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Lauren may be a name or surname. The name's meaning may be "Laurel tree", "sweet of honor" or "victory of wisdom".

Given name[link]

• Lauren Alaina (born 1994), American singer and former 'American Idol' 10 contestant
• Lauren Albanese (born 1989), American professional tennis player
• Lauren Anderson (born 1980), American model and Playboy Playmate
• Lauren Bacall (born 1924), American actress
• Lauren Barlow, member of Christian rock band Barlow Girl
• Lauren Boquette (born 1992), current singer for the band SiX
• Lauren Bosworth (born 1986), also known as Lo Bosworth, American appearing in the reality TV shows Laguna Beach and The Hills
• Lauren Boyle (born 1987), New Zealand swimmer
• Lauren Brooke, author
• Lauren Bush-Lauren (born 1984), American model, niece to former President George W. Bush, daughter-in-law to fashion designer Ralph Lauren
• Lauren Cheney (born 1987), American soccer player
• Lauren Child (born 1965), British author and illustrator
• Lauren Christy, English-born singer and songwriter
• Lauren Cohan (born 1982), American actress
• Lauren Cohn, newsreader
• Lauren Collins (born 1986), Canadian actress best known for her role on Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Lauren Colthorpe (born 1985), Australian Association Football player
• Lauren Conrad (born 1986), (, American reality television star known for her role on The Hills
• Lauren Crace (born 1986), British actress
• Lauren Embree (born 1991), American tennis player
• Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), footballer
• Lauren Faust (born 1974), Emmy-nominated American animator and creator of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• Lauren Gale (1917–1996), American basketball player
• Lauren German (born 1978), actress
• Lauren Gold (born 1980), English fashion model and actress
• Lauren Graham (born 1967), American actress
• Lauren Greenfield (born 1966), American artist / documentary photographer
• Lauren Harries (born 1978), child actor
• Lauren Hewitt (born 1978), Australian track and field
• Lauren Hill (disambiguation), Playboy playmate
• Lauren Hoffman (born 1977), American singer
• Lauren Holly (born 1963), American actress
• Lauren Hutton (born 1943), former model
• Lauren Jackson (born 1981), Australian basketball player
• Lauren Jones (born 1982), American actress
• Lauren Koslow (born 1953), actress
• Lauren Lanning (born 1983), Miss Texas 2006
• Lauren Lappin (born 1984), American softball player
• Lauren Laverne (born 1978), British disc jockey
• Lauren London (born 1984), American actress known for her role in ATL
• Lauren Luke (born 1981), English makeup artist and Internet Mogul
• Lauren McAvoy (born 1987), British fashion model and winner of cycle 3 of Britain's Next Top Model
• Lauren MacMullan (born 1971), animation director best known for her work on King of the Hill
• Lauren Maltby (born 1984), American actress
• Lauren Mitchell (born 1991), gymnast
• Lauren Myracle (born 1969), author
• Lauren Nelson (born 1986), Miss American 2007
• Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (born 1993), American actress
• Lauren Phoenix (born 1979), Canadian female porn star
• Lauren Samuels (born 1988), British actress & singer
• Lauren Sánchez (born 1969), American news anchor
• Lauren Shuler Donner (born 1949), American producer
• Lauren Slater (born 1963), Writer and psychologist
• Lauren Socha (born 1990), British actress
• Lauren Lee Smith (born 1980), Canadian actress
• Lauren Stamile (born 1976), American actress
• Lauren Tewes (born 1954), American actress best known for her role in TV's The Love Boat
• Lauren Tom (born 1961), American actress best known for her role in The Joy Luck Club
• Lauren Vélez (born 1964), Puerto Rican actress
• Lauren Wenger (born 1984), water polo player
• Lauren Weinstein (activist), activist concerned with matters involving technology
• Lauren Weinstein (comics) (born 1975), American comic book artist
• Lauren Wood, American singer
• Lauren Woodland (born 1977), American actress
• Lauren Young (born 1993), actress

Fictional characters[link]

• Lauren Andrews, in Waterloo Road
• Lauren Fenmore Baldwin, in 'The Young and the Restless
• Lauren Branning, in EastEnders
• Lauren Cooper, in The Catherine Tate Show
• Lauren Frost (born 1985), heroine in the series Bloom
• Lauren Reed, in the television show Alias
• Lauren "Lo" Ridgemount, in the Canadian animated series Stoked
• Lauren Valentine, in Hollyoaks
• Lauren Waters, in Britannia High
• Lauren Zizes, in Glee
• Lauren Lewis, in the Canadian television series Lost Girl

Other uses[link]

• Penn, North Dakota, also known as Lauren, an unincorporated community
• Lauren (perfume), a Ralph Lauren fragrance

See also[link]

• Laura (given name)
• Laurin (disambiguation)
• Laureano (disambiguation)

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Troian Avery Bellisario (born October 28, 1985) is an American actress. She currently stars as Spencer Hastings in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars.

Career[link]

Bellisario made her acting debut in the 1988 film Last Rites at the age of three.^[1] From 1990 to 2007, she guest starred on Quantum Leap, Tequila and Bonetti, JAG, First Monday and NCIS, television series that were produced by her father Donald Bellisario. In 1998, she co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the film Billboard Dad. Beginning in 2006, Bellisario began appearing in a number of independent short films namely, Unspoken, Archer House and Intersect. In November 2009, Bellisario was cast as Spencer Hastings in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series of the same name by Sara Shepard.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Bellisario graduated from the University of Southern California.^[3] She is of African, English, French, Italian Danish and Serbian descent^[4][5] Bellisario is in a relationship with actor Patrick J. Adams.^[6]

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Troian Bellisario at the Internet Movie Database
• Troian Bellisario on Twitter

Jennifer Beals
Beals at a fan convention for The L Word in November 2008
Born	(1963-12-19) December 19, 1963 (age 48) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Actress Model (former)
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Alexandre Rockwell (m. 1986–1996; divorced) Ken Dixon (m. 1998–present; 1 child)

Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films.

Early life[link]

Beals was born on the southside of Chicago,^[1] the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores.^[2][3] She is biracial,^[4] as her father was African American and her mother is Irish American.^[5] She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.^[6] Her father died when Beals was nine years old,^[7] and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981.^[8] Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society".^[5] She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16.^[7]

Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre.^[9]

She graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School.^[10] Beals also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop.^[11] Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987;^[12] she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance.^[10] While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College.^[12]

Career[link]

Film[link]

Beals in Sweden, July 1983

Beals had a minor role in the 1980 film My Bodyguard,^[13] then came to fame with her starring part in Flashdance. The third-highest grossing U.S. film of 1983, Flashdance is the story of 18-year-old Alex, a welder by day and exotic dancer by night, whose dream is to be accepted someday at an illustrious school of dance. Beals was cast for this key role while still a student at Yale. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and the film received an Academy Award for Best Song. Many of Beals' elaborate dance moves were actually performed by stunt double Marine Jahan.^[14]

After she filmed Flashdance, she resumed her studies, making only one film during that time: playing the titular character The Bride with singer-actor Sting, a gothic horror film loosely based on the 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein^[15] shot during her summer break,^[16] and also appearing in the Cinderella episode of Faerie Tale Theatre.^[13] She was asked by Joel Schumacher to do St. Elmo's Fire but turned it down preferring to stay at Yale.^[17]

Starring opposite Nicolas Cage, the actress portrays a lusty and thirsty vampire in 1989's Vampire's Kiss.

In 1995, Beals and Denzel Washington co-starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, a period film based on a Walter Mosley novel featuring L.A. private detective, Easy Rawlins. Beals plays a biracial woman passing for white. That same year she appeared with Tim Roth in two segments of the four-story anthology Four Rooms, one of which was directed by her then-husband, Alexandre Rockwell.

Rockwell had previously directed her in the 1992 independent film In the Soup, which was a Grand Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival.^[18] In 2003, she played one of the sequestered jury members in the film adaptation of Runaway Jury.

She had a leading role in 2006's The Grudge 2, sequel to the hit horror film of two years earlier. In 2010, Beals reunited with Denzel Washington in the post-Apocalyptic action drama, The Book of Eli, where she played a blind woman who is the mother of Mila Kunis' character and a servant of Gary Oldman's.^[19]

Television[link]

In 1992, she appeared in 2000 Malibu Road as attorney Perry Quinn. It was her first ongoing television series; she said she had been leery as she previously had not "found a character I wanted to live with for several years".^[11]

Beals made a brief cameo in the final episode of Frasier. In 2007, she appeared in the small TV drama My Name Is Sarah, in which she plays Sarah Winston, a sober woman who joins Alcoholics Anonymous to conduct research for her book but finds herself falling in love with a recovering alcoholic and - as a result - having to deal with her original deception in joining the group.^{[citation needed]}

Beals starred in Showtime Network's The L Word, where she played Bette Porter, an Ivy League educated lesbian. At Beals' request, Bette was made biracial, enabling Pam Grier's Kit Porter character to become Bette's half-sister.^[20] She initially researched the part more in that the woman is the director of an art museum rather than a lesbian;^[21] "I was much more obsessed by the work that Bette did, because she was so obsessed by the work that she did."^[22] The series ran for six seasons and ended in March 2009.

She also appears alongside Tim Roth in Lie To Me, as Cal Lightman's ex-wife, Zoe Landau.

Beals is the female lead in Fox's TV drama The Chicago Code. Her character Teresa Colvin is Chicago's first female police superintendent.^[23] The series was canceled after its first season.^[24]

Beals turned down an offer to appear on Dancing with the Stars, saying: "I am not a dancer. They asked me and I said 'no.' You could back up a truck to my door filled with cash and I wouldn't do it."^[25]

Personal life[link]

Beals was married to Alexandre Rockwell from 1986 to 1996.^[5] In 1998, she married Ken Dixon, a Canadian entrepreneur.^[26] On October 18, 2005, Beals gave birth to their daughter. She is also stepmother to Dixon's two children from a previous marriage.^[27]

Beals has described herself as a "spiritual person".^[28] She has expressed interest in the Holy Bible, Roman Catholicism, and is a practicing Buddhist.^[29][30]

She has been a vocal advocate for gay rights saying "I think after playing Bette Porter on The L Word for six years I felt like an honorary member of the community."^[31] Beals was a Celebrity Grand Marshal at the 2006 San Francisco Pride Parade.^[32]

She is a photographer, who has had shows of her work under her married name, Dixon.^[33] She has a book about her time on The L Word featuring her own photographs.^[34] In 1989, she spent some time in Haiti photographing the elections.^[35]

In 2010, Beals served as the Grand Marshal of the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago.^[36] Beals spoke about two charities that she holds dear in her heart, the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Pablove.^[37]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate in 2008
Born	Catherine Ford (1968-05-12) 12 May 1968 (age 44) Bloomsbury, London, England
Residence	Richmond upon Thames, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actress, writer, comedienne
Years active	1990–present
Television	The Office Big Train Wild West The Catherine Tate Show Doctor Who
Partner	Twig Clark (until 2011)
Children	Erin Clark (born 2003)

Catherine Tate (born Catherine Ford on 12 May 1968)^[1] is an English actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTA Awards. Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who and later reprised her role, becoming the Doctor's companion for the fourth series in 2008.^[2] In 2011, she began a recurring role as Nellie Bertram on The Office.

Early life and education[link]

Tate was born in Bloomsbury and brought up in the Brunswick Centre.^[1] Her mother, Josephine, was a florist,^[3] and Tate has said that the character of Margaret in The Catherine Tate Show, who shrieks at the slightest of disturbances, is based largely on Josephine.^[1]

Tate never knew her father, as he left very early on in her life,^[1] and consequently, she was brought up in a female-dominated environment, being cared for by her mother, grandmother and her godparents.^[3] As a child, Tate suffered from an obsessive-compulsive disorder which centred on word association. For example, Tate was not able to leave a jumper on the floor or it might have brought misfortune to her mother whose name began with the letter "J" like jumper.^[1]

She attended St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Macklin Street, Holborn and Notre Dame High School, Southwark, a south London convent secondary school for girls.^[1] By the time Tate was a teenager, she knew she wanted to follow a professional acting career and was subsequently sent to a boys' Roman Catholic school, Salesian College in Battersea at the age of 16. The school had the necessary facilities for drama.^[3] Tate left school without sitting her A-Levels.^[4] She then tried for four years to get a place in the Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London), succeeding on her fourth attempt.^[4] She studied there for three years,^[3][4] and until the age of 26, lived in Holborn and Bloomsbury.^[3] Prior to getting a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Tate went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School, but left after a week; "Even at that age, I realised I wasn't Bonnie Langford. It was very competitive", she stated. ^[5]

Career[link]

Beginnings[link]

Tate began her television acting career with roles in serial dramas such as The Bill,^[4] and London's Burning.^[3] Tate started stand-up comedy in 1996,^[6] and has appeared in comedy series such as The Harry Hill Show, Barking and That Peter Kay Thing and a role in Men Behaving Badly.^[7] She played the part of Kate in the unaired pilot episode of sitcom Not Going Out alongside Lee Mack and Tim Vine.^[8] In 1998 she wrote and starred in Barking, a late night sketch show broadcast on Channel 4 and featuring a host of, back then, unknown stars such as David Walliams, Peter Kay and Mackenzie Crook.

Soon after, she became involved with Lee Mack's Perrier Comedy Award-nominated New Bits show at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2000.^[7] In 2001, she returned to the festival with her own sell-out one-woman show,^[6] which was followed by roles in Big Train,^[5] Attention Scum and TVGoHome.^[7] After being spotted at Edinburgh, she was given the role of Angela in the comedy, Wild West, with Dawn French,^[7] who commented "Catherine Tate is far too talented and she must be destroyed."^[5]

Tate has also performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company,^[5] and at the National Theatre.^[4] She acted the role of Smeraldina in a 2000 RSC production of A Servant to Two Masters, and another role in The Way of the World at the National Theatre.^[9]

2004–05[link]

Tate was approached at a post-show party at the Edinburgh Festival by then-BBC controller of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, who encouraged Tate to develop her character ideas, especially to push the boundaries with teenager Lauren Cooper. Undertaking Perkins' advice, after a live show Tate found the audience walking out of the show repeating the character's catchphrase Am I bovvered?^[10]

Produced by Perkins at Tiger Aspect, Tate was given her own programme on BBC Two in 2004, which she co-wrote and starred in with Derren Litten, entitled The Catherine Tate Show, which ran for three series.^[7] Two of the show's well-known characters are teenager Lauren Cooper and Joannie "Nan" Taylor, the cockney grandmother.^[5] Tate's inspiration for the cockney grandmother came from visits to old people's homes when she was at drama college.^[5] Tate won a British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Newcomer for her work on the first series of The Catherine Tate Show,^[11] and with the first series becoming a success, in March 2005, Tate made a guest appearance during the BBC's Comic Relief as the character of Lauren from The Catherine Tate Show, alongside boy-band McFly, which gained her further exposure.^[6]

In November 2005, Tate appeared in another charity sketch as part of the BBC's annual Children in Need telethon. The segment was a crossover between EastEnders and The Catherine Tate Show, featuring Eastenders characters Peggy Mitchell, Little Mo Mitchell and Stacey Slater, whilst Tate appeared as Lauren.^[12] Also at that time, she was a guest star at the 77th Royal Variety Performance and appeared again in the guise of Lauren Cooper. During the sketch, Tate looked up at the Royal Box and asked The Queen, "Is one bovvered? Is one's face bovvered?".^[13] She also commented during the sketch that Prince Philip had fallen asleep: "she is bling, but the old fella next to her is asleep!" He then reportedly complained to the show's executive producer, saying he had been insulted.^[1] Tate later won a British Comedy Award for Best British Comedy Actress for her work in the second series of The Catherine Tate Show.^[14] At the end of 2005, she appeared in the BBC television adaptation of Bleak House.^[15]

Tate returned to the stage for the first time since working with the RSC,^[16] to play a role in the 2005 West End revival of Some Girl(s), alongside Sara Powell, Lesley Manville, Saffron Burrows and Friends star David Schwimmer.^[17] In an interview, Tate commented that she could not look Schwimmer in the eye during her time with him, leading to speculation that the pair did not get on.^[4] Tate immediately denied the rumours, explaining that she was joking about her attempts to act "cool" around Schwimmer, whom she described as "a very funny, personable man, and easy to get along with".^[18]

2006–07[link]

The third series of The Catherine Tate Show aired in 2006, going on to win the National Television Award for most popular comedy as voted for by the public,^[19] and Tate's catchphrase "bovvered", used by her character Lauren Cooper, became so influential in popular culture that it was named Word of the Year and was even poised to enter the Oxford English Dictionary.^[20] Tate also played the role of Donna Noble in Doctor Who, a woman in a wedding dress who suddenly appears in the TARDIS at the end of the episode "Doomsday".^[21] The following episode, the Christmas special entitled "The Runaway Bride", saw Tate's character in a major role, where she was temporarily the Doctor's companion.^[21] On her appearance in the series, Tate commented "I'm honoured and delighted to be joining David Tennant aboard the TARDIS. I was holding out for a summer season at Wigan rep but as a summer job, this'll do."^[22]

Tate had roles in three films in 2006, these included, Starter for 10, Sixty Six,^[16] and Scenes of a Sexual Nature.^[1] She later appeared in the films Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution, in which she played the title character,^[16] and Love and Other Disasters.^[23]

In the 2007 television adaptation of the novel, The Bad Mother's Handbook, she played the lead role and co-starred with Anne Reid.^[24]

On 16 March 2007, Tate appeared for a second time on Comic Relief as some of her well-known characters from The Catherine Tate Show. She acted in sketches with David Tennant, Daniel Craig, Lenny Henry and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, who used the show's famous catchphrase, "Am I bovvered?"^[25] Tate also appeared as Joannie "Nan" Taylor in an episode of Deal or No Deal, hosted by Noel Edmonds.^[26]

Tate became a Patron of the performing arts group Theatretrain.

Late 2007–present[link]

Despite speculation that the third series of The Catherine Tate Show would be the last, Tate and the BBC have not ruled out further episodes.^[16] She later filmed a one-off special episode which aired on Christmas Day 2007.^[27] The episode was subject to criticism when 42 viewers complained about the amount of swearing, and accused Tate of bigotry over the depiction of a family from Northern Ireland as terrorists, whose Christmas presents included a balaclava and a pair of knuckle dusters, in reference to the Troubles.^[28] After the complaints were made, an Ofcom report later concluded that the show was not offensive and did not violate broadcasting regulations.^[29][30] An extract from the Ofcom report read "Overall this episode was typical of the Catherine Tate Show and would not have gone beyond the expectations of its usual audience. For those not familiar with the show, the information given at the start was adequate."^[31]

She has also been nominated for four BAFTA Awards for her work on The Catherine Tate Show to date, including Best Comedy Performance.^[32]

Tate returned to Doctor Who in 2008 to reprise the role of Donna Noble as the Doctor's companion throughout the fourth series, which was shown on BBC One starting on 5 April for a 13-week run.^[33] Producer Russell T Davies said, "We are delighted that one of Britain's greatest talents has agreed to join us for the fourth series." Tate added, "I am delighted to be returning to Doctor Who. I had a blast last Christmas and look forward to travelling again through time and space with that nice man from Gallifrey."^[2] At the TV Quick Awards 2008, Tate was voted best actress for her role in Doctor Who.^[34] She returned as Donna Noble in the two-part Doctor Who Christmas special "The End of Time" which was broadcast over Christmas 2009.^[35][36]

In 2008, she starred as Michelle, a 38-year-old promiscuous maths teacher, in David Eldridge's Under The Blue Sky at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, alongside Francesca Annis and Nigel Lindsay. Tate injured her ankle in rehearsal on 15 July. She tackled previews with the aid of a crutch.

On 11 April 2009, 26 December 2009 and 30 January 2010, Tate with David Tennant guest hosted Jonathan Ross' BBC Radio 2 show.

In 2009 she created a one off special spin off to her long running TV sketch show. Although this time the show only starred 'Nan'. In the show, Nan played Scrooge, and was visited by 3 ghosts, one of whom was played by David Tennant. The show was a one off Christmas special.

In 2010, Tate took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

Tate took part in a series of short comedy films called 'Little Crackers'.^[37]

Tate appeared as Queen Isabelle of Lilliput in the 2010 film adaptation of Gulliver's Travels.

On 18 March 2011, the video for Take That's new single "Happy Now" was debuted on Comic Relief. The video shows comedians Catherine Tate, Alan Carr, James Corden, John Bishop and David Walliams audition to become Take That's ultimate tribute band, Fake That. Filming took place at Ealing Studios on 17 February 2011.^[38]

Tate appeared alongside former co-star David Tennant in the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing at London's Wyndham's Theatre from 16 May to September 2011.^[39] For her performance – as Beatrice – Catherine won the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.^[40]

In the seventh season finale of The Office, which aired on 19 May 2011, Tate guest starred as Nellie Bertram, a potential replacement for the departing Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell).^[41][42]

On Saturday 17 December 2011, Tate presented the second episode of Channel 4's Laughing at the... series – entitled "Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties" – in which she met Alan Carr, David Walliams, Noel Fielding, Rob Brydon and (her Doctor Who co-star) David Tennant to discuss the comedy highlights of the noughties.^[43]

In January 2012, Tate returned to The Office for its eighth season. She reprised her role as Nellie, who was hired as a "misguided special projects manager".

Personal life[link]

Tate's former partner is stage manager Twig Clark. They have a daughter, Erin (born at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in January 2003), delivered following an emergency caesarean section.^[1] The family had a home in Richmond-upon-Thames, London. The family had both a cat and a dog, the latter of which was given to her by Jonathan Ross. Tate and Clark split before summer 2011. Tate has reportedly dated Take That's Jason Orange.^[44]

Tate is the patron for the Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust, supporting the charity since August 2006. In 2011 she took part in the charity's 2011 Charity Calendar^[45]

Tate suffered from postpartum depression,^[3] from which she only recovered after the filming of the second series of The Catherine Tate Show.^[1] She also suffers from occasional panic attacks.^[1] Regarding her personal outlook, Tate has said "I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral."^[3]

Awards and nominations[link]

All for her work on The Catherine Tate Show unless otherwise stated:

Awards[link]

• 2004: British Comedy Award — Best Comedy Newcomer
• 2006: RTS Television Award — Best Comedy Performance
• 2006: British Comedy Award – Best TV Comedy Actress
• 2007: National Television Awards — Most Popular Comedy Programme
• 2008: TV Quick Award — Best Actress in a Drama Series (for Doctor Who)^[46]

Nominations[link]

• 2004: British Comedy Award – Best TV Comedy Actress
• 2005: British Comedy Award – Best TV Comedy Actress
• 2005: British Comedy Award – People's Choice Award (polled most votes but award not received)^[47][48]
• 2005: International Emmy — Best Performance by an Actress^[49]
• 2005: BAFTA TV Award — Best New Writer
• 2005: BAFTA TV Award – Comedy Programme or Series Award
• 2006: BAFTA TV Award – Best Comedy Performance
• 2007: BAFTA TV Award – Best Comedy Programme
• 2008: Nickelodeon's UK Kids Choice Awards 2008 – Funniest Person
• 2008: Nickelodeon's UK Kids Choice Awards 2008 – Best TV Actress (for Doctor Who)
• 2008: National Television Award – Outstanding Drama Performance (for Doctor Who)
• 2011: BAFTA TV Award – Catherine Tate's Little Cracker

Filmography[link]

Television and film[link]

Theatre[link]

Radio and CD audio drama[link]

References[link]