The Good Times Are Killing Me
In May 2008 my agent called and said: “You’re not going to believe this. Shaftesbury are looking for an actress who can play an alcoholic from Birmingham.” I said: “If I don’t get this part, shoot me. Just bloody shoot me.” I was sent the original script by a fellow Brit and fantastic tv and film writer Cris Cole. After I’d read it I wanted the role more than anything I’d ever gone up for. I put on my best pikey tracksuit, shazzed my hair up and...
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries
For my first tv job in Canada, “Murdoch Mysteries” was a doozy! I appeared in the episode “Belly Speaker” as Victorian floozy Emmy Paulk whose alcoholic lover is murdered. Her husband (who has a hook for a hand) is a suspect. Another fine example of classy broad acting (see “The Good Times are Killing Me“) using the powers of my mighty chest and with the assistance of a bang-on make-up job (check out the teeth and the hickey – nice). Yannick Bisson, who...
Read MoreMarilla who?
I am a British-born actress and stand-up comic who does lots of voice work (for commercials, cartoons and corporate clients) and sometimes, when I'm very lucky, tv and film. When I was in England I did mostly theatre. Now I'm in Canada I spend the majority of the time writing and performing stand-up. When I'm not making episodes of Talking Bollocks, that is. And that's me for you.