Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate
Tate at the 2019 GalaxyCon Raleigh
Born	Catherine Jane Ford (1969-12-05) 5 December 1969 (age 54) Bloomsbury, London, England
Education	Notre Dame High School, Southwark Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupations	Actress comedian writer
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Jeff Gutheim (married since at least 2018)
Children	1
Catherine Tate's voice from the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row, 5 April 2016[1]
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Catherine Tate (born Catherine Jane Ford,^[2][3] 5 December 1969) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the BBC sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show (2004–2007), as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTAs. Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, and later reprised her role for the fourth series in 2008,^[4] and the 60th anniversary episodes in 2023.^[5]

Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate starred as Joanie Taylor ("Nan") in its spin-off series Catherine Tate's Nan (2009–2015) and in the film The Nan Movie (2022). In 2011, she began a recurring role as Nellie Bertram in the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office, and was a regular until the series ended.^[6] She also played the role of Miss Sarah Postern in the BBC One sitcom Big School (2013–2014) and voiced Magica De Spell in the Disney XD animated series DuckTales (2017–2021). In the early 2020s, Tate created and starred in two sitcoms, Netflix's Hard Cell^[7] which she also co-directed, and BBC One's Queen of Oz.

Tate has appeared in films, including Love and Other Disasters (2006), Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007), Gulliver's Travels (2010), Monte Carlo (2011), and SuperBob (2015).