Catherine Tate
- 5 December 1969
- English actress, comedian and writer.
- She left school without sitting her A levels and tried for four years to get a place in Drama School, succeeding on her fourth attempt
- She started out doing stand-up comedy
- Her TV career began with roles in The Bill and London’s Burning
- She has won numerous awards for her BBC sketch comedy series
- She as Nellie Bertram in the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office
- She was the voice of Magica De Spell in the Disney animated series DuckTales
- She has appeared in films, including Love and Other Disasters, Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution, Gulliver’s Travels, Monte Carlo, and SuperBob
- She is famous for playing Nan Joanie Taylor and the Doctors assistant Donna Noble in Dr Who
- Her character iconic character, Lauren Cooper, was known for saying “am I boverred“