Miranda Hart

Miranda Hart is an English actress, comedian and writer who was born in Torquay and grew up in Petersfield, Hampshire. She wrote and performed character-based comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and made television appearances in British sitcoms including Not Going Out, Hyperdrive and The Vicar of Dibley. Her best-known work is the semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda, which she wrote and starred in and which began in 2009. For that show she won a Royal Television Society award for comedy performance, and her wider honors include three awards from the Royal Television Society, four British Comedy Awards, plus four BAFTA nominations. She played Chummy in the drama Call the Midwife and her Hollywood debut came in the action comedy Spy (2015). Her films also include the comedy Magicians (2007), a cameo in The Infidel (2010), and Miss Bates in the Jane Austen adaptation Emma. (2020). In 2017 she presented the Royal Variety Performance, and she has written several books.