley day in assimilation memory.

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

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