Rebecca Front

Rebecca Front is an English actress, comedian and writer who started in comedy at the University of Oxford, where she read English at St Hugh's College and became the first woman to lead The Oxford Revue, later trained at the Webber Douglas Academy. She came to wider notice through radio and television shows including On The Hour (1992), The Day Today (1994) and Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (1994). In 2010 she took a BAFTA television award as best female comedy performer for The Thick of It. Her dramatic work includes Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent in Lewis (2006 to 2014), Mrs Bennet in Death Comes to Pemberley (2013), Mrs Landau in The Eichmann Show (2015) and Vera in Humans (2015). She also played Miss Oddbod in Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011), narrated The Supervet from 2014 to 2019, and appeared in the Donmar Warehouse musicals Company and The Fix, directed by Sam Mendes.