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Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman (born 30 January 1974)[1] is an English actress. She has won three BAFTA Awards, three BIFA Awards, one Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award.
Colman was born in north Norfolk, to a nurse mother and a chartered surveyor father.[4][5] She was educated at two independent schools, Norwich High School for Girls in Norwich and Gresham’s School in Holt. Her first role was Jean Brodie in a school production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at age 16. She then realised acting was what she wanted to do.[6] Colman went on to spend a term studying primary teaching at Homerton College, Cambridge. During this time, at the age of 20,[7] she attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School which she graduated from in 1999 and also auditioned for the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and first met future co-stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb, as well as Peter Serafinowicz.
Television and radio:- Colman has appeared in roles in numerous BBC, ITV and Channel 4 television programmes, such as Bruiser, People Like Us, Look Around You, Black Books, The Office, The Time of Your Life and provided the voice-over for Five’s poll for Britain’s Funniest Comedy Character. She regularly features in BBC Radio 4 comedies, such as Concrete Cow, Think the Unthinkable, The House of Milton Jones and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. She is also the voice of Minka, the Polish secretary in the Radio 4 comedy Hut 33, set in a fictional codebreaking hut of the real-life Bletchley Park during World War II. Colman appeared as Bev, alongside Mark Burdis as Kev, in a series of television adverts for AA car insurance. She provided voices for the Andrex “be kind to your behind” adverts and Glade fragrance adverts, where her character is a gorilla. She has worked with the comedians Mitchell and Webb on several projects. Colman met the duo when they were all students at Cambridge University. She has appeared with them in numerous TV and radio series, such as radio’s That Mitchell and Webb Sound, and the television version That Mitchell and Webb Look. She decided to leave the programme after her agent suggested that she was becoming too closely associated with their work and needed to widen her horizons: a decision that was made “with tears”. She continued to appear on Peep Show until 2015. In October and November 2008, Colman appeared in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People, based on the life of Simon Doonan, as Debbie Doonan, Simon’s mother. She also made a guest appearance in Skins, in the episode “Naomi” as Naomi’s mother Gina. In 2010, Colman took a leading role as Alex Smallbone, the wife of an inner city vicar, in the BBC sitcom Rev. Also in 2010, she guest starred in “The Eleventh Hour” episode of Doctor Who, Matt Smith’s debut as the Eleventh Doctor. In 2011, Colman appeared in the BBC drama Exile, written by Danny Brocklehurst and starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent. From 2011 to 2012, she played Sally Owen, the love-lorn secretary to Hugh Bonneville’s character Ian Fletcher, in Twenty Twelve, a comedy series about planning for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In 2013, Colman began playing DS Ellie Miller in ITV’s Broadchurch. The crime drama series is set in the fictional Dorset town of Broadchurch, and follows the residents of a tight-knit community after a young boy is killed under suspicious circumstances.[16][17] She was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Actress and won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her performance.[18] Also in 2013, she starred as Margaret Lea, opposite Vanessa Redgrave, in the BBC television film The Thirteenth Tale.[19] In 2016, Colman received praise for her performance as Angela Burr in the AMC/BBC miniseries The Night Manager, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and won a Golden Globe Award.[20] That same year, she starred as Deborah Flowers in the Channel 4 black comedy series Flowers. She will provide the voice of Strawberry in the upcoming Netflix/BBC animated miniseries Watership Down.
Film Colman’s film credits include naturist Joanna Roberts in the 2006 mockumentary film Confetti – a role she described as “the worst experience of my life”,Alice in the 2007 comedy Grow Your Own, and PC Doris Thatcher in the 2007 action comedy Hot Fuzz. Colman played a lead role in Paddy Considine’s first two films, the short Dog Altogether (2007), and his feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur (2011). For her role in the latter, she won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film and the Empire Award for Best Actress. Colman played Carol Thatcher in the 2011 Academy Award-winning drama film The Iron Lady, with Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent, for which she was awarded the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for British Actress of the Year.She then starred in Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2015 absurdist dystopian film The Lobster with Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell,] for which she was nominated for the London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Supporting Actress of the Year and won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress.She has been cast as Queen Anne in Lanthimos’ upcoming film The Favourite, opposite Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz.
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2004 Terkel in Trouble Terkel’s Mother Voice; English dub 2005 Zemanovaload TV Producer One Day Ian’s Mother Short film 2006 Confetti Joanna Roberts 2007 Hot Fuzz PC Doris Thatcher Grow Your Own Alice I Could Never Be Your Woman Hairdresser Dog Altogether Anita Short film
2015 The Lobster Hotel Manager Thomas & Friends: Sodor’s Legend of the Lost Treasure Marion Voice; English dub London Road Julie 2017 Murder on the Orient Express Hildegarde Schmidt 2018 The Favourite Queen Anne Post-production Them That follow Hope Filming
Television[edit] Year Title Role Notes 2000 Bruiser Various characters 6 episodes 2001 The Mitchell and Webb Situation Various characters 5 episodes People Like Us Pamela Eliot Episode: “The Vicar” Mr Charity Distressed Mother Episode: “Nice to Feed You” Comedy Lab Linda Episode: “Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer” 2002 Rescue Me Paula Episode 1.4 Holby City Kim Prebble Episode: “New Hearts, Old Scores” The Office Helena Episode: “Interview” 2003 Gash Various characters 3 episodes Eyes Down Mandy Foster Episode: “Stars in Their Eyes” The Strategic Humour Initiative Various characters TV film
2014–present Thomas & Friends Marion Voice; 8 episodes 2016 Drunk History Ethel Le Neve Episode 2.7 The Night Manager Angela Burr 6 episodes Flowers Deborah Flowers 6 episodes Fleabag Stepmother 4 episodes We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Mum Voice; television short 2017 Inside Dior Narrator 2 episodes Watership Down Strawberry Voice; In-production 2018 The Crown Queen Elizabeth II Lead role2014–present Thomas & Friends Marion Voice; 8 episodes 2016 Drunk History Ethel Le Neve Episode 2.7 The Night Manager Angela Burr 6 episodes Flowers Deborah Flowers 6 episodes Fleabag Stepmother 4 episodes We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Mum Voice; television short 2017 Inside Dior Narrator 2 episodes Watership Down Strawberry Voice; In-production 2018 The Crown Queen Elizabeth II Lead role
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