Gabrielle Blunt

Gabrielle Blunt found theatre and television more productive arenas throughout a career spanning six decades. Her small-screen breakthrough came with the 1968 George Cole-starring comedy A Man of Our Times, after which she moved comfortably between comedy and drama. In later years, she was regularly to be found in hit comedies including Shine on Harvey Moon, One Foot in the Grave, The Thin Blue Line, Drop the Dead Donkey, The Fast Show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Paul Merton - The Series. Blunt began her theatre career in regional rep in the early 1940s, and toured Europe with the Entertainments National Service Association in 1945. That same year, she was seen in Vanbrugh's The Confederacy at the York Festival.