Who is Tamsin Greig and who is her husband Richard Leaf?
British actress known for a variety of comedic and dramatic roles returned in the final series of Episodes
TAMSIN Greig is one of the UK's most beloved actresses who made her name after featuring in several hit sitcoms.
Here is what we know about the actress who will appear in Friday Night Dinner's special ten year anniversary show TONIGHT (May 28) on Channel 4 at 8pm.
Who is Tamsin Greig, how old is she and what is her background?
Tamsin Greig is a 51-year-old British stage and screen actress born in Kent and raised in London.
She found fame through Dylan Moran's sitcom Black Books, in which she played shopkeeper Fran Katzenjammer for three series, starting in 2000.
But she began her acting career through a role in BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers from 1991, playing Debbie Aldridge - who is still technically in the soap, though she's currently in Hungary.
Tamsin also met her husband Richard Leaf while working on the movie of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere in 1996.
After Black Books, Tamsin was cast as Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing, the surreal Channel 4 sitcom set in a hospital - the first show she worked on with Stephen Mangan.
She then appeared in telly dramas Love Soup, The Diary Of Anne Frank, Emma and Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.
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In 2011 she worked with Mangan again - along with Friends star Matt LeBlanc, playing himself - on sitcom Episodes, in which she and Mangan play married writers who struggle to work in harmony with LeBlanc in the States.
The fifth and final series of Episodes ended in the UK on May 11, 2018.
This got the attention of comedy fans in the UK and the US, but she'd already broken the film industry by then, having acted in Cuckoo, Tamara Drewe, Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth and Breaking The Bank with co-star Kelsey Grammer.
Alongside all this, Tamsin has been in several acclaimed stage productions and even won a gong for her part as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing in 2007.
She starred as Jackie in the popular Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner and will appear in the sitcom's special ten year anniversary show TONIGHT (May 28) on Channel 4 at 8pm.
Who is Tamsin's husband, Richard Leaf?
Since 1997 Tamsin has been married to fellow actor Richard Leaf who she starred with in Neverwhere.
Leaf has had several small parts in television and stage productions. The actor is notable for his role as the Duke of York, nephew of King Edward I in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. He was also Hannibal Lecter's father in the 2007 film Hannibal Rising snf has appeared as John Dawlish in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Grieg and Leaf have three children - Jakob, Nathanael and Roxie.
The family lives in Kensal Green, north-west London.