Miranda Hart

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Miranda Hart (2011)

Miranda Katharine Hart Dyke (* 14. December 1972 in Torquay , England ) is a British actress , writer and stand-up - cabaret . She gave the BBC - sitcom Miranda its name, the actress and screenwriter she is. She hosts her own show on BBC radio called Miranda Hart's Joke Shop . Since 2012, she enters her first major serious role in the BBC series Call the Midwife - call of life as Camilla "Chummy" Fortescue-Cholmondeley-Browne on, a midwife , which in the 1950s from the impoverished London 's East End in the missionary work moves to Africa .

Life

Miranda Hart in 1972 in Torquay in the southwestern English county of Devon , the daughter of Royal Navy born -Offiziers David Hart Dyke and his wife Diana Margaret Luce and grew up in Petersfield in Hampshire on. Her father was in command of the warship HMS Coventry , which was sunk by Argentine aircraft in the Falklands War . Hart studied politics at the University of the West of England in Bristol , graduated and went to the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts . In 2002 she was on stage for the first time in Edinburgh with her own comedy show. In 2004 she applied for a cabaret show on the BBC.

Hart has appeared in numerous English television series, including Hyperdrive - Der Knall im All (BBC), Absolutely Fabulous , William and Mary , Smack the Pony , Not Going Out , Stupid! , Angelos and Comic Relief does Fame Academy . In 2008 she recorded the pilot for her own show Miranda . The sitcom is one of the most popular of its kind in England and has won several awards.

On June 4, 2012, Hart was co-host of the Diamond Jubilee Concert , which took place in the garden of Buckingham Palace on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II . In 2014 she had her first major gig in the UK and Ireland .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Miranda Hart  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Births England and Wales from 1837 to 2006 . Findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  2. Miranda Hart - TV's queen of uncool
  3. Miranda Hart stands head and shoulders above the rest The Times 2-Nov-2009
  4. Comic Hard Booted Out of Academy , BBC News. March 8, 2007. Retrieved June 22, 2009. 
  5. The best television for autumn 2009 The Sunday Times 16-Aug-2009
  6. ^ Triumphs, failures and Mandelson by John Lloyd, FT 27-Nov-2010
  7. Miranda Hart: My, What I Call, Live Show , accessed March 9, 2020